Harvie Branscomb

Election quality activist, US foreign policy critic. Love progressive grassroots, appreciate diversity, listen wide, think deep, act on principle.

[Harvie Branscomb @xpa]

@jennycohn1 Unfortunately it still allows officials use mail ballot process even if the voter is present. San Diego voters who voted at election HQ all marked paper using BMD and then signed envelopes as if mailing. Voter marked paper doesn't mean guaranteed to count.

[Harvie Branscomb @xpa]

@marceelias We must protect the public's right to learn from the evidence that the voters are eligible and the votes are counted correctly. Identifiable voters and anonymous ballots. Evidence based elections have been quietly under attack while elections are centralized.

[Harvie Branscomb @xpa]

@AmberMcReynolds Evaluations of both audits & "audits" must use the same pre-prepared & generally agreed upon published evidence-based criteria and fervor. Stories claiming official audits are good & "audits" in quotes are bad are both propaganda serving confirmation bias. Science please!

[Harvie Branscomb @xpa]

@AmberMcReynolds Here is an example:

https://t.co/lsWLMNen7a

My commentary and suggestions: https://t.co/kLSQczy8kq

[Harvie Branscomb @xpa]

@AmberMcReynolds Unattended dropboxes are a low cost low integrity substitute for a polling place- a minimal integrity, reduced accountability mail receptacle compared to USPS boxes. Voters cast naked uncountable ballots in election dropboxes. Lets do better.

http://electionquality. com/dropbox

[Harvie Branscomb @xpa]

@AmberMcReynolds RCV-IRV adds potential errors: additional overvotes; voters eliminated before calculating a "majority"; requires centralized data + software.
An alternative Approval Voting is simpler than legacy limited choice (aka plurality)- never overvotes, easily hand counted in precincts.

[Harvie Branscomb @xpa]

#BMDForum now streaming at https://t.co/GDssYDiTkk. Anyone who thinks elections are important will want to see this.

[Harvie Branscomb @xpa]

Superimposed images of Windham NH ballots (worst scans removed). Note horizontal folds intersecting one Dem target on front page as well as a vertical anomaly through all R targets on the back. These anomalies cause errors ( not from hacking)
@WAuditors

[Harvie Branscomb @xpa]

@MarilynRMarks1 The NH forensic audit is especially transparent. Philip Stark just mentioned he has UV light, micrometer and digital microscope for studying paper in phase 4. Talliers asked to flag anything unusual on paper during hand tally

[John Stanton🇺🇦🗽🇺🇸 @JohnDStanton3]

@MarilynRMarks1 No wonder DT has GA on his mind as the #CyberNinjasCircus next stop.
😏🤔😶

[Marilyn Marks @MarilynRMarks1]

2/ Link to forensic audit in NH.
https://t.co/S3YVMY9PYE

Everyone knows what is going on at all times, and all questions are answered with patience.
@HarriHursti and @philipbstark in charge!

[Marilyn Marks @MarilynRMarks1]

GA voters (and press & non-profits) attending the Nov. hand "audit," and machine recount. Watch what a REAL audit looks like in NH, with experts managing, insisting on transparency.
Contrast NH with GA's post-election counts with NO transparency or accountability. Link 👇1/

[Harvie Branscomb @xpa]

@mattblaze How many states have logs of multiple ballot return? Does it become public? In CO the registration database keeps a record of only one return regardless of how many follow. I haven't seen any alarm bells going off. Until someone calls in asking for what is already a voted ballot

[Harvie Branscomb @xpa]

@mattblaze @jikamens Detection is easier than remedy but detection is not easy and is often only by luck and nothing systematic. The system creates a risk of eligibility error when a voter residence address changes after the mail ballot is printed.

[Harvie Branscomb @xpa]

@AmberMcReynolds appointed to the USPS Board of Governors! Wonderful. No one is better prepared to inoculate the USPS from pre-traumatic fears associated with election mail. Amber knows what the USPS needs to do: track the casting and delivery of mailed ballots. Congratulations!

[Harvie Branscomb @xpa]

A glimpse of 4,8,12 years of American empire defined by identity political cabinet choices. I prefer permission to vote for more than one viable progressive pres. candidate using approval voting or next best -ranked choice.

[Rania Khalek @RaniaKhalek]

Biden putting women in charge of US imperialism is NOT feminism. It’s just putting a female face on the same cruel and destructive policies that impoverish and kill people around the world.

Watch my latest segment for more.
https://t.co/HIT1XiEvnv

[Harvie Branscomb @xpa]

@eddieperezTX GA SOS said "RLA".An ideal risk limiting tabulation audit of a very close contest is a compliance audit to check eligibility + chain of custody + a full hand recount. A compliance audit could be called a recanvass. The RL(T)A is most effective for hand marked absentee ballots.

[Harvie Branscomb @xpa]

@tribelaw -online isnt verifiable. mail/drop ballot return is better, still swaps integrity & inherent sunshine of citizen run polls for secured govt. back rooms - fewest observers & least public accountability #EvidenceBasedElections = observing every step. @MarilynRMarks1

[matt blaze @mattblaze]

Journalists coming to Las Vegas for the first time to cover Hacker Summer Camp next week would do well to read this piece from last year, which I just discovered. https://t.co/0xwDBJAHB1

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Let me be clear: it is a disturbing attack on the First Amendment for the Trump administration to decide who is or is not a reporter for the purposes of a criminal prosecution. Donald Trump must obey the Constitution, which protects the publication of news about our government.