.@theDemocrats: If u ignore experts’ advice to improve & expand manual audit laws, the GOP will use the inadequacy of most official audits as a pretext to undermine Democratic wins. Experts say most audits aren’t robust enuf & apply to only a few races. Improve & expand them! 1/
2/ Here is what @philipbstark, America’s foremost election auditing expert, told me in October 2020. This is unacceptable. It can and likely will be used against us in the next election if we don’t improve official election audits! nybooks.com/daily/2020/10/…
Yes, we shld worry that hackers cld change votes w/o detection due to our inadequate official audits. We shld also worry that Rs will use the inadequacy of official election audits as a pretext to #fraudit future Dem wins. Weak audits are a lose/lose proposition. Fix this. 3/
Don’t believe me? Check out this CAP report from 2018, which gave Arizona a D grade on election security due in part to its inadequate official audits. (Ironically, Maricopa received higher marks than the rest of the state.) 4/ cdn.americanprogress.org/content/upload…
Georgia plans to audit only 1 race chosen by the Secretary of State (not at random) every other year. This is insane. If election officials don’t care about our votes, they should at least care about their own protection against future baseless claims of election fraud. FFS. 5/
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👀In August 2020, Trump’s Federal Reserve approved a $50M coronavirus relief loan to a PA casino owned by the children & grandchildren of Louis DeNaples who was chairman of the bank that made the loan. h/t @jacobadelman 1/ inquirer.com/business/main-…
2/ The loan recipient: “the Mount Airy Casino Resort, owned by trusts for DeNaples’ children and grandchildren. DeNaples had to relinquish his own ownership to resolve charges that he’d concealed his ties to organized crime.”
3/ As noted by @j2dumfounded, the coronavirus relief loan to the DeNaples PA casino (the Mount Airy casino) was much larger than other such loans at that time.
Remember? Do not underestimate Steve Bannon. It’s not that he’s so extraordinary generally. It’s that he’s extraordinarily evil AND deeply connected both politically and financially. 1/
This was RT’d by Alexandra Preate, Bannon’s press Secretary in PA. Her dad, Ernie Preate, is a convicted felon & frequent guest on Bannon’s podcast. He’s an attorney & is defending Frank Scavo who organized buses to the insurrection & posted incriminating messages to his FB. 2/
3/ Was was Farage in PA (the Preates’ stomping ground) on Election Day?
.@GaSecofState is casting stones at @staceyabrams from a glass house. Georgia’s e-pollbooks were supplied by KNOWiNK, whose founder & CEO, Scott Leiendecker, is a former GOP election official whose wife donated $2,500 to his campaign in 2018. 1/
Chris Wray & Kavanaugh both worked 4 the Bush WH when it was was hiding its emails on that private server hosted by Smartech (which also, bizarrely, received Ohio’s 2004 returns b4 they were posted). Russia hacked Smartech in 2015, but Comey pretended it was no big deal. @RWPUSA
FBI Director Chris Wray hid Russia’s breach of Florida voter registration systems, even from Florida election officials, even as then Senator Bill Nelson tried to sound the alarm b4 the 2018 midterm election. What else did he cover up? #FireChrisWray 1/ link.medium.com/FAICXBrkAjb