Thread by @jennycohn1

@FrankFigliuzzi1 @NicolleDWallace @DeadlineWH @MSNBC Trump’s lies do not justify ignoring legitimate election security concerns. Championing untrustworthy elections —& not knowing the difference between trustworthy & untrustworthy results—undermines democracy. 1/#HandMarkedPaperBallots #RobustManualAudits #TransparentChainOfCustody

@FrankFigliuzzi1 @NicolleDWallace @DeadlineWH @MSNBC 2/ We never got the election-security protections in the #SAFEAct, which the GOP blocked. We cannot afford to have such a short attention span. axios.com/gop-senator-el…

@FrankFigliuzzi1 @NicolleDWallace @DeadlineWH @MSNBC 3/

@FrankFigliuzzi1 @NicolleDWallace @DeadlineWH @MSNBC 4/ link.medium.com/D9YpVxC7gkb

@FrankFigliuzzi1 @NicolleDWallace @DeadlineWH @MSNBC 5/ link.medium.com/OG4IvEE7gkb

@FrankFigliuzzi1 @NicolleDWallace @DeadlineWH @MSNBC 6/ Election-security experts have warned for years that we can’t assume electronic results are correct w/o requiring rigorous manual audits using a reliable paper trail. Most US races are not audited meaningfully if at all. Will we listen to experts or just keep reacting 2 Trump?

@FrankFigliuzzi1 @NicolleDWallace @DeadlineWH @MSNBC 7/ I wrote this in October 2020. nybooks.com/daily/2020/10/…

@FrankFigliuzzi1 @NicolleDWallace @DeadlineWH @MSNBC 8/ From my pre-election interview of America’s foremost election auditing expert. Our election system is in dire straits, & the GOP somehow twisted it around to pretend to be victims. nybooks.com/daily/2020/10/…

@FrankFigliuzzi1 @NicolleDWallace @DeadlineWH @MSNBC 9/ I also worry that they may be using these fraudits to figure out how to cheat. None of this makes Florida elections secure. Many Florida counties use ballot scanners w/ wireless modems, & their audit & recount laws are woefully inadequate as I explain in the article in post 5.

@FrankFigliuzzi1 @NicolleDWallace @DeadlineWH @MSNBC 10/ Or maybe they want Democrats to falsely claim that Florida elections are secure so that Ds won’t challenge more poll defying losses in 2022. We must stick with the facts & avoid responding to Trump’s lies w/ lies of our own (overstating the security of our elections).

@FrankFigliuzzi1 @NicolleDWallace @DeadlineWH @MSNBC 11/ Thanks for your consideration. (This is from a memo I created re: Florida & the 2022 election)

@FrankFigliuzzi1 @NicolleDWallace @DeadlineWH @MSNBC 12/ About Chris Krebs & his misleading “most secure election ever” narrative. The bar was low, & most down ballot races were not audited, much less meaningfully. link.medium.com/QmD5qtk9gkb

@FrankFigliuzzi1 @NicolleDWallace @DeadlineWH @MSNBC 13/ Professor Halderman, one of America’s foremost election security experts, agrees that Krebs misled the public w/ his “most secure election ever” line. Halderman goes so far as to call it misinformation. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1407484…

@FrankFigliuzzi1 @NicolleDWallace @DeadlineWH @MSNBC 14/ I don’t go that far bc the election probably was “more” secure, especially as to the presidential race, which was subjected to far more hand counting (audits & recounts) than the down ballot races. It’s just that the bar was very low.

@FrankFigliuzzi1 @NicolleDWallace @DeadlineWH @MSNBC 15/ Note also that almost all ore-election polls predicted Trump would lose. Democrats, by contrast list all 27 House races that were predicted to be tossups, & even some they were expected to win.