Dear @GaSecofState: voter suppression is real, and Georgia was still using its paperless Diebold/ES&S voting machines in 2018, the ones that lost all those black votes in GA that year and in Shelby County, TN in 2015. 😡 1/
3/ Poll tapes showed that votes from predominantly black precincts had vanished from Shelby County’s paperless Diebold/ES&S machines in 2015. The Republican election director, who had been investigated by the FBI, immediately “retired” after this report. bloomberg.com/features/2016-…
4/ Since 2012, Georgia has closed 214 polling places affecting 1,294,032 voters. 75% were in majority African American counties. #Suppressed#VoterSuppression#gapol
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Georgia’s GOP is depraved enough to potentially rig voting machines too. From 2000-2019 they used paperless ES&S/Diebold machines & enjoyed many poll-defying wins. Litigation forced them to buy new machines & @GaSecofState happened to ditch ES&S. 1/ jennycohn1.medium.com/georgia-6-and-…
ES&S was under a microscope at that time. If Georgia was rigging elections, Raffensperger might not have known it or been involved. Due to the embarrassing revelations, the head of the election center, Merle King, “retired” before 2020. 2/
Georgia’s GOP is depraved enough to rig voting machines too. From 2000-02 they used paperless ES&S/Diebold machines & enjoyed many poll-defying wins. Litigation forced them to buy new machines & @GaSecofState happened to ditch ES&S. 1/ link.medium.com/7eJb1aStVeb
ES&S was under a microscope at that time. If Georgia was rigging elections, Raffensperger might not have known it or been involved. Due to the embarrassing revelations, the head of the election center, Merle King, “retired” before 2020. 2/
The hacking of Smartech by Russia in 2015 was & is a national security threat. Most of what it found has not been released. The Bush WH had previously deleted 22 M of its emails kept by Smartech. The Obama WH later recovered some of them but produced only a handful. 1/
2/ Members of Congress had sought many of these emails in connection w/ various Bush White House scandals. Then they were told that 22 million of the Bush WH's emails had been "deleted," including the run-up to the Iraq war. newsweek.com/2016/09/23/geo…
3/ Discussion of how the Obama WH found some of the deleted Smartech emails, but produced only a handful to @CREWcrew. snopes.com/fact-check/g-w…
Remarkable statement by TFG re: Rove, Jeff Flake, Bob Corker, Liz Cheney, & Pat Toomey. Flake, Corker, & Bush WH all had their emails hosted by Smartech, which Russia hacked in 2015. 1/
2/ I wrote about the hacking of Smartech here. Trump seems to imply that some of these people may soon unexpectedly “retire” like Flake and Corker. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1040366…
3/ Trump seems mad at Rove that he lost the election.
Harris county, Texas ignores experts who advise pen & paper for most in-person voters. Chooses new Hart touchscreens (BMDs). A recent study shows voters miss 93% of inaccuracies & omissions caused by BMDs in marking the paper. 1/ khou.com/article/news/p…
Merely instructing voters to review the paper doesn’t help much. The only thing that does is if the voters compare the text on the printout to a pre-printed slate such as a sample ballot. But most voters don’t do this. 2/ apnews.com/article/ae388f…