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/
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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Just me and Kilimnik (through his Twitter alias, which the SIC revealed to be @PBaranenko) chatting in 2019 about the polling data he got from Manafort. Seems I struck a nerve. 1/
I did not realize he was Kilimnik until someone pointed it out to me. 2/
Thread by @carolecadwalla about the content of that polling data. 3/
2/ “This is the consequence of white evangelicals wedding the future of their faith to the GOP since the 1970s, culminating in them not being the Bride of Christ but becoming the Bride of Trump.”
3/ “This is the consequence of steady white evangelical support for President Trump, to whom they gave infinite mulligans, no matter what he did.
The country and the world watched. Their congregants watched. Many left.”
“Trump & the Pennsylvania Republican Party have asked a court to dismiss the Green Party-backed request 4 a recount of the state’s presidential election vote.” (And she did.) - 2016
2/ The #SAFEAct wld have banned internet connectivity to voting systems & required robust manual audits for all federal races starting in 2020. The GOP blocked it. axios.com/gop-senator-el…
Dear @chuckwoolery: Where the F#CK have u been?!!! Since long b4 the election, I & others have been SCREAMING about the modems that ES&S installed in precinct ballot scanners. The #SAFEAct wld have banned them, but Rs blocked the bill. Now u care only to scapegoat TFG’s loss. 1/
2/ I made this video with @KateRosenberg4. It received over 700k views, but the GOP didn’t care.
3/ The #SAFEAct wld have required robust manual audits for ALL federal races. Unless u plan to acknowledge that the GOP specifically declined to address this vulnerability b4 the election, u shld shut ur mouth. This election was conducted under the rules the GOP insisted upon.
Were these 2 Florida counties also compromised by Russia (Broward & Miami Dade)?! DSW’s response to the election supervisors’ denials is unsettling: “The information I have is classified (nervous laugh), so I’m not sure what folks have told you...” WTF?!
Via @johnhenrydale from his interview of me before the 2020 election.
Dear @POTUS: Why has this information not been declassified, and why does FBI Director Christopher Wray still have a job after concealing information about Russia's breach of Florida election networks from the American public? Why is #RealityWinner still in prison?
But for the Mueller report, we would not have even known that ONE Florida county was breached. The FBI under Chris Wray had decided to conceal this information even from state officials. 1/ govtech.com/security/Muell…
The FBI finally agreed to provide this information to election officials, but made them sign an NDA. Remember?! 2/ gizmodo.com/florida-govern…