A win for election integrity

Your voices were heard

Today the house motioned to delay the debate on S406 to January—the start of the 2024 legislative session. This was a win as we were able to not let any bad election bills through this year--(except for the one Drew McKissick pushed through to reduce the state delegates for convention).  Kudos to Rep. Rob Harris for taking this fight on and showing the true facts of the situation. And kudos to all of you who called your legislators.

The goal of S406 was to allow counties to upload the data from early voting and absentee ballots into the computer systems so as to help ease the time burden on county election offices.

Facts: It takes 30-45 seconds to upload these flash drives; if the county has, say 7 early voting centers (and 2 absentee tabulators) that is a total of 9 flash drives that need to be uploaded at 7AM.  That would take no more than 10 minutes, being generous.  So WHY did they want to get this data early?

We can only guess it is to get early result info to someone….or some algorithm.

This bill didn’t save time; it only served to alert the “powers that be” of early results so that they could take action.  We all know that these machines can be hacked or even are monitored via CIS the Center for Internet Security. Albert Sensors allow for remote back door access via a VPN. This bypasses all county security according to our cyber expert friends. Do you want your government in the back door of your election system? I thought not.

For now, we have a win. This session no major hiccups were experienced for election integrity bills. We live to fight another day for transparent, accountable, and accessible elections.