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Sep 9, 2020 6 tweets 2 min read Read on X
“Russians had placed malware in the election registration systems of at least 2 Florida counties, St. Lucie and Washington.” The malware could delete voters from specific districts.
We can't slow walk a response to this nat'l security threat any longer! 1/
miamiherald.com/news/politics-…
It's 4 years since we've learned that Russian hackers were trying to hack into our election infrastructure, but the response has been shockingly & embarrassingly weak. We've passed no federal reforms to set minimum security standards for elections systems. Some states still...2/
can't audit their elections, and most others don't bother. Some states still allow wireless modems that directly connect voting systems to the internet (even though you've been lied to and told they don't connect). This is in large part because there's been strong pushback ...3/
...from election officials who don't want ANY federal minimums for post-election auditing. This is absurd - post-election auditing should be routine, expected and mandatory. Yet, we have pumped almost a $1B into the voting system industry to "secure" our elections...4/
...but that industry is broken. They are selling "new" systems based on 15 year old standards. Some of those systems use outdated software, and the vendors have been caught lying about their systems. 5/ politico.com/news/2020/08/1…
Further, they are subject to no regulation and zero oversight or accountability. We don't even know who owns or invests in the companies that run our elections and count our votes because they refuse to disclose that. This all sounds nuts because it is.

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Oct 19, 2023
Powell has gotten a sweetheart deal in the GA RICO case. But the voting system breach in Coffee County was one part of a multistate plot to take voting software from multiple states. The voting software was unlawfully taken, then distributed among Trump allies & election...
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...deniers. The distribution of voting software among domestic extremists poses threats to elections going forward.
2/ See this article: slate.com/news-and-polit…
Powell was involved in other voting system breaches, specifically in MI. Stephanie Lambert, Powell's Kraken co-counsel,is indicted in MI for similar voting system breaches that implicate Powell, but Powell wasn't charged in MI, nor is there evidence the feds are investigating.
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Jul 21, 2023
🧵According to @guardian, Willis is likely to charge "computer trespass" which is almost certainly the effort by the Trump campaign to unlawfully access, copy & covertly distribute copies of the software that runs all of GA's voting system, uncovered by @MarilynRMarks1 1/
This stunning crime was not just ignored, but denied for months by the @GaSecofState. It was only discovered by private citizens in civil litigation. Here's @GabrielSterling saying it didn't happen, even after he'd been told the culprits admitted it. 2/
It is only thanks to the hard work & fortitude of @CoalitionGoodGv, co-plaintiffs, their attorneys,experts, & reporters, @emmersbrown, @jonswaine, @ZcohenCNN, @katebrumback, @Jose_Pagliery @byaaroncdavis, @markniesse, @richardsdoug & more this consequential plot was uncovered.3/
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Jul 25, 2022
Uber admits covering up 2016 hacking, avoids prosecution in U.S. settlement. This is galling and despicable, and it also relates importantly to election security and democracy. I'll tell you how. 1/ valleynewslive.com/2022/07/23/ube…
According to this story, "Uber Technologies Inc on Friday accepted responsibility for covering up a 2016 data breach that affected 57 million passengers and drivers, as part of a settlement with U.S. prosecutors to avoid criminal charges...Uber admitted that its personnel...2/
...failed to report the November 2016 hacking to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, even though the agency had been investigating the ride-sharing company’s data security...[Uber] arranged to pay the hackers $100,000 in bitcoin and have them sign nondisclosure agreements...4/
Read 9 tweets
May 13, 2022
This is stunning - another instance of radicalized insiders allowing Trump extremists to access voting systems. There are several important points of context to add to this remarkable reporting 1/🧵
This report indicates that the plague of election officials that have permitted potentially criminal access to voting machines extends beyond MI, CO, OH, PA and NC to GA. 2/ reuters.com/investigates/s…
This @washingtonpost
report is especially troubling because the alleged election system breach occurred in deep-red Coffee County, GA. Most notably, Coffee County was cited in the draft executive order as a reason for the DOD to seize voting machines. 3/ politico.com/news/2022/01/2…
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Apr 21, 2022
Yesterday the @ABAesq held a webinar on accessible voting which provided important information and insights regarding the challenges that voters w/disabilities face. But @ABAesq did a disservice to its viewers by not providing the facts regarding the severe security risks... 1/
...associated with the electronic or online return of voted ballots. Instead of including the @ABANatSec & @ABAcyber, or other cybersecurity & voting experts, the webinar relied on @evelhill, who misrepresented key points regarding the security of internet voting & the... 2/
...research & recommendations against online voting that have been published by @DHSgov 's @CISAgov & @FBI, & @theNASEM -claiming falsely that those studies and their warnings are only applicable to proposals for ALL voters to vote online. This is plainly false on its face. 3/
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Jan 10, 2022
Internet voting has been snarkily called the "#Theranos of voting." #ElizabethHolmes trial watchers may be surprised to know HOW similar, as internet voting vendors pulled one of the exact same tricks that #Holmes did, which led to her fraud conviction. Thread 1/
One of the most damning pieces of evidence that compelled a guilty verdict in the #Holmestrial was the fact that Elizabeth put logos from pharmaceutical companies, like @pfizer, on reports that Theranos itself had authored, so that it looked like Pfizer endorsed the findings. 2/
Well, funny story. Voatz, a blockchain internet voting system vendor, wrote a report that purported to be findings of a @DHSgov assessment of their system. And they went ahead and slapped the DHS seal and logo right on top, so that it looked like the report was written by DHS.3/
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