1) Diebold, eventually purchased by Dominion, at one point produced and sold voting machines are other ostensibly secure machines such as ATMs. It charged with fraud by the DOJ after it paid bribes to foreign governments to secure contracts. Sounds like some of the Ga allegations

2) Here's the DOJ case, as resolved by a $25 million fine. Bribes were paid to all the right suspects: China, Russia, Indonesia.
https://t.co/JnulXzQcq7
3) In 2006, before Dominion purchased Diebold, CNN reported massive security issues inherent in Diebold voting machines. Oddly, it was leftists and Dems who were afraid of the systems enabling a Bush victory in his last term.
4) After inspecting a Diebold voting machine, a computer science professor stated: "What Felten found wasn't a bug in the software," he says. "It was a deliberate feature that comes from the need to be able to update the machines quickly."
5) This allowed the relatively simple manipulation of vote counts.
https://t.co/7VjkEWFyuj
6) Below we see leaked memos from Diebold, after serious questions arose concerning vote counts involving its machines. The memos include directives to fake presentations and highlight that GEMS files (system owned by Dominion) can be manipulated, including audits.
7) https://t.co/KY8Px7oQ7B
8) In 2016, Bev Harris of Black https://t.co/dc8cueXFnp alleged that GEMS technology allows for "fractional voting". Weights could be assigned to any given vote, making 1 vote worth less or more than a 1 value.
9) Most startlingly, in 2015, Ben Smith conducted research into Dominion's GEMS software and found that by assigning demographs fractional voting weights, he could effectively mask vote manipulations in the voting machines.
10) Target known Republican strongholds for instance, with slight adjustments to fractional vote counts, and one could minimize an intrusive signature as well as minimize the number of machines that needed to be tampered with.
11) Here we see leaked emails from GEMS programmers referring to "weighted races".
12)
13) Here is a section from a GEMS users manual, referring to vote weights:
14) There's also evidence that vote total changes occur after data is uploaded to the GEMS central tabulator. Could this account for vote number changes people saw occur on news broadcasts?
https://t.co/bcXNfmL8eF

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This is a good piece on fissures within the GOP but I think it mischaracterizes the Trump presidency as “populist” & repeats a story about how conservatives & the GOP expelled the far-right in the mid-1960s that is actually far more complicated. /1

I don’t think the sharp opposition between “hard-edge populism” & “conservative orthodoxy” holds. Many of the Trump administration’s achievements were boilerplate conservatism. Its own website trumpets things like “massive deregulation,” tax cuts, etc. /2

https://t.co/N97v85Bb79


The claim that Buckley and “key GOP politicians banded together to marginalize anti-Communist extremism and conspiracy-mongering” of the JBS has been widely repeated lately but the history is more complicated. /3


This tweet by @ThePlumLineGS citing a paper by @sam_rosenfeld and @daschloz on the "porous" boundary between conservatives, the GOP and the far-right is relevant in this context.


This is a separate point but I find it interesting that Gaetz, like Roy Moore did In his failed Senate campaign, disses McConnell. What are their actual policy differences? MM supported taking health care away from millions, a tax cut for the rich, conservative judges, etc. /5

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1) Satanic Panic - satanism in the day cares ahhhh!

2) "Repressed memory" syndrome

3) Facilitated Communication [FC]

All 3 led to massive abuse.

"Therapists" -and I use the term to describe these quacks loosely - would hypnotize people & convince they they were 'reliving' past memories of Mom & Dad killing babies in Satanic rituals in the basement while they were growing up.

Other 'therapists' would badger kids until they invented stories about watching alligators eat babies dropped into a lake from a hot air balloon. Kids would deny anything happened for hours until the therapist 'broke through' and 'found' the 'truth'.

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