Thread by @jennycohn1

Hasen concerns me bc he has boosted the platforms of people who underplay election security concerns. Even he says that Congress shld require “mandatory post-election audits…”

Why does @amyklobuchar’s voting bill postpone its audit reqmt until 2024? 1/ washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/0…

Hasen, for example, boosted the platform of David Becker, which is unfortunate. Becker is featured in this video that I made with @KateRosenberg4 before the 2020 election. The modems have not been removed, but they should be. 2/

3/ Letter from Stacey Abrams’s group & 13 other voting rights groups to UC Irvine taking exception to Hasen’s speaker invitation to the GA Sec of State bc the GA Sec of State has been threatening to dissolve the Dem-led Fulton county election board. fairfight.com/wp-content/upl…

4/ Hasen is always late to recognize threats to our elections. That even he gets it on audits—but the Democrats still haven’t moved to require them until AFTER 2022–is startling.

5/ Huseman has been another Hasen favorite for his panels. She and Becker both spread the myth in 2016 or 2017 that voting machines can’t be hacked remotely bc they supposedly don’t connect to the internet. They never explained how they got it so wrong.
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6/ So Hasen is not exactly an election security alarmist. That he gets it on audits—and Democrats apparently don’t—is concerning.

7/ There has never been accountability for the false election-security assurances that served to legitimize Trump’s poll-defying & otherwise questionable win in 2016. It’s not okay. I wrote about that here. link.medium.com/agPE2eRvZjb

8/ Oh, look at that. I gave Hasen too much credit. It seems that he, too, is not calling for mandatory election audits until 2024. As if 2022 isn’t all that important. The “adults in the room” who get to publish their work in WaPo, etc. are going to be the end of us.

9/ Per election-security experts, ruling out election fraud typically requires robust manual audits using a reliable paper trail. Per @philipbstark, America’s foremost election-auditing expert, we rarely do this in the US. I interviewed him in October. nybooks.com/daily/2020/10/…