If HR1 & SR1 fail, @SenateDems & @HouseDemocrats shld try a standalone bill requiring #RobustManualAudits conducted in public (or public #HandCounting) for all federal races starting 2022. This may be the only time that some Rs will feel pressure to pass it. #ElectionTransparency
.@SenateDems & @HouseDemocrats should also try a separate standalone bill that bans paperless (unauditable) voting machines and that gives all in person voters the option to mark their ballots by hand with a pen (rather than a touchscreen). #HandMarkedPaperBallots
I also strongly advise that @SenateDems & @HouseDemocrats try a standalone bill that bans internet connectivity to voting machines. Seriously. Some Rs may agree. If the GOP shoots such a bill down, their own voters may turn on them. Assuming Democrats message the bill clearly.
.@dan_roam - inspired by your book :-)
Yes we need this. Here is what @philipbstark, America’s foremost election auditing expert, told me in October 2020. nybooks.com/daily/2020/10/…
This is the type of manual audit that Stark recommends.
Manual recounts are very rare. Without automatic robust manual audits (conducted regardless of the margin of victory), we are blindly trusting our votes to black boxes. This is dumb. #RobustManualAudits

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3 Jun
I wrote an election-security book and even had a publisher. They just told me today that they can’t get it out until after the midterms, which is too late. So I pulled out of the arrangement. It was going to be a graphic novel. This is why I said I had tears in my eyes. 1/ Image
I’m crushed. Maybe I’ll self publish. Maybe I won’t bother. I’ve had it. The art would have been amazing. 😢2/
The image in post 1 is from the book that now may never be. 3/
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3 Jun
Election-security goals in a nutshell. By @jennycohn1 I would add to this list that we need a law compelling the FBI and DHS to disclose election-system breaches (including where breaches occurred, type of systems, vendors, etc) to the public w/in 10 days unless... 1/
.... they persuade a court that such disclosure would impede an ongoing investigation & obtain a protective order on this basis. Any such protective order would have to be renewed every 3 months or it would automatically expire, requiring disclosure. 2/ #ElectionTransparency
Electoral opacity is a recipe for both election fraud AND false claims that election fraud has occurred. Darkness breeds suspicion and conspiratorial thinking. Duh. 3/
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3 Jun
Dear Democratic and Republican voters: Let’s all call our elected representatives in the House & Senate to request that they pass a law requiring #RobustManualAudits conducted in public (or public #HandCounting) for all federal races starting 2022. TY. #ElectionTransparency 1/ Image
Congress has power over federal elections. 2/ Image
One thing we CAN agree upon is that we (Democrats and Republicans) don’t trust each other and should not have to at the ballot box. #ElectionTransparency 3/ Image
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2 Jun
.@SenateDems & @HouseDemocrats shld specify what HR1 & SR1 wld do. Broad claims re: voting rights are ineffective. The only provisions I’m aware of involve dark money, funding audits (but not requiring them), & requiring paper (but touchscreen voting ok). They need talking points
If you’ve seen talking points, pls post below. Thx!
This is an example of talking points, which I & others used to message the #SAFEAct. Why don’t @SenateDems & @HouseDemocrats use talking points? IMO, voters wld push harder & more effectively if they knew what was actually in HR1 & SR1.
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2 Jun
Um, Mike Pence has called you one of his heroes. Because of Trump’s words and actions, an angry MAGA mob breached the Capitol and hunted down Pence, chanting “Hang Mike Pence, hang Mike Pence!” How can u defend him?! 1/
2/ “Trump did more than just invite supporters to a rally. He also repeatedly shared a slickly produced video,” which declared “‘We know that our rights don’t come from the government, but from God..And we will fight to the death to protect those rights.’” motherjones.com/politics/2021/…
Another call for a “fight to the death.”
3/
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2 Jun
Without accountability and major election-transparency reform, here’s what we should prepare for in 2022:

A. Rs win control of House & Senate, & Ds concede democracy w/o verifying that Rs didn’t cheat

B. Ds keep House &/or Senate, but Rs violently overthrow the US government.
I don’t like or generally “do” predictions. Notice I said we should “prepare for this,” not that it is certain. But we are in deep, deep trouble. The GOP has been overtaken by domestic terrorists & neither our laws nor the Democratic leadership seems able to protect us.
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