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…
Even if voters notice inaccuracies or omissions on the printouts, they can’t prove they were caused by the BMDs. Some experts warn this is an invitation for fraud or error. 4/ cs.princeton.edu/~appel/papers/…
Fraudulent or erroneous printouts can’t provide the basis for reliable manual audits or recounts. 5/
Unlike pens, BMDs are also prone to miscalibration, paper jams, and glitches. If a county doesn’t have enough that work, it causes a bottle neck & long line. At best, a huge waste of taxpayer money. 6/
At least they didn’t choose ES&S, although I don’t know if Hart is any better. I believe it was Hart touchscreens that did all that vote flipping in 2018. It was blamed on human error. 7/ 🙄
In 2018, Georgia used Diebold/ES&S. Texas used both ESS and Hart but I think the flipping in Texas that year was Hart. 8/ politico.com/story/2018/11/…
Yep it was Hart touchscreens in Texas that did all that flipping in 2018. 9/ theverge.com/2018/10/30/180…
So Harris county chooses more touchscreens supplied by Hart. 😡10/
12/ .@jhalderm conducted the study referenced in post 1.
13/ TY to @BGHeaven for sending me the article in post 1! Keeping up with this stuff requires a group effort :-)
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