In Shelby County, TN, the GOP-led election commission is at war with the Dem-led funding commission over whether to move to #PenAndPaper (exception 4 voters w/ disabilities) or to buy new ES&S touchscreens to mark voters’ “paper ballots” for them. 1/ memphisflyer.com/commission-vs-…
The Republican-led election commission is determined to buy ES&S touchscreens, ignoring that the current ES&S/Diebold touchscreens were shown to have deleted votes from predominantly black precincts in 2015, as reported in Bloomberg. 2/ bloomberg.com/features/2016-…
It was @benniejsmith who discovered the vanishing black votes from ES&S/Diebold touchscreens in Shelby County, TN. He figured it out by comparing the precinct totals to the reported totals. I interviewed Bennie, who is now an election commissioner, last year. 3/
https://twitter.com/benniejsmith/status/1273082977044647938
The vanishing black votes were never explained by ES&S or anyone else. 4/
This is my interview of Norma Lester, a former Shelby County Election Commissioner who once came back to the office to find an ES&S technician alone in the tabulation room on election night (before the 2015 election). 5/
ES&S/Diebold machines also inexplicably lost 127k black votes in Georgia in 2018. 6/ theroot.com/exclusive-thou…
Here are documents (which I obtained via public records request) re: concerns w/ ES&S’s hash-validation security protocols. The EAC quietly investigation these protocols & related misrepresentations by ES&S about 40 days before the 2020 election. 7/ threadreaderapp.com/thread/1375554…
I wrote about it for @whowhatwhy here. I’m still waiting for @EACgov to produce documents. What I have thus far was produced by the Texas SOS, but the EAC’s investigation involved up to 19 states. 8/ whowhatwhy.org/2021/03/08/ele…
My advice to Shelby County is to pass on ES&S and to switch to #PenAndPaper for most in person voting. The paper ballots can be counted on scanners supplied by a different vendor. The county shld conduct robust manual audits for most races. 9/
The touchscreens that the funding commission wants to buy are called ballot marking devices. Experts have grave concerns about them. 10/
‘The implication of our [new] study is that it’s extremely unsafe [to use Ballot Marking Devices], especially in close elections,’ Alex Halderman, a Univ. of Michigan computer science professor & one of 7 authors of the study, said in an interview.’” 11/ washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost…
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