Thread by @jennycohn1

Without #paperballots, we can’t know 4 sure whether ballot-programming computers or voting machines have been rigged. But we CAN still detect rigging of central tabulators by comparing the POLL TAPES from each precinct to the REPORTED TOTALS, which is what a NEW MOTION in GA...1/

https://twitter.com/marilynrmarks1/status/1047922391974891520

... has asked Judge Totenberg to order county election officials to do. Note that this is also something that we as citizens can do if we send volunteers to each precinct (at least in the largest counties) to photograph the poll tapes. Trying to get them after the fact is ... 2/

... timely and often very expensive. Johnson County, Kansas wanted to charge me more than $3k dollars for its poll tapes! By contrast, Delaware County, Ohio provided them free of charge. 3/

The new motion referenced in post 1 also seeks an order requiring a manual audit of the paper absentee ballots and (I believe) a forensic audit of a sample of the touchscreen voting machines. 4/

I say “I believe” because whereas the declaration of @philipbstark mentions this, I don’t see it in the proposed order (which may be an oversight). 5/

The motion also seeks an order requiring paper ballots for all subsequent elections in Georgia, including any special elections and runoffs LATER THIS YEAR. 6/
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Do NOT assume that counties already compare the POLL TAPES to the REPORTED TOTALS! Johnson County, Kansas (the state’s most populous county) told me that it does NOT make this comparison! 7/ tyt.com/stories/4vZLCH…

If this comparison is not made, the “unofficial” voting machine totals cld be the result of a hacked central tabulator or of a hacked reporting system (remember the Johnson County reporting glitch?), & election officials would not notice it, giving them plausible deniability. 8/

The “unofficial” (hacked) voting machine totals would then become part of the “official” totals once added to the absentee and provisional ballots, and no one would ever know. 9/

For this rzn, I included photographing the poll tapes in my recent thread about what we still can do to protect the November elections. But we really need campaigns and voting rights organizations to help or we won’t have enough people to cover all precincts in any county. 10/

Here is the Thread referenced in post 10.

https://twitter.com/jennycohn1/status/1047577877409976320?s=21

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