Thread by @jennycohn1

Ignoring context, including Trump’s serial lying, does nothing to advance election integrity. Pretending he’s honest or credible turns off anyone who pays attention and cares about credibility. 1/

https://twitter.com/bevharriswrites/status/1340503057734332417

I call out credibility fails wherever they arise. 2/

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7/ I do not entertain propaganda. Credibility matters to me. Once it’s lost, it is very difficult to get it back.

8/ Voters need to know who is making a good faith effort to be straight with them and who isn’t. Credibility matters. To ignore that does nothing to advance election integrity imo.

9/ I spend a lot of time trying to identify who is a straight shooter and who isn’t.

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11/ Context and accountability matter too. Ignoring the recent past helps hucksters on the right benefit from their own election integrity obstruction. It does nothing to advance justice or integrity.

12/ Knowing who makes a good faith attempt to be truthful—and who doesn’t—matters.

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16/ / Here are some excellent & highly experienced people to follow on election security: @kimzetter @fbajak @suehalpernVT @KartikayM @philipbstark @rad_atl @jhalderm @HarriHursti @MarilynRMarks1 @TheBradBlog @JonathanSimon14 @Ionsancho1 @Karen_McKim_ @susanpynchon1 @Emily_Levy

17/ I wish Greg Gordon did more election security reporting. This piece was excellent and led to many follow up investigative pieces by local journalists re voting machine vendor ES&S’s corruption. mcclatchydc.com/latest-news/ar…

18/ This 2017 piece by Victoria Collier is still probably the best election-security piece ever written. harpers.org/archive/2012/1…

19/ And I still consider this reporting by @kimzetter re: ES&S to have been the biggest election-security bombshell of the past several years (other than the NSA report leaked by #RealityWinner). vice.com/en/article/mb4…

20/ And I still can’t understand why @ACLU, the Democrats, & others haven’t called for #RealityWinner’s release. Her prison sentence was excessive, cruel and unfair.