6/What does it all mean?
✅ Lawsuit changed the system
❌ But lost in court
⚖️ Why? No proven injury = no case
Lesson: legal wins aren’t the only wins.
Sometimes pressure works.
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4/After trial ended, GA passed a law eliminating QR codes in ballots by 2026.
The thing plaintiffs wanted? It’s happening.
The lawsuit lost in court—won in policy.
#SeriousElections #Democracy #GApol
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3/Standing = courts only act on concrete harm.
Being worried or prepared isn’t enough.
Even flawed systems survive if no one can show injury.
That’s the law—even when it feels backward.
#SeriousElections #VotingRights #LegalTheory
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2/Plaintiffs showed real cyber risks—confirmed by DHS. One expert even hacked a voting machine with a pen and USB.
But the court said: No proven harm = no standing.
Legal theory wins, not security.
#SeriousElections #ElectionSecurity #CurlingvRaffensperger
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1/🚨 BIG RULING IN GA VOTING MACHINE LAWSUIT
A judge dismissed the challenge to Georgia’s QR-code voting machines—not because they’re secure, but because no one could prove legal harm.
QR codes stay (for now). The lawsuit lost—but still helped change the law.
#VotingRights #SeriousElections
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#SeriousElections Insider attacks now launched in full view.
DOGE technologists Edward Coristine—the 19-year-old known online as “Big Balls”—and Kyle Schutt are now listed as staff at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure …
CISA helps state and local election offices assess vulnerabilities.
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Long-running challenge to constutionality of touchscren voting machine filed when GA scrapped Diebold touchscreen machines, declared unconstitutional by the same federal judge. Action then switched to Ballot Marking Devices (BMDs) that GA wanted instead. #SeriousElections bsky.app/profile/demi...
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My talk about the roots of distrust in American elections posted today: scp.cc.gatech.edu/richard-demi...
I hope you find it provocative and relevant to the times we are living through. #SeriousElections
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It’s been a year since closing arguments in Curling v Raffensperger challenging the constitutionality of mandatory use Ballot Marking Devices (BMDs) in GA; case resting in
part on lack of accountability as shown below. Still no decision but I will post trial hilites in coming days #SeriousElections
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I hope you can join us Thursday January 16 to kick off a discussion of trust in democracies. #SeriousElections #Science
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“We still have no idea whether GA machines worked, but nevertheless we have high confidence that Trump won Georgia.”
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Miles O’Brien talks “Too big to hack” with U Michigan’s Alex Halderman. Take a deep breath and listen to fact-based, non-partisan convo. milestogo.libsyn.com/episode-38-n...
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3/3 In their 1971 paper, Belief in the Law of Small Numbers, Tversky and Kahneman show people often mistakenly assume small samples are representative of the larger population, leading to overinterpretation of patterns in limited data. This bias leads to unjustified conclusions. #SeriousElections
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2/3 They often contain meaningless patterns due to 1. Misinterpreted randomness, 2. Overconfidence in small samples, 3. Statistical illusions. So any #SeriousElections study that begins with "This result is so unusual" needs to be unpacked carefully bc likely the law of small numbers is at work
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1/3 I am not a fan of working backward from an election "anomaly" to a nefarious act because of the Law of Small Numbers described by Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky in their 1971 seminal paper. Mathematically speaking elections are small data sets.
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#SeriousElections If Dems had not been so quick to marginalize serious election security researchers as "deniers" in 2020 they would be able today to mobilize us today to help figure out if the was meddling in 2024. Danger of believing science only when it's to your advantage. Preachy but true.
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#SeriousElections If Dems had not been so quick to marginalize serious election security researchers as "deniers" in 2020 they would be able today to mobilize us today to help figure out if the was meddling in 2024. Danger of believing science only when it's to your advantage. Preachy but true.
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#SeriousElections See this?
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#SeriousElections What's the problem with Ballot Marking Devices?
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gofile.me/7q2Hu/eBk8yV...
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#SeriousElections Deflecting attention from 11 CISA verified vulnerabilities (not conspiracy theories) GASOS misstates the science. Audit doesn't prove ballots express voter intent. Only that inscrutible QR codes match unverified and therefore untrusted text. www.savannahnow.com/story/news/p...
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I used to think the key solution to eroding confidence in US elections was to fix the cybersecurity problems which means moving to Handmarked Paper Ballots #HMPB. I now think that’s too narrow. We must dismantle the technology that puts power in the hands of the unaccountable few. #SeriousElections
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Explainer thread below on CGG's support for verifying the outcome of the November election in key states with verifiable voting systems. American people should not have to live with question of whether there was a problem.
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As long as the ballots are hand (not machine) marked hand counting is not needed. Tabulation can be checked by Risk Limiting Audits (RLAs). Hand counts are too error prone: dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn... #SeriousElections
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+1 on this point: #SeriousElections work not because we have blind faith but rather because they produce public evidence that convinces even mutually distrustful participants the outcome is correctly decided.
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Unverifiable ballots are the root cause of election cybersecurity problems. Here’s the start of a 13-part thread describing what’s currently known about ballot verification. #SeriousElections
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