Covering up the Big Lie with half truths of our own (“most secure election ever”) was a losing strategy all along. Anyone who studies the issue for a few hours will see that we didn’t get the reforms we needed to call the election truly secure. 1/ nybooks.com/daily/2020/10/… 
Tolerating the lies from Jim Comey, the chairman of EAC, & the head of the DHS (who falsely claimed that vote tallies are safe from remote hacking bc voting machines supposedly don’t connect to the internet) was also a huge mistake. 2/
The further we stray from the truth ourselves, the more people will suspect US of being liars too. 3/
To be sure, the presidential race was scrutinized far more than other races. But that does NOT make this a secure election overall. It does not account for the internet connectivity that too many people have lied about. 4/
I get we’re in a tough spot. But we are now dooming any hope of election security by pretending our system is already secure. The more we pretend, the deeper the hole we dig for ourselves. 5/
And no one will know that the GOP is itself responsible for these security holes bc we decided to spin half truths and rainbows rather than tell the truth about how Republicans blocked meaningful election-security reform. 6/ axios.com/gop-senator-el…
9/ October 2020. govtech.com/security/Exper…
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