Vote tally manipulation is almost impossible to prove bc states still use unverifiable touchscreens, vendors & courts don’t allow forensic audits, states don’t conduct meaningful manual audits & stymie hand recounts, paper ballots are often destroyed in contested elections... 1/
...and some state election officials turn off voting machine audit functions. These are “red flags” in and of themselves and we must learn from them to protect FUTURE elections, even if we cannot prove in a court of law that election fraud has occurred in the past. 2/
It’s pretty hard to prove a crime occurred when you’re denied access to what would be the crime scene and evidence: the inside of the election equipment and the paper ballots or receipts. 3/
4/ And the statements of whistleblowers have been deemed insufficient.
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5/ Source showing forensic audits are blocked.
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6/ Add’l source showing forensic audits are blocked.
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7/ Sourced Thread re difficulty of getting meaningful hand recounts in the US.
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8/ Sourced Thread re the absence of meaningful hand audits in the US.
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9/ More sourced info re our insufficient manual audits.
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10/ Ohio destroyed most of its paper ballots after the 2004 election, rendering moot a court order requiring that those ballots be produced.
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11/ In 2016 or 2017, Broward County illegally destroyed paper ballots despite an election outcome challenge.
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12/ Ohio SOS John Husted turned off voting machine audit functions in 2016.
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13/ And again this year it seems.
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14/ So did Alabama Secretary of State @JohnHMerrill.
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17/ Turning off audit functions, destroying paper ballots, insisting on unverifiable touchscreens, and blocking forensic audits and manual audits and manual recounts aren’t proof of vote tally manipulation. But they are bright red flags meriting our scrutiny.
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/