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JennyCohn ✍🏻 📢 Profile picture
@jennycohn1
Oct 3, 2018 • 14 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
What can we stil do to protect the midterms against hacking? First, we can micromanage county election officials to provide sufficient paper backups for touchscreen voting equipment and e-poll books, which are vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks. 1/
2/ Second, we can demand that election officials in Wisconsin, Florida, Michigan, and Rhode Island NOT use the cellular modems they currently plan to use to transmit election results.
3/ As soon as the elections are complete, we can submit public records requests for digital ballot images in those counties whose equipment generates them (many do).
4/ We can photograph poll tapes and screenshot election night results, as described in this excellent handout by @BevHarrisWrites.
5/ Link to handout in post 4. blackboxvoting.org/toolkit.pdf
6/ We can do all the things set forth in the tip card I created with @Jodi______ and share this information with others.
7/ FYI the screenshot in post 1 came from @brennancenter’s 1 page handout re: holding counties accountable for Election Day equipment in the November midterms. We should use it! #ProtectOurVotes cc: @lizlhoward
8/ We can do our best to try to focus more of the media’s attention on voting machine vendor @ESSVote and its many shady actions. Let the cable news folks know we care about these stories!
9/ If we decide to vote by mail, we can follow these protective protocols:
10/ I will try to make this into a Medium article later this week.
11/ But if you want to get started contacting county election boards now, here is a spreadsheet with contact info for the most populous counties in some of the the swing states and a handful of other states with high profile elections coming up in Nov: docs.google.com/document/d/1HL…
12/ Thank you to @planetscape for creating the spreadsheet!
13/ Link to @BrennanCenter handout from post 1 so u can email it to county election officials. Hint. Hint. brennancenter.org/sites/default/…
14/ And here is something new we can send to election officials in Florida, Wisconsin, Rhode Island, and Michigan to demand they remove their cellular modems before November.

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JennyCohn ✍🏻 📢 Profile picture
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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