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Dominion Voting’s partner in Georgia is KnowInk, whose managing director is a former Republican election official (Scott Leinendecker) whose wife donated to @GaSecofState b4 Georgia announced its KnowInk/Dominion contracts. 1/ https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/10/31/how-safe-is-the-us-election-from-hacking/
2/ “KnowInk’s product manager once campaigned for Ed Martin, the president of the Phyllis Schlafly Eagles, which opposes the Equal Rights Amendment. KnowInk’s products are now used in twenty-three states, as well as Canada.”
3/ Dominion’s “lobbyist, Jared Thomas, was Governor Brian Kemp’s chief of staff and press secretary from 2012 to 2015 when Kemp was secretary of state.” https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/12/17/how-new-voting-machines-could-hack-our-democracy/
4/ Georgia’s prior vendor was ES&S, which accounts for at least 44% of US election equipment. Since 2013, ES&S has donated $30K to the Republican State Legislative Commission whose mission is to elect Republicans to state office. https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/11/05/voting-machines-what-could-possibly-go-wrong/
5/ In 2018, Georgia’s ES&S (formerly Diebold) system “lost” 127k votes from predominantly African American precincts. https://www.theroot.com/exclusive-thousands-of-black-votes-in-georgia-disappea-1832472558
6/ ES&S (Diebold) machines also lost black votes from predominantly black precincts in Memphis in 2016, as I wrote here. https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/10/31/how-safe-is-the-us-election-from-hacking/
I also wrote this piece about the “rare memory card error” during @ossoff’s 2017 race against Karen Handel (a top 10 Koch recipient) in 2017, the ensuing “wiped server,” & the unbelievably alarming history of Georgia elections dating back to 2002. 7/ https://link.medium.com/ma22ruTzebb
Now what is @GaSecofState up to?! We must watch the situation in Georgia like a hawk. 8/
