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22 Jun, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Important analysis of the ongoing AZ review of ballots, from two real election experts, @KYTrey and @bcburden:

"Because it lacks the essential elements of a bona fide post-election analysis, the review will not produce findings that should be trusted."

statesuniteddemocracy.org/resources/repo…
"The ongoing review of ballots from the November 2020 general election in Maricopa County as ordered by the Arizona State Senate and executed by their inexperienced, unqualified contractor, Cyber Ninjas, does not meet the standards of a proper election
recount or audit." /2
"The Cyber Ninjas review suffers from uncompetitive contracting, a lack of impartiality and partisan balance, a faulty ballot review process, inconsistency in procedures, an unacceptably high level of error built into the process, and insufficient security." /3
"A general lack of transparency and communication
also makes it difficult to evaluate the review fully as one would an official recount or audit, and it undermines rather than establishes confidence in the election system and the review itself." /END

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The ongoing mess that is the AZ “election audit,” lacking any sense of transparency, conducted by an inexperienced, biased out-of-state firm, contaminating chain-of-custody and the ballots themselves, is not only a bad idea. It also likely violates federal law. /1
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FL SB90 just passed the Senate on nearly a pure party-line vote (23-17, with only 1 R voting "no"). This completely unnecessary bill fails to recognize the exceptional election FL just held, accessible to all with maximum integrity - a model for the nation. /1
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Like GA, this bill outlaws giving "any item to a voter" waiting in line. Not water, not a sandwich, not a pen, not a book, not an umbrella. What this provision is fixing, and how it will be enforced, remains a total mystery. /2
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Read this. "Critics in both parties charge that what began as a way to placate angry Trump voters has become a political embarrassment and another blow to the once-inviolable democratic norm that losers and winners alike honor results of elections." /1

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"Hoping to head off a dispute, the supervisors hired two federally approved firms to conduct a forensic audit of the county’s voting machines. The audit concluded that the equipment had performed flawlessly." /2
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In our report released Monday, below, @ElectionInnov found that 35 states plus DC offer no-excuse mail or early in-person voting. Only 15 states don't offer both a mail and early in-person option for all voters. /1

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It's important to note that all this report measured was whether states offered both mail and early voting to all voters. It did not measure other access and integrity issues, such as restrictive ID, availability of drop boxes, or auditable paper ballots. /2
We also did not assess which states among those that offered early and mail options to all voters were more accessible than others, or whether recent laws moved those states in a direction of better access and integrity, or worse. /3
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We're understandably focused on bills/laws being proposed/passed to restrict voting and which hurt election integrity in several states, but we should be paying particular attention to what is happening in TX, right now. /1
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TX SB7 prohibits efforts by election officials to encourage or educate voters about early and mail voting options. It even requires those who need to vote by mail due to disability to provide a gov't document or a doctor's attestation that they are "disabled." /3
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It's now clear that no amount of debasement of American democracy will satisfy some members of the Republican party. As they attempt a coup against American voters, while they cloak themselves with statements they won't make in court, they also debase themselves. /1
These members' of the GOP efforts to cloak themselves in the language of democracy, while actively working to subvert it, will fail. Joe Biden will be inaugurated on Jan. 20, as the voters have determined, and nothing can or should stop that. /2
In 2016, not one member of the Senate stood to object to a single state's electoral votes, confirming the election of Trump. Even though 2016 was a very close election - much closer than 2020 - the values of democracy were upheld by both parties. /3
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