“Representative Matt Gaetz, Republican of Florida and a close ally of former President Donald J. Trump, is being investigated by the Justice Department over whether he had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old and paid for her to travel with him...” 1/ nytimes.com/2021/03/30/us/…
“The 3 people said that the examination of Mr. Gaetz, 38, is part of a broader investigation into a political ally of his, a local official in Florida named Joel Greenberg, who was indicted last summer on an array of charges, including sex trafficking of a child and.... 2/
... financially supporting people in exchange for sex, at least one of whom was an underage girl.” 3/
“Mr. Greenberg, who has since resigned his post as tax collector in Seminole County, north of Orlando, visited the White House with Mr. Gaetz in 2019, according to a photograph that Mr. Greenberg posted on Twitter.” 4/
“No charges have been brought against Mr. Gaetz, and the extent of his criminal exposure is unclear.” 5/
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1 Apr
Most composite polls in 2020 gave Trump only an 18% chance of winning. Trump screaming “rigged” re: his expected defeat is nothing like the legitimate concerns raised about Trump’s poll-defying win in 2016 or Bush’s poll-defying win in 04. 1/
Those who tried to equate these very different situations are either uninformed or else they are deliberately ignoring the facts. #propaganda 2/
Trump had nothing to go on but repetition and the force of his own well oiled propaganda machine. 3/
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1 Apr
Only a handful of jurisdictions require robust manual audits. Those jurisdictions audit only a few races. For all we know, Rs cld have rigged some of the Senate, House, & state legislative races in 2020. GOP Senate wins in MT & NC defied exit polls. 1/
2/ I wrote this about the sorry state of election auditing before 2020. nybooks.com/daily/2020/10/… Image
3/ The presidential race was audited more than would otherwise have been the case only because bc Trump screamed “rigged” even though most consolidated polling estimates gave him only an 18% chance of winning.
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1 Apr
The red flags re: the #GA06 election (Ossoff v Handel) & the public attention brought to them almost certainly played a key part in the court’s landmark decision that paperless touchscreens are unconstitutional. Those who claim we shld not discuss red flags do a disservice. 1/
2/ I wrote about the #GA06 election here. Change doesn’t occur in a vacuum. Those who think we can effect meaningful change—while pretending to be able to know that no one has ever hacked an election—are naive. jennycohn1.medium.com/georgia-6-and-…
3/ Fortunately, @MarilynRMarks1 stepped up to the plate in Georgia. But it was not easy.
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30 Mar
“The [Georgia] secretary of state will no longer chair the State Election Board, becoming instead a non-voting ex-officio member. The new chair would be nonpartisan but appointed by a majority of the [Republican-led] state House and Senate.” #gapol 1/
2/ “The State Election Board, county commissions or a certain number of state House and Senate members that represent a county could request an independent group to conduct a performance review of their appointed elections board or...
3/ ..probate judge that supervises elections, defined in Georgia law as the "superintendent."

😳SB 202 “would allow the State Election Board to suspend the multi-person elections board or probate judge and replace them with a single individual for at least nine months.”
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28 Mar
Remember that TFG always projects. Then remember this. 1/

“Russians Targeted Georgia County Servers [in October 2016], Mueller Indictment Reveals, but KSU Destroyed the Evidence”
atlantaprogressivenews.com/2018/08/01/rus…
2/ In August 2016, a white hat hacker had discovered that Georgia had left its election system, including passwords, exposed online without encryption. Georgia’s election director didn’t fix it. politico.com/magazine/story…
3/ In April 2016 (so four months before Georgia’s election system was found exposed online), Kislyak visited Kennesaw State University, which housed the election center at that time.
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26 Mar
Here are links to documents that I obtained from my public records request to the Texas Secretary of State. The documents slam ES&S’s hash validation security protocols. You should read for yourself. First up: Texas examiner Brian Mechler’s report. 1/ drive.google.com/file/d/1u5RM5P…
2/ Letter dated 9/24/20 to ES&S from Keith Ingram, the director of elections for the Texas secretary of state, advising that “our examiner noted that this issue could create a potential security vulnerability as a proper software validation cld not occur.” drive.google.com/file/d/1oDq5-y…
Texas examiner calling ES&S’s protocol a “gift wrapped opportunity to an insider threat, however unlikely...[A]n insider now knows...which file is not being inspected. It’s similar to a bank robber knowing that the camera covering teller #3 is broken.” 3/ drive.google.com/file/d/1Yr5bs9…
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