This is what Texas examiners said about voting machine vendor ES&S’s security protocols behind closed doors (in internal emails): “It’s a gift wrapped opportunity to an insider threat, however unlikely.” 1/ whowhatwhy.org/2021/03/08/ele…
2/ “Under the current guidance from ES&S, an insider now knows specifically which file is not being inspected. It’s similar to a bank robber knowing that the camera covering teller #3 is broken.”
3/ “It is the ultimate ‘fox watching the henhouse’ scenario. It is them [ES&S] self-certifying systems for use.”
4/ A Texas SOS attorney told ES&S: “Essentially, ...you’ve told us … there are TX customers who received...upgrades that failed the hash validation process, & … u did not inform our office. …This is very concerning & ... raises doubts about our ability to trust your team... 
... to report and address these issues with us.” 5/
“Adkins [SOS attorney] wrote in an email to Mechler [examiner] that she had scheduled a ‘meeting with ESS in December to discuss the scope of this [stick installation & hash mismatch] issue as it appears to have affected more systems than [ES&S] initially disclosed to us.’” 6/
This is Texas examiners bashing the election-security protocols of America’s largest voting machine vendor (ES&S) behind closed doors doors (in internal emails). This likely would never have seen the light of day but for my public records request. drive.google.com/file/d/1Yr5bs9… 7/
8/ “[A] draft letter written by Executive Director Mona Harrington of the EAC, which was approved by the Texas office on September 29 & given to @WhoWhatWhy, suggests that ES&S may have misrepresented what the the voting system test lab knew and said about this issue...”
Here's one of the election-examiner reports I obtained w/ my public records request to the Texas Secty of State. It was never posted to the Texas SOS website. They tried to help voting machine vendor ES&S by burying the issue. Honestly, read it. Scary. 9/ drive.google.com/file/d/1u5RM5P…
They let ES&S withdraw its certification request to prevent the public from finding out. Otherwise, they would have had to post it on the Texas Secretary of State website. But the problem also affected earlier systems & other states. Unclear if the problem was fully resolved. 10/
.@EACgov investigated but refused to comment for my article and has thus far produced no documents from its investigation, which expanded to include up to 19 states just 40 days before the election. I requested the documents in January. They won’t even provide an ETA. 11/
Meanwhile, Texas went ahead and certified a different ES&S system despite other related concerns. 12/
The EAC tried to “fix” the issue by getting test labs to approve a “de minimis” change order, but there were things that the many affected jurisdictions had to do as well( per one of the test labs). There is no indication that the EAC told the jurisdictions to do them. 13/
The EAC did some shady stuff with the change order. It didn’t post it until February 2021 & said it applied to 35 different ES&S systems. This conflicted with the docs I obtained from TX which showed an October 2020 approval date & that the test labs analyzed only 19 systems. 14/
I asked @EACgov to comment. They refused, but changed the change order to reflect an October 2020 approval date and only 19 systems. Do they not know what they’re doing? Were they trying to cover up their failure to post the change order in October last year by pretending... 15/
... they didn’t approve it until February 2021 (the original approval date shown on the website)? Why the confusion as to the number of affected systems? Is it 19 or 35 or something else? Does the EAC itself know? 16/
Texas tried to resolve the problem for its systems already in use, but they relied on ES&S to tell them the affected systems & one of the examiners wrote on Nov 19 that there might have been more affected systems than what ES&S disclosed. The TX office refused to comment. 17/
ES&S refused to comment for my report. Ditto the test labs. And examiners. And the Texas Secretary of State’s office. And @EACgov. 18/
I tried multiple times. I wanted the input. So much for transparency. 19/
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