Confused about whether GA election outcomes were "audited" in Nov. and whether GA voting system can actually produce a verifiable result in the future?
Join the national forum on Tuesday at 12pm ET on the topic of touchscreen BMD voting systems. conta.cc/3wAcYZC 1/
2/ Spoiler alert--As scientists have warned since 2018, the touchscreen BMD machines are not an improvement over the previous paperless touchscreen machines. Touchscreen voting cannot be protected from hacking and manipulation.
Register for forum and understand why.
3/ HB316 (2019) mandated touchscreen BMDs. It was party line vote. Dems voted NO, and R's voted YES for touchscreen BMDs.
Now @GaRepublicans have voted at convention to demand that legislature ditch BMDs and go to Hand Marked Ballots, reversing themselves on HB316--at last!
4/ But will the GA lawmakers pay attention, or will they continue to insist on an un-auditable system?
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Protecting voting rights goes beyond making sure every eligible elector can vote. That's imperative! But we @CoalitionGoodGv focus on the next crucial step--making sure each vote counts accurately!
We are tiny but effective 501(c)(3) focusing almost all effort in GA now-- 1/
2/ Learn more Tuesday June 22 about why we continue to sue GA to ban the electronic touchscreen voting machines.
We're co-hosting national webinar bringing in USA's top experts. Public is welcome.
Press taking pictures like the one below is now illegal under #SB202. ( misdemeanor)
How will press react to this unconstitutional restriction during the upcoming private "audit."
We are suing to stop this infringement on First Amendment rights. 1/
2/ Read about this little known issue and our lawsuit.
Today we @CoalitionGoodGv filed a lawsuit against GA state officials to challenge some of the most egregious provisions of SB202--GA's new voting law.
Read about it here. conta.cc/3fscdtY
See why photos like the one below are now illegal. 1/
2/ Read about the most egregious voter intimidation tacit. Voters can now be charged with *felonies* for walking into a polling place and seeing a scene like this one taken by an AJC photographer.
3/ And learn about the assault on bi-partisan public election boards where the State Election Bd. can remove a county board for trivial reasons and appoint their partisan appointee giving him unilateral power.
GA voters (and press & non-profits) attending the Nov. hand "audit," and machine recount. Watch what a REAL audit looks like in NH, with experts managing, insisting on transparency.
Contrast NH with GA's post-election counts with NO transparency or accountability. Link 👇1/
Everyone knows what is going on at all times, and all questions are answered with patience. @HarriHursti and @philipbstark in charge!
3/ In GA's post-election testing, all information went into a black hole controlled by the insiders, but press, public, monitors were not permitted to see any data, until the end when SOS and Sterling announced, "it's all good." 😡
That's no public audit!
But press accepted it.
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.
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. )
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.