1.#DougJones#DougJonesForSenate Attached is p. 1 of an IMPORTANT LETTER from a respected election integrity advocate to AL ELECTIONS DIRECTOR @EdPackard, advising of Packard's duty 2 instruct counties 2 PRESERVE the BALLOT IMAGES, which AL has DESTROYED in past elections. THREAD
2. Attached is page 2 of the letter to ALABAMA ELECTIONS DIR. @edpackard (phone # redacted), advising of Packard's duty 2 instruct counties 2 preserve digital BALLOT IMAGES from AL's ES&S digital optical scanners, which the counties have DESTROYED in past elections. #DougJones
3. Attached is page 3 of the letter to ALABAMA ELECTIONS DIRECTOR @edpackard advising of Packard's duty to instruct counties 2 preserve digital ballot images. These images are PUBLIC RECORDS and can be used to detect/deter hacking in the race between #DougJones and #RoyMoore
4. As explained below, retention of the BALLOT IMAGES is critical bc they are PUBLIC RECORDS and can be obtained via a public records request. Plus, as explained below, it is difficult to get a HAND recount of the paper ballots under ALABAMA LAW.
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5. And yes, Alabama's voting equipment is a concern. Its vendor is ES&S.
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6. More about ES&S, Alabama's voting machine vendor.
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7. And more.
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8. Here is additional information about ES&S (Alabama's vendor that Brian Kemp in Georgia also hopes to use).
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9. And more.
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10. Here is additional disconcerting info about ES&S, Alabama's voting machine vendor (and the one that vote suppressor Brian Kemp hopes to use in Georgia).
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11. Here's a sourced Thread re: Alabama's vendor, ES&S (I mistakenly said in the Thread that ES&S control cards come from a company owned by a "Russian" expat; the man is actually from Belarus, a close political ally of Russia as explained in post 10 above.
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12. If anyone has contacts w/in the @GDouglasJones campaign, plz make sure the campaign reads the info. in this Thread re: deterring/detecting hacking of VOTING MACHINES by preserving the BALLOT IMAGES. Ask them 2 DM me for Mr. Brakey's contact info. Thanks. #DougJones#RoyMoore
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.”
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/
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/
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
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.
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/
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/