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jennycohn@toad.social ✍🏻 📢 Profile picture
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Jun 18, 2018 • 20 tweets • 8 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
Urgent! ES&S’s ballot programming computers are sold w/ REMOTE ACCESS SOFTWARE, and its DS200 scanners transmit results via CELLULAR MODEMS! nytimes.com/2018/02/21/mag…
All orange states use ES&S equipment! verifiedvoting.org/verifier/ 1/
2/ I discuss the many concerns about ES&S (and several other vendors) in this fully sourced article.medium.com/@jennycohn1/up…
3/ The only way to eliminate hacking would be to eliminate our use of electronic election equipment. That will not happen any time soon because election officials love the machines since they are used to them and they make their job easier.
4/ There also seems to be a healthy dose of vendor-related corruption among the top advisors to the Election Assistance Commission, which sets the guidelines for certification of voting equipment.
5/ Although I have yet to see a bill calling for the elimination of electronic equipment altogether, the best election security bill on the table right now is Ron Wyden's PAVE Act, which requires states to give all voters the option of marking their ballots BY HAND.
6/ Here is my Thread on the PAVE Act.
7/ All other "election security" bills wld allow states 2 force voters 2 use COMPUTER MARKED paper "summary cards" w/ BARCODES, which lawmakers, reporters, & the media misleadingly call "paper ballots." The barcodes, which humans can't read, are the only thing counted as ur vote!
8/ Unlike the PAVE Act, all other "election security" bills do NOT require real Risk Limiting Audits, a type of statistical audit invented by UCB Professor @philipbstark and endorsed by the League of Women Voters, Common Cause, Verified Voting, and others.
9/ I strongly encourage you to start talking about the PAVE Act a lot and to call your Members of Congress to demand that they pass it! congress.gov/members?q=%7B%…
10/ Although the PAVE Act's effective date is 2020, that is earlier than the other bills that have been proposed. Also, states may hesitate 2 invest in expensive, hackable touchscreen ballot markers if they know that by 2020 they will have 2 give every voter a hand marked option.
11/ cc @RonWyden
12/ You must also continue contacting your state lawmakers and state and county election officials to demand #handmarked #paperballots. Tell them NO to:
* Touchscreen voting machines
* Touchscreen ballot markers (except for ADA use)
* Barcodes on ballots.
13/ By the way, @RonWyden is very aware of the concerns about ES&S. I strongly suspect they played a role in his drafting of the PAVE Act and insistence that voters be given a #handmarked #paperballot option at the polls.
14/ Here is a link to the PAVE Act. Start burning up those phone lines and demand that your senators protect us from ES&S and its touchscreen ballot markers w/ unverifiable BARCODES by passing this bill! wyden.senate.gov/news/press-rel…
15/ Related post. This is criminal! ES&S accounts for about 40% of US election equipment. Per @RonWyden, ES&S refused to answer a single question about whether it’s securing its systems!!! #paperballots #ProtectOurVotes @TanyasTwit
16/ @RonWyden’s bill is much better than other election security bills bc it requires that states give voters the option of HAND marking their ballots, mitigating the damage to election security that touchscreen barcode ballot markers are posed 2 inflict.
17/ ES&S’s ExpressVote is by far the most popular touchscreen ballot marker on the market. Counties throughout the US are buying them like hot cakes.
18/
19/ Senator @RonWyden’s bill is also the only election security bill to require meaningful manual audits of the paper ballots!
20/

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Jan 13, 2019
Study shows that people of all political persuasions are willing to modify their beliefs based on corrective info from reliable sources, but “subjects ‘re-believed’ the false info when retested a week later.” 1/ news.northeastern.edu/2018/06/18/tir…
2/ The author of the article says It may help to warn people in advance that they are likely to forget the correction bc “this helps them mentally tag the bogus information as false.”
3/ It’s also “important that the corrective information be repeated as frequently, and with even greater clarity, than the myth.”
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Oct 9, 2018
I hate to be the bearer of bad tidings but elections have been electronically suspect starting long before the Trump/Russia scandal. This article is lulling folks into a false sense of security, which is dangerous. Domestic hackers & insiders were always an equal threat. 1/
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Oct 9, 2018
I agree, tho not enuf time (and 0 political will) to do this in Nov. Wish it were different. For now I hope to stop states from doubling up on electronics w/ touchscreen ballot markers. Using electronics to count votes is bad enuf. Having them mark our ballots too is nuts. 1/
Nuts except for those who are unable to hand mark their ballots. Once you have hand marked paper ballots they can be either scanned or hand counted (my preference) or both. 2/
Any time u put a machine between the voter and the paper record of voter intent there is an opportunity for programming mischief. Here is just the latest example.: 3/
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Oct 8, 2018
I’m hoping some of the cyber experts who signed the letter about the risks of using cellular modems to transfer election results can answer this question. Thx! @philipbstark @SEGreenhalgh @rad_atl @jhalderm
P. 79 describes the modem elections.wi.gov/sites/default/…
Seeing as no one has answered yet, I will say that even if the cellular modems CAN be configured to bypass the internet, we should not have to blindly trust that vendors or whoever else is hired to set them up will do that. 1/
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Oct 8, 2018
Kathy Rogers, the face & voice of @ESSVote, which has installed CELLULAR MODEMS in tabulators in WI & FL, is cozying up to @DHSgov which refuses to advise states to remove the modems despite a letter from 30 cyber experts & EI groups stating it should do so. #CorruptElections 1/
Here’s the letter. drive.google.com/file/d/1-Fd8a8… 2/
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Oct 8, 2018
The notion that cellular modems affect only “unofficial” results is bogus bc, among other reasons, in certain jurisdictions, unofficial results become the official results once added to absentees & provisionals—sometimes w/o ever comparing them to the precinct results tapes! 1/
And Wisconsin doesn’t even require that counties publicly post the results tapes so that the public itself can make this comparison! (I don’t know about Florida, Michigan, & Illinois.) 2/
Thus, we must simply trust that someone trustworthy is conducting this due diligence. In Johnson County, Kansas, the County acknowledged that it does NOT conduct this basic due diligence. 3/
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