team has been working around the clock for the last week to support the State of Georgia in running their first state-wide risk-limiting audit, which turned into a full hand-count.

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VotingWorks

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Nov 20, 2020

We just wrapped up our work supporting Georgia with their post-election audit. Because of the tight margin, this audit turned into the largest hand-count in US history. voting.works/news/2020/11/g

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I have no problem with your pushback, it doesn't offend me. I make mistakes too. I just don't quite know what I said that you found objectionable in this case. In any case, cheers, and happy to hear more if you want to say more, or happy to let it drop.

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I don't see what's wrong with my comment, but if you can say more about which real-life reasonable concern I'm minimizing, I will certainly think on it.

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First they came for the servers, and I said nothing, because... 🤣

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Oh really? That is less surprising.

Ben Adida

@benadida

Nov 21

This is ... just mind boggling. twitter.com/tessybarton/st

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Our work to “make elections boring again” seems to be paying dividends. Georgia elections are (almost) back to normal, officials say : NPR #gapol ⁦

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@GaSecofState

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Georgia election officials breathe a sigh of relief after uneventful voting

After a tumultuous two years in the spotlight, Georgia elections officials say a smooth 2022 has them hopeful for more "boring" elections.

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Observing the Rhode Island RLA today. Excellent work by the

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Do you think this is new? I think once we got past only techies using the Internet, it was already the case. Mid-late 90s, easy.

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Coercion resistance is a little bit dubious with vote-by-mail, as someone can watch you prepare and mail your vote. Fair to say we traded a little bit of ballot secrecy for convenience here.

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omg I almost forgot about that thing. No such thing as "allow." Ninja moves and trickery is all I remember.

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can confirm, I've made this exact recipe, straightforward even if it takes a little bit of time to peel and cut. Don't underbake it, you want those yams mushy. Big hit.

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Bad ass.

Yesterday, the statewide election audit was successfully completed. Here is the release from

@GaSecofState

Raffensperger with links to data for the audit itself. #gapol sos.ga.gov/news/georgias-

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👏 👏 👏 Georgia successfully completed their risk-limiting audit in 2 days, providing strong evidence that ballots were counted correctly.

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Gabriel Sterling

@GabrielSterling

Nov 18

All counties in Georgia have completed the hand count of batches for the statewide Risk Limiting Audit (RLA). 5% risk limit has been met, verifying that @GaSecofState Raffensperger is the winner. Thanks to the counties & @voting_works for their dedication & hard work. #gapol

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Ben Adida

@benadida

Nov 19

Absolute legend.

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Dr. Glaucomflecken

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Nov 19

Oh wow, a holiday message from the United Healthcare CEO

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Is this AI creating food pics?

All counties in Georgia have completed the hand count of batches for the statewide Risk Limiting Audit (RLA). 5% risk limit has been met, verifying that

@GaSecofState

Raffensperger is the winner. Thanks to the counties &

@voting_works

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I'm lovin'

election administrators.

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Maricopa County

@maricopacounty

Nov 18

BOMBSHELL

: We’ve noticed that election misinformation seems to spread more widely when there’s incendiary language & out-of-context graphics, pictures, or videos. So we are going to EXPOSE the UNBELIEVABLE facts as election workers are CAUGHT IN THE ACT following the law.

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We are very near the end of the hand counting of batches in counties across Georgia for the Risk Limiting Audit (RLA). 155 of our 159 counties have completed their counts and input the data into the audit software. #gapol

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Congrats on an incredible run with so much positive impact on the whole election community!

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I'm spending some time playing with a personal Mastodon server to decide if I can shoulder the maintenance of an elections community one. There doesn't *need* to be an elections-specific Mastodon, but are some benefits to having themed servers for finding each other.

Ben Adida

@benadida

Nov 18

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I have benefited greatly from Twitter. I have learned a lot. I have met wonderful people. I'm going to be quite sad if it dies.

As of now 140 counties have completed their hand counting of the randomly selected batches of ballots for the RLA. #gapol

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Ben Adida

@benadida

Nov 17

Georgia's risk-limiting audit is in progress, with assistance from the

@voting_works

team and open-source Arlo software. Georgia is pushing the envelope on transparency: they've published a hash of the batch totals for later verification when those totals are released.

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Gabriel Sterling

@GabrielSterling

Nov 17

3) So, in order to achieve transparency and audit integrity at the same time, we are publishing a hash of the machine-counted batch totals: 6178c47d22cccfc68c281cdcf9e21dd07f06501d57167c40f2149a26df33f2e2 #gapol

GA begins its second risk-limiting audit. Woo hoo!

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Georgia election audit begins with dice roll to review random ballots

Georgia election officials began a statewide audit Wednesday by rolling dice to randomly select ballots that will be reviewed by hand across the state. The audit will check the outcome of the...

Ben Adida

@benadida

Nov 17

We're proud to be helping Georgia run their Risk Limiting Audit this year, once again. A critical piece of ensuring election integrity.

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Gabriel Sterling

@GabrielSterling

Nov 16

We kicked off our Risk Limiting Audit (RLA) of the Statewide SOS contest. Rarely do you see the press so enamored of 10-sided dice. We threw 20 of the dice to feed numbers into the RLA software to direct counties to which ballot batches to hand count to verify the winner. #gapol

Ben Adida

@benadida

Nov 16

And you release this *the day after* Taylor Swift tickets go on sale? Jokes aside, this is pretty cool!

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Cloudflare

@Cloudflare

Nov 16

We’re excited to announce a private beta of the Workers Browser Rendering API. With browser automation, you can programmatically do anything that a user can do when interacting with a browser. cfl.re/3X5ubHI #DeveloperWeek

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This statement is proving to be strongly and painfully true so far in my Mastodon experience. I think Mastodon might make people miss The Algorithm.

Ben Adida

@benadida

Nov 16

It's audit season, where a number of states now work to ensure their scanners worked properly.

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Stuart Holmes

@iamstuartholmes

Nov 15

The @secstatewa created the random seed for the 2022 General Election Risk-Limiting Audits by rolling 10 sided dice.

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Yeah, exactly what? You can't drop something like that and then change the subject.

Ben Adida

@benadida

Nov 15

The firings will continue until everyone agrees with me about the RPC batching.

Ben Adida

@benadida

Nov 15

So this is one of the situations I expressed concern about a few days ago – what happens now? How quickly will all Mastodon instances be updated? I'm assuming this attack works across instances, so *every* instance needs to be updated fast, right?

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PortSwigger Research

@PortSwiggerRes

Nov 15

Stealing passwords from infosec Mastodon - without bypassing CSP portswigger.net/research/steal

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y'all were right.

Elections in the UK are simple, typically one or two bits of paper and a single choice per ballot. US elections commonly have a ballot pack that is as thick as a small novel and has complications like write-in candidates. Of course, the UK one will be faster to count. 2/