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July 14, 2019

To be complacent about our election system is suicidal...

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1144257849369026561.html

Remember when Paul Manafort’s partners routed Ohio’s results in the 2004 presidential election through a backup server owned by Smartech? And how the server crashed at 11:00PM when Kerry appeared poised to defeat Bush, but then it flipped? And then we got Justice Alito? 1/

This is why Mitch McConnell has long prioritized the courts over all issues except campaign finance. If you care most about winning the game, you need to control the body that shapes the rules of the game. https://twitter.

And how we later learned that ES&S installed remote access software in central tabulators (county or state computers that aggregate precinct totals) in 300 jurisdictions it won’t identify? 2/
And how Diebold Election Systems, whose president founded ES&S, also installed remote access? 3/
And how Diebokd’s senior programmer was a convicted embezzler whose crimes involved sophisticated computer tampering? 4/
And how the 2004 “recount” in Ohio was corrupted? 5/
And how John Kerry’s own campaign suspected the 2004 election in Ohio was rigged? 6/
Too bad the Democrats and Mueller (head of FBI at the time) didn’t look into that like John Conyers recommended in his detailed House Judiciary report at the time. 7/
Sources to follow after I take kids to camp! 8/
Here’s a thread with some of the sources:

https://twitter.com/jsuntweets/status/1145024649228505089

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