🧵Whether you defend the GA 2020 election results or challenge them, we @CoalitionGoodGv kindly ask that you consider the controversy that would exist if the paperless touchscreen system had remained in use!

In 2019 we won the lawsuit to put an end to them in GA!
2/ We funded it with patient attorneys and vendors and thousands of hours of volunteer time. But @CoalitionGoodGv + Curling plaintiffs made it happen!! (Our attorneys still await a fee award.)

The paper records exist today b/c of this landmark victory.
apnews.com/article/primar…
3/ But the BMD paper records are not nearly good enough to be used in a public election! We continue the same Curling lawsuit, now against the DRE's evil twin, the BMDs.
apnews.com/article/electi…
4/ How is it that everyone can see the ballots for themselves and research the tabulations?
Because @CoalitionGoodGv proposed to @sheaforgeorgia (D) that a bill was needed for sunshine on the ballot counting process.
She and Rep. Blackman (R) got that done in bi-partisan bill.
5/ We @CoalitionGoodGv were behind the major transparency changes and that benefited the 2020 election, although many questions still must be resolved about the processes and accuracy. (We have seen nothing that would change the outcome.)

We don't crow a lot, b/c we're too busy!
6/ We are the only org to make all available Fulton ballot images public for citizen analysts to work with.
Some of you helped pay for them!

@CoalitionGoodGv is a tiny but effective org---punching above our weight!
7/ Please help us continue our essential efforts.
We are suing to stop county takeovers under SB202 as well as fighting for an auditable voting system.
It's a LOT for an all-volunteer org (other than intern pay and legal work)!
Keep us in the fight!
bit.ly/CGGDonate

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5 Aug
GA voters--Can anyone name even one GA official or political leader who bothered to speak up and ask for secure city elections in November after they received this serious warning about dangerous vulnerabilities in the voting system? 1/

➡️➡️conta.cc/2TTimJ9 Image
2/ The existence of @jhalderm' s report has been known since 7/1/21. Controversy was on the public docket for 2+ weeks. His rebuttal report filed Monday that summarized concerns.

There are easy immediate solutions.

Easy solutions, but seeming lack of interested officials.
3/ So they have gotten their umpteenth increasingly dire warning that this is going to happen with the voting system.... Image
Read 4 tweets
3 Aug
🧵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:
Read 5 tweets
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

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