🧵Essential reading here for anyone concerned about GA's election security‼️

@jhalderm sent this report through attorneys to @GaSecofState tonight,summarizing his findings and dire warnings in the sealed report issued July 1.

…altionforgoodgovernance.sharefile.com/d-s4bee15bc688…
2/ While the detailed report will remain under seal for a while, it's more than clear that state and county officials have the obligation to obtain information about the grave vulnerabilities of the touchscreen system in time to make the right decisions for Nov. muni elections.
3/ I've highlighted important parts of Dr. Halderman's report to call your attention to key points. See first panel of this thread for the link.
For example:
4/ What can you do to help address this lack of security?

Download @jhalderm 's report and send it to your local election officials and your favorite local and state office candidates. They are in a position to force the issues into public, and seek real paper ballot elections.
5/ The law does not require that BMDs be used for municipal elections. Time to make that decision is NOW!
There's time to implement HMPB.

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31 Jul
🧵Whether or not you think the "performance review" of Fulton Elections is merited, here's why it is doomed. Only damage will result. I''ll list some reasons A to H on this thread.

A. It's politically driven, not an attempt at getting answers. SOS controls review staff.
2/ B. SEB is to appoint a "Performance Review Bd." ("PRB") in 30 days. First, the GA Senators must correct their request for Fulton review. They requested to review staff, (not permitted by law).
Do they have guts to review GOP members of Fulton Bd? (Only choice permitted.)
3/ PRB can't review staff. Can only review full board. ENTIRE board must be fired en masse if SEB wants to replace management.

C. PRB will be unwieldy. Likely to be 11 members! 2 "local election officials" are appointed. An "official" is full board, not an individual.
Read 12 tweets
29 Jul
Wait a minute!
The lawmakers have no legal right to call for a SB202 performance review of Rick Barron. He is management staff, NOT a board member.
The lawmakers can only seek a performance review of the entire board. This is very much out of bounds going after management!! 1/
2/If anyone wondered whether the lawmakers would overreach in their efforts to intervene in county elections, this is all the proof you need.
Look at what they wrote in the letter, misquoting the law.
The law permits the review of the Fulton Board, not an individual employee.
3/ Whether or not you are a Rick Barron fan, one needs to realize that his employment is a decision to be made by the COUNTY board, NOT by state officials' overreach.

This is really alarming!

We @CoalitionGoodGv will have much more to say about this.
Read 6 tweets
18 Jul
1/ Consider the value of transparency of election records being proven in real time!
The wildly irresponsible claims of @VoterGa and @GAballots about Fulton ballot counts, falsely claiming thousands of double counted votes and fraud are being debunked by ordinary citizens...
2/ These citizens seem to be individuals working alone and analyzing the images of the ballots against the wild claims of the @voterga folks. Transparency is a wonder drug!!
We @CoalitionGoodGv and @ajc have both published hundreds of thousands of Fulton images, like this.
3/ Why is it possible? Thank @sheaforgeorgia (D) and Rep. Shaw Blackmon (R) for a bipartisan effort to make ballot images public records that passed in March.
Now anyone can review the images.
And generous donors to @CoalitionGoodGv funded the purchase of images from Fulton.
Read 5 tweets
17 Jul
The problems with @GaSecofState' audit were inevitable from day it was announced.
We @CoalitionGoodGv sent this letter to the press and county election officials on Nov. 12 raising some of the very issues that have invited so much misinformation.
➡️ conta.cc/3kp4ygK
1/
2/ The SOS issued a LOT of false statements, misinformation, nonsensical directions to the counties, and imposed an impossible deadline given the working conditions.
He insisted that they use a software program that was not designed for this scale of "audit," assuring failure.
3/ Ask any of the many data entry workers who had to deal with an electronic audit worksheet where they could not see what data they were entering, or checking it for accuracy.
Monitors were not permitted to check accuracy of anything.
Transparency failure!
Read 4 tweets
16 Jul
1 So @TuckerCarlson and @GAballots are breaking GA's new absurd unconstitutional SB202 law when they take these photographs and videos of voted ballots.

Although I disagree with most of their claims, I'll fight for their ability to show us the evidence!

SB202 outlawed this. ⬇️
2/ Why did @GaSecofState insist on making it illegal to show pictures of ballots, and pushed that in SB202?
We have sued to have this language declared unconstitutional. We call it the "Photography Ban."
3/ And if a reporter or poll watcher saw these ballots being scanned twice, it is now, thanks to @GaSecofState' language in SB202, a crime for anyone to report it to the public or law enforcement!
We are suing to block this "gag rule."
Read 5 tweets
16 Jul
We @CoalitionGoodGv have not had a lot to say (yet!) about the @VoterGa claims of thousands of inaccurately counted ballots in Fulton. We believe there are definitely some inexcusable errors, but the claims appear to be wildly exaggerated as to impacts on official results. 1/
2/ We have confirmed that two batches of 100 ballots were scanned twice, and they were likely counted twice but we are still confirming whether the duplicate scanned votes recorded as official.

But don't let @GaSecofState off the hook on this.
He certified the tallies.
3/ SOS had audit tallies long before he let Fulton officials see them. He claimed that everything balanced, (it didn't). He ordered a machine recount with ridiculous processes, and of course got a sloppy result. (Not just from Fulton).

SOS knew the numbers first,-buried them
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