IMO, the #SAFEAct is better on election security than HR1 bc it wld ban most touchscreen voting machines currently available. HR1 wld allow them as a primary in person system bc vendors call the paper they spit out a “paper ballot.” Pen & paper is safer #HandMarkedPaperBallots 1/

I have not looked at other aspects of HR1. It addresses more than election security. The #SAFEAct shld be the starting point for election security reform in my opinion. 2/
HR1 requires that all voters have the option to mark their ballots by hand. But it does not specify that, for jurisdictions with in person voting, the hand marked (pen & paper) option must be available for in person voting (vs it only being an option w/ vote by mail). 3/
HR1 may still be a good start. But it does not go nearly far enough on election security. Here are my suggestions for election security. Maybe these could be addressed in a later bill, but we shld keep them on our radar. 4/ https://t.co/mNdHrvwHcN
The key section is 1502. IMO, it shld add the following. “For jurisdictions that offer in person voting, the option to mark a paper ballot by hand must be offered at the in-person polling location; giving this option only for vote by mail won’t suffice for such jurisdictions.” 5/
Link to HR1. 6/ https://t.co/UnCf5G0vC5
Ideally, there wld be additional constraints on touchscreen voting machines (the new ones are called ballot marking devices). #HandMarkedPaperBallots should be the primary in person voting system. Thus my proposed edits don’t actually go far enough. But they’d be a good start. 7/
8/ Expert paper. https://t.co/tyQcsu45Fz
9/ Link to the #SAFEAct, which also passed the House. https://t.co/DXiwOng1nV
10/ A recent study shows that 93% of inaccuracies in the text portion of machine-marked paper records from new touchscreen voting machines (BMDs) go unnoticed by voters. That’s a problem that invites fraud for down ballot races. https://t.co/R3aVXpCOGZ
11/ A post-mortem exam of the new voting machines (BMDs) found that “dozens... ‘weren’t properly calibrated,’ even though...ES&S...had...claimed during a sales pitch...that ‘you don’t have to worry about calibration...Scout’s honor.’” by @jennycohn1 https://t.co/dJv99FEq0f
12/ #HandMarkedPaperBallots don’t break down, freeze, miscalibrate, or require power. They don’t have to be “activated” by glitchy WiFi or Bluetooth-connected electronic pollbooks either. New touchscreens have all these problems. https://t.co/cRpGoqbPyG

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