Senior Advisor on Election Security to Free Speech For People. Opinions expressed are my own. Re-tweets do not equal endorsements. She/her
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Oct 19, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Powell has gotten a sweetheart deal in the GA RICO case. But the voting system breach in Coffee County was one part of a multistate plot to take voting software from multiple states. The voting software was unlawfully taken, then distributed among Trump allies & election... 1/
...deniers. The distribution of voting software among domestic extremists poses threats to elections going forward. 2/ See this article: slate.com/news-and-polit…
Jul 21, 2023 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
🧵According to @guardian, Willis is likely to charge "computer trespass" which is almost certainly the effort by the Trump campaign to unlawfully access, copy & covertly distribute copies of the software that runs all of GA's voting system, uncovered by @MarilynRMarks1 1/
This stunning crime was not just ignored, but denied for months by the @GaSecofState. It was only discovered by private citizens in civil litigation. Here's @GabrielSterling saying it didn't happen, even after he'd been told the culprits admitted it. 2/
Jul 25, 2022 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Uber admits covering up 2016 hacking, avoids prosecution in U.S. settlement. This is galling and despicable, and it also relates importantly to election security and democracy. I'll tell you how. 1/ valleynewslive.com/2022/07/23/ube…
According to this story, "Uber Technologies Inc on Friday accepted responsibility for covering up a 2016 data breach that affected 57 million passengers and drivers, as part of a settlement with U.S. prosecutors to avoid criminal charges...Uber admitted that its personnel...2/
May 13, 2022 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
This is stunning - another instance of radicalized insiders allowing Trump extremists to access voting systems. There are several important points of context to add to this remarkable reporting 1/🧵
This report indicates that the plague of election officials that have permitted potentially criminal access to voting machines extends beyond MI, CO, OH, PA and NC to GA. 2/ reuters.com/investigates/s…
Apr 21, 2022 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
Yesterday the @ABAesq held a webinar on accessible voting which provided important information and insights regarding the challenges that voters w/disabilities face. But @ABAesq did a disservice to its viewers by not providing the facts regarding the severe security risks... 1/
...associated with the electronic or online return of voted ballots. Instead of including the @ABANatSec & @ABAcyber, or other cybersecurity & voting experts, the webinar relied on @evelhill, who misrepresented key points regarding the security of internet voting & the... 2/
Jan 10, 2022 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
Internet voting has been snarkily called the "#Theranos of voting." #ElizabethHolmes trial watchers may be surprised to know HOW similar, as internet voting vendors pulled one of the exact same tricks that #Holmes did, which led to her fraud conviction. Thread 1/
One of the most damning pieces of evidence that compelled a guilty verdict in the #Holmestrial was the fact that Elizabeth put logos from pharmaceutical companies, like @pfizer, on reports that Theranos itself had authored, so that it looked like Pfizer endorsed the findings. 2/
Sep 21, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
So this is completely unsurprising - the Kremlin instituted highly insecure, unauditable and non-transparent online voting for the parliamentary elections, and Putin's party wins huge, even in Moscow where there's great opposition to Putin's party. 1/ nytimes.com/2021/09/20/wor…
Pretty much EVERYONE, including the @DHSgov 's @CISAgov has said online voting is insecure and untrustworthy. So it's not so surprising that Putin might use online voting to tamper with results. You might think that a mature democracy, like the US, would reject online...2/
Aug 26, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
🚨This is important - for too long our election system risk model was predicated on the faulty concept "security by obscurity." A partisan CO election official has published previously concealed election data, blowing that concept up, once and for all. 1/ washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…
We don't need to panic, but we do need to admit that the previous risk model is wrong, and recalibrate our procedures to reflect that. This means: hand marked paper ballots as the primary vote recording method, accessible tech for those who need it, compliance audits, ballot...2/
Jul 14, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
🚨Anyone interested in election integrity should pay attention to this lawsuit. LA's deeply flawed, $300M voting system was sold to voters as providing a voter-verified paper ballot,but the poor design makes recounts of the paper practically impossible.1/ presstelegram.com/2021/06/26/fut…
This system was the brainchild of @LACountyRRCC which spent the $300M for this system, which can't provided a meaningful recount. A ballot measure in Long Beach lost by only 16 votes, but the County refused to do a recount. A local group raised the money to pay for a recount, 2/
Jul 13, 2021 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
We sued the @EACgov bcz it held closed-door meetings w/voting system vendors, then quietly changed provisions in the federal voting system guidelines to let vendors include wireless networking devices in federally certified voting machines. Sound crazy? It is. THREAD 1/
Especially because, years ago, the @eacgov chair testified to the senate, wrongly, that federal voluntary voting system guidelines (VVSG) DO BAN internet connectivity. They didn't in 2019, but this showed that EAC recognized the PR value. 2/
See at 3:30.
Oct 27, 2020 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
I'd just like to clear up some misinformation here for the record - the claim that voting machines cannot be hacked because they are never connected to the internet is FALSE.
This is often accompanied by another claim from states that use wireless modems, who insist that...1/
...the wireless modems don't connect to the internet. This is also FALSE.
The @WI_Elections has made claims that its voting machines don't connect to the internet but this is FALSE because WI has jurisdictions that use modems to send unofficial election results back to...2/
Oct 13, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
This👇 This is the problem with most states’ post election audits - they are not structured or implemented to serve as a check, or allow for a correction, of a possible incorrect election result. When VA’s legislature was writing this bill, lawmakers...1/ wusa9.com/article/news/p…
...tried to write the bill to conduct the audit before the election is certified, so that if the audit uncovered miscounted ballots, ballots could be recounted and the election corrected. Local election officials opposed these provisions. Why?Because election officials have ...2/
Oct 7, 2020 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
🚨This! What is going on in GA is deeply disturbing. The @GaSecofState's foolish choice to force GA to continue to vote on touchscreen machines (even if they print a barcode ballot) is imploding every min as more problems w/the machines crop up & the SOS tries to cover up...1/
...the defects in this janky system. Just a few weeks ago we found out the ballot was not displaying all the candidates in the special senate race, mere weeks before the election. The state tried to downplay the problem, saying the vendor @dominionvoting only needed to...2/
Sep 28, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
This morning the Court held an emergency proceeding bcz of this & other errors that have been found w/GA’s voting machines. The bomb that was dropped is that this is not a database problem but a software issue that will require REINSTALLING new code... ajc.com/politics/error…
...to 80k pieces of equipment. This updated software is meant to fix the errors discovered, but it will not be tested to be sure that it doesn’t introduce new errors or security issues. The state is just installing new untested software in every machine. Early voting starts...2/
Sep 9, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
“Russians had placed malware in the election registration systems of at least 2 Florida counties, St. Lucie and Washington.” The malware could delete voters from specific districts.
We can't slow walk a response to this nat'l security threat any longer! 1/ miamiherald.com/news/politics-…
It's 4 years since we've learned that Russian hackers were trying to hack into our election infrastructure, but the response has been shockingly & embarrassingly weak. We've passed no federal reforms to set minimum security standards for elections systems. Some states still...2/
Aug 13, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
We @fsfp sent evidence to the @EACgov demonstrating that @essvote was falsely claiming its voting machines with wireless modems were federally certified. The EAC agreed & ordered ES&S to write to its customers admitting the systems aren't certified. 1/ politi.co/323C5Gb
This is a rare action that's welcome but overdue. The voting machine vendors operate with little to no oversight or regulation & that has enabled a culture of duplicity. Recently the EAC had to take the unusual step to publicly disavow similarly false claims by other vendors. 2/
Aug 12, 2020 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Journalists: Today the @EACgov's Technical Guidelines Development Committee (TGDC) will meet today to discuss the next version of our federal voluntary voting system guidelines (VVSG). There is a draft VVSG now that is a huge improvement over our woefully inadequate voting... 1/
...standards that are now used to vet our voting machines. The current standards are from 2005. The proposed new VVSG would require software independence, which means an independent audit record must be present to ensure the election results can be audited to confirm that...2/
Jul 30, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
And again, ES&S, the nation's largest voting machine vendor, has blatantly lied to election administrators about their crappy election security. In this hearing ES&S executives lie to Chicago's election board by claiming, @ min 12:30, that...1/
...the Amazon Web Server (AWS) security is by default PUBLIC and that it must be configured to be private, but it's exactly the opposite.
See, ES&S left 1.8Million voter registrations exposed and unprotected on an AWS online. AWS by default makes any data PRIVATE and it must...2/
Jul 21, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Glad to see @NASSorg vote to sunset a 10 y/o resolution supporting exploring technology for electronic ballot return for military voters, aka internet voting.
It's progress, but kind of a day late/$ short considering how many states moved to online voting in the last decade...1/
despite strong security warnings from computer security experts and @NIST for the past 10 years. It's lamentable that so many of the state election officials dismissed warnings from NIST and computer security experts for years allowing insecure internet voting to proliferate. 2/
Jul 20, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
This oped fails to note that Hagel used to chair ES&S, the nation's largest voting system vendor & it's unclear if he still is invested in it. Is he asking Congress for more money for a business he is invested in? We don't know. 1/ thehill.com/opinion/campai…
Because the voting machine vendors have not revealed who their investors are. But we do know that Chuck Hagel used to be chairman of ES&S. 2/ motherjones.com/politics/2004/…
Jun 21, 2020 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
Yet, these Secretaries of State have also opposed federal legislation that would direct states to use paper ballots and audit election results. They continue to ask for taxpayer dollars WITHOUT federal directives. 1/ nass.org/node/1557
How's that money being spent? Well the @GaSecofState used $400K of his federal funds on television ads to convince the people of GA that his unpopular decision to require more electronic voting systems was a good one. 2/ nytimes.com/2020/06/09/us/…
