Jennifer Cohn: links to articles, podcasts, talks, and interviews
PUBLISHED ARTICLES:
Hacking Our Democracy, written interview with Jennifer Cohn https://thedailyedge.substack.com/p/hacking-our-democracy, 7/12/20
TOUCHSCREEN VOTING MACHINES AND THE VANISHING BLACK VOTES (Shelby County, TN, Is New Hotspot in Battle Over Touchscreen Voting), 5/27/20
How New Voting Machines Could Hack Our Democracy, 12/17/19
New ‘Hybrid’ Voting System Can Change Paper Ballot After It’s Been Cast; Paper Ballots Are Safe Only if Marked by Hand, Not by Machine, 3/19/19
Philly Ignores Cybersecurity and Disability Access in Voting System Selection, 2/12/19
Georgia Poised to Pick Vulnerable Barcode Voting Technology, 1/11/19
Will Georgia Double Down on Non-Transparent, Vulnerable Election Machines? 1/2/19
Voting Machines: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?, 11/5/18
Democrats Must Be Prepared to Contest Poll-Defying Election Results, 11/4/18
Elections Scholar: Kansas Voting System Would Allow Undetectable Tampering, 9/6/18
Kobach’s Kansas Victory Tainted by…Kobach’s Election System, 8/17/18
Latest Threat to Democracy: Barcodes, Ballot Marking Devices (a.k.a. ‘Electronic Pencils’), 3/12/18
SELF-PUBLISHED (MEDIUM) ARTICLES:
America’s Electronic Voting System is Corrupted to the Core, 9/7/19
Election security goals (synopsis at the end), 5/24/19
Despite apparent conflict of interest, Georgia’s SAFE Commission is poised to recommend a new touchscreen barcode balloting system that will cost taxpayers more than three times as much as hand marked paper ballots & scanners, while providing less security, 12/11/18
Claire McCaskill (Missouri), Beto O’Rourke (Texas), and other candidates who conceded owe it to their supporters and to themselves to conduct election integrity due diligence before results are certified, 11/10/18
Tips to protect your vote and voter registration against glitches and hacking. (originally published before the 2018 midterms), 10/9/18
The midterms are three months away. Here’s what we still can and must do to protect our votes!, 7/19/18
Senator Ron Johnson (Wisconsin), who went to Russia this past July 4 and says we should overlook Russia’s election meddling, enjoyed one of the most surprising election wins of 2016 after Russia compromised his state’s election system. 7/11/18
Dear Media, It is irresponsible to continue pretending we have a system that allows us to know whether or not our “official” election results are legitimate, 7/10/18
Georgia: The Epicenter of America’s Corrupted Electronic Elections, 6/29/18, updated 10/16/19
States are flocking to buy the new “universal use” touchscreen ballot marking devices, which have all the disadvantages of existing touchscreen voting machines, plus they print unverifiable BARCODES that are then counted as our votes, 5/13/18
What is the latest threat to democracy? Bar-codes and ballot marking devices a.k.a. “electronic pencils.” 3/16/18
Handout: The truth about our computerized election systems; Recommendations for advocating for hand marked paper ballots, 2/17/18, updated 7/21/18
Touchscreens with Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trails (“VVPATs”) are almost as bad as paperless machines. Ballot Marking Devices (“electronic pencils”) are poised to follow in their dangerous path. 2/11/18, updated 5/22/18
States have used taxpayer money to buy systems from vendors with close past and/or present ties to a foreign dictator, US politicians, a Religious Right group, and a convicted embezzler whose crimes involved computer tampering. 1/28/18
All electronic vote tallies can be hacked through the internet, even if the voting machines themselves are not directly connected to it. 1/7/18
It is difficult to get a hand recount in the U.S., even when voting machines use paper ballots. 1/7/18
Two companies owned by a single family were directly involved with the “butterfly ballots” of 2000 and the corrupted Ohio 2004 recount. The family currently has its hands on Ohio’s voter registration system & voting machines! 1/21/18
Most Western democracies flee voting machines. 12/31/17, updated 1/21/18
The Council for National Policy (to which Kellyanne, Bannon, the DeVos family, the Mercers, Pence, Ken Blackwell, and two men whose families funded the largest voting machine vendor in the U.S.) has set a deadline of 2020 for restoring “religion and economic freedom and Judeo-Christian values” under the Constitution. 12/27/17, updated 7/20/18
THREADS
https://muckrack.com/jennifer-cohn/articles
JENNIFER’S YOUTUBE CHANNEL
* Jennifer’s interview of Audit USA re: its lawsuit to stop Florida election officials from continuing to destroy ballot images. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mjbig_7EmpU, July 2, 2020
* Jennifer’s interview of former Shelby County (TN) Commissioner Norma Lester re: her concerns about the county’s vendor, Election Systems and Software, LLC, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q9r3iFT3wc, June 23, 2020
* Jennifer’s interview of Shelby County (TN) Commissioner Bennie Smith re: his review of precinct poll tapes in 2015 and how it revealed that votes from predominantly black precincts had vanished. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRpzn3lm0B4, June 16, 2020
* Jennifer’s interview of Don Siegelman, Alabama’s last Democratic governor, and the disappearance of 6,000 votes from his total in his 2002 race against Bob Riley, whose campaign consultant was close friends with Karl Rove. Rove’s client, the AG, seized the ballots before they could be recounted. And more… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfJuNNkFrtY, June 13, 2020
* Jennifer explains why the House hearing with voting machine vendors was a dog and pony show, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdIJqBZLAE4, 2/19/20
* Jennifer’s warning about dangerous new “universal use” ballot marking device (BMD) voting systems! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aodGPDhDzLg, 6/14/19
INTERVIEWS OF (AND PRESENTATIONS BY) JENNIFER COHN
The Stuttering John Podcast, https://youtu.be/INWjpw5_rGI (40:20), June 7, 2020
Daily Beans podcast (cast of Mueller She wrote) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-daily-beans/id1473747182?i=1000478606060, 6/18/20
The Nomiki Show, https://youtu.be/4zKXsvgpQaY, June 15, 2020
KNX1070 Radio, in Depth News (CBS), https://knx1070.radio.com/media/podcast/knx-depth, June 2020
Scene On Radio (Peabody-nominated podcast) http://www.sceneonradio.org/s4-e12-more-democracy/, 6/10/2020
The Stuttering John Podcast with Noel Casler, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoqPJGsBR_8, 6/4/20
The Robust Opposition with Lauren Steiner, The Pros and Cons of Vote by Mail, https://youtu.be/c--EwZ0dqHI, 5/26/20
Election Security Forum: Lifting The Veil On Shelby County Elections”, graphic Zoom presentation, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tshb5keU7fQ (15:25), May 2020
Election security Zoom graphic presentation overview for the San Ramon Valley Democratic Club, 4/23/20
Sorry Not Sorry Podcast with Alyssa Milano, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/alyssa-milano-sorry-not-sorry/id1460720864?i=1000470618425, 4/5/20
Women Rising Radio, http://www.womenrisingradio.com/2020/03/11/women-rising-radio-39-election-protection-advocates, 3/11/20
The Conversation with Francesca Quarantini, YouTube interview about dangerous new touchscreen voting systems (BMDs), https://twitter.com/jennycohn1/status/1230008436789694466?s=21, February 2020
Voting machine vendors: corruption, opacity, and lies, 10/24/19
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vP8nABXXws
Mueller She Wrote (50 minutes in), 9/16/2019
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/jaleesa-johnson/mueller-she-wrote/e/63920971?autoplay=true
Mark T. Live, KGO Radio, 11/12/19
The Brad Blog, ‘Lipstick on a Pig…The Pig Being the Ballot Marking Devices’, 10/21/19
National Voting Rights Task Force, election-security overview presentation with power point, 10/14/19
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCcnwh0PX9Y
Mark T. Live, KGO Radio, 8/13/19
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-j7Os7FUIyVWG1GcWViV1h2VW9zMk1vLTc0X21iSHR6dWt3/view?usp=sharing
The New Left, 7/3/19
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aT0g8-esrhM
Youtube: Warning About Dangerous New “Universal Use” Ballot Marking Device (BMD) Voting Systems!, 6/14/19
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aodGPDhDzLg
The Full Monte, 6/12/19
https://www.blogtalkradio.com/nutsandboltsports/2019/06/19/the-full-monte-show-wed-june-19th-2019
Resistance Mom, 5/15/19
https://www.patreon.com/posts/podcast-episode-26881764
Mueller She Wrote, 5/13/19
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlLG0wvWp5M
Two Broads Talk, 3/25/19
https://twobroadstalkingpolitics.com/blog/2019/03/25/episode-201
The Full Monte, 1/8/19
https://www.blogtalkradio.com/nutsandboltsports/2019/01/08/the-full-monte-show-episode-100
Dworkin report, 11/5/18
TYT The Conversation, 10/24/18
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nofgMUaPUu8
The Brad Blog, 8/22/18
Two Broads Talk, 7/6/18
https://twobroadstalkingpolitics.com/blog/2018/7/6/episode-92