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jennycohn@toad.social ✍🏻 📢 Profile picture
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Dec 8, 2017 • 18 tweets • 6 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
1. #DougJones. A Repub., a Dem., an Independent, & a minister have filed a LAWSUIT to compel ALABAMA SOS John Merrill to PRESERVE the DIGITAL BALLOT IMAGES that r generated automatically by AL's VOTING MACHINES. The images can help verify the machine tally tinyurl.com/y8334r8z
2. Here is a link to the COMPLAINT against ALABAMA Secty of State John Merrill, who currently plans to allow county election officials to DESTROY the BALLOT IMAGES, which can be used to verify the machine tally. drive.google.com/file/d/1XcmMl-…
3. The BALLOT IMAGES are important because there is always a concern that someone could tamper with PAPER BALLOTS to make them match the machine tally, as apparently happened in 2004.
4. The BALLOT IMAGES thus can be used to verify both the machine tally AND the paper ballots. Moreover, bc they are DIGITAL, it should be easier for citizens to conduct a citizen recount. With paper ballots, there is only one set of originals, making logistics more complicated.
5. I am told, for example, that it is often very difficult to get a Secretary of State to produce the paper ballots in response to a public records request (due to there being only one set of originals). There would be no such easy excuse re: the ballot images.
6. In ALABAMA, the ability to conduct a citizen recount of the BALLOT IMAGES is critical because ALABAMA law does not allow for HAND recounts of the paper ballots themselves. Rather, recounts are done by machine.
7. The people who spearheaded this effort should be commended: John Roberts Brakey, Chris Sautter, and Priscilla Black Duncan. I believe @MimiKennedyLA helped a lot as well.
8. Infuriatingly, it does not appear that @GDouglasJones joined this effort. His campaign should thank them. He's not making it any easier by ignoring the potential for a hacked election.
9. The lawsuit was needed bc the ALABAMA SOS refuses 2 instruct the counties 2 preserve the BALLOT IMAGES (even tho at least 1 federal court has ruled that they are public records), & bc 3 of the largest counties stated that they would preserve them ONLY for the write in ballots.
10. Preserving ballot images is also important because the type of voting machine used in ALABAMA, the ES&S DS200 digital scanner, is known to have problems.
11. Additional red flags re: ALABAMA'S VOTING MACHINE VENDOR, ES&S, are discussed in the attached fully sourced Thread about ES&S & Diebold/Premier.
11a. The rest of this Thread is below. I had to delete a post.
12. Further update and it's bad: Alabama's Republican Secretary of State John Merrill got the Alabama Supreme Court to reverse the earlier order, meaning that the ballot images (which can be used to detect hacking) can be destroyed. #DougJones #TransparentElections
13. 12/14/17 update. Given that Jones won and it is Moore who wants a recount, the Repub Secty of State seems to be straining the law to let him have one. The recount, if any, would involve running the paper ballots (not the images) back thru the scanners.
14. If the paper ballot recount produces a different result, the images (that Merrill destroyed) would have let us determine if the paper ballots were altered for the recount.
15. Now we can't do that. Given that the RNC has decided against paying 4 a recount, Moore & his "Christian" followers are on their own to come up 2/ the $. If I had to guess, I'd say a recount is unlikely. But I wouldn't be shocked if the evangelicals put up the $ & did it.
16. Nor would I be shocked if the evangelicals in his flock tampered with the ballots for the recount. Moore did say this was in "God's hands" now...
17. Whenever a Republican mentions "God" in connection with an election, there is cause for concern IMO.

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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…
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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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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/
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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/…
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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/
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