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JennyCohn ✍🏻 📢 Profile picture
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Sep 2, 2018 • 11 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
Chilling. As observed by @Holly_not_dolly in 2017, Kobach helped land ex-Johnson County Comm’er Brian Newby a job w/ the U.S. Election Assistance Commission in Nov. 2015, which wld have allowed Newby 2 give Kobach a blueprint of states’ various voting systems. #ProtectOurVotes 1/
2/ Article explaining how Trump ally Kris Kobach helped Newby land his gig with the federal Election Assistance Commission. kansascity.com/opinion/editor…
3/ Article explaining how Newby left his position as the Election Commissioner of Johnson County, Kansas amid scandal involving not only his personal life but also financial transgressions. kansas.com/news/politics-…
4/ As @Holly_not_Dolly further observed back in 2017, Newby’s dodgy history raises the question of whether Kobach might be able to blackmail him about further transgressions that have not come to light.
5/ Newby used his position at the EAC to abruptly decide that people in Kansas, Alabama & Georgia could not register to vote by using a national form — one that doesn’t require providing proof of U.S. citizenship.

Read more here: kansascity.com/opinion/editor… kansascity.com/opinion/editor…
6/ Legal Action has been taken over Newby’s decision that people in Kansas, Alabama and Georgia could not register to vote by using a national form — one that doesn’t require providing proof of U.S. citizenship.

Read more here: kansascity.com/opinion/editor…
7/ But what about the voting machines? While reporting 4 @tytinvestigates, I obtained the EAC letter certifying the ES&S software that failed during the recent Kansas gubernatorial primary, just as Kobach’s opponent appeared poised to win. It was signed by ... Newby in July 2018.
8/ A few weeks later, Trump nominated notorious voter purger Donald Palmer to the EAC, giving the EAC a quorum for the first time in years, which will allow it to set new policy for the first time in years. axios.com/trump-nominate…
9/ Last week, in the wake of the “glitch” that delayed reporting of results in the Kansas primaries, Johnson County announced that the ES&S and the EAC are working on an “alternate reporting process” that they hope to use in November... jocogov.org/press-release/…
10/ I want to commend @Holly_not_Dolly for predicting all of this in 2017. Wow. This is insane.
11/ Meanwhile...

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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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