😳”[W]hile elections administrators must still deploy voting machines w/ an auditable paper trail by 2022, they will not be req’d to follow new national standards issued by the ... EAC until 2026 at the earliest.”
2/ The cellular modems installed by ES&S in swing states connect the voting system to the internet (altho ES&S has falsely claimed otherwise). #RemoveTheModemsnbcnews.com/politics/elect…
4/ Letter signed by thirty election-security experts and organizations before the 2020 election explaining that the wireless modems connect to the internet and must be removed. Many election officials ignored them. documentcloud.org/documents/7225…
5/ It would be one thing if we manually audited most of these races meaningfully or at all, but mostly we don’t, as @philipbstark, America’s most respected election auditing expert, explained to me before the election. nybooks.com/daily/2020/10/…
6/ “‘[O]nly a few jurisdictions currently audit elections in a way that has a good chance of catching and correcting wrong reported outcomes. *** But, to the best of my knowledge, even those states only audit a few contests in each election.’” - @philipbstark
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The #fraudit gives me extreme cognitive dissonance bc Ds shld demanded to do what Rs are doing (minus the bamboo shreds, etc). It is inside out. It was Rs that blocked efforts to require meaningful manual audits for all federal races. It is Ds who suffered poll-defying losses. 1/
It’s almost too much to deal with. It is so infuriating. Why can’t there be a happy medium between complete abdication (Democrats) and insurrection (Republicans)? 2/ axios.com/gop-senator-el…
The GOP got away with it for 15 years bc anyone who says they suspect cheating is called tin foil since they can’t prove it. Check mate. That said, a federal court held in 2018 that GA’s paperless voting machines were unconstitutional. It’s why GA had to move to paper. 1/
It didn’t help that some Democrats have gone along with the paperless voting machine scam. Georgia had a Democratic SOS when it became the first state to deploy touchscreen machines statewide. That year, the state lurched to the right. 2/
Some Ds in Congress voted against paper, including Steny Hoyer & Chris Dodd. The Rs who pushed paperless machines were Mitch McConnell and Bob Ney. 3/
Contextomy is propaganda that takes a “quote out of...context to artificially generate new meaning.”
Example: @dennis_welch posts video of AZ audit observer who says auditors are looking 4 bamboo shreds in ballots. Buries in video 2 that observer does NOT believe this himself 1/
Video goes viral. Large accounts harass this observer bc they are under the false impression—created by @dennis_welch and his misleading video editing—that Brakey believes the crazy theory that the ballots will be found to have bamboo shreds in them. 2/
.@Dennis_welch does not bother to clear up the confusion. It’s fun having your video go viral at someone else’s expense.
@KeithOlbermann doesn’t notice or doesn’t care about the many people correcting him.
We can’t have early voting without e-pollbooks. But we shld not use them on Election Day, and we are doing that, sometimes without backup paper poll books.
We can’t have voters-can-vote-anywhere vote centers (like LA county’s crap system) w/o e-pollbooks either. 1/
2/ It’s one reason I oppose replacing precinct voting with voters-can-vote-anywhere mass voting centers. LA county was supposed to be the model, and it was a shit show. They want to take it national. prospect.org/civil-rights/i…
This is what happened when e-pollbooks failed in LA county in the 2020 primary. Backup paper poll nooks are impossible with this type of voters-can-vote-anywhere model. LA was mostly vote by mail in the general due to this f#CK up. 3/
2/ The presidential race was heavily scrutinized but most unexpected Democratic losses down ballot were not audited meaningfully fully or at all. Most likely not at all. Due to his overbroad testimony, efforts to require meaningful manual audits for all federal races have stalled
3/ Why bother w/ election security legislation if Chris Krebs says the voting system is already secure? All we need is one man’s word, right? No need for dumb audits after all! 😡
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/