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/
This was ES&S in Georgia in 2018. 3/ theroot.com/exclusive-thou…
I do not claim to have proof that Georgia has rigged elections before circumstances caused it to close its election center and switch vendors. But I and many others have suspected it. And it cannot be ruled out. The machines were paperless. 4/
This was 2017. 5/ 
Remember this? This is presumably why they shut down the Kennesaw Election Center and why the director, the shady Merle King, “retired.” 6/ apnews.com/article/877ee1…
Expert: Georgia’s ES&S/Diebold “election server showed signs of tampering” 7/ apnews.com/article/39dad9…
Georgia’s paperless ES&S/Diebold voting machines were so dangerous that a federal court held that they were unconstitutional and had to be replaced before 2020. We should scrutinize Georgia’s pre-2020 Diebold/ES&S equipment more. 8/ arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
“How about...voting machines whose programs can be...hacked...from thousands of miles away” & “voting technology controlled” by “corporations with strong partisan ties?... [T]here is a viable case...that it's already happened...” - 2012, by @adamscohen
9/ theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
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Ossoff lost in 2017 after a rare memory card error in Fulton county. It was the last county to report. Naturally. 10/ thevotingnews.com/fulton-county-…
Another ES&S election. 11/ jennycohn1.medium.com/if-you-think-y…
"Siegelman was concerned. The closest friend of a racist probate judge in a rural county had once told him that they sometimes held back a precinct until the end of the night so that they knew how many votes they would need to fix the result." (Cohn interview of Siegelman) 12/
This is the Jim Crow Deep South. Is it really so impossible to believe that they might possibly rig voting machines too -- if only when they think they can get away with it? Are we that naive still? 13/
In 2015, poll tapes showed that otherwise paperless ES&S/Diebold machines in Shelby County, TN were losing black votes too. Bloomberg wrote about it. 14/bloomberg.com/features/2016-…
When Bloomberg broke the story, the Republican election director in Shelby abruptly resigned (similar to how Merle King in GA abruptly resigned). Then, suddenly, Ds swept the county races, as one wld expect given the demographics. h/t @benniejsmith 15/ wmcactionnews5.com/2018/11/02/she…
16/ This is the Republican election director who resigned in Shelby County before the wave of Democratic wins (after Bloomberg's story about the poll tapes and vanishing black votes). wmcactionnews5.com/story/30686146…
17/ Correction post 1. From 2002-2019 (not from 2000-2019)!!
18/ Before the director resigned amidst scandal in 2019, Rs kept winning all the county races in Shelby, which seemed unlikely given the demographics. The machines were paperless, but Bennie got the poll tapes and sure enough...
19/ No they couldn’t explain it.
20/ This is my interview of Norma Lester, a former Shelby County elections director who found ES&S’s employee alone in the tabulation room during an election. ThIs is where the precinct totals are compiled. WTAH?!
21/ March 2017. ajc.com/news/state--re…
22/ Wow. This is a really good summation of the Georgia situation in 2016/2017. Reminds me of my own summation in the post 1 Medium article :-) malicious.life/episode/episod…
24/ “To find a clue about what might have gone wrong with Georgia’s election last fall, look no further than voting machine No. 3...On machine No. 3, Rs won every race. On each of the 6 other machines in that precinct, Ds won every race .” 8/29/19 ajc.com/news/state--re…
25/ As discussed in my article in post 1, Diebold (later acquired by ESS) installed uncertified software patches in Georgia before the 2002 election w/ the big surprising GOP senate & gubernatorial wins. It’s not disputed. There were two whistleblowers, & documents backed it up.
Speaking of uncertified software, election officials shld conduct hash tests to confirm that ES&S isn’t installing uncertified (illegal) voting software onto their voting systems, but officials in TX & AZ farm this out to ES&S itself. What a scam. 26/ whowhatwhy.org/2021/03/08/ele…
I assume many other jurisdictions have allowed ES&S to oversee itself as well. But I’ve only seen it spelled out in TX & AZ contracts so far. I haven’t looked at other states. @susanpynchon1 & @JohnBrakey told me about AZ. 27/
I discuss the Texas contract in my article. 28/
ES&S in 2012 in Ohio. How is this vendor still allowed to sell voting systems? 29/ techdirt.com/articles/20121…
ES&S also installed uncertified software patches in Indiana in 2004 too. This is just where they’ve been caught.
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