Thread by @jennycohn1

Texas & presumably other states have allowed voting machine vendor ES&S to conduct its own hash testing, the crucial process 4 confirming that a vendor has supplied its customer w/ certified software, as opposed to, for example, vote-flipping software. 1/ whowhatwhy.org/2021/03/08/ele…

When Texas examiners discovered this, they were appalled. One called it the “‘ultimate ‘fox watching the henhouse’ scenario. It is them [ES&S] self-certifying systems for use.’” 2/

I have questions. For how many election cycles has this been going on, and what other states are giving ES&S such free reign to “self-certify” voting software updates? What is @EACgov doing to get a handle on the scope of this problem and stop it before the next election?! 3/

In case you think election audits would have discovered any outcome altering attacks, think again. Here’s what @philipbstark, America’s preeminent election auditing expert told me about Texas’s election audit laws. 4/

5/ “To be clear, none of these issues prove that election fraud occurred in 2020 or in prior elections. But they do suggest the EAC should publish the results of its investigation and respond substantively to questions about it, that it has not been transparent so far, ...

6/ ... and that ES&S’s procedures and coding practices warrant further scrutiny.”