🧵#Pennsylvania #Recount2024 & #Audit2024
PA #Senate race is going to require a recount.
"Under Pennsylvania law, a recount is automatically triggered when a race’s result falls within 0.5%" #Election2024spotlightpa.org/news/2024/11/p… "As of 5 p.m. Tuesday, Challenger Republican McCormick had 48.93% of the vote to Democrat Senator Casey’s 48.5%, according to the Pennsylvania Department of State’s website." electionreturns.pa.gov

"#Voters wouldn’t be able to examine their ballots using the machines, and their thermal paper records have been shown to become unreadable in six months. What could go wrong?"
@_rebeccaclewis does a superb & fair job showing the #ExpressVoteXL problems.
cityandstateny.com/policy/2023/07… Here it the full letter to @NYSBOE showing what happens to the #ExpressVoteXL summary card (there is no #ballot) when it comes in contact with hand sanitizer. #TotalMeltdown What happens in a #recount?
https://t.co/fVrdfwJ0kttinyurl.com/TechLetterAgai…

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Thread #VVSG2
1. "The Election Assistance Commission on Wednesday voted to adopt the first comprehensive update to its voting system security guidelines in more than 15 years, concluding a lengthy process that ended with a mixed reception from some election security experts."

https://twitter.com/CyberScoopNews/status/1359630985378361344

2. @SMART_elections wrote a letter to @EACgov that hundreds of others sent as well asking for a number of requirements,including:
- create a panel of technical election security experts, separate from NIST staff, with no financial relationship to vendors
smartelections.us/write-the-eac

Thread on @washingtonpost article that mentions @SMART_elections extensively.
1. "Voting machines didn’t steal the election. But most are still terrible technology."

washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/0… 2. "a tech backwater, the voting machine industry has been sustained through inertia and sweetheart deals ... One hurdle to reform is that the industry is dominated by three players — Election Systems & Software...Dominion Voting (30 percent); and Hart InterCivic (15 percent)."

Thread
1. Deadline in 1 hour - 5pm PST to make comments on the @LACountyRRCC #Voting system known as #VSAP #VotingSolutionsforAllPeople. You can email Sect of State Alex Padilla @AlexPadilla4CA at votingsystems@sos.ca.gov - right now! & for the next hour. #SecurityFail #LAVotes 2. We're asking @CASOSvote @AlexPadilla4CA & LA Supervisors @HildaSolis @mridleythomas @SheilaKuehl @SupJaniceHahn @kathrynbarger to repair the dangerous risky #Security flaws in the #VSAP system prior to any further certification. Petition here ctionnetwork.org/letters/la-vot… #LAVotes

Thread 1. Lawsuit being filed in #Florida today to force #election officials to preserve digital images of #ballots. Digital ballot images are photos of the ballot made when the ballot is scanned. New generation scanners create these images automatically.
drive.google.com/file/d/1yekUWk… 2. Fun Fact: Scanners don't count the paper ballot. They take a photo (the digital ballot image) & count info from that photo. So the digital ballot image is part of the chain of custody of the vote & must be preserved. Courts in AZ confirmed this. This is a digital ballot image.