Thread by @jennycohn1

Matt Blaze is a paranoid jerk. He once imagined that I was a cell of people out to get him. He refused to call out the false testimony that I call out in my video & now claims only “a few” places have modems, omitting that it’s counties in FL, MI, WI ...1/

... IL, TX, TN, and IN. He did the same thing with barcode voting, claiming without basis that it was a “tiny sideshow” & disparaging “activists,” including me for warning about them. 2/

In February, the AP reported that 1 in 5 voters will vote on them. Does that sound like a tiny side show?! Matt Blaze does not follow market trends closely and thus half the time does not know what the hell he's talking about. 3/
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He's also a pathetic coward who subtweets about me w/ his pals from behind a twitter block like a bunch of giggling mean girls in middle school. They should be ashamed of themselves. They don't give a sh*t about transparency. 4/

Sure, THEY want to know what's going on. But they want to be the gatekeepers of what is conveyed to the public, which is unacceptable. They also have the thinnest skin imaginable. Matt literally could not handle it when I suggested he not use the phrase "voter marked" bc... 4/

... because in the industry it means either hand marked or machine marked and thus could enable the sales of more BMDs. He called me the "word police" or something else ridiculous. Except I was right. For this very reason, I'm told that Verified Voting finally decided to... 5/

... abandon that phrase. 6/

If you want to promote transparency, you can't speak in insider code phrases and you can't leave false testimony hanging out there without correction, much less compliment that testimony, as I believe Matt Blaze did with Susan Hennessey. 7/

In fact, I believe that's when he first landed on my radar as a problem. 8/

That, and his refusal to comment on a dangerous feature in some new touchscreen voting machines, which I reported on long before he and other "experts" were aware of it. It was finally mentioned much later in his Defcon report. 9/

And no, I don't think he works for Russia. I just think he's a pompous ass who doesn't know the limits of his own expertise and engages in paranoid thinking about cells of people out to attack him. 10/

The end. FFS. 11/

PS. In his latest tirade, he apparently criticized me for calling out journalists who spread misinformation. Yeah. I’m going to keep doing that. Because somebody has to and he’s made it clear that he won’t do it. 12/

For background, here is @CynthiaMcFadden’s full report on the modems featuring election security expert Kevin Skoglund. Does it look like a problem we should ignore to you? Matt Blaze is probably jealous that Skoglund discovered this instead of him. 13/ nbcnews.com/nightly-news/v…

At 11:33-56, Ron Wyden calls out the wireless modems too. 14/ c-span.org/video/?448241-…