Louisiana’s Republican Secretary of State is saying the unbelievable.Â
Exhibit 5,225 – The GOP is Not on our side
LACAG URGENT LOUISIANA ELECTION ALERT
Please REPOST this message in order to facilitate priority response from the Trump Administration on whether the Administration has endorsed the current effort by Louisiana Secretary of State Nancy Landry to spend hundreds of millions of dollars for the purchase and maintenance of new voting computers (Ballot Marking Devices) that generate a “paper component.”
Landry publicly stated this week that she has met with the Trump Administration several times and that the Administration has issued such an endorsement.
We are seeking priority clarification from the Administration because Landry’s proposed action appears to facially contradict existing federal statutory law, President Trump’s existing Executive Orders (EOs), the position of the Administration regarding the acute vulnerabilities of computer based voting, and the Administration’s position that states should implement a secure, water-marked, ALL paper ballot system both because it is far safer and far less expensive.
We are seeking a priority response specifically from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, DOGE Director Elon Musk, and any other authorized member of the Trump administration.
SB226, had it passed in its original form over Landry’s opposition (it didn’t) would have required Landry to certify, before moving forward with any election contract, that:
1) the voting system she proposes is not prohibited “communications and information technology” that is designated by the US Dep. of Homeland Sec. (DHS) as election infrastructure with a “nexus to foreign adversaries” in violation of federal law;
2) the voting system she proposes has not been found by the DHS and the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) to be subject to compromise through malicious software or unauthorized intrusion into the system by foreign adversaries, and therefore, not a risk to national security;
3) neither the computers themselves nor any component parts of the computers are manufactured by a foreign adversary.
SB226 would have essentially codified in Louisiana law both federal statutory law as well as President Trump’s Executive Orders 13873 and 14248 concerning election security.
EOs 13873 and 14248 mandate that DHS and the EAC investigate “all electronic voting systems”; determine whether those systems are subject to malicious intrusion; and determine whether any electronic voting system is manufactured by a foreign adversary or any entity with a nexus to a foreign adversary.
As stated, please REPOST this message in order to help facilitate review and response from the Trump Administration, on this platform or elsewhere.
Thank you for your assistance.
LACAG
Louisiana Citizen Advocacy Group
Here is Louisiana Secretary of State on elections.
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Anyone that takes the vote, and the counting, out of the hands of people and puts it into a black box does not understand that computers are not people and that an election is about participation of the people.
Precincts need to run their own elections, do hand counting and real live human certification, not a rubber stamp on a black box read-out.
The use of computer systems removes people from the actual process of “ELECTING” candidates to manage government offices. The introduction of computers into the process is like bolting a spare tire on the windshield of a car. It hinders the emersion of actual human activity in this vital “HUMAN” process.
Computers are stealing agency from citizens by promising an easy button. Even if there were perfect electronic election systems that never made a mistake, the interface replaces a vital participation in the process and further removes important interaction between humans.
Computers in elections promote division like political parties. Only true eye witnesses certifying vote tallies in precincts where people know each other can provide trustable security in the process. Black boxes will never garner the trust that eyewitnesses can provide to people that know the clerks and those that certify the elections.
A rubber stamp on a machine count is not a human interaction.
Anyone that takes the vote, and the counting, out of the hands of people and puts it into a black box does not understand that computers are not people and that an election is about participation of the people.
Precincts need to run their own elections, do hand counting and real live human certification, not a rubber stamp on a black box read-out.
The use of computer systems removes people from the actual process of “ELECTING” candidates to manage government offices. The introduction of computers into the process is like bolting a spare tire on the windshield of a car. It hinders the emersion of actual human activity in this vital “HUMAN” process.
Computers are stealing agency from citizens by promising an easy button. Even if there were perfect electronic election systems that never made a mistake, the interface replaces a vital participation in the process and further removes important interaction between humans.
Computers in elections promote division like political parties. Only true eye witnesses certifying vote tallies in precincts where people know each other can provide trustable security in the process. Black boxes will never garner the trust that eyewitnesses can provide to people that know the clerks and those that certify the elections.
A rubber stamp on a machine count is not a human interaction.