Thread by @jennycohn1

Yes, there are Democrats who suspect that the GOP has stolen elections from them via hacking. They just won’t say it publicly (at least not until years later) bc they are afraid of being called sore losers or tin foil. As if cheating is a far-fetched concept. 🙄 1/

https://twitter.com/jennycohn1/status/1297338433904361472

Max Cleland also had concerns about the unexpected Republican wins in Georgia that followed the state’s switch to paperless Diebold voting machines in 2002. That year, Diebold secretly installed uncertified software patches throughout the state shortly before the election. 2/

But he didn’t say anything until he wrote his book years later. Maybe Democratic Party leadership persuades these “losing” candidates to shut up. I wish I knew. 3/

Stacey Abrams’s group, Fair Fight, has gone further than most. They created this 40 page document which summarizes corruption & electronic failures involving ES&S, which had the servicing & maintenance contract in Georgia before the switch to Dominion. 4/ fairfight.com/wp-content/upl…

But she rarely discusses election security publicly. My strong suspicion is that Democratic Party leadership told her not to. 5/

Because Democrats said so little, there was a void that MAGAs were happy to fill with half-truths, outright lies, and cherry picking. They have completely taken over the narrative. 6/

And now Georgia Republicans hope to dump Dominion to go back to ES&S, whose machines lost thousands of black votes in 2018. 7/
theroot.com/exclusive-thou…

How can Democrats possibly sound the alarm now that all election security concerns are cast as tin foil? They won’t sound it. They will roll over. 8/

I’ll be happy if I’m wrong. 9/

.@DonSiegelman is the only Democratic candidate with the b#lls to say at the time that he thought his election was stolen. And the GOP locked him up. Even many Rs thought it was politically motivated. I wrote about it here. 10/ link.medium.com/GEw0s3vTYgb