3/ If @PAStateDept is calling the ExpressVote a “paper ballot system,” they are lying! The ExpressVote prints “summary cards” with abbreviated text and an unverifiable barcode! Unlike a real #paperballot, the barcode is the only part of the card counted as ur vote! 3/
4/ On the ExpressVote, if you don’t hit the “More” button, you won’t see all the candidates! This is unacceptable, @PAStateDept and @PittCyber!!
5/ Here’s my sourced article explaining how the ExpressVote touchscreen system has all the same problems as touchscreen voting machines, plus uses 2X the hackable equipment and adds an unverifiable barcode! Independent IT experts are concerned! medium.com/@jennycohn1/pr…
The same former Georgia Election Director who is hocking ExpressVote touchscreen ballot markers in GA is doing the same thing all over the US! And there are strong indicators of vendor corruption that may be influencing election officials’ decisions!! drive.google.com/file/d/1d6vI8-… 6/
9/ Call or email @PAStateDept to demand #handmarked#paperballots counted on scanners (or by hand). Tell them NO touchscreen voting machines, NO touchscreen ballot markers (except for ADA use), NO barcode balloting, & NO ExpressVote! @PittCyber 717-787-5280
RA-BCEL@pa.gov
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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.”
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/
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/
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
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.
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/
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/