@RVAwonk @ybbkaren The Root article stretched too far imo. But we shld have been scrutinizing all along-& shld scrutinize now—the many red flags re: our voting machines & tabulators (eg remote access software, cellular modems, an SOS who turned off machine audit functions) to protect us in 2018! 1/
@RVAwonk @ybbkaren By continuing to downplay the risk relating to vote tallies and our largest voting machine vendors--ES&S and Dominion--and by failing to apply the same level of scrutiny that we have applied to Russia collusion (which we also may never be able to prove), we have ensured... 2/
@RVAwonk @ybbkaren …that we will NOT know b4 2018 where ES&S has installed remote access software & cellular modems, that ES&S will continue selling systems w/ cellular modems (the DS200 scanners are used in 25 states, but we don't know which have the cellular modems--WI, FL, RI are a "yes") 3/
@RVAwonk @ybbkaren …. and that the same shady "players" who sit on the Election Assistance Advisory Board and who sell these systems w/ misleading claims about their security can continue to do their "thing" unchecked by public or Congressional scrutiny. And THAT is a tragedy. 4/
@RVAwonk @ybbkaren And if we don't turn things around and treat the risk with the level of public scrutiny it deserves, people will still suspect (correctly) that their votes may not count, but will be unarmed with the types of facts that might otherwise embolden them to take steps to help... 5/
@RVAwonk @ybbkaren … detect and deter hacking. Counties, for example, never have enough poll observers. And that must change in 2018. Poll observers can take pictures of the vote totals at each precinct to make sure they match the totals from the tabulators. If they don't, this may indicate... 6/
@RVAwonk @ybbkaren … a tabulation error or hacking of the central tabulators. And it can most definitely provide the basis for an election challenge. Likewise, as we are seeing in Georgia, some touchscreen machines may omit certain races from their totals entirely--again, if we had … 7/
@RVAwonk @ybbkaren … an informed populace, they would know to volunteer as poll observers and could actually catch this sort of thing like they are starting to do in Georgia. The election integrity activists in Georgia should be role models for the entire nation. In two weeks, their petition... 8/
@RVAwonk @ybbkaren … for hand marked paper ballots in November got TWO THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED SIGNATURES. And yes there is still time for hand marked ballots in November bc, as we have learned in Ga, even paperless states use scanners for paper absentees, which they can use in Nov. to count... 9/
@RVAwonk @ybbkaren … hand marked ballots for everyone in November. But the only place this might conceivably happen at this point is Georgia because Georgia is the only state that has applied the same level of scrutiny to potential vote tally manipulation as it has to #RussiaGate. 10/
@RVAwonk @ybbkaren Likewise, Georgia is the one state where activists are actually aware that so-called "paper ballots" from ES&S's touchscreen barcode ballot markers have risks that hand marked paper ballots don't. So while these new risky systems spread like wildfire...11/ medium.com/@jennycohn1/st…
@RVAwonk @ybbkaren … throughout the rest of the country, Georgia alone (thanks to the efforts of a relatively small band of activists) is holding them at bay … for now. Knowledge is power. And by deliberately NOT informing ourselves about the many red flags w/ our largest vendors... 12/
@RVAwonk @ybbkaren (just two vendors, ES&S & Dominion, account for 80% of US election equipment), … we have left ourselves completely at the mercy of the vendors. And if more people had been paying attention to the history of these vendors, that is a very concerning situation in which... 13/
@RVAwonk @ybbkaren And as for the problems with voter registrations, if we applied any level of scrutiny there, more people would know that many "red flag" states are moving to electronic poll books more or less for the first time in 2018 & that these poll books are provided by the same... 15/
@RVAwonk @ybbkaren … shady vendors that supply the voting machines. But nobody knows that because the media and many large Twitter accounts can't see anything but the Kremlin right now and have, until that kind of overblown Root article, largely refrained from digging into potential vote... 16/
@RVAwonk @ybbkaren 23/ We also should have been talking all this time--and should start talking now--about the "players" who are responsible for making decisions about voting machine security. Because I assure you it's disturbing. And desperately needs some daylight.
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