For Ohio! Each of the counties on the list linked here uses touchscreen voting machines & is thus at risk of falling for the new "universal use" touchscreen barcode balloting systems. Pls contact each of them & demand #handmarked#paperballots instead! 1/ drive.google.com/file/d/1ex1vMb…
2/ To explain the concerns with touchscreen voting machines and touchscreen barcode ballot markers, please also consider emailing or mailing them my article on this issue. medium.com/@jennycohn1/st…
3/ Please also consider sending them this short video by @lulufriesdat showing the problems with Ohio's existing touchscreens, as well as the problems with the new touchscreen barcode ballot markers that vendors like ES&S hope to sell.
4/ This Call to Action is critically important bc the Ohio legislature recently passed a funding bill for new voting equipment WITHOUT PUTTING RESTRICTIONS ON THE TYPE OF EQUIPMENT COUNTIES CAN PURCHASE. Counties that already use touchscreens are inclined 2 buy more touchscreens.
5/ These Ohio counties shld also provide #handmarked#paperballots for all voters this November. Most of these counties shld have scanners that they already use to count paper absentee ballots. They can use these scanners in Nov. to count #handmarked#paperballots for all voters.
6/ And when they buy new equipment, they should buy only scanners 4 counting #handmarked#paperballots. There is no need 4 touchscreens to mark or count our ballots. As explained in my article, touchscreens disenfranchise voters and cause long lines. They are a security menace.
7/ Touchscreens should therefore be used only for those voters who are unable to hand mark their ballots. Even then, there is no good excuse for the use of unverifiable barcodes.
8/ More problems with the touchscreen barcode ballot markers called the ExpressVote!
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/