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The best explainer for #HandMarkedPaperBallots vs #BallotMarkingDevices by Wisconsin’s Karen McKim. She tracked down claims that BMD advocates make to see if their data actually exists. It doesn’t. Includes illustrations 4 struggling legislators/EB members wisconsinelectionintegrity.org/2020/02/10/bmd…
Here why the “but you have to verify hmpb” claim is a fallacy. Image
My experience is same as Karen’s: ask this crowd to back up their claims & they get all huffy bc you aren’t in awe of their “expertise” & then they block you. Don’t you think they’d show you their data if they had it? It’s the old Harold Hill ploy. Amazing ppl still fall for it. Image
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Richard DeMillo
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1/Fulton County (GA) will put multiple BMDs in cabinets like this one. Voters will use simultaneously. Unclear how many BMDs per cabinet but this pic shows at least 2. Perpendicular orientation means there is no configuration where all machines are visible to election officials.
2/Nothing prevents one voter from grabbing printout from another BMD undetected. A lo tech vulnerability for creating chaos & denial of function.
3/Apparently also possible for one voter to access back of adjacent touchscreen panel. Depending on the orientation of the cabinet this might not be detectable by EOs or adjacent voters.
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Richard DeMillo
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1/Like this: Ballot marking devices have essential security flaws. Like all computers they can be hacked, misprogrammed, misconfigured & misused. Because printed ballots from a compromised machine cannot be trusted as an expression of voter intent, audits cannot detect cheating.
2/Why can't BMD printed ballots be trusted as an expression of voter intent? Because voters won't notice fraudulent outputs of compromised BMDs. It's the most widely replicated experiment in election security dating back a decade or more.
3/...as summarized in the NAS "Securing the Vote" report: without complete record of votes expressed, voters would be unable to recall all of their prior choices. nap.edu/25120
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Richard DeMillo
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1/Why can't BMD printed ballots be trusted as an expression of voter intent? Because voters won't notice fraudulent outputs of compromised BMDs. It's the most widely replicated experiment in election security dating back a decade or more when ppl were concerned about VVPAT...
2/...as summarized in the NAS "Securing the Vote" report (nap.edu/25120): without complete record of votes expressed, voters would be unable to recall all of their prior choices.
3/Furthermore, hundreds of studies over 100 yrs point to fundamental limitations of human memory that would inhibit ballot verification by voters: (read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=…): "An important characteristic of the factual data base of memory is its remarkable reliability."
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A Democratic leader DID try to warn us about electronic voting: Hillary Rodham Clinton in 2004. No one listened.

Link: thenation.com/article/how-th… cc: @HillaryClinton 1/
2/ Although HRC did not apparently understand the importance of #HandMarkedPaperBallots vs machine-marked “paper audit trails” at that time, the fault there lies with the “national election integrity groups” who rushed to recommend the latter w/o studying them.
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#HandMarkedPaperBallots are likely easier for most voters than figuring out a touchscreen. And with HMPB's, voters don't have to try to proof read a machine printout to make sure the machine didn't cheat. But @MarkNiesse's propaganda piece tries to flip these facts inside out. 1/
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Over and over, this sentiment: We should all be in the streets. Like Egypt! Like South Korea!

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2. Says people posting from their web client, sitting in a comfy chair, either at home or work.

Sometimes their location says they live in a state capital, sometimes their location shows they’re within striking distance of DC or other major location.
3. Yet are these people in the streets? Like Egypt? Like South Korea?
Yeah, no.
Let’s ROLL on a general strike. (Tips below; some of us are already doing it, on a scale that doesn’t hurt already vulnerable people. It’s not hard.)
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