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7 May, 4 tweets, 2 min read
I'm hoping that the now higher profile election for ATL mayor will cause candidates, city council and candidates focused and active to demand a verifiable election in Nov.
Using the un-auditable touchscreens is just begging for trouble and controversy. 1/
2/ The ongoing post-Nov. controversy, not nearly dead in GA, needs to be a warning to ATL. Using the same hackable BMD touchscreen machines is just crazy when the winner can never be confirmed, only assumed.

As well, touchscreens violate the voter's right to a secret ballot. Image
3/ ATL should lead the way in demanding no touchscreen BMDs in GA, and require hand marked ballots counted by scanners and then audited. (A real audit this time, not the nonsense purported "audit" conducted by @GaSecofState. )

We at @CoalitionGoodGv will advocate for that soon
4/ I think that the election fairness skeptics are going to continue to try to disrupt election outcomes they don't like. ATL needs to get ahead of it and have Fulton conduct a fully transparent and auditable election with lots of citizen oversight.

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28 Apr
It is quite disingenuous that SOS and Gabe Sterling are criticizing the AZ so-called "audit." AZ merits criticism, for sure, but GA's "audit" run by Gabe and SOS was also horribly non-transparent and violated virtually all fundamental audit principles. Pot calling kettle. 1/
2/ Yet, it seems by the comments on the thread that well-meaning people and press are fooled by the GA SOS claims.
The press irresponsibly failed to challenge these same types of audit principle violations when they happened in GA in the SOS audit.
3/ One reason that many grassroots Republicans are still suspect of the GA results is that GA played way fast and loose with "audits," and "recounts."
First, the GA results cannot be audited to determine whether Biden or Trump won.
Secondly, GA "audit" showed widespread errors.
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12 Apr
DAILY #SB202 FACT CHECK OF THE DAY-- #1

The Sec. of State's (unauthorized) absentee ballot application portal has ended. #SB202 does not permit it. (And that's good!)

The new law requires pen and ink signatures on applications, and that they go to the county office. 1/
2/ It's interesting that the law requires the SOS to set up a secure way for voters to electronically transmit those application forms to the counties. We cannot imagine what that system would entail for 159 counties to install. Lots of 💰💰💰!
3/ Why do we @CoalitionGoodGv think that is good that the portal has ended?
The great amount of sensitive personal information on the new #SB202 ballot application form simply makes it unsafe to send it via the SOS portal.
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20 Mar
1/ Both versions of GA omnibus election bills HB531 & SB202 contain egregiously undemocratic goals--codifying and legitimizing what the insurrectionists failed to accomplish.
Partisan St. Elec. Bd. could take over targeted county boards on a whim to overthrow results. #gapol
2/ The press hasn't really focused on this ultimate in attempt to suffocate democracy and voters' voices that are unwelcome.

See Sec. 4,5,6,11 of SB202
…altionforgoodgovernance.sharefile.com/d-sa315b3a73c7…
and
3/ See Sec. 3 of HB531

…altionforgoodgovernance.sharefile.com/d-sa315b3a73c7…
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17 Mar
1/ GA's @GovKemp often says that in GA it is "easy to vote but hard to cheat." Sadly #HB531, upends that claim--making it hard to vote and EASY to cheat.
Everyone understands the "hard to vote" part. But ironically, the bill makes it "easy to cheat."
2/ In the 2 min of testimony permitted today in Sen. Ethics Comm. hearing, I could only state that when bills drop signature verification (best authentication) to use DL#s instead, fraud will follow.
This testimony was cut short: bit.ly/MRM3_16testimo…
3/ I'll explain a couple of examples.
It's not unusual for signature verification process to catch parents of college or adult children no longer at home, obtaining kids' ballots and voting them. They get rejected.

If DL# used instead of signature, illegal ballots are accepted
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16 Mar
Sen. Ethics Comm. to hear flawed #HB531 today.
Here's what I plan to say in testimony.

🗣️ bit.ly/MRM3_16testimo…
There have been many strong clear voices on the voter suppression topic, so I plan to address the degrading of mail ballot security they are about to enact. 1/
2/ GOP lawmakers are merely blindly following @GaSecofState's request on this legislation so that he can control mail ballot applications in his portal, rather than have applications go to counties. Portal won't take signatures, --his answer is to degrade the security.
3/ Maybe GOP lawmakers should have learned a lesson when SOS insisted on the flawed and pricey Dominion BMD system with lax security.

If you know a GA Republican who is concerned about mail ballot security, please forward this thread and ask them to ask their lawmakers to stop!
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15 Mar
Despite the "broad support" of GOP, this is a horribly flawed proposal that opens the door for systemic mail ballot fraud.
GOP lawmakers as not thinking about what they are doing by using this DL# standard versus well-accepted standard off signature verification. 1/
2/ Let's use simplest example--
Parents of college & adult children who are still registered in GA use their DL numbers, receive their ballots and vote them.
Frequently done now, but caught in signature verification and rejected.
But will be accepted in new law. 😡
3/ People will have DL#s of friends who don't want to vote. They can vote for them now.
Also easy to buy DL#s from illegal sources. Pick a few hundred low propensity voters and get ballots under those names, and return voted ballot with the DL number.
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