The top recommendation of experts & election-protection groups to protect the 2020 election had been to conduct robust manual election audits using a reliable paper trail. But Rs blocked the SAFE Act which wld have required them. -@jennycohn1 4 @nybooks 1/

2/ “America’s preeminent election-auditing expert, @philipbstark, ...told me a few weeks ago that “only a few jurisdictions currently audit elections in a way that has a good chance of catching and correcting wrong reported outcomes.“
3/ “‘That requires a trustworthy paper trail—primarily hand-marked paper ballots kept demonstrably secure throughout the election and the audit—and [what is known as] a risk-limiting audit using that paper trail,’” Stark said.
4/ Stark added, “‘to the best of my knowledge, even those states only audit a few contests in each election.’” 😳
5/ “A report by the National Conference of State Legislators confirms that just three states (Colorado, Rhode Island, and Virginia) require risk-limiting audits for one or more races.”
6/ And Virginia’s election audit will be conducted after election results are certified when it may be too late to correct an incorrect official outcome.
Despite an 11th hour “software update” to Georgia’s already troubled new voting system, @GASecofState “claims that voters can have confidence bc it will conduct election audits starting in November. But..the state plans to audit just one race, chosen by [him], not at random.” 7/
“Meanwhile, public officials and voting-machine vendors historically have not always been forthcoming with the public about the extent of security weaknesses and breaches.” 8/
“In August 2016, according to David Shimer’s book Rigged, ‘the U.S. Intelligence community had reported that Russian hackers could edit actual vote tallies, according to four of Obama’s senior advisors.’” 9/
“But the only government official who publicly alluded to this possibility was then Senate minority leader Harry Reid.“ 10/
“On August 29, 2016, Reid published a letter he’d sent to then FBI director James Comey in which he said the threat of Russian interference ‘is more extensive than is widely known and may include the intent to falsify official election results.’” 11/
“Reid has said that he believes vote tallies were changed in 2016. According to Rigged, ‘Obama’s leading advisors dismissed Reid’s theory, with a catch: they could not rule it out.’” 12/
“James Clapper, Obama’s director of national intelligence, told Shimer: ‘We saw no evidence of interference in voter tallying, not to say that there wasn’t, we just didn’t see any evidence.’” 13/
“According to Rigged, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) did not have independent surveillance abilities and just thirty-six local election offices had let them assess the security of their voting systems before the 2016 election.“ 14/
“In January 2017, the DHS confirmed that it had conducted no forensic analysis to verify that vote tallies weren’t altered.” 15/
“In June 2017, it again confirmed that it had conducted no such forensic analysis and did not intend to do so.” 16/
In 2018, @RonWyden said that “‘As far as I can tell, no systematic post-election forensic examination of these voting machines took place. Whatever the reason for this failure to act, this administration cannot afford to repeat the mistakes of 2016.’” 17/
“In January this year, the FBI announced a ‘change of policy,’ whereby it will alert state election officials of local election system breaches. It has not explained why it lacked such a policy previously.“ 18/
“Nor has it committed to informing the public of breaches even after investigations have concluded.” 19/
“Heading into this election, election security activists are seeking to counteract this lack of transparency regarding the electronic aspects of our election system.” 20/
“https://t.co/PlIMRL05B0 (a group I cofounded), https://t.co/jEQafnOcGs, & Transparent Elections NC are all organizing volunteers to photograph precinct totals—as shown on precinct poll tapes—after polls close, & then compare them w/ the official...totals 4 those precincts.” 21/
“Although these comparisons cannot detect hacking of precinct tallies, a discrepancy between precinct totals and reported totals could indicate hacking or other problems involving the county central tabulators.” 22/
“In late 2015, a poll tape analysis conducted by @BenniejSmith, an election commissioner in Shelby County, TN, revealed that votes had disappeared from voting machines serviced and maintained by ES&S in predominantly African-American precincts...” 23/
“The Republican county election administrator, Richard Holden, who had previously been investigated by the FBI, abruptly retired after Bloomberg reported the incident. A wave of electoral victories by African-American Democratic candidates for county office soon followed.” 24/
“This was a striking change from Holden’s six-year tenure, during which Republicans had twice swept nearly all countywide races.” 25/ 😳
“Another organization to which I belong, https://t.co/fJXqJsFFZe, will document live reported vote totals at crucial states’ county websites to capture evidence of any anomalies, such as vanishing votes.” 26/
“NVRTF’s software program will automatically capture screenshots of the reported [election] results every 15 minutes. (The citizen task force is STILL SEEKING VOLUNTEERS to assist w/ this aptly named “Watch the Counties” [election security] project.)” https://t.co/OiIz5dg8gZ 27/
28/ “Elsewhere... @ScrutineersUS does voter education work that includes various election transparency projects.” https://t.co/qLabTTeeW3
“One such project, called Ask the Voters, aims to conduct postelection affidavit audits of precincts or small counties with anomalous results.” https://t.co/jWGNcg8EtG 29/
“The Columbus Institute for Contemporary Journalism has sent requests to every county in seven states (FL, MI, Ohio, PA, WI, AZ, and NC) to obtain detailed information about the election equipment they are using and who specifically is programming it.” 30/ https://t.co/2FbGU7TlqD
“In addition, most digital scanners in use today automatically create images of the paper ballots, which can be used by the public to compare against electronic totals.“ 31/
“Unfortunately, many election officials erase them, but at this election, Audit USA and Citizens Oversight are leading an effort to obtain these [ballot] images and compare them with official election results.” 32/ https://t.co/hLMx1NLqiG

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This media manipulation effort was inspired by the success of the "kids in cages" freakout, a 100% Stalinist propaganda drive that required people to forget about Obama putting migrant children in cells. It worked, so now they want pics of Trump "gassing children on the border."

There's a heavy air of Pallywood around the whole thing as well. If the Palestinians can stage huge theatrical performances of victimhood with the willing cooperation of Western media, why shouldn't the migrant caravan organizers expect the same?

It's business as usual for Anarchy, Inc. - the worldwide shredding of national sovereignty to increase the power of transnational organizations and left-wing ideology. Many in the media are true believers. Others just cannot resist the narrative of "change" and "social justice."

The product sold by Anarchy, Inc. is victimhood. It always boils down to the same formula: once the existing order can be painted as oppressors and children as their victims, chaos wins and order loses. Look at the lefties shrieking in unison about "Trump gassing children" today.

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THREAD: 12 Things Everyone Should Know About IQ

1. IQ is one of the most heritable psychological traits – that is, individual differences in IQ are strongly associated with individual differences in genes (at least in fairly typical modern environments). https://t.co/3XxzW9bxLE


2. The heritability of IQ *increases* from childhood to adulthood. Meanwhile, the effect of the shared environment largely fades away. In other words, when it comes to IQ, nature becomes more important as we get older, nurture less.
https://t.co/UqtS1lpw3n


3. IQ scores have been increasing for the last century or so, a phenomenon known as the Flynn effect. https://t.co/sCZvCst3hw (N ≈ 4 million)

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4. IQ predicts many important real world outcomes.

For example, though far from perfect, IQ is the single-best predictor of job performance we have – much better than Emotional Intelligence, the Big Five, Grit, etc. https://t.co/rKUgKDAAVx https://t.co/DWbVI8QSU3


5. Higher IQ is associated with a lower risk of death from most causes, including cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, most forms of cancer, homicide, suicide, and accident. https://t.co/PJjGNyeQRA (N = 728,160)
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अस्य श्री गायत्री ध्यान श्लोक:
(gAyatri dhyAna shlOka)
• This shloka to meditate personified form of वेदमाता गायत्री was given by Bhagwaan Brahma to Sage yAgnavalkya (याज्ञवल्क्य).

• 14th shloka of गायत्री कवचम् which is taken from वशिष्ठ संहिता, goes as follows..


• मुक्ता-विद्रुम-हेम-नील धवलच्छायैर्मुखस्त्रीक्षणै:।
muktA vidruma hEma nIla dhavalachhAyaiH mukhaistrlkShaNaiH.

• युक्तामिन्दुकला-निबद्धमुकुटां तत्वार्थवर्णात्मिकाम्॥
yuktAmindukalA nibaddha makutAm tatvArtha varNAtmikam.

• गायत्रीं वरदाभयाङ्कुश कशां शुभ्रं कपालं गदाम्।
gAyatrIm vardAbhayANkusha kashAm shubhram kapAlam gadAm.

• शंखं चक्रमथारविन्दयुगलं हस्तैर्वहन्ती भजै॥
shankham chakramathArvinda yugalam hastairvahantIm bhajE.

This shloka describes the form of वेदमाता गायत्री.

• It says, "She has five faces which shine with the colours of a Pearl 'मुक्ता', Coral 'विद्रुम', Gold 'हेम्', Sapphire 'नील्', & a Diamond 'धवलम्'.

• These five faces are symbolic of the five primordial elements called पञ्चमहाभूत:' which makes up the entire existence.

• These are the elements of SPACE, FIRE, WIND, EARTH & WATER.

• All these five faces shine with three eyes 'त्रिक्षणै:'.