Do you really think ES&S is supervised? News flash: It’s not. Hell, Texas even let ES&S ** check itself ** to confirm that it hasn’t installed vote stealing software. The EAC supposedly investigated ES&S but won’t produce documents. 1/
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1405948513133944832
My piece about how Texas has allowed ES&S to police itself. How exactly is this better than the Ninjas? 2/ whowhatwhy.org/politics/elect…
ES&S secretly installed remote access software and secretly connected voting systems to the internet and yet THAT receives less media attention than the Ninjas. It is a huge media fail. By Kim Zetter 3/ vice.com/en/article/mb4…
4/ ES&S. nbcnews.com/politics/elect…
5/ I sent my FOIA to the EAC about its secret investigation of ES&S in January. They said they’d respond w/ documents in May. Now they say October. I learned about the investigation via a public records request to Texas which has now gone dark too.
6/ ES&S was founded by two brothers. One brother became president of Global (later called Diebold), which promptly put a convicted embezzler, Jeffrey Dean, in charge of programming. Dean put his prison pal in charge of punch cards. Where was the supervision there?!
7/ I wrote about the brothers at ES&S and Global/Diebold—and the embezzler—here. legacy.tyt.com/2018/08/17/kob… 
8/ Seriously. How was this better than the Ninjas?! What if most of the media’s refusal to scrutinize our privatized voting system for > 20 years led to the Ninjas?! After all, how do we know that the state lawmakers who hired the Ninjas were legitimately elected themselves?!
9/ We don’t. Because our election audit laws suck. From my pre-election piece. nybooks.com/daily/2020/10/…
10/ And they will continue to suck unless and until those at the top of the power hierarchy apply some intellectual honesty to the situation and pass laws now requiring meaningful election-security reform at the federal AND state level.
11/ Those at the top of the US power structure have been playing w/ fire blindfolded for 20 years. Don’t let them burn it all down.
12/ Let me put it this way. As private companies, voting machine vendors are not even subject to public records laws. They are unsupervised! It is the definition of nuts.
13/ PS. No, this doesn’t prove fraud. It proves we have been f#cking idiots.
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