Thread by @jennycohn1

.@TXsecofstate, @TXAG, @ESSVote, & @EACgov are withholding info re: voting machine vendor ES&S’s hash validation failure & related election security concerns. They don’t even describe the records they are withholding. They already withheld a video. 1/ drive.google.com/file/d/1YwHnje…

.@EACgov now claims that it will respond to my January FOIA re: it’s investigation of @essvote’s hash validation failure in October. OCTOBER! How much do you want to bet they will put it off again when October rolls around? #Coverup. 2/

I am trying to follow up on my piece re: this issue. Apparently, these guys didn’t like the piece. It is shameful. Voters deserve to know what is going on with ES&S, America’s largest voting machine vendor. @whowhatwhy 3/ whowhatwhy.org/politics/elect…

PS. ES&S also misconstrues my request. Here is what my request actually said. Plus ES&S’s and @TXsecofstate’s objections are late, as my request was sent in February! Not that they care. Their objections to the video were also late and Paxton still sustained them. 4/

Note that it was Paxton who tried to overturn OTHER state’s results based on alleged security concerns involving Dominion Voting. Isn’t it rich that he is now concealing public records about his state’s own election security problems involving ES&S? 5/

As shown here in my timeline, the documents previously produced by @TXsecofstate expressly referenced a meeting to take place in December re ES&S’s hash problems, which may have affected more systems than ES&S disclosed. No documents re this meeting have been produced. 6/

These are my two public requests to Texas. Info re this December meeting with ES&S should have been produced to me in response to at least one of them. 8/

This is unacceptable. Georgia Republicans want to replace their Dominion system with one from ES&S. Republicans in Shelby County, TN want to buy more ES&S. The public needs this information. Shame on @EACgov, @TXsecofstate, & @TXAG (Mr. “Stop the Steal”). 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡 9/

I also find it hard to believe that, after 12/10/20, there were no written communications between Texas & the EAC re: these issues. It was Texas that got the EAC involved in the first place. But Texas produced no such communications. 10/

There’s an actual video where Texas examiners learned that ES&S was using an uncertified software installation method. @TXsecofstate, @ESSVote, & Paxton withheld it entirely, even though I said they cld trim out anything that revealed passwords or similar info. 11/

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Here’s my written response to @TXsecofstate. I’ll send the same thing to Paxton, but he’s a crook so I’m not optimistic. This is a coverup of ES&S’s hash validation problems, and it is not okay. @EACgov is withholding information too. 12/