Chris Wray concealed information about Russia’s attack on our election infrastructure, failed to anticipate the violence on 1/6 and led a sham investigation into the sexual assault allegations against now Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. It’s time to #FireChrisWray 1/
2/ “In August 2018, [Senator] Nelson blew the whistle on Russia’s breach of Florida voter registration systems, which the DHS (led by Republican Kirstjen Nielsen) and FBI (led by Republican Christopher Wray) had concealed from the public.” By @jennycohn1link.medium.com/v0XVx1yG6hb
3/ “Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) blasted Wray for the bureau’s failure to detect in advance and respond to the mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6…” washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
.@TheDemocrats must try to ensure that Rs don’t cheat in 2022. I suggest a standalone election security bill (robust manual audits & #handmarkedpaperballots) AND a national ballot image audit campaign, including a DOJ investigation into Florida’s ballot image destruction. 1/
We are unlikely to get the election security bill, but Ds must try anyway. Ballot images are created by scanners automatically, but too many jurisdictions in Florida and presumably elsewhere destroy them. @TheDemocrats shld demand that officials preserve & produce the images. 2/
Ds shld challenge tech developers across the US to develop software to analyze the images. We need lots of eyes on the images so that we aren’t just relying on one vendor to tell us whether the image supports the result. My friend Ray Lutz has already developed such a program. 3/
New @orlandosentinel piece about an important state senate race that Florida Republican Jason Brodeur (a Matt Gaetz cohort) allegedly won, defying the polls. 1/
Screenshot of a memo I wrote summarizing the players in the race. I recommend subscribing to @orlandosentinel for updates. They are investigating bc the state & county would not. 2/
Mike Lindell realizes he has no proof that Trump really won. He & others who claimed otherwise lied. So now he’s trying to flip the script. He hopes we forgot the GOP’s blocking of legislation that wld have required robust manual audits 4 all federal races. Rs wrote the rules. 1/
Brian Beute, a music teacher who filed papers to run for tax collector against Joel Greenberg in 2020, “was the target of a political smear campaign [including a false allegation of child molestation] that Greenberg now admits to orchestrating.” 1/ clickorlando.com/news/local/202…
Less than a week after Beute entered the race to challenge Greenberg, “an anonymous letter arrived at Beute’s private school [falsely] accusing [him] of having a sexual relationship w/ a student. ***The agency…discovered fingerprints on the letter…belonged to Greenberg.” 2/
“Detectives also found evidence that phony Facebook and Twitter accounts used to spread false accusations about the teacher [Beute] was created at Greenberg’s home.” 3/
“Philadelphia could face $40 M in costs to replace voting machines if forced to comply w/ a ‘forensic investigation’ into the 2020 election launched by a Republican state lawmaker & ally of…Trump,” according to Republican city commissioner Al Schmidt. 1/ reuters.com/article/us-usa…
“The Republican lawmaker demanding the forensic audit is Doug Mastriano, who “has given the three counties until July 31 to respond and is threatening to issue subpoenas through the Intergovernmental Operations Committee, which he chairs and which is majority Republican.” 2/
“In addition to 2020, he also wants to investigate municipal elections this past May.” 3/