Mike Lindell is a grifter & an empty suit. But @rawstory itself falsely claims that if the voting machines themselves don’t connect to the internet, “the ‘hacker’ wld have to go to each electronic voting machine in each polling place in every state.” 1/ rawstory.com/thanks-a-thon-…
In fact, @rawstory’s claim is one of the original (since debunked) lies that drew me to election security advocacy in the first place, as I wrote here. 2/ jennycohn1.medium.com/why-have-so-ma…
If you want something shorter, I wrote this a few years ago. 3/ jennycohn1.medium.com/all-voting-mac…
If you’d like something in an independent publication, I wrote about it here too. Unfortunately, there’s a pay wall, so even I can’t open it right now. The bottom line: a hacker does not have to hack each voting machine. 4/nybooks.com/daily/2018/11/…
Bottom line: A hacker does not have to access individual machines. He or she could instead attack the centralized county (sometimes state computers) that are used to program each machine before each election. 5/
Swapping out the memory cards that transfer the programming could do it too. There are other ways as well. 6/
For example, where e-poll books (which connect to WiFi or Bluetooth) are used to encode the activation cards that retrieve your ballot on a touchscreen voting machine (BMD), hacking or programming error w/ the e-pollbooks could cause voters to receive the wrong ballots. 7/
The example from post 7 appears to have occurred in at least one Texas county in November. It probably happened elsewhere too. Without public records requests, these issues may not come to light. The document below is from a public records request. 8/ 
I am not the one who made the public records request. It was sent to me by a concerned voter who I consider credible. She sent me other documents related to this as well. These were Tenex e-pollbooks & ES&S voting machines (BMDs). 9/
You can also hack an election by hacking the voting machine companies that are often retained to provide pre-election programming to large swaths of the country. There are many points of potential failure. 10/
This is why we need rigorous manual audits for most races. The #SAFEAct would have required them for all federal races in 2020, but Rs killed it. This is one reason why the GOP’s purported outrage over election security drives me insane. 11/ axios.com/gop-senator-el…
Neither party has introduced a bill this session that would require rigorous manual election audits in 2022, which is beyond disappointing. The most recent voting rights bill wld phase them in starting w/ a single race in 2024. 12/
Which is why we shld anticipate more unverified Republican wins & more “fraudits” for Democratic wins in 2022. 13/
14/ Reminder: Democrats lost all 27 House races that were predicted to be tossups in 2020. Plus a few they were predicted to win. None went the other way. Mostly not audited meaningfully or at all.
15/ From my preelection interview of America’s foremost election auditing expert. nybooks.com/daily/2020/10/…
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