TY @C_C_Krebs. Serious question. How cld u know if vote tallies were changed down ballot w/o conducting a forensic analysis of the machines or meaningful hand audits? America’s top auditing expert told me b4 the election that most races are not audited meaningfully. TY. 1/
https://twitter.com/c_c_krebs/status/1390012616882413572
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4/ The problem is that, because you told everyone this election was so secure, all traction for legislation requiring removal of modems & meaningful hand audits automatically (regardless of margin of victory) has died. Why bother if our election was so great w/o thus hassle?
5/ The outcome of the presidential race matched the polls and has been much more heavily scrutinized than unexpected down ballot Democratic losses. Pls explain why, if at all, u are sure that vote tallies weren’t altered in those down ballot races.
6/ I’m especially concerned about the 27 House races that were expected to be toss ups and yet every one went to the GOP. Also concerned about poll defying Democratic Senate losses in MT & NC.
7/ It is very confusing to have most experts say that we can't know if an election is secure without conducting robust manual audits or recounts and to then have you say the election was secure even though we didn't do these things down ballot.
8/ I’m aware that polls don’t prove fraud, but this concerns me that exit polls predicted Democratic victories in both MT and NC and then both went GOP. Did u mean to imply that these states have great election security re: vote tallies?
9/ Cuz I doubt that, frankly. “Leaked [ES&S] voting machine passwords add to North Carolina’s growing list election security woes.” 6/9/19 h/t @VickerySec dailykos.com/story/2019/6/9…
10/ And it matters a whole lot for the next election.
https://twitter.com/donwinslow/status/1336916760767840256
11/ Saving us in 2020 was crucial. TY for ur work. But it will all be for naught if by overselling the security of vote-tallying systems, u and others put 2022 at risk.
https://twitter.com/friendeden100/status/1382402485189545984
12/ As u can see, pre-election polls in NC predicted the Democrat would win. Polls do not prove fraud. But ur word does not prove the absence of it either. Why, if at all, are u confident in NC’s election security re: vote tallies? realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/se…
13/ Pre-election polls in MT seemed to slightly favor the GOP. It was the exit polls there that slightly favored the Democrat. But I’d still like to know if u are vouching for MT’s audit laws. TY.
14/ NC audited only the presidential race. What about the Senate race?!
https://twitter.com/wnct9/status/1329877257423384578
16/ This says MT audits only one federal race. In a presidential year, I’m gonna guess it’s the presidential race, not the Senate race. cdn.americanprogress.org/content/upload…
And just like that Chris Krebs blocked me. There’s ur answer. He can’t say that down ballot vote tallies were secure bc most were not audited meaningfully or at all. If he cld, he would have explained it. What a joke. “Most secure election ever.” 🙄17/
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20/ In 2018, Chris Krebs specifically declined to advise states & local election offices in writing to remove the modems that ES&S installed in precinct scanners starting in 2015.
21/ In 2020, after Krebs refused to provide a written warning about ES&S’s cellular modems, researchers found ES&S back-end election systems (the systems on the receiving end of the cellular transmissions) had been left online for months in swing states. nbcnews.com/politics/elect…
22/ I’ve been told that Krebs claims they discussed the modems with election officials orally, not in writing.
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