Dear Members of Congress. Is there any way to alert Merrick Garland to this illegal destruction of public election records in Florida? Alabama does it too. This must stop. Election integrity advocates with shoe string budgets should not have to fund this fight. TY. @RonWyden@VP
Reviewing Florida elections (including House races 26 & 27) should be a top priority for Democrats. Florida elections are always sketch and include planted NPA candidates, wireless modems, Russian hacking, unexpected GOP victories, & crappy audit laws.
Florida House District 26 was an unexpected GOP win. The District includes Miami Dade which has modems, ES&S, & a Republican election supervisor who was appointed by the guy who won the race. Weird initial posted results. Result cld absolutely be legit, but I want to review it.
We are in a tough place re vote by mail, not bc I think it is beset by fraud, but bc it is difficult to prove a secure chain of custody with mail flowing in every day over the course of many days. Rs will use any uncertainty to undermine future results (but only if they lose). 1/
That said, vote by mail uses #HandMarkedPaperBallots, which may deter hacking of central tabulation systems. Vote by mail also avoids long lines and vanishing polling places. We are in a bind. 2/
I still feel the answer is to champion as much security as possible and to put Rs on the defensive for thwarting security measures before the election. 3/ axios.com/gop-senator-el…
“My temperature spiked, I couldn’t breathe and my blood oxygen levels crashed. I went to the ER on the 10th night and was given an IV with an experimental antiviral antibody medicine,” Ring wrote on Facebook. 2/
“I was then sent home from the ER, only to return later the following evening when my temperature once again spiked, I was shaking uncontrollably, and my blood oxygen levels dropped dangerously low to 78. I couldn’t catch my breath and was certain I was dying.” 3/
Insurrectionists are cherry picking which has 0 to do w/ Integrity. But PA’s Risk Limiting Audit was a pilot that did not include every county. They needed to do it right the 1st time to defend against this type of fiasco. PA’s RLA was still more than states won by Trump did. 1/
The cold hard truth is that some election officials endangered us all by refusing to properly secure our elections with meaningful manual audits. 2/ mcall.com/news/pennsylva…
This left us vulnerable to both tampering AND false claims that tampering occurred. I and others screamed from the rooftops about this before the election, but no one took it seriously enough. 3/
Dear @EACgov: In January, I sent u a public records request re: ur preelection investigation of ES&S’s hash validation issues, which impacted up to 19 states. You postponed ur production deadline until May, only to postpone it again until October, which is concerning. 1/
I wrote about what I know of this issue here. You hold the missing pieces, but do not apparently want the public to know about them. 2/ whowhatwhy.org/politics/elect…
Will u provide details re: ur 19-state investigation of ES&S’s hash protocols in your report to Congress? How about in the next public meeting and hearing? Or are they a secret? Transparency means nothing if u are only transparent when things go right. 3/ eac.gov/about-the-useac
This is a nice piece that discusses much of the correspondence discussed in my own piece for @whowhatwhy, while adding additional helpful background and commentary. 1/ zetter.substack.com/p/votings-hash…
.@KimZetter mentions my public records request but not my article, which covered much of this territory. She does link to it. Here it is. 2/ whowhatwhy.org/politics/elect…
I’m glad ES&S’s hash problems are getting more attention. They are a big deal and we do not have the full story because @EACgov is thus far withholding all public records of its investigation. 3/