Dear @RoyBlunt and Senate Rules Committee Members: DO NOT use the withdrawal of support of the Secure Elections Act by one or more senators as an excuse to push through the current version of the Act, which you unacceptably WATERED DOWN, or something even more meaningless. 1/
IT election experts agree that electronic tallies cannot be trusted without, at a minimum, meaningful manual audits and a secure chain of custody between election night and the audit. oversight.house.gov/wp-content/upl…; stat.berkeley.edu/~stark/Preprin… 2/
Meanwhile, the following states require no manual audits whatsoever to confirm the legitimacy of electronic tallies:

Alabama
Arkansas
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Idaho
Kansas
Illinois
Indiana
Louisiana
Maryland
Maine
Michigan
Mississippi

3/
Nebraska
New Hampshire
New Jersey
North Dakota
Oklahoma
Pennsylvania
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Virginia
Washington
Wisconsin

americanprogress.org/issues/democra…

4/
5/ Independent election experts say that just two states (Colorado & New Mexico) conduct post-election manual audits that are sufficiently robust to detect hacking. editions.lib.umn.edu/electionacadem…
6/ Meanwhile, elected officials continue spreading the MYTH that electronic tallies can't be altered via the internet because the voting machines themselves don't connect to the internet.
7/ Another example of this dangerous spreading of election security myths:
9/ Vendors like ES&S spread the myth too.
10/ Meanwhile, counties throughout the US are buying touchscreen barcode balloting markers like the ES&S ExpressVote, even though touchscreens have all sorts of known problems, many of which came to fruition during the recent Kansas primary elections.
11/ Enough is enough. Not only must you re-schedule a hearing on the Secure Elections Act, you must amend the Act to make it STRONGER, not weaker.
12/ Specifically, you must amend the Act to require that states (1) give voters the option to mark their ballots by hand; and (2) conduct Risk Limiting Audits (the only type of manual audit endorsed by @commoncause, @lwv, and @verfiedvoting) for every federal race.
13/ Senator Ron Wyden's #PAVEAct already has these provisions and is endorsed by @BrennanCenter among a growing list of others. So another option would be to take up that bill instead and PASS IT.
14/ Either way, you must pass a bill that includes (at a minimum) these two requirements or we will vote you out in November.
15/ P.S. We are still waiting for you to ask ES&S (44% US election equipment) where it installed that remote access software. Yes, we are following this too. Do. Your. Job.
16/ PPS. If (as has been reported) state election officials have lobbied AGAINST robust manual audits, those individuals must be identified so they too can be held accountable at the ballot box.
17/ We demand #ElectionTransparency, including as to the negotiation of election-security legislation.

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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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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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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/
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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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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/
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