Thread by @GeoffWSYX6

Back on a Friday with more election questions, like this: Could voter fraud affect an Ohio presidential election?

I talked to Boards of Election directors and Ohio Secretary of State @FrankLaRose about this 👇

The short answer: no.

Think of how someone could electronically hack into a Board of Election vote-counting computer. They'd need 1 of 2 things: access to the computer room...or the computer's internet connection.

Problem #1: Boards of Election have a double-locked & coded system on every door.

Problem #2: there is one internet connection, on one computer. And it's not the vote-counting (tabulator) computer.

@FairfieldCoBOE kindly helps with the explanation 👇

So you're left trying to mess with ballots themselves. Can you? What about mail-in ballots?

There's a barcode & ID number for every absentee voter. Plus, they must provide personal info w/ ballot & sign it.

Someone would need a lot of stolen ballots, info & great forgery skills

Has it been done? Sometimes, due to a rare error (or fraud), a voter will receive a ballot at an address in a precinct where they no longer live. If they vote that ballot, it's fraudulent.

@delcoboe knows of ONE single case of that — and it was caught, and prosecuted.👇

Even in recent history, there have been so few cases of voter fraud that they couldn't even impact a tiny local election, much less the Presidential race in Ohio.

@FrankLaRose puts a stamp on it here 👇