Thread by @bgmasters

AZ isn’t Philly, but we do use Dominion voting machines, the Sec of State has the BLM hashtag in her bio, & she calls Trump supporters neo-nazis. Seems bad!

It's good to be skeptical (“scientific”!) about our procedures, *especially* if your instinct is to say they are perfect.

https://twitter.com/dougducey/status/1333604501501079552

Easy improvement: get rid of proprietary election software.

Vote-counting is not a technical problem. We've known how to do it for centuries.

Counting should be open, transparent, prompt, and public — all obvious points, yet almost no jurisdiction delivers on them.

"But there’s no evidence that the system is insecure!”

OK. Half the country isn't buying that. First, there's lots of evidence (also noise), just no clear proof of outcome-changing fraud.

But of course: ballots are secret, once they're in the system... it's blind faith.

Why not have airtight election procedures immune to all challenge, like Taiwan? Why do we prefer to have systems that look dodgy?

Some of the chaos is organic, but it's not totally random — not after 4 years of insane anti-Trump propaganda of a caliber to justify much worse.

So unfortunately people are right to mistrust the system, in AZ and elsewhere. Where fraud is or looks possible, public trust evaporates.

Election security will be top priority on the right going forward. And we're going to figure out how to win big and make cheating impossible.