🚨This! What is going on in GA is deeply disturbing. The @GaSecofState's foolish choice to force GA to continue to vote on touchscreen machines (even if they print a barcode ballot) is imploding every min as more problems w/the machines crop up & the SOS tries to cover up...1/
...the defects in this janky system. Just a few weeks ago we found out the ballot was not displaying all the candidates in the special senate race, mere weeks before the election. The state tried to downplay the problem, saying the vendor @dominionvoting only needed to...2/
...update the software in all 34k voting machines in GA(!) NBD. They then told the federal court that it was only a minor change,"de minimus" & that Dominion had already submitted it to the @EACgov for them to approve the tiny change & give it rubber stamp approval w/minimal...3/
...testing. Funny story- turns out, according to this @AP story, @dominionvoting & their contracted testing lab didn't submit it to the Court until YESTERDAY, even though they had previously represented to the court it was submitted over a week ago. AND, when...4/
...computer experts looked at the change and the minimal testing that was done, it's plain that the change is considerably more substantial than had been represented. Furthermore, the testing lab didn't do ANY testing to ensure this software change doesn't impact other...5/
...functionality.🤦‍♀️ If the @EACgov gives this software change a rubber stamp approval with this shoddy testing it will be further evidence that the EAC is too dangerously incompetent & ill-equipped to be certifying voting systems and this task should be transferred to a more...6/
...competent agency like @CISAgov. If GA melts down this election, it will be the fault of the @EACgov.
@HouseAdm_Dems
@HouseAdmnGOP

This just stinks, the @GaSecofState
is trying to play games and cover up the extent of the problem to force this lousy system in GA & save face.

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28 Sep
This morning the Court held an emergency proceeding bcz of this & other errors that have been found w/GA’s voting machines. The bomb that was dropped is that this is not a database problem but a software issue that will require REINSTALLING new code... ajc.com/politics/error…
...to 80k pieces of equipment. This updated software is meant to fix the errors discovered, but it will not be tested to be sure that it doesn’t introduce new errors or security issues. The state is just installing new untested software in every machine. Early voting starts...2/
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“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/
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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/
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13 Aug
We @fsfp sent evidence to the @EACgov demonstrating that @essvote was falsely claiming its voting machines with wireless modems were federally certified. The EAC agreed & ordered ES&S to write to its customers admitting the systems aren't certified. 1/ politi.co/323C5Gb
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12 Aug
Journalists: Today the @EACgov's Technical Guidelines Development Committee (TGDC) will meet today to discuss the next version of our federal voluntary voting system guidelines (VVSG). There is a draft VVSG now that is a huge improvement over our woefully inadequate voting... 1/
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30 Jul
And again, ES&S, the nation's largest voting machine vendor, has blatantly lied to election administrators about their crappy election security. In this hearing ES&S executives lie to Chicago's election board by claiming, @ min 12:30, that...1/
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See, ES&S left 1.8Million voter registrations exposed and unprotected on an AWS online. AWS by default makes any data PRIVATE and it must...2/
...actively re-configured to make data PUBLIC. As ES&S was being criticized by Chicago election officials, they blamed AWS, saying exactly the opposite - the AWS is PUBLIC by default and must be configured to be private. That's a lie. 3/ usatoday.com/story/tech/201…
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21 Jul
Glad to see @NASSorg vote to sunset a 10 y/o resolution supporting exploring technology for electronic ballot return for military voters, aka internet voting.
It's progress, but kind of a day late/$ short considering how many states moved to online voting in the last decade...1/
despite strong security warnings from computer security experts and @NIST for the past 10 years. It's lamentable that so many of the state election officials dismissed warnings from NIST and computer security experts for years allowing insecure internet voting to proliferate. 2/
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