Thread by @jennycohn1

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

@EACgov claims it is “committed to openness and transparency.” But its withholding of information re: its investigation of ES&S suggests the opposite. 4/ eac.gov/openeac

5/ Documents obtained from Texas show that, “about 40 days b4 the 2020 election,” the EAC “quietly investigated concerns that ES&S’s software installation & validation methods cld have left touch-screen voting systems in up to 19 states vulnerable…whowhatwhy.org/politics/elect…

… to the installation of malicious or otherwise unapproved software. The documents also suggest that ES&S may have initially misled election officials about this issue.” 6/

“The shifting # of affected ES&S systems raises the question of whether some affected systems did not receive proper software installation & hash-validation testing b4 the 2020 election. At a minimum, it warrants explanation. But the EAC & ES&S have declined to comment...” 7/

This is an 11/10/20 email from Adkins (Texas SOS lawyer) to a TX examiner indicating that ES&S may not have disclosed all voting systems impacted by its hash-validation fail.

This suggests that Texas may have used systems lacking proper validation or certification in 2020. 8/

The reply references a meeting scheduled for December to discuss this possibility, but @TXsecofstate has produced no records re: that meeting (in response to my second records request) & refuses to say if such records exist. Both Texas & ES&S have asked AG Paxton to approve… 9/

a blanket withholding of unspecified documents. 10/

I have no doubt he will grant their request, as he granted their prior improper request to withhold in its entirety a video of the system examination where ES&S was caught using an uncertified installation method. 11/

If Texas used uncertified or improperly validated ES&S voting software in the 2020 election, Mr. "Stop the Steal" Paxton would not want that getting out. 12/

13/ Yeah. This guy. The one who tried to overturn other state's election results. Can't make this stuff up.

.@threadreaderapp Plz unroll

.@Mdixon55 - Florida had voting systems potentially impacted by ES&S’s hash problem. From my investigative piece for @whowhatwhy. whowhatwhy.org/politics/elect…

.@Jason_Garcia - Florida had more than 2800 potentially affected voting systems. This is from my investigative piece. @EACgov wants to wait until October to produce documents in response to my January FOIA… whowhatwhy.org/politics/elect…

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