This is an overly simplistic quote. There are absolutely situations where a forensic examination of election systems is warranted. For example, the DHS shld have conducted such an assessment of Durham County, NC’s malfunctioning e-poll books immediately after the 2016 …. 1/
… election because the intelligence community had learned that the vendor, VR systems, had been breached. Instead, it waited almost three years, which was wholly unacceptable. 2/
We must not react to Trump’s lies by pretending that systems are more secure than they are or that only crazy people would have concerns. We must not back ourselves into a corner where we cannot examine questionable results bc to do so wld make us look like hypocrites. 3/
“In the wake of reports of Russian interference in 2016, I learned that public officials…had provided false assurances about the security of our election system. *** [T]hese false assurances served to legitimize Trump’s questionable victory...” 1/ link.medium.com/1FDvKDfsAib
I became an election-security and transparency advocate because I “could not bear the possibility of a repeat performance at any level of government. I feel the same way today.” 2/
“I’m painfully aware that now former President Trump has directed a fire hose of falsehoods at the 2020 election, which unseated him. I did a presentation debunking many of those lies for @NoLiesRadio.” 3/
Why did Joel Greenberg (Seminole County’s indicted former tax collector) dole out so many suspicious govt contracts? One possibility is that these contracts (where recipients performed no apparent work) were used to launder illegal campaign donations. Follow @gal_suburban. Thread
“States decide where they want to affix the sensors. Some use them to monitor the secretary of state’s office computer network, while others use them as sentinels for their voter registration database.” 2/
“The device mines ‘signatures’ that could point to malicious actors, such as internet protocol addresses associated with Russian hackers. But it’s only as good as the signatures that officials feed into the sensor, so that it knows what to look out for.“ 3/
“Federal agencies responsible for safeguarding the security and personal data of millions of Americans have failed to implement basic defenses against cyberattacks, according to a report from Senate investigators released Tuesday.” - 8/3/21 1/ cbsnews.com/news/federal-c…
“The agencies earned a C- report card for falling short of federally-mandated standards in the 47-page report by the Senate Homeland Security Committee.” 2/
“The audit accuses eight critical agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the State Department and the Social Security Administration (SSA) of relying on outdated systems, ignoring mandatory security patches and failing to protect sensitive data…3/
“[O]ne of the Democratic [USPS] board members is Ron Bloom, a Trump appointee who's expressed support for DeJoy. As recently as April, Bloom, who…chairs the USPS board, told The Atlantic…’Right now, I think [DeJoy is] the … man for the job.’” 6/1/21 1/ msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-…
Only the USPS board can fire DeJoy, and supposed Democrat Ron Bloom’s support of DeJoy means there are not enough votes for the board to oust him. Ron’s got a very smug mug don’t ya think? 2/