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16 Mar, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Sen. Ethics Comm. to hear flawed #HB531 today.
Here's what I plan to say in testimony.

🗣️ bit.ly/MRM3_16testimo…
There have been many strong clear voices on the voter suppression topic, so I plan to address the degrading of mail ballot security they are about to enact. 1/
2/ GOP lawmakers are merely blindly following @GaSecofState's request on this legislation so that he can control mail ballot applications in his portal, rather than have applications go to counties. Portal won't take signatures, --his answer is to degrade the security.
3/ Maybe GOP lawmakers should have learned a lesson when SOS insisted on the flawed and pricey Dominion BMD system with lax security.

If you know a GA Republican who is concerned about mail ballot security, please forward this thread and ask them to ask their lawmakers to stop!
4/ #HB531 puts GA mail balloting on the Honor System, moving away from the verification---now we will all just have to "trust."

#gapol @GASenateGOP

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17 Mar
1/ GA's @GovKemp often says that in GA it is "easy to vote but hard to cheat." Sadly #HB531, upends that claim--making it hard to vote and EASY to cheat.
Everyone understands the "hard to vote" part. But ironically, the bill makes it "easy to cheat." Image
2/ In the 2 min of testimony permitted today in Sen. Ethics Comm. hearing, I could only state that when bills drop signature verification (best authentication) to use DL#s instead, fraud will follow.
This testimony was cut short: bit.ly/MRM3_16testimo… Image
3/ I'll explain a couple of examples.
It's not unusual for signature verification process to catch parents of college or adult children no longer at home, obtaining kids' ballots and voting them. They get rejected.

If DL# used instead of signature, illegal ballots are accepted Image
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15 Mar
Despite the "broad support" of GOP, this is a horribly flawed proposal that opens the door for systemic mail ballot fraud.
GOP lawmakers as not thinking about what they are doing by using this DL# standard versus well-accepted standard off signature verification. 1/
2/ Let's use simplest example--
Parents of college & adult children who are still registered in GA use their DL numbers, receive their ballots and vote them.
Frequently done now, but caught in signature verification and rejected.
But will be accepted in new law. 😡
3/ People will have DL#s of friends who don't want to vote. They can vote for them now.
Also easy to buy DL#s from illegal sources. Pick a few hundred low propensity voters and get ballots under those names, and return voted ballot with the DL number.
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15 Mar
A new version of a merged and amended (SB241/HB531) very bad election bill has surfaced this weekend.
It is an 80 page ugly monster.
Very dangerous anti-democracy provisions regarding state's ability to take over local elections are included
➡️bit.ly/CGGsb241N
#gapol 1
2/ See link above to read @CoalitionGoodGv annotated comments on the bill pointing out our many concerns.

Read sections 1,3,4,5,10 to see the dangerous provisions regarding the state's power grab to capriciously take over target counties it says violate rules. I'll explain...
3/ The State is setting up ability to suspend bi-partisan boards of elections, if they find 3 violations of rules and install a partisan appointee.
This appointee could singlehandedly certify elections to pick winners and losers, with no public oversight.
This is SO BAD!
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7 Mar
Tomorrow GA Senate hears #SB241, a terribly flawed bill whether you're hard right or far left. We @CoalitionGoodGv have teased it apart so you don't have to.
➡️ bit.ly/CGGsb241

Ask Senators to Vote NO! 1/
2/ For the conservatives clamoring for more mail ballot security, --this bill does just the opposite, adopting some of the worst degradations of mail ballot security and loosening of controls. (Ditching signature verification and requiring/permitting early scanning.)
3/ For those who worry about partisan control of elections, see "take over" provisions permitting St. Elections Bd. to take over counties they deem to be "low performing." See p3 of bill linked above.
Very dangerous to democracy.
St. Bd. already has lots of enforcement power.
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2 Mar
1/ Taxpayers be damned!
In the huge mess that is GA HB531, this is a minor point, but it demonstrates why lawmaking needs much citizen scrutiny.

Check out the attempted rip-off here---

@flemingbarrya insisted that HB531 require "security ballot paper" for all ballots. ⬇️
2/ First, there is NO problem with counterfeit ballots.
But he claimed that scanners would detect counterfeit ballots if this pricey security ballot stock is used. But a closer look shows that is apparently not true.

The mail ballot scanners have no such detection ability.
3/ Only the precinct scanners have ability to detect this special security paper. So what? Voters don't sneak into polling places bringing their own ballots to scan.

Fleming demands counties spend millions on this, although it's useless for mail ballot scanners like this.⬇️
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27 Feb
1/ It is beyond irony that @GASenateGOP is accusing @CoalitionGoodGv of "pushing voting machine disinformation." Did y'all attend your own Senate hearings after the elections, with Giuliani, infomercial promoters, bizarro claims of shredded ballots, and lots of Big Lies?
2/ For the most part, our statements re: GA machines are sworn declarations under penalty of perjury, on the record in court docs. Our scientist experts are tops in the nation. Credibility, expertise are unquestionable.
Hardly the stuff of conspiracy theories.
3/ Hey @GASenateGOP, we suggest that you read this federal Court opinion and consider rethink whether you believe we have pushed "disinformation." bit.ly/CGGOrderOct
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