Polls predicted Trump wld lose in a landslide, Rs blocked robust election audits ( #SAFEAct), GOP senate wins are red shifted, voters lack means to investigate, Dem leaders won’t do it, & Rs are the ones screaming fraud. I see no progress toward evidence-based elections. 1/

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3/ I know this seems glass half empty. I’m sorry. I worry we win a battle only to soon lose a war.

We cannot continue conducting non-evidence-based elections. We just can’t. It is a nightmare that allows conspiracy theories (some plausible, others not) to run rampant. It could even result in violence. 4/

As it stands, due in part to an opaque chain of custody (both vote by mail & in person voting) and a lack of robust manual audits (both vote by mail & in person) & absent or unreliable paper trails (about 30% of in person), we do not conduct evidence-based elections in the US. 5/

The next four years will be hell if the GOP maintains control of the Senate. The next election could be hell too. And I see no Democrats discussing the possibility that the GOP cheated. I hope they are just waiting until > Ds hopefully win the senate. 6/

Waiting may be the right thing to do for Democratic leaders. But I hope things change after/if they win control of the senate. And those of us not in Congress must in my opinion continue to sound the alarm re some of these unexpected red shifts & other anomalies favoring Rs. 7/

I worry that Rs & right-wing media will spend the next 4 years claiming falsely that Biden is illegitimate when it was Republicans that blocked progress toward evidence-based elections and, if anything, it is suspicious that Trump & the GOP did as well as they did. 8/

We cannot let Rs spin this faulty narrative. We must point out again and again that the GOP steadfastly blocked efforts to move to evidence-based elections & that DeJoy engaged in highly suspect conduct with vote by mail. WE MUST STAND FOR EVIDENCE-BASED ELECTIONS. 9/