Thread by @SMART_elections

Thread on @washingtonpost article that mentions @SMART_elections extensively.
1. "Voting machines didn’t steal the election. But most are still terrible technology."

washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/0…

2. "a tech backwater, the voting machine industry has been sustained through inertia and sweetheart deals ... One hurdle to reform is that the industry is dominated by three players — Election Systems & Software...Dominion Voting (30 percent); and Hart InterCivic (15 percent)."

3. "ES&S, has seized on the moment to threaten members of SMART Elections, a journalism and advocacy group, with a lawsuit for spreading “false, defamatory and disparaging” information about one of its machines, the ExpressVote XL." smartelections.us/ess-problems#4…
#ElectionProtection

4. The @washingtonpost article makes it clear we are not spreading false info, far from it. Our "factual observations, really — include that the machine “can add, delete, or change the votes on individual ballots” and that it is a “bad voting machine.” washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/0…

5. Those facts were confirmed by Princeton Professor Andrew Appel in a blog.

"Well, let me explain it for you. The ExpressVote XL, if hacked, can add, delete, or change votes on individual ballots."
freedom-to-tinker.com/2021/01/11/ess… #ElectionSecurity

6. Back to the @washingtonpost article
"Because SMART Elections is a collective of committed, individual activists — who translate academic research and relay it to state regulators — ES&S threatened to hold the members of the group “personally and individually liable” #Voting

7. “But nothing SMART Elections is saying is controversial, let alone libelous...at DefCon, the gigantic Las Vegas hackers’ convention...the hackers found ...“poor physical security protections that could allow undetected tampering" #Hacking

8. "There is world of difference, however, between SMART Elections’s comments on ES&S machines and Giuliani and Powell’s accusations against Dominion. SMART Elections is conveying facts"

9. "Yet ES&S would like you to think that anyone who criticizes a voting machine or its maker is trying to delegitimize elections and erode democracy itself." #ElectionTwitter

10. Response from @SMART_elections attorney to ES&S lawsuit threat, "your client is, in my opinion, a thuggish operation which is not interested in selling
its machines because of their merits, but wants to win approval through threats and intimidation." smartelections.us/ess-problems#1…

11. Help protect your vote. Experts say hybrid voting machines will "deteriorate our security & our ability to have confidence in our elections." Anyone can send a letter now. It takes 3 mins. If we improve NY security, it may help other states as well. actionnetwork.org/letters/protec…