Voting machines as a new form of election fraud: It's not the people who vote that count, it's the machines who
count the votes
When machines count the votes, voters are redundant. This is a new type of outsourcing: outsourcing of voting to the
intelligence agencies. In other words, voting machines are poweful tools for the suppression the will of electorate
If we assume that intelligence agencies became a political tool on the Democratic Party, and the allied with intelligence agencies
faction of US neoliberal oligarchy that controls it (billionaires from Silicon Valley and FIRE sector of the economy), the use
of electronic voting machines in the USA should be strictly prohibited
1. I am calling on @dougducey to call a special session of the AZ Legislature under Article IV of our state constitution
to investigate the accuracy and reliability of the Dominion ballot software a
2. No election results should be certified until a complete audit of the Dominion machine tallies is made.
The worst think about voting machines software is that the fraud might well be preapproved "feature". Implemented by intelligence
agencies simultaneously with the introduction of voting machine for specific purpose of controlling the results of the elections.
In this respect the that the Dem politicians and the neoliberal MSM have pushed the so-called "Russian Meddling" narrative, with
the FBI and US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) recently claiming that a group of hackers funded by Moscow had
infiltrated government servers can be viewed as a classic example of projection. You can always get closer to core substituting
CIA and FBI for Moscow.
It is important to understand that voting machines are not simply tools for counting votes. They are primarily the tools for illegal
control of election results by nefarious forces. As in famous Stalin quip: "It's not the people who vote that count, it's
the people who count the votes."
Sound like hopium. Who's gonna launch a criminal investigation? The FBI? Not. I doubt you will get anyone to investigate
anything, even if you had a video showing them deleting votes. The game is rigged and the DOJ is in on it.
Otherwise it is "highly unlikely" that this Window based machines would be allowed by intelligence agencies to tally votes in national
elections. In other words, it looks like voting machines are about the control of population, not so much about counting votes.
Paper ballots, strict hand counting under 24 x 7 video surveillance, and compete absence of internet connections from the vote counting
facilities (including blocking WiFi) provide some friction making fraud more expensive and time consuming to commit and they are highly
preferable. They are like putting sand put into the greased by fraud mechanism on the US elections.
In my view the use of electronic devices in registering or counting votes, such as voting machines should be strictly prohibited. May be mechanical tabulators of ballots
(similar to currency counting machines) can be allowed, but that's it. Even here there should be a strict control that prevent pushing
the same batch of votes again and again: Votes on the other side of tabulator should be put in the box with no access of the operator.
Only a different person with a special key, probably election supervisor can do this. In no way the decision for who
the ballot was cast can be outsourced from humans to software.
In this sense, they are one step forward two steps back in the security and transparency of the elections. They can be used
as supplementary mechanism for detecting anomalies in the hand voting, but never as a primary tool. They introduce too much
risk. And any voting machine connected to Internet is a clear sign of fraud and/or attempts by intelligence agencies to control and
influence the election. And in view of behaviour of intelligence agencies in 2016 election this is not a hypothesis, the attempt
of intelligence agencies to influence the US Presidential election is not a hypothesis but is a proven, documented fact. As simple
as that.
In the USA the story of creation and distribution of voting machines is the story of a typical banana republic. Some shady private
companies without much supervision produce and sell them via lobbyists from both parties they hire. There is no any national security
standard as of what hardware those machines can use (definitely they should not use Intel CPUs), what operating system they should
use (definitely not Microsoft Windows -- which is a consumer system at best; the idea that one can store confidential data on a computer
with Windows OS and connected to the Internet is comply idiotic ), what protocols they should use to communicate with upper level of
voting information collection and how this transmission of information can be verified (Blockchain?), what audit protocols should be
used for software (is should open source and the compilation of it should be under supervision of observers from both parties), and
software patches as well as how many days before election they should be completely disconnected from the internet and any patching
is prohibited (90 days, 180 days ?) .
Also criminal responsibility for abusing voting machines is not defines clearly. It is clear that all operations with voting
machines should be performed under video surveillance and tapes should me made available to both parties and probably to the public as
well. Especially very vulnerable to fraud operation of delivering and then verifying signature and extracting of the
inner envelope of mail-in ballots. Any possibilities to destroy ballots at this stage should be blocked. If the chain of custody of
ballot is broken anything can happen, so the present of observers from both parties is obligatory on each stage of collection and delivering
of ballot, as well as processing them.
Mail-in ballots invite fraud so this is the point where injection of fraudulent votes happened in 2020 elections. If processed by
tabulating machines without close supervision, you need just one bad apple to spoil the work of the whole precept.
This will make more difficult running batches of mail-in votes repeatedly (a typical mail votes fraud reported in 2020)
The whole idea then the result are flowing instantly on the screen of TV is a big scam, converting election into a circus; it should
be one update on the election day( say midnight), because the preliminary results allow malevolent operators to inject
into the stream enough fraudulent votes to secure the desired result of elections. Preliminary votes tally should be treated as
secret information. I would say that combination of mail-in votes and use of voting machines completely eliminate the possibility
of fair and transparent elections.
So even is we assume the voting machine are the necessary evil (they are not; that's profiteering of politicians, pure and simple;
they are completely redundant for the organizing transparent and verifiable election; generally they do more harm them good),
no reasonable standard of implementation (e.g. similar to DOD servers standards) exist for them. This is clearly a Banana
republic level, no question about it. and this might be mot accidental, as it create opportunities to control the election, converting
the whole idea of democracy into a sham.
Technically
SCORECARD is an exploit -- a specialized application for voting fraud written for a powerful electronic surveillance supercomputer
system known as THE HAMMER, which was commissioned by Obama administration in 2009. The working hypotheses is that this application
is capable of hacking into elections and redistributing votes dynamically in close elections in such a way that the desirable candidate eventually win,
but that the process was not detectable to the observers. The first information about its existence came from CIA contractor-turned-whistleblower
Dennis Montgomery, who designed and built THE HAMMER. (
conservativedailypost.com, Nov 7, 2020)
Congressional testimony by
Dennis Montgomery
in 2015 stated that Joe Biden and Barack Obama used the system in 2012 to secure a win in Florida. Biden knows the system well and
would have had it in his back pocket to flash in front of the DNC during his “miraculous” ascension from the bottom of the pack to
the Democratic nomination.
While we know very little about this exploit indirect evidence point in the direction that it exists and was used in 2020 elections
(Conservative
Daily Post, Nov 7, 2020)
Sidney Powell is not some clickbaiting queen… she announced that there is evidence that the CIA tools were used to alter election
counts on software systems in the swing states.
And now, Sidney Powell (attorney for Michael Flynn and part of the president’s legal team) has announced that they have evidence
that this tool was used, in conjunction with THE HAMMER to rig the
election for Joe Biden.
In fact, there may be evidence that the tool was used to elect Obama.
Even within definitely flaws idea of using computers for voting there are best and worst scenario. For example, one thing is usage
of Trusted Solaris (the workhorse of the US military), and yet another to use Microsoft Window OS. And guess which operating system
those voting machines use. That alone makes them extremely vulnerable.
What is even worse that potential of hacking, there several indirect (heuristic) signs that voting machines in the USA might perform
some subtle manipulations with voting counts (probably with blessing of both Parties):
Control of the company the design and produced voting machines by the former officials of one, or other party.Dominion are allegedly vested by the Pelosis (which alone raise a few Red Flags for a RICO Investigation).
Unauthorized and unaudited updates performed a day before election
The sudden stop and than resumption after several hours of counting in several state, as happened in 2020 elections.
The most damning is the recent information that somebody uploaded software into Georgia voting machines the night before election.
In computer security/computer science terms that means that the voting machines were connected to Internet and accessed via VPN. This
is a really criminal action and the heads should roll up to the highest level in particular state, because it totally invalidates the
voting by putting full control on counting in hands of a private company. How come that companies which produce voting equipment
can do this without inspection and approval of the update by the official. Any updates 90 days before the elections should be strictly
prohibited. Otherwise that means that this particular company, and not election officials, control the election process. Kind of privatization
of elections. Is this a banana republic or what? See for example:
Explanation in the article above is pathetic and suggests either an extreme level of incompetence, or outright fraud, or both:
The companies “uploaded something last night, which is not normal, and it caused a glitch,” said Marcia Ridley, elections supervisor
at Spalding County Board of Election. That glitch prevented pollworkers from using the pollbooks to program smart cards that the
voters insert into the voting machines.
Ridley said that a representative from the two companies called her after poll workers began having problems with the equipment
Tuesday morning and said the problem was due to an upload to the machines by one of their technicians overnight.
“That is something that they don’t ever do. I’ve never seen them update anything the day before the election,” Ridley
said. Ridley said she did not know what the upload contained.
Scytl:
Founded in 2001 in Spain,
Scytl organized 12 state-wide implementations, and its technologies were used in another 980 U.S. jurisdictions in 28 states,
during the 2016 General Election. Specializing in online voting and elections solutions, the company's products include online voter
registration services, poll worker management, and electronic ballot delivery. Its
online
voting services
employ end-to-end encryption, vote return cords, and a bulletin board audit service. Scytl's customers include France’s Ministry
of Foreign Affairs, the European Green Party, the Parliament of the European Union and the Swiss Canton of Fribourg. In January 2012,
the company bought SOE Software. Scytl also holds more than 40 patents and patent applications. In
2008, the company became the first online voting company to receive certification from the Florida Department of State.
Dominion software was developed by Smartmatic. Smartmatic's Chairman was listed on their web site until it was removed several days
ago, as his resume included the U.N, World Bank, and ex Vice Chairman of George Soros Investment Fund. (Mark Malloch-Brown) Odd how
a company would remove their Chairman's bio days after a U.S election with "glitches" that converted votes from one party to another,
as well as a bio which shows who the Chairman is and his resume of such a role in the elections of the United States of America.
Of course, a "glitch" is not something which creates a clear carefully calculated result lol. I think some would refer to that instead
as "programming" and "code", and the same might agree a developer would maintain access and "back door".
Dennis Montgomery is now being addressed in attempts to discredit, but the history of Dennis Montgomery is not brought into the
discussions, including the 47 hard drives and 600 million pages he produced, nor the connection of it all to to John Brennan, James
Clapper, Robert Mueller, James Comey, Barack Obama, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, nor the hardware moved off site, nor the 1,200 issued
blackberry's that granted the holder access to Hammer data, and much more.
Lot of stuff going on here and I think explains why Brennan is now pushing for the 25th and Trumps removal asap so he cannot "declassify"
any information, although Brennan didn't specify exactly what information lol.
If CIA is involved, it's about the "Hammer" and the "Scorecard", both of which are indeed extensively documented, as has their
USE been documented.
To anyone who does not know what any of the above refers to or anything about it, I just gave you months, if not years of absolutely
fascinating research. Look hard enough and you can even find the whistleblower complaint that Montgomery faxed to Obama's private
(secret) phone line lol. Wrote this while trying to load video, and finally could load it, so might add something ;) Although I will
say it's been funny to see everyone try to attack and discredit Rudy...The guy took on NYC LCN lol (La Cosa Nostra)......dishonest
New Yorkers don't go after the 5 families (successfully lol). That's incredibly (stupidly) HONEST lol. I think the price on him reached
$800k before the mob pulled back on it lol. Rudy says he's got a case.....you better believe he's got a case LOLOLolol. Guy was Mayor
for 9/11 on top of it smh lol. Nah....Rudy's a BONA FIDE "good guy". Infinitely MORE than anyone who attempts to question him. To
anyone having trouble loading this, I kept coming back and trying to load for about 30 minutes before finally got it to load, as
well as several other similar videos.
Slides were definitely produced by a specialist and they reveal the dismal state of the US electronic voting system (which strongly
suggest that this is deliberate). Some fact presented suggests that CIA owns the US voting system via some shady foreign companies
NOTE: Slides except the first are slightly distorted as in the right upper corner text overload the original text, but
they are still legible:
Summary of Findings
As a result of the 2002 HAVA Act, most counties don't run elections anymore. Private Co/s with Private Shareholders under contract
to counties run our elections. And these companies do it with virtually NO Transparency or Supervision.
The entire election system infrastructure is a complex patchwork of various private companies doing various parts of it. ALL
of it is exposed to the internet, the idea of it being air-gapped is a myth. The voting companies own manuals show this. Some
of these companies conduct elections all over the world, effectively being in a position to control some of the outcomes
Some of the companies are foreign owned with servers outside this country, and they are the last ones to actually control the
so-called "unofficial" votes. BUT, it is the "Unofficial" votes that eventually control "Official" votes.
There are no security standards, similar to NIST, for election software. Hence any certifications are largely just agreed on
an ad hoc basis between the certifying company and the election company and therefore don't mean much.
Most State SoS offices fail to grasp the extent and vulnerabilities within their systems, and so they grant waiver to their
State law and voting code to counties and election companies that exacerbate the problem.
Our investigation revealed at least a dozen or more entry points where votes can and are being switched and the audit trails
changed or erased so that a forensic investigation finds no trace. It has to be caught in real time. Even the operator of the
election system can change votes undetected.
Slide 9: real patchwork of companies that manage election voting
Slide 10
Slide 11
Actually after gas-lighting the whole country with Russiagate for four years Dems should expect a severe and painful blowback:
they sow the teeth of dragon and now the new dragons will rise and eat Biden alive. Consensus is fractured in any case and victory for
Biden definitely looks like Pyrrhic victory.
The danger that weighted voters counting were incorporated first in Diebold machines and later in all other voting mashing is discussed
in a very interesting Dr. Shiva presentation:
Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai MIT Systems Scientist: Data Analysis Of Voting Fraud
In MI Shows 69,000 Votes Were TRANSFERRED From Trump To Biden!. this is an interesting mathematical analyses that suggest
that "weighed" voting were applied and Trump votes were to Biden. What paradoxical result is that then more precinct
was republican in Michigan the more votes Trump lost to Biden. They also pointed out the starting from Duenbold that machine
has programmed feature called "weited voted" which allow very smooth stealing of votes from undesirable candidates. So several
question arise:
Why there are more % of Trump votes transferred to Biden is precincts that have more Republicans?
Are BOTH Republican and Democrat involved in supporting the Algorithms ?
Is the coup detat underway?
If so, who is behind the coup: only Democrats (the company which produces Dominion Voting Systems Machines is controlled senator
Felstein husband), Republicans, Democrats or noth?
And the fundamental question: did Biden actually win?
Various social media outlets now allege that Dominion Voting Systems was involved in voter fraud and that they are closely
connected to high-ranking Democrats, specifically to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Nadeam Elshami, Pelosi's former chief of staff
is a lobbyist for Dominion). Rumors are that Senator Dianne Feinstein was
also involved as her husband owned some shares in the company via his investment firm Blum Capital Partners(Dominion
vowing system deny this).
What is really suspicious is that it was used in every single major swing state. EVERY. SINGLE. ONE.
The fact that the Dominion voting machines flipped votes to Biden in at least two instances in Michigan alone is reason to audit
all states where Dominion is used.
Governor Kristi Noem @govkristinoem · Nov 7
DC Elites are eager to return to "business as usual.”
The 70 million Americans who voted for @realDonaldTrump are not moving on just because the media says so. Serious election
integrity concerns (read Alito’s opinion) in several states that the media should be investigating.
And the same mechanisms that derailed trump were probably also instrumental in derailing of Bernie Sanders during democratic primaries.
The Washington Examiner:
Former federal prosecutor Sidney Powell accused a leading voting machine firm of stealing votes from President Trump.
Powell, the lead attorney for retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, who is helping Trump’s legal effort in the 2020 election, said on
Sunday that people with links to top Democrats are using Dominion Voting Systems to commit “fraud” on elections. She did not present
any evidence to support her claims.
Mentioned during a Fox News interview by host Maria Bartiromo were Nadeam Elshami, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s former
chief of staff who last year
became a lobbyist for Dominion, and Richard Blum, California Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s husband, who she said is a significant
shareholder in the company.
“They have invested in it for their own reasons and are using it to commit this fraud to steal votes. I think they’ve even stolen
them from other Democrats in their own party who should be outraged about this also,” Powell said.
The attorney also suggested that Dominion had a hand in tilting the primaries in Joe Biden’s favor. “Bernie Sanders might very
well have been the democratic candidate but they’ve stolen against whoever they wanted to steal it from,” Powell said.
Dominion did not immediately return a request for comment on Powell’s claims.
The company, which
has a lock on a third of the voting machine market according to Bloomberg, has faced scrutiny in the past couple of
days with voting problems reported in parts of Michigan and Georgia, although the company and local officials have discounted the
idea that the software was to blame.
Dominion has customers in 28 states and Puerto Rico, including all of the battleground states where Trump and his allies are contesting
and pinning their hopes on recounts after media outlets called the presidential race for Biden.
Earlier in the show, Powell said at least 450,000 ballots have been identified in key states that “miraculously” only
have a mark for Biden and no other candidate down-ballot. She also claimed GOP Senate candidates in Georgia and Michigan
had their races “stolen” from them and argued that recounts and audits are needed in most places across the country.
Dominion Voting System has become a widely discussed topic in this election cycle. Without free and fair elections, the freedoms
and liberties we Americans enjoy are dissipating into a web of corruption. Bit by bit, falsely elected officials place their surrogates
at every level of government. A fraudulent election officer with nearly unchecked authority becomes the cog in a wheel that will
misappropriate public funds and cause inappropriate policies to be put into place throughout the government while they enrich themselves.
It’s all about money and control.
When this fraud is corrected the electoral map will look quite different, and may even swing a few house and senate votes.
Like ping-pong, after Ronald Reagan won two terms as President, coincidentally a new plan was hatched. Voting should no longer
be manually counted, it should be done by machines, which quickly evolved to voting directly on machines. Two brothers, Bob and Todd
Urosevich led the way, bankrolled by California billionaire H.F. Ahmanson, with both Diebold Election Systems headquartered in Ohio
and Election Systems and Software (ES&S) headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska.
Consequently, they then controlled 80% of the voting in the U.S. Now the ball was in play. Finger-pointing began, it was the Republicans
controlling the elections, then it was the Democrats, back and forth like ping-pong. Key electoral races could be won, by the persons
running the elections offices, for local races, and more by those controlling the voting machines and the software that ran it all.
Suddenly the crown jewel, California once the bastion of conservatism, the state that gave America Ronald Reagan, was for the
taking. They did so by using the newest technology, computer tabulating voting machines and strategically placed election officials
and staff.
Voting Machines in 2020
What we now see is the same mechanism that stole the Golden State being deployed in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, and every
state down to every county elections office. That mechanism is computerized voting and counting. As unglamorous as it is, Americans
must take back control of voting and the counting of the votes. By physically marking their vote on tightly controlled printed ballots
with 24/7 video coverage of all election materials and activities at all times.
They must be manually counted. Ideally, that would be in each precinct with close and personal oversight by voters at the end
of election night. Yes, it’s hard work, but freedom is not free. The dark underbelly of election fraud is a murky place hidden behind
so-called “proprietary computer code” developed in other nations like Serbia and voting machine components made in China.
Yes, that’s right. Would you feed your baby formula made in China? Probably not, however, we are trusting our elections to Chinese
made voting machines. Dominion definition: A territory or sphere of influence or control; a realm.
Stop the Steal
As the cry “Stop the Steal” goes off across the nation against Diebold’s newest reinvention of their corruption now called “Dominion
Voting Systems” shouldn’t we just stop and ask who is behind it? Well, everyone who wants power, control, and money is behind it.
From Defense Department shot callers to Nancy Pelosi and their lobbyists who push Congress for funding for these machines and their
software to be installed in every county in the nation. Yes, your tax dollars pay for the steal.
If elections officials tell you that their election system is offline, they are lying. Whether hard-wired or wireless, these machines
and their software only take minutes if not seconds to access and hack our democracy. These machines and tabulation software are
all hackable. Everything is hackable, even the Pentagon.
The software programs are designed to be hacked. Votes can be flipped with the press of a key. In fact, the election results can
be preprogrammed. All the rest is theatre.
James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas Action in 2016 revealed in an undercover video that the Democrats have been rigging elections
for fifty years. “It’s a very easy thing for Republicans to say they’re busing people in,” Democratic politico Scott Foval says in
the video. “Well, you know what? We’ve been busing people in to deal with you f–kin’ assholes for fifty years and we’re not going
to stop now. We’re just going to find a different way to do it.”
Glitches in Dominion Voting Systems Machines
Fast forward to our present election debacle “The county clerk [Sheryl Guy] came forward and said tabulating software glitched
and caused a miscalculation of the votes,” Michigan GOP chair
Laura Cox said. “Antrim County had to hand-count all of the ballots News outlets are reporting a “glitch in the software of Dominion
Voting Systems equipment” when 6,000 votes switched from Republican to Democrat in Antrim County, Michigan on Tuesday.
If you believe it was a “glitch” I have some waterfront property to sell you in Arizona. Speaking of Arizona, the election bruhaha
happening is in Maricopa County which just happens to have machines that use Dominion Voting Systems software and ballots. Nothing
to see here, let’s move along.
WSB-TV2 in Atlanta reported, “Despite an early glitch with software in Gwinnett County, it was clear Wednesday night that the
Democratic party has flipped the once-Republican stronghold blue.”
Georgia purchased and began using 30,000 new voting machines in 2020. Can you guess who made and installed these 30,000 voting
machines? Once again, Dominion Voting Systems takes your hard-earned tax dollars to the bank while stealing your vote. It is time
every criminal involved in this election stealing racket be prosecuted and spend a mandatory 10 years in prison. But who will investigate
and prosecute them? The FBI and the DOJ? Oh, they may pluck an election official here and there but if hundreds aren’t prosecuted,
the message will continue to be they can and will get away with it.
There is only one solution. Americans must take back control in every voting precinct. No more machines. No more mega voting centers.
We must go back to running our local precincts come hell or pandemic.
Pennsylvania 's
top election official has decertified the voting system of rural Fulton County for future elections, saying
that an election assessment by a third party had violated the Keystone State's election code,
according to a release on Wednesday.
Acting Secretary of State Veronica Degraffenreid, an appointee of Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf,
informed the Fulton County Board of Elections that she "did not arrive at this decision
lightly."
Wake Technology Services Inc. (Wake TSI), a software company based in West Chester,
Pennsylvania, had carried out an election assessment that involved its workers visiting Fulton
County in December 2020 and in early February.
The company in May released a report that concluded the election was "well-run" and did not
indicate any signs of fraud in Fulton County. However,
five "issues of note" were uncovered , three of which are related to Dominion Voting Systems ,
whose electronic voting system was used in the county for the 2020 election.
"While these may seem minor, the impact on an election can be huge," Wake TSI said of the
five issues. At the time, Dominion disputed the report's findings.
The Pennsylvania Department of State said in a statement on Wednesday that
Wake TSI's access to the Fulton County's voting system "undermined the chain of custody
requirements and strict access limitations necessary to prevent both intentional and
inadvertent tampering with electronic voting systems."
It added that the "unauthorized access" prevents the vendor -- Dominion -- from "affirming
that the system continues to meet state and federal certification standards."
Fulton county officials had allowed Wake TSI to "access certain key components of its
certified system, including the county's election database, results files, and Windows systems
logs," and to "use a system imaging tool to take complete hard drive images of these computers
and other digital equipment," the department noted.
"These actions were taken in a manner that was not transparent," Degraffenreid said in her
letter to Fulton County officials on Tuesday. She said the access given to Wake TSI has
caused Fulton County's voting system to be "compromised," and that neither the county, state
officials, nor Dominion could now "verify that the impacted components of Fulton County's
leased voting system are safe to use in future elections."
"I have no other choice but to decertify the use of Fulton County's leased Dominion
Democracy Suite 5.5A voting system last used in the November 2020 election," Degraffenreid
wrote.
The Fulton County Board of Elections and Wake TSI did not immediately respond to requests
for comment.
The Pennsylvania Department of State previously said that a risk-limiting audit of the 2020
election has confirmed the state's election results.
The
Pennsylvania Capital-Star reported that Fulton County needed to pay $25,000 to lease new
equipment for its municipal elections in May, because Dominion refused to let the county use
the voting machines that Wake TSI had accessed. According to the outlet, Dominion told the
county that it violated its contract in letting a unaccredited and non-certified company
inspect the machines.
Wake TSI's assessment in Fulton County was "set" by Pennsylvania Sen. Doug Mastriano, a
Republican, according to a Dec. 31, 2020 document
signed by the company that was obtained and published by the Arizona Mirror and The Washington
Post. Wake TSI said in its report that Mastriano and Pennsylvania Sen. Judy Ward, also a
Republican, "were aware of our efforts."
The document also said that Wake TSI was "contracted to Defending the Republic," a nonprofit
founded by lawyer Sidney Powell, who has alleged that widespread fraud occurred in the 2020
election.
Mastriano earlier this month
issued letters to York, Tioga, and Philadelphia counties requesting that they voluntarily
submit information and materials by July 31, to enable what he calls a "forensic investigation"
of the 2020 and 2021 elections. He told The Epoch Times that he seeks for an investigation that
would be "a big deep dive, like we saw in Arizona, but even deeper."
Wake TSI was also involved in the election audit still underway in Arizona's Maricopa County
up until
its contract expired in May. The audit in Maricopa County was ordered by the Arizona state
Senate's Republican majority. Dominion machines in Maricopa County will also be
replaced .
Arizona Senate President Karen Fann, a Republican, said the machines were not tampered with
during the audit and questioned the Board of Supervisors' decision to get new machines.
"If their experts can't prove the machines have not been tampered with, then how does the
[Secretary of State's office] or County Elections certify the machines before every audit to
make sure the machines haven't been tampered with?" she asked in June.
Auditors for a 2020 election investigation being carried out in Windham, New Hampshire, are
saying that some of their latest findings are "large enough to account for discrepancies" in
the election results.
Auditors said they found "experimental confirmation that if the contest is undervoted, a
fold through a vote target can create a vote."
"Something we strongly suspect at this juncture, based on various evidence, is that in
some cases, fold lines are being interpreted by the scanners as valid votes," Mark Lindeman,
part of the audit team,
told WMUR .
Harri Hursti, another auditor, said on Twitter that testing proved folded ballots were
misinterpreted by machines.
"Test decks proved that foldings across a vote targets is misinterpreted as additional
phantom votes or subtracts votes due to false overvotes," he wrote in a post.
Auditors finished the hand recount on May 21. The audit began
on May 11.
AccuVote didn't respond to a request for comment about the audit authorization by the Epoch
Times. The AccuVote machines' intellectual property are owned by Dominion Voting Systems.
Windham's four state representative seats were all won by Republicans on Election Night. The
presidential election was not an item for this audit.
Democrat candidate Kristi St. Laurent, who lost by a narrow margin of 24 votes, requested an
audit ( pdf ) claiming
that the machines were improperly programmed, and that double voting was involved.
As a result, New Hampshire's Republican Gov. Chris Sununu, signed a bill last month that gave authorization
for forensic analysis and a comprehensive recount of the 2020 election votes in Windham related
to optical scanning AccuVote machines.
An automatic recount was done, resulting in St. Laurent losing 99 more votes after a hand
recount. Meanwhile, four Republicans gained about 300 votes each.
The other three Democrats gained between 18 and 28 votes.
The audit team said that more issues could be involved besides folded ballots being
misinterpreted.
"The fold effect is large enough to account for discrepancies, but might not be all that's
going on," the team said on Twitter on May 22.
"75 folded ballots voted straight Republican. Only 48 votes recorded for them. Folds
generated overvotes. This is machine used on Election Day [for] most absentee ballots."
Another machine was found to have "an even more dramatic problem" by the auditors, who said
that only 28 percent of the votes for Republican candidates were counted.
"The work is not completed yet. While the folding seems to be a strong contributor it
clearly is not the only factor," Hursti said on Sunday.
"For example: We have observed vastly different error rates on two machines processing the
same ballots. Work continues."
One of the things that makes Wi-Fi work is its ability to break big chunks of
data into smaller chunks and combine smaller chunks into bigger chunks, depending on the needs of the network at any given
moment. These mundane network plumbing features, it turns out, have been harboring vulnerabilities that can be exploited to send
users to malicious websites or exploit or tamper with network-connected devices, newly published research shows.
In all, researcher Mathy Vanhoef found a dozen vulnerabilities, either in the
Wi-Fi specification or in the way the specification has been implemented in huge numbers of devices. Vanhoef has dubbed the
vulnerabilities
FragAttacks
,
short for fragmentation and aggregation attacks, because they all involve frame fragmentation or frame aggregation. Broadly
speaking, they allow people within radio range to inject frames of their choice into networks protected by WPA-based encryption.
Bad news
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Assessing the impact of the vulnerabilities isn't straightforward. FragAttacks allow data to be injected into Wi-Fi traffic, but
they don't make it possible to exfiltrate anything out. That means FragAttacks can't be used to read passwords or other sensitive
information the way a previous Wi-Fi attack of Vanhoef, called
Krack
,
did. But it turns out that the vulnerabilities -- some that have been part of Wi-Fi since its release in 1997 -- can be exploited to
inflict other kinds of damage, particularly if paired with other types of hacks.
"It's never good to have someone able to drop packets into your network or target your devices on the network," Mike Kershaw, a
Wi-Fi security expert and developer of the open source Kismet wireless sniffer and IDS, wrote in an email. "In some regards,
these are no worse than using an unencrypted access point at a coffee shop -- someone can do the same to you there, trivially -- but
because they can happen on networks you'd otherwise think are secure and might have configured as a trusted network, it's
certainly bad news."
He added: "Overall, I think they give someone who was already targeting an
attack against an individual or company a foothold they wouldn't have had before, which is definitely impactful, but probably
don't pose as huge a risk as drive-by attacks to the average person."
While the flaws were disclosed last week in an industry-wide effort nine months
in the making, it remains unclear in many cases which devices were vulnerable to which vulnerabilities and which vulnerabilities,
if any, have received security updates. It's almost a certainty that many Wi-Fi-enabled devices will never be fixed.
Rogue DNS injection
One of the most severe vulnerabilities in the FragAttacks suite resides in the
Wi-Fi specification itself. Tracked as CVE-2020-24588, the flaw can be exploited in a way that forces Wi-Fi devices to use a
rogue DNS server, which in turn can deliver users to malicious websites rather than the ones they intended. From there, hackers
can read and modify any unencrypted traffic. Rogue DNS servers also allow hackers to perform
DNS
rebinding attacks
, in which malicious websites manipulate a browser to attack other devices connected to the same network.
The rogue DNS server is introduced when an attacker injects an
ICMPv6
Router Advertisement
into Wi-Fi traffic. Routers typically issue these announcements so other devices on the network can
locate them. The injected advertisement instructs all devices to use a DNS specified by the attacker for lookups of both IPv6 and
IPv4 addresses.
In an email, Vanhoef explained, saying, "The IPv6 router advertisement is put
in the payload (i.e. data portion) of the TCP packet. This data is by default passed on to the application that created the TCP
connection. In the demo, that would be the browser, which is expecting an image. This means that by default, the client won't
process the IPv6 router advertisement but instead process the TCP payload as application data."
Vanhoef said that it's possible to perform the attack without user interaction
when the target's access point is vulnerable to
CVE-2021-26139
,
one of the 12 vulnerabilities that make up the FragAttacks package. The security flaw stems from a kernel flaw in NetBSD 7.1 that
causes Wi-Fi access points to forward
Extensible
Authentication Protocol (AP) over LAN
frames to other devices even when the sender has not yet authenticated to the AP.
It's safe to skip ahead, but for those curious about the specific software bug
and the reason the video demo uses a malicious image, Vanhoef explained:
To make the victim process the TCP payload (i.e. data portion) as a separate
packet, the aggregation design flaw in Wi-Fi is abused. That is, the attacker intercepts the malicious TCP packet at the Wi-Fi
layer and sets the "is aggregated" flag in the Wi-Fi header. As a result, the receiver will split the Wi-Fi frame into two
network packets. The first network packet contains part of the original TCP header and is discarded. The second packet
corresponds with the TCP payload, which we made sure will now correspond to the ICMPv6 packet, and as a result, the ICMPv6
router advertisement is now processed by the victim as a separate packet. So proximity to the victim is required to set the
"is aggregated" Wi-Fi flag so that the malicious TCP packet will be split into two by the receiver.
The design flaw is that an adversary can change/set the "is aggregated" flag
without the receiver noticing this. This flag should have been authenticated so that a receiver can detect if it has been
modified.
It's possible to perform the attack without user interaction when the
access point is vulnerable to CVE-2020-26139. Out of four tested home routers, two of them had this vulnerability. It seems
that most Linux-based routers are affected by this vulnerability. The research paper discusses in more detail how this
works -- essentially, instead of including the ICMPV6 router advertisement in a malicious TCP packet, it can then be included in
an unencrypted handshake message (which the AP will then forward to the client after which the adversary can again set the "is
aggregated" flag etc).
Punching a hole in
the firewall
Four of the 12 vulnerabilities that make up the FragAttacks are implementation
flaws, meaning they stem from bugs that software developers introduced when writing code based on the Wi-Fi specification. An
attacker can exploit them against access points to bypass a key security benefit they provide.
Besides allowing multiple devices to share a single Internet connection,
routers prevent incoming traffic from reaching connected devices unless the devices have requested it. This firewall works by
using network address translation, or NAT, which maps private IP addresses that the AP assigns each device on the local network
to a single IP address that the AP uses to send data over the Internet.
The result is that routers forward data to connected devices only when they
have previously requested it from a website, email server, or other machine on the Internet. When one of those machines tries to
send unsolicited data to a device behind the router, the router automatically discards it. This arrangement
isn't
perfect
, but it does provide a vital defense that protects billions of devices.
Vanhoef figured out how to exploit the four vulnerabilities in a way that
allows an attacker to, as he put it, "punch a hole through a router's firewall." With the ability to connect directly to devices
behind a firewall, an Internet attacker can then send them malicious code or commands.
In one demo in the video, Vanhoef exploits the vulnerabilities to control an
Internet-of-things device, specifically to remotely turn on and off a smart power socket. Normally, NAT would prevent a device
outside the network from interacting with the socket unless the socket had first initiated a connection. The implementation
exploits remove this barrier.
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In a separate demo, Vanhoef shows how the vulnerabilities allow a device on the Internet to initiate a connection with a computer
running Windows 7, an operating system that stopped receiving security updates years ago. The researcher used that ability to
gain complete control over the PC by sending it malicious code that exploited a
critical
vulnerability called BlueKeep
.
"That means that when an access point is
vulnerable, it becomes easy to attack clients!" Vanhoef wrote. "So we're abusing the Wi-Fi implementation flaws in an
access
point
as a first step in order to subsequently attack (outdated)
clients
."
Getting your fix
Despite Vanhoef spending nine months coordinating patches with more than a
dozen hardware and software makers, it's not easy to figure out which devices or software are vulnerable to which
vulnerabilities, and of those vulnerable products, which ones have received fixes.
This page
provides the status for products from several companies. A more comprehensive list of known advisories is
here
.
Other advisories are available individually from their respective vendors. The vulnerabilities to look for are:
Design flaws:
CVE-2020-24588
: aggregation attack (accepting non-SPP A-MSDU frames)
CVE-2020-24587
: mixed key attack (reassembling fragments encrypted under different keys)
CVE-2020-24586
: fragment cache attack (not clearing fragments from memory when (re)connecting to a network)
Implementation
vulnerabilities allowing the injection of plaintext frames:
CVE-2020-26145
: Accepting plaintext broadcast fragments as full frames (in an encrypted network)
CVE-2020-26144
: Accepting plaintext A-MSDU frames that start with an RFC1042 header with EtherType EAPOL (in an encrypted
network)
CVE-2020-26140
: Accepting plaintext data frames in a protected network
CVE-2020-26143
: Accepting fragmented plaintext data frames in a protected network
Other implementation
flaws:
CVE-2020-26139
: Forwarding EAPOL frames even though the sender is not yet authenticated (should only affect APs)
CVE-2020-26146
: Reassembling encrypted fragments with non-consecutive packet numbers
CVE-2020-26147
: Reassembling mixed encrypted/plaintext fragments
CVE-2020-26142
: Processing fragmented frames as full frames
CVE-2020-26141
: Not verifying the TKIP MIC of fragmented frames
The most effective way to mitigate the threat posed by FragAttacks is to
install all available updates that fix the vulnerabilities. Users will have to do this on each vulnerable computer, router, or
other Internet-of-things device. It's likely that a huge number of affected devices will never receive a patch.
The next-best mitigation is to ensure that websites are always using HTTPS
connections. That's because the encryption HTTPS provides greatly reduces the damage that can be done when a malicious DNS server
directs a victim to a fake website.
Sites that use HTTP Strict Transport Security will always use this protection,
but Vanhoef said that only about 20 percent of the web does this. Browser extensions like
HTTPS
everywhere
were already a good idea, and the mitigation they provide against FragAttacks makes them even more worthwhile.
As noted earlier, FragAttacks aren't likely to be exploited against the vast
majority of Wi-Fi users, since the exploits require a high degree of skill as well as proximity -- meaning within 100 feet to a
half-mile, depending on the equipment used -- to the target. The vulnerabilities pose a higher threat to networks used by high-value
targets such as retail chains, embassies, or corporate networks where security is key, and then most likely only in concert with
other exploits.
When updates become available, by all means install them, but unless you're in
this latter group, remember that drive-by downloads and other more mundane types of attacks will probably pose a bigger threat.
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When I'm networking I always assume the network I'm connected to is completely compromised, so all my devices use these things
and are properly firewalled in which case these attacks are pretty much worthless.
While only new versions of Android support DoT out of the box on the system level, Google has recently added the support for
DoH to Chrome, so in case your device is running an older version of Android you might want to enable DoH in Chrome to feel
safe.
And as for Firefox it's had the support for DoH for years. I've gone as far as to set network.trr.mode to 2 in about:config to
be extra safe. 3 is even better:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Trusted_Recursive_Resolver
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Dominion said in a statement to news outlets on Thursday that it would comply with the
audit, but Cyber Ninjas, the firm hired by the Arizona Senate to conduct it along with three
other companies, is not accredited by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission.
" Releasing Dominion's intellectual property to an unaccredited, biased, and plainly
unreliable actor such as Cyber Ninjas would be reckless, causing irreparable damage to the
commercial interests of the company and the election security interests of the country ,"
Dominion said. "No company should be compelled to participate in such an irresponsible
act."
Cyber Ninjas did not respond to a request for comment.
Maricopa County officials previously said that they did not have passwords to access
administrative functions on Dominion Voting Systems machines that were used to scan ballots
during the election, according to the Senate's audit liaison, former Republican Secretary of
State Ken Bennett.
"They've told us that they don't have that second password, or that they've given us all the
passwords they have," Bennett told One America News at the site of the audit in Phoenix last
week.
Both routers or router images and access to election machines were part of the materials the
state Senate subpoenaed late last year. A judge in February ruled that the subpoenas were valid
and should be obeyed.
Arizona Senate President Karen Fann, a Republican,
recently threatened to subpoena county officials if they didn't stop their noncompliance
with the subpoenas, but
backed off the threat in a letter on May 12.
Instead, she asked Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Chairman Jack Sellers, also a
Republican, to cooperate voluntarily by attending an upcoming meeting at the state Capitol to
go over the audit issues.
Fann said auditors have found discrepancies in the ballot count, including one batch that
was supposed to be 200 but only numbered 165. She also said the audit teams found an entire
database directory from an election machine had been deleted, and that the main database for
the election management system software was not located anywhere on the machine, suggesting
that the main database for all data related to the 2020 election had been removed.
Sellers on Thursday indicated he would not attend the meeting and disputed the
allegations.
Deleting files off the server "would be a crime -- and it is not true," he said.
"After reviewing the letter with County election and IT experts, I can say that the
allegations are false and ill-informed. Moreover, the claim that our employees deleted election
files and destroyed evidence is outrageous, completely baseless, and beneath the dignity of the
Arizona Senate," he added, calling for an immediate retraction of statements senators and their
liaison team made on social media and to the press.
The Board of Supervisors, which held a closed-door emergency meeting on Friday, plans on
holding a public meeting on Monday to address the matter.
Fann, an Arizona Senate Republican Caucus spokeswoman, and the liaison team did not
immediately respond to requests for comment.
Auditors, meanwhile, began packing up on Thursday evening because the audit will take a
break due to scheduling conflicts.
The audit has been taking place at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum on the state fairgrounds
in Phoenix. High school graduations are scheduled to take place at the building beginning May
15.
Hand counting stopped at 7 p.m. on Thursday and workers began collapsing tables and
preparing to move ballots to another location.
About 500,000 of the nearly 2.1 million ballots cast in Maricopa County in the 2020 election
have been counted in the audit, according to Bennett.
The Arizona Senate signed an extension to their original agreement that allows auditors to
store materials in the Wesley Bolin Building, which is also on the state fairgrounds, from May
12 to May 23.
The approximately 19,000-square foot building has a large open floor plan and two large
roll-up doors, according to the Arizona State Fair website.
"Due to temperatures during the summer months, this building is not recommended for use
between May through September," the site states.
Bennett told The Epoch Times in a previous interview that the materials will be secure and
that the site at which they'll be stored can be tracked online via 24-hour streaming, just like
the audit itself.
" There's no deadline for the audit ," Bennett said. " The goal is not speed; the goal is
accuracy and completeness. "
The audit teams can resume occupancy of the coliseum on May 23 and use it until June 30,
according to a copy of the extended agreement obtained
by The Epoch Times .
The original scope of work document from Cyber Ninjas said reviewing voter registration and
votes case would take approximately 20 days and that work would be conducted remotely. The vote
counting phase would take about 20 more days, it said, while the electronic voting system phase
would take some 35 days.
But all three of those phases could be carried out simultaneously, according to the firm. An
additional week was said to be required after completing everything else to finalize
reporting.
High profile attorney means possible troubles for Dominion and its lobbyists. such layers ten
not leave a single stone unturned, which is not in Dominion best interest. Emails will definitely
be subpoenaed and judging from the behaviour of one Dominion executive they were not too
careful.
I kel the joke "Are their lawyers also going to argue that no reasonable person would believe
Fox news?"
Fox News has hired two high-profile defense attorneys to combat a $1.6 billion lawsuit filed
against it by voting technology company Dominion.
The media outlet disclosed in a court filing that it had Charles Babcock and Scott Keller
for its defense. Fox News confirmed the hirings to The Hill.
... ... ...
Fox News Media told The Hill after Dominion filed its suit that it is "proud of our 2020
election coverage, which stands in the highest tradition of American journalism, and will
vigorously defend against this baseless lawsuit in court."
And yet discovery will be very interesting, and Fox News is now pitted against Dominion,
and their best way to defend themselves is to show that the criticisms were legitimate...
Fox can now subpoena anything relevant from Dominion, and Dominion has to comply or be
criminally prosecuted...
There is not much to discover with Dominion. It mainly functions like a windows 10
computer. so it is hackable. It is very easy to install fraudulent software on these
machines
See Harryi Hursti KILL CHAIN: THE CYBERWAR ON AMERICA'S ELECTIONS and look at his
affidavit See "Investigators for Attorney DePernoReportedly Discover Modem Chips Embedded in
Michigan Voting System Computer Motherboards" via today on theGatewayPundit
When testifying before the MI legislature, the Dominion CEO recommended that a full
forensic audit be ordered if voters suspect that these machines were connected to the
internet.
On Dec 1 election officials deleted the electronic voting data in violation of state
la
Sidney Powell lit a fuse. She woke the Republicans and others who want election integrity,
so the Democrats won't be able to steal any more. At least not with the same tactics
Lou Dobbs might have gotten confused once. I believe he said that an affidavit that
criticized Smartmatic had instead criticized Dominion. However, there are so many problems
with Dominion, I would consider it to be an immaterial mistake. After all these machines
appear to be unusable:
[Vote counting machines] "presents serious system security vulnerability and
operational issues that may place plaintiffs and other voters at risk of
deprivation of their fundamental right to cast an effective vote that is
accurately counted," U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg wrote in a Oct 2020
Electionic vote counting machines were banned in France, Ireland and the in
the Netherlands via Gateway Pundit because they were unreliable.
The Gateway pundit could be sued if they make false statements.
via Twitter:
Elections Canada @ElectionsCan_E
· Nov 16
Elections Canada does not use Dominion Voting Systems. We use paper ballots counted by
hand in front of scrutineers and have never used voting machines or electronic tabulators to
count votes in our
100-year history. #CdnPoli
It is very easy to install fraudulent software on these machines See Harryi Hursti on
seeKILL CHAIN: THE CYBERWAR ON AMERICA'S
ELECTIONS and look at his affidavit
The actual claim is here (400+ pages):
www DOT documentcloud DOT org/documents/20527880-dominion-v-fox-news-complaint
These lawyers have their work cut out for them. As explained in the claim, Dominion
contacted Fox multiple times after the first accusations. They provided Fox with independent
assessments and other evidence that their systems were sound. Fox ignored it, never mentioned
this and continued presenting that Dominion systems were fraudulent (and stated that as a
fact, not as an opinion).
Once again, FOX News will likely claim that they are an entertainment network, not a
news agency ... and therefore they should not be expected to propagate facts on their
broadcasts.
Dominion fights as its image was damaged and it has deep pockets. But how valid are their
claim is for the court to decide. In no way they are as clean as they pretend. Their connection
Dem party operatives is probably provable beyond reasonable doubt. The whole story with Dominion
replacing Diebold on this business is murky to the extreme.
Roger Parloff · Contributor Tue, April
13, 2021, 5:06 AM · 22 min read
... "Instantly," said Steven
Bellovin , a professor of computer science at Columbia University with almost 40 years of
experience in computer networking and security. That's how long it took him to realize, he said
in an interview, that a certain purported spreadsheet that I showed him was "not just fake, but
a badly generated fake by someone who didn't know what they were doing."
The spreadsheet, together with an animated film that was said to illustrate its data, formed
the crux of a nearly two-hour "docu-movie," called "Absolute Proof," which aired at least 13
times last February on the One America News Network. The movie, presented in a news magazine
format, was hosted, co-produced, and relentlessly flacked by Mike Lindell, the irrepressible
CEO of MyPillow, Inc. It purported to furnish absolute proof that the 2020 presidential
election was stolen from then-President Donald Trump in an international cyberattack exploiting
vulnerabilities in voting-machine software that had been intentionally designed to rig
elections.
Dominion Voting Systems, which makes voting technology, filed a $1.3 billion defamation suit
against Lindell and his company in late February -- the third of four massive cases it has
filed since the election -- in part because of "Absolute Proof," which referenced Dominion more
than 40 times. (An in-depth analysis of Dominion's suits over bogus election-fraud claims, as
well as one brought by a rival voting-device company, Smartmatic, is provided in an earlier
story I wrote
here .)
The column is extremely week and fragments are republished here for the sole purpose to
critique/
I think Dean Baker is very superficial here. Dominion is a corporation business model of
which is based on lobbying Congress and states. It is definitely closely connected to the
Democratic Party apparatchiks. This is a very questionable model. So now it tried to present
being White Knight defending itself again absurd claims like Hugo Chaves claim. This does not
change the nature of their business. In reality this is two dirty persons struggling in a mud
peat.
Also the key question remains unanswered: are Dominion machines do any good to the USA voting
system? If yes, then defending itself makes some positive sense. If not, why bother?
...Hugo Chavez, the former president of Venezuela who has been dead for eight years, figures
prominently in many of the stories. Nonetheless, many Fox News viewers believe them.
For a voting machine manufacturer, the claim that your machines are rigged is pretty much a
textbook definition of a damaging statement. Therefore, Dominion should have a pretty solid
case.
Sullivan doesn't dispute any of this, instead, she points out that libel or defamation suits
can also be used against news outlets doing serious reporting. She highlights the case of
Reveal, a nonprofit news outfit that is dedicated to investigative reporting. Reveal was nearly
forced out of business due to the cost of defending itself against a charity that it exposed as
being run by a cult. Sullivan's takeaway is that defamation lawsuits can be used as a weapon
against legitimate news organizations doing serious reporting.
Sullivan is right on this point, but wrong in understanding the implications. Every
civil course of action can be abused by those with money to harm people without substantial
resources. There are tens of thousands of frivolous tort cases filed every year, but would
anyone argue that we should deny people the right to sue a contractor that mistakenly sets
their customer's house on fire? The same applies to suits for breach of contract. If I pay
someone $10,000 in advance to paint my house and they don't do it, should I not be able to sue
to get my money back?
... ... ...
The reality is that our legal system can be abused by the powerful to harm those with
less power. That is the result of the enormous disparities of income and power in this country,
and the inadequate shields against abuse in the legal system...
On Dec. 22, Coomer filed a
defamation suit in Denver state court , seeking unspecified damages, against Oltmann and 14
others, including the Trump Campaign; Giuliani; Powell; the One America News Network (OAN); OAN
chief White House correspondent Chanel Rion; Newsmax Media; Newsmax contributor Michelle
Malkin; The Gateway Pundit website; and radio and podcast host Eric Metaxas.
With the spate of election reform bills in Republican controlled states, why I have not heard
any calls to outlaw Dominion and the like? Clearly both parties want to "fix" the system in their
(nefarious) favor.
The analogy presented about BMDs is not very apt, for two reasons:
1. If both the human-readable receipt and the QR code are scanned, this provides
after-the-fact auditability.
2. Although QR codes aren't human-readable, they're very easily readable by a personal
device that everyone carries around in their pocket. This provides in-the-moment
auditability, with unpredictable, distributed auditors.
The combination of those two factors make life extremely difficult for any attacker: if
even one person happens to check that their QR code matches their receipt and discovers it
doesn't, it's going to trigger an audit of the entire system, and the attack will be
discovered.
The analogous system described, with the sealed blue ballot, provides no in-the-moment
auditability, and if we are to assume that the yellow ballot is thrown away, no
after-the-fact auditability.
There is no requirement that what you see when you scan the QR code will make any sense
to the voter. A bunch of race/candidate code pairs not necessarily in an order compatible with
the paper ballot and perhaps encrypted
It would be good to get rid of electronic voting machines.
I like paper ballots. It might not really do anything to discourage corporate influence to
simply ask the corporations to represent all of the politics of their employees. That is a
murky requirement at best. But it is (citizen's united) currently a blatant form of
gerrymandering.
Most of this is just paper trail stuff, however the real election theft seems to happen
long before the ballots are even printed. How did we get a clearly senile president? He was
the chosen candidate in a "party" process that is not the least bit answerable to the general
electorate. Or even to its own electorate.
What better example of election malpractice is there than Joe Biden? So, obviously, the
national committees of the opposing political parties need some restrictions here. They could
be subjected to tighter regulation.
Their influence could be diluted by allowing many more political parties to participate in
both primary and general elections. We need regulations that promote transparency on all the
sausage-making before a party candidate is chosen. We also need transparency on the king
makers, whether corporate or political.
Who is backing the candidate? HR1 doesn't really scratch the surface. It basically just
encourages people to get out and participate in a very corrupted institution.
A duopoly of power exists in the electoral-legislative-executive industrial complex.
Anything that stifles outside competition is a feature, not a bug.
Don't overlook this clause: "so long as the voter shall have the option to mark his or her
ballot by hand."
That means BMDs exist only along side of current hand marking, never in place of hand
marking. Most voters will mark by hand so few BMDs will be purchased, likely only one per
precinct. That will cause a waiting line for the BMD and result in its non-use by any voter
capable of making direct marks by hand.
The ability to steal an election with QR codes via BMDs will be so remote that it won't be
worth the trouble to attempt it.
Do you not remember the issues with provisional ballots in the Democrat primaries? Having
the "option" to hand mark a ballot doesn't mean it will be easy to exercise that option, and in
fact you may be outright lied to by the volunteers running the polling booth and told you don't
have that option.
I have always known the Republican party to be disingenuous in the extreme, untrustworthy
and authoritarian. I long thought Dems to be milquetoast anodyne. Since 2015 however I have
come to be even more opposed to the Dem party than the Republican party, this HR 1 being an
example of how they have become authoritarian in the extreme while hiding behind preening moral
superiority.
I have been wondering too though, with the spate of election reform bills in Republican
controlled states, why I have not heard any calls to outlaw Dominion and the like? Clearly both
parties want to "fix" the system in their (nefarious) favor.
Both parties seem intent on delegitimizing the U.S. electoral processes. I sense growing
unrest and discontent with our political processes and government. The myth of free elections
is an important pressure relief for venting popular discontent. I believe the actions of our
Elite are becoming increasingly arrogant and imprudent.
Fox News is facing a rise of the machines, voting machines that is, as election software
firm Smartmatic is suing the network, three of its anchors and lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Sidney
Powell for allegedly false claims of fraud.
The defamation lawsuit , which was
filed on Thursday in New York state court in Manhattan, seeks $2.7 billion in damages. In
addition to Fox and the two lawyers, Smartmatic names Fox hosts Lou Dobbs, Jeanine Pirro and
Maria Bartiromo as defendants, saying they falsely claimed that the company's technology was
used to help 'steal' the November 3 election from former President Donald Trump.
Florida-based Smartmatic said the defendants knew the election wasn't rigged, "but they
also saw an opportunity to capitalize on President Trump's popularity by inventing a story.
Defendants decided to tell people that the election was stolen from President Trump and Vice
President (Mike) Pence." The company added that "without any true villain, defendants
invented one. Defendants decided to make Smartmatic the villain in their story."
Moreover, Smartmatic said its software was used in just one jurisdiction in the November 3
election – Los Angeles County. Democrat Joe Biden won California by more than 5 million
votes. Trump made allegations of election fraud in decisive swing states where Biden had narrow
margins of victory, such as Georgia, Pennsylvania and Michigan.
When
people are denied public records they routinely reach out to us for assistance and more often than not, we are able to request
the same records and we get them. When this happens it is an indicator of a problem because if we are able to get those
records, so too should others.
The
DuPage County Clerk Jean Kaczmarek and her Chief Deputy Scott Mackay signed a contract with Dominion Voting Systems Inc. on
January 24, 2020. After a copy of that contract was requested by an individual and denied, we were asked to assist in getting
the same records. Our Freedom of Information Act request was granted and we find the Dominion Voting Systems encouragements to
avoid transparency very troubling.
8. Customer
shall
take any and all action necessary or appropriate to assert
all applicable
or
potentially applicable exemptions from disclosure
under the FOIA Statute and
take
all other legally permissible steps to resist disclosure of the Information
including, without limitation,
commencement or defense of any legal actions related to such disclosure.
In
the event Customer receives a request for Information under the FOIA Statute, Customer shall inform Dominion of such
request within ten (10) days of Customer's knowledge or such shorter period as necessary under the FOIA Statute to avoid
prejudice to Dominion's ability to oppose disclosure
, Dominion shall use its best efforts to assist and support
Customer's exercise of any statutory exemption in denying a records request under the Freedom of Information Act (5 ILCS
140/1 et seq.). In the event that Customer becomes subject to fines, costs or fees pursuant to Section 11 of the Freedom of
Information Act (5 ICLS 140/11) relying upon Dominion's claim that the information requested is exempt,
Dominion
shall indemnify Customer for those fines, fees and costs, notwithstanding any other provisions In this agreement.
In
the event Customer is required by court order to disclose any of the Information, Customer shall give written notice to
Dominion at the earlier as soon as reasonably practical after tile imposition of such an order.
There are exemptions under FOIA regarding trade secrets and we
understand such exemptions and their applicability to certain information. However, the language in this contract focuses on
encouraging, in fact, instructing the County that they "
shall
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take any and all action necessary or appropriate to assert "
potentially
applicable exemptions from disclosure
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the information.
Looks like Dominion now can capitalize on Jan 6 events...
Notable quotes:
"... The lawsuit was filed in the Federal District Court in Washington, DC on Monday. The massive 107-page document lists over 50 statements from Giuliani which he made on Twitter, his podcast, in the media, and during legislative hearings about Dominion – one of the largest companies selling voting machines used in the US. ..."
"... To illustrate the damage presumably done by Giuliani, the lawsuit provides a long list of screenshots from assorted internet uses, primarily from Twitter, fuming at Dominion and accusing it of facilitating the election "steal." The voting machines and sharp spikes in vote counts in favor of Joe Biden, widely attributed to the system, have been among the centerpieces of conspiracy theories for the pro-Trump crowd in the aftermath of the turbulent election. ..."
"... The lawsuit also highlights Giuliani's role in the January 6 Capitol Hill riot, accusing him of stirring up the violence. The document quotes Giuliani's address at the pro-Trump rally shortly before the violence, when he urged supporters to engage in "trial by combat." ..."
Donald
Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani is being sued by Dominion Voting Systems over claims of fraud
during the 2020 US presidential election. The company is seeking $1.3 billion in compensatory
and punitive damages.
The lawsuit was filed in the Federal District Court in Washington, DC on Monday. The massive
107-page document lists over 50 statements from Giuliani which he made on Twitter, his podcast,
in the media, and during legislative hearings about Dominion – one of the largest
companies selling voting machines used in the US.
Giuliani, like many other prominent supporters of former President Donald Trump, has
repeatedly pointed the finger at the company as one of the main culprits behind Trump's
election loss. Dominion has been accused of being part of an alleged plot to fix the election
in favor of the Democrats, which, alongside mass mail-in voting, allegedly facilitated the
"steal" of Trump's presumed 'victory'.
Dominion has accused Giuliani of waging a "viral disinformation campaign" and
repeatedly producing "defamatory falsehoods" about it. It also claimed the allegedly
false statements from Trump's lawyer have stirred up a storm of death threats against its
employees.
To illustrate the damage presumably done by Giuliani, the lawsuit provides a long list of
screenshots from assorted internet uses, primarily from Twitter, fuming at Dominion and
accusing it of facilitating the election "steal." The voting machines and sharp spikes
in vote counts in favor of Joe Biden, widely attributed to the system, have been among the
centerpieces of conspiracy theories for the pro-Trump crowd in the aftermath of the turbulent
election.
The lawsuit also highlights Giuliani's role in the January 6 Capitol Hill riot, accusing him
of stirring up the violence. The document quotes Giuliani's address at the pro-Trump rally
shortly before the violence, when he urged supporters to engage in "trial by
combat."
The company is seeking at least $1.3 billion in compensatory and punitive damages from
Giuliani, demanding a trial by jury, according to the court documents.
The lawsuit against Giuliani largely resembles the one against another pro-Trump lawyer,
Sidney Powell, filed by the company earlier this month. Powell has been accused of waging a
"viral disinformation campaign" as well, with Dominion seeking the same eye-watering sum
of 1.3 billion in damages from her.
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"Election results in a county in Michigan had to be corrected to show that President Trump
won by nearly 2,000 votes after voting software gave 6,000 of his votes to Biden ." Which
probably never would have been check if Antrim County wasn't such a Red county. Hard to find
fraud when you refuse to look for it.
LeRuscino2 Sue Brown 11 hours ago 25 Jan, 2021 11:08 AM
Exactly - Scream & shout 1st like MH-17 & when it's settled & Guiliani wins
nobody will know or even remember.
Banalucki 3 hours ago 25 Jan, 2021 07:46 PM
so classic americana - the business that created an electronic voting "process" that
eliminates chain of custody protection, signatures and voter ID is suing Rudy for "fraud"...
Thomas51 2 hours ago 25 Jan, 2021 08:26 PM
Political actions of any lawyer should bear consequences
VonnDuff1 2 hours ago 25 Jan, 2021 08:01 PM
SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Policy) and nothing more. Unless you throw in
Kangaroo Courts with Monkey Judges.
Trekker 8 hours ago 25 Jan, 2021 02:36 PM
Good to put Giuliani away once and for all for all the damage he has caused.
GottaBeMe Skeptic076 7 hours ago 25 Jan, 2021 03:39 PM
They'll have to audit the computer code finally. And they'll have to do it using machines in
swing states that haven't been touched since November. Otherwise it's them saying one thing,
Giuliani saying something else.
Pete Wagner 7 hours ago 25 Jan, 2021 03:11 PM
I guess that means they've destroyed all the damning evidence and have their judge briefed,
paid off, and ready to rule.
Sue Brown 12 hours ago 25 Jan, 2021 10:53 AM
Typical USA style, don't defend yourself . . . when wronged = SUE!!!!
Enki14 9 hours ago 25 Jan, 2021 01:54 PM
Methinks this is a publicity stunt as they would not want a jury of Powell's peers to see the
evidence Patrick Byrne PH.D. has amassed and the hundreds of witnesses that would be called
to testify on Powell's behalf. Methinks they managed to destroy the evidence on their hard
drives and thus feel the evidence would be viewed as circumstantial. However the pathways are
real, were tracked and saved.
Sites and people who posted Hugo Chavez nonsense should pay the price. Which is good.
Also capabilities to produce weighted votes does not mean that it was deployed. But if it is
present it serve as a Damocles sword over the integtiry of election, as you never can be sure
whther is was somehow activated or not. And so far there is no convincing facts that it was
deployed. Looks like most common method was staffing of mail-in ballots by corrupt staff.
But Dominion tabulators do create concentration of ballots in one place, which automatically,
completely by the fact of creating the "critical mass" of ballots in one place facilitates larger
scale fraud . From this point of view they can be regarded as catalysts. That' is
undisputable.
The way sysadmin roles were assigned by Dominion, how such activity is controlled, and what
people are selected is open to review as those people automatically become powerful players in
the election process and are outside usual safeguards, which were developed for traditional
systems. In no way they can be controlled by election observers. That's the fact.
In case the machines were internet connected all Dominion employees with access to them also
become election players. As well as all interested intelligence agencies.
Conservative
blog American Thinker has issued an apology in response to Dominion Voting Systems' lawyers
accusing them and others of defamation for pushing claims their technology helped rig the
presidential election.
In a Friday statement written by editor
and publisher Thomas Lifson, American Thinker admitted their stories on conspiracy theories
surrounding Dominion machines being rigged in Joe Biden's favor were based on "discredited
sources who have peddled debunked theories about Dominion's supposed ties to Venezuela, fraud
on Dominion's machines that resulted in massive vote switching or weighted votes, and other
claims falsely stating that there is credible evidence that Dominion acted
fraudulently."
Lifson called the statements "completely false" and added that "Industry experts
and public officials alike have confirmed that Dominion conducted itself
appropriately."
The company went on to apologize for any "harm" their stories caused the company
and their employees.
"We also apologize to our readers for abandoning 9 journalistic principles and
misrepresenting Dominion's track record and its limited role in tabulating votes for the
November 2020 election. We regret this grave error," they added.
The apology also names Andrea Widburg, R.D. Wedge, Brian Tomlinson, and Peggy Ryan as
specific contributors who have covered conspiracy theories surrounding Dominion.
On the same day as the apology, the conservative blog also shut down its comment section,
but provided no solid reason as to why.
Pieces published by American Thinker presented theories that the machines deleted
pro-Trump votes and that it was tied to outside foreign and political groups, common theories
that have been pushed by President Trump, his legal team, and supporters.
Dominion has taken more aggressive action recently against accusations against them, even
suing Trump lawyer Sidney Powell for defamation to the tune of $1.3 billion.
The company's legal team has also targeted other right-wing media, warning Fox News
recently that action is "imminent" in response to numerous statements made on the
network by anchors and guests like Trump counsel Rudy Giuliani. They also sent letters to
individual anchors for Fox and Newsmax demanding they "cease and desist" making
defamatory statements about the company and its alleged role in rigging the presidential
election, an act they say has no proof to back it up.
In response to the threatened litigation, Fox News aired a segment multiple times shooting
down voter fraud claims linked to Dominion.
Newsmax, meanwhile, released a statement clarifying many conspiracy theories linked to
Dominion and Smartmatic, another vote counting system threatening legal action.
"I don't know or care anything about Dominion voting machines"
Why not? Take a look at Patrick Byrne's summary of evidence for massive election fraud
involving the Dominion machines, on his blog over at DeepCapture.
It will explain how a man who sheltered in his house, did not campaign, drew no more than
six or seven or twenty-five people to his events, got seven million more votes than a man who
drew up to thirty thousand people at his rallies.
...An expert witness in Georgia was able to hack into Dominion in front of the legislative
committee in less than a minute. "We're in." In Dominion, and on the internet.
Dominion machines can do anything! They can assign a weight of 1.5 per single vote to
one candidate, and .75 per vote to the other, and can adjust as necessary. They can assign
batches of "adjudicated" ballots to the candidate of your choice. They can just switch votes
from one candidate to the other in increments of several thousand, let's subtract 29,000
votes from candidate a and add them to b's column. They can allow access by a third party to
the administrator's identity and password so the third party can enter and participate
directly in tabulation of the votes.
And more. If your disfavored candidate is winning by a landslide and your 1.5/.75 ratio
isn't working, you can put in a USB card and adjust accordingly.
If you're desperate you can upload tens of thousands of votes in a single drop which all,
every one, go to your preferred candidate. And you can do it in one hour on a machine which
can only handle a few thousand votes per hour, fed in manually.
There is nothing special about Dominion. The key question is whether computer based voting
machines have the right to exist or not. Do they do any good or they are just unnessery and ripe
with potential of new forms of fraud overhead, driven by unscrupulous lobbists? That is the
question.
The ides of using consumer (or small business office, if you wish) class software and
hardware in those machines is also open to review. Military class Sever have special OS (Trusted
Solaris, OpenBSD, etc), special mechanism to prevent manipulation of binaries (md5 checksums,
mirroring on non violate media, etc), special means to prevent abuse by rogue sysadmins (dual
sysadmin mode necessary to become root, special access rules excluding areas that should not be
manipulated (AppArmor), etc. Windows based servers an, desktops and tables are consumer class
devices that can't be secured on public network to say nothing about election network where
multiple powerful actors (including intelligence agencies; both foreign and domestic ) have
strong stimulus to interfere. This is a struggle for power and it is typically dirty.
Venezuela is a weak point for Powell. As for "there was no widespread fraud in the election"
your mileage may vary. Mail-in fraud almost certainly was "widespread" as in practiced in many
battleground states. Weakening mail-in voting laws was a part of the scheme. What role direct
manipulation of votes by appointed administrators (several at each precept and counting center
(centralize counting is ripe area for fraud, especially good, old injection of votes, just due to
total amount of votes processed), If they can act along without and external control this created
several interesting questions, which needs to be answered by relevant tech investigations.
Ability to scan the same batch of ballots several times, as several election observers
complained, also needs to be blocked, and this is not an easy thing to do.
I have impression that when invalid ballot is adjudicated by the administrator a new ballot
is printed. It looks like adjudication does not leave any paper trial or set of images to
compare. That means that recount will not detect any manipulation. If true, that opens a wide
field for manipulation of votes by rogue administrators including setting scanner to jekect more
votes then nessesary creaing a pool of votes to manipulate. .
She has claimed that the company was created in Venezuela to rig elections for the late
leader Hugo Chavez and that it has the ability to switch votes.
There was no widespread fraud in the election, which a range of election officials across
the country including Trump's former attorney general, William Barr, have confirmed. Republican
governors in Arizona and Georgia, key battleground states crucial to Biden's victory, also
vouched for the integrity of the elections in their states. Nearly all the legal challenges
from Trump and his allies have been dismissed by judges, including two tossed by the Supreme
Court, which includes three Trump-nominated justices.
The company said there "there are mountains of direct evidence that conclusively disprove
Powell's vote manipulation claims against Dominion -- namely, the millions of paper ballots
that were audited and recounted by bipartisan officials and volunteers in Georgia and other
swing states, which confirmed that Dominion accurately counted votes on paper ballots."
Dominion said that when it formally told Powell her claims were false and asked her to
retract them, she "doubled down," using her Twitter account with more than 1 million followers
to amplify the claims.
Different topic but, this is good. Normally, I'm too impatient for videos however, this
former CIA station chief does a great job explaining how the electronic election theft
flowed.
Maarten "merethan" , Jan 8, 2021 11:43 AM Reply to
Leo Washington
Election fraud is more of a tradition than incident. Remember how we used to joke about
"This presidency is brought to you by Diebold"? That was around the 2000's referring to Bush
Jr., and Diebold is the vote machine manufacturer. That's just 20 years ago mate.
Calling election fraud a hilarious idea shows a good lack of historical perspective.
Yeah, fair enough. Can we see some proof of this election fraud, then? And by 'proof', I
don't mean 'someone said'. Because I can't help thinking that if there had been any proof,
then every single 'lawsuit' would not have been laughed out of court. Or are the judges
involved in this massive left-wing conspiracy, too? Jan 8, 2021 7:27 PM Reply to
Leo Washington
Proof is all the problem: There's no proof of a fair election either. The current system
was, in the old days, the only way to ensure votes were anonymous which is a requirement for
having everyone express their true beliefs and allegiances, absent of any group pressure.
I'm all for enhancing this with cryptographic signatures and a public ledger. Such that
everyone can validate their own vote and totals but not the one made by their spouse or
neighbor specifically.
That would bring us a lot closer to the proof you are asking for, because right now we got
none in either direction. Other than the media saying so and twitter banning you for daring
to post any questions.
Two trailing democract candidates brought to the lead at the same time and in the same
proprtion by mail-in votes that are 100% democrat – what are the odds? (~0% in a
straight election, ~100% in a bent election).
I would have the same view if the R and D attributions were reversed. The election was
fixed.
The main point is that the fraud is so evident. Multiple witnesses. Examination of two
machines. Not just a smoking gun with no witnesses. The government is too afraid to confront
it out of fear of backlash. The backlash from not doing anything will be worse. Democrats
keep wanting to unify now that Trump is out. They have done nothing but hinder him and our
country because of lies being levied against him. No doubt the man has flaws but that is not
justification for what they did during his presidency. And now the evidence of the steal.
Combine that with trying to remove him to keep him from running again The shit just keeps
getting deeper and deeper while they beg for unity. All of the sudden mayors across the
country are vowing to bring back law and order now that Trump is out. I could go on and on. I
cannot express how deeply the anger goes and it is not getting any better as Democratic
leaders continue with derogatory statements all of which are lies. This is classic bullying
and kicking someone who is down. It is truly a recipe for disaster.
A lawyer for Dominion held a press conference on Friday claiming that claims that the
allegations against them are "false."
"These false allegations have caused catastrophic damage to this company. They have
branded Dominion, a voting company, as perpetrating a massive fraud," Tom Clare, the attorney
representing Dominion, said in a press conference over Zoom. "Those allegations triggered a
media firestorm that promoted those same false claims to a global audience. They've made the
company radioactive and destroyed the value of its once thriving business and has put
Dominion's multiyear contracts in jeopardy."
Smartmatic has also said that they will be filing lawsuits against people who questioned
their technology and the "media outlets that gave them a platform."
To win the lawsuit, Dominion must prove that Powell was acting in "actual malice," and not
sincere belief that they helped to rig the election against the president.
I read the filing and THIS looks like read trouble for Powell. Unlike her incoherent
filings, Dominion methodically rips apart Powell's false claims and more importantly
establishes a timeline showing malicious intent which is the key in defamation. They show how
she knowingly repeated falsehoods when it would benefit her financially.
I haven't heard much about this charge being made by Maria Zack that an affidavit was
delivered yesterday concerning a whistleblower that allegedly was delivered to Kemp, Meadows.
It's about frankfurt and dominion software shenangians. I figured Lin Wood would know about
it if theres' anything here, but he's suspended from twitter.
"... A Twitter user named Joe Oltmann had tweeted a few screenshots of a Facebook user posting Antifa manifestos and songs about killing police. The Facebook account belonged to Eric Coomer, and Oltmann claimed it was the same Eric Coomer who is the Director of Product Strategy and Security for Dominion Voting Systems. Within hours of Oltmann posting the information, however, the Facebook page of Eric Coomer was taken down, so I was unable to verify that Antifa Coomer and Dominion Coomer were the same person. By the end of the day, Joe Oltmann's Twitter account was suspended as well. I had followed his feed throughout the day. I can say with certainty that he posted nothing remotely offensive or provocative. I have no doubt whatsoever that Twitter suspended him for posting the screenshots of Coomer's Facebook page. Interesting. ..."
"... Of course none of this proves any fraud took place, but we deserve some answers ..."
"... Having potentially tens of millions of people doubting results in a half-dozen different states thanks to the same company running machines in all of them is an unprecedentedly serious problem, whether or not their doubts are well-founded. ..."
"... platforms like Twitter and WordPress would do well to consider that censorship of people discussing Dominion and its employees is likely to have the opposite effect that they think it will ..."
"... in Georgia the voter signature validation was usurped for mail in ballots, allowing anyone with a mail in ballot to vote. ..."
"... There are ample undercover videos of union postal workers selling mail in ballots. ..."
"... The secretary of state usurped the law in Georgia, telling polling places to ignore the requirement to verify signatures of mail in ballots. The signatures are compared to the drivers license database. The democrats (Stacey Abrams) worked with the secretary of state to have such voting controls removed so the system could be easily frauded. ..."
"... if you think the cost of recounts is high, wait till you get a load of the cost of the electorate's lack of confidence in the election process. That cost will be measured in human lives. ..."
"... But the Russians! Not my President. Resistance. Years of investigations into gossip columnist Steele's paid report to the Democrats. ..."
Whether or not the company's machines were misused, it poses structural risks, and
suppressing criticism will make Trump supporters even more dubious
t is unlikely that many of the 73 million people who cast ballots for Donald Trump in 2020
will ever accept the legitimacy of his loss. Who could convince them? If the media sources
demanding Trump's concession held any sway with Trump's voters, they would not have been his
voters. They do not know for sure that the election was stolen, but they do know with apodictic
certainty that the media would lie to them if it was. So if Donald Trump says the election was
stolen, that's good enough for the Deplorables.
Yet even the President's most faithful must have flinched at his recent tweet accusing a
leading manufacturer of voting machines of committing election fraud on a mass scale.
It is hard to overstate the irresponsibility of broadcasting such a serious accusation
without proof. It shocked me, and my startle response has become pretty desensitized over the
last four years. Sure, it turned out Trump was right when he accused the Obama administration
of spying on his 2016 campaign, but this is different. Dominion Voting Systems is not staffed
with Obama appointees, after all. I decided to poke around a bit to see what, if anything,
could possibly be behind Trump's wild accusation.
A Twitter user named Joe Oltmann had tweeted a few screenshots of a Facebook user posting
Antifa manifestos and songs about killing police. The Facebook account belonged to Eric Coomer,
and Oltmann claimed it was the same Eric Coomer who is the Director of Product Strategy and
Security for Dominion Voting Systems. Within hours of Oltmann posting the information, however,
the Facebook page of Eric Coomer was taken down, so I was unable to verify that Antifa Coomer
and Dominion Coomer were the same person. By the end of the day, Joe Oltmann's Twitter account
was suspended as well. I had followed his feed throughout the day. I can say with certainty
that he posted nothing remotely offensive or provocative. I have no doubt whatsoever that
Twitter suspended him for posting the screenshots of Coomer's Facebook page. Interesting.
Searching around some more, I found that Dominion Coomer is an avid climber who used to post
frequently on climbing message boards under his own name. He confirmed it himself in a post
where he mentioned getting his nuclear physics Ph.D from Berkeley in 1997. Dominion's Eric
Coomer received his nuclear physics Ph.D from Berkeley in 1997. In another post on the same
message board, Coomer gave out his email address. It was his old campus address from the
Berkeley nuclear physics department. I plugged that email address into the Google machine, and
things got weird.
I found Eric Coomer had a long history of posting on websites for skinheads. He was a heavy
user of a Google Group for skinheads, and seems to have possibly been a content moderator for
papaskin.com. Only these aren't the neo-Nazis our mothers warned us about. These skinheads call
themselves SHARPs, or Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice. Think of them as a sort of punk rock
Antifa. In 2012, roughly 18 SHARPs attacked a smaller group of suspected racists in a Chicago
restaurant with bats and batons. That same year, three neo-Nazis were charged for the 1998
double murder of two SHARPs in Nevada.
Given that Dominion's Director of Security and Strategy, Eric Coomer, was an enthusiast of a
street fighting anti-racist skinhead culture going back at least into the 1990s, it seems very
likely that Joe Oltmann was correct in identifying him as the Facebook user recently endorsing
Antifa and posting anti-police rhetoric. I shared this information on a few message boards to
let other people run with it. Within hours, Papa Skin, a skinhead website which had been up for
over 20 years, was taken offline. (Whoever took it down missed the FAQ page, you can find it
here http://www.papaskin.com/faq/faqs.html ).
Of course none of this proves any fraud took place, but we deserve some answers. One need
only imagine if it was Joe Biden contesting the election results, and the Director for Strategy
& Security at a major voting machine provider turned out to be a Proud Boy with decades of
involvement in extremist, even violent, right wing political groups. Democrats would rightly
point out that this person endorses engaging in illegal behavior to achieve political goals.
They would ask how such a person ended up in such an important position of public trust, and
what it might say about the procedures in place to ensure Dominion's responsibilities are
handled in good faith.
Another reality of the Dominion fiasco, whether or not there was any fraud using its
machines, is the structural risk created by having the same company run machines in more than
two dozen states. If there were glitchy machines causing a dispute in one state, like
Democrats' claims about Diebold machines in Ohio in 2004, and even if that dispute led to
competing slates of electors, that is something the American political system has seen and
withstood before. Having potentially tens of millions of people doubting results in a
half-dozen different states thanks to the same company running machines in all of them is an
unprecedentedly serious problem, whether or not their doubts are well-founded.
Moreover, platforms like Twitter and WordPress would do well to consider that censorship of
people discussing Dominion and its employees is likely to have the opposite effect that they
think it will: Twitter bans, site removals, and wiping of bios from websites are only going to
make Trump's hardcore supporters think Dominion has something to hide. You can't make
disagreements go away by banning one side and pretending there is unanimity.
Darryl Cooper is the host of the MartyrMade podcast.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...
You may have to work on your awareness. And a full audit of the whole process is definitely a
lot more than some random spot.
The list you just linked showed that most states conduct routine audits of races.
The only states that don't seem to are deep red ones.
Spot audits are a valid way of discovering errors. If every state had to do full recounts for
every single race, the cost to taxpayers would be enormous and wasteful.
...Places like Georgia where Ds destroyed the system by actually eliminating audit... they just
run exactly the same fake ballots through they ran the first time... & they had a
'signature verification' & they didn't even turn the machine on.
There are three obvious methods of election fraud occurring in 2020
1) canvasing, where those canvasing voters holding mail in ballots are convincing them to
change their vote from republican to democrat, then paying them with what amounts to
trinkets. (flash light, pocket knife, tee shirt, those sorts of things)
2) Voting machine weighted votes, which occurs in republican heavy precincts using the Banzhaf Power Index. This system counts votes in decimals less than and greater than one for
each vote. An example would be weighting republican votes where each republican vote would
count 0.75, meaning 4 voters are necessary to achieve a vote of 3. (1.5 + 1.5 = 3), the
weighted scale increases as the number of votes increase. This is known as vote
redistribution. In essence a system such as this cold require(at 0.25) 200k republican votes
to equal 50k democrat votes
3) Mail in ballots which are rife with fraud of many types
That's not reality for SCOTUS. They don't make those kinds of rulings. What I would expect
from a majority opinion if they believed there was substantive fraud that was sufficient to
overturn the election results, would go like this: "Based upon the quantity and quality of
indicia for illegal ballots being counted, it is the opinion of the court that states X,Y,Z,
etc., cannot certify their election results based upon the election held on 3 NOV 20.
Accordingly, this case is remanded to the respective state legislatures for cure."
So what can the state legislatures do in accordance with Article II and the 12th
Amendment? They can try to do a revote, but that is nearly impossible given the time
constraints required by law. They can in many of these states appoint electors independently
of the vote held on 3 NOV 20. Keep in mind, not every state permits such a role for the
legislature. I don't see that happening, since the **perception** will be that they
disenfranchised all of the state's voters. The only logical outcome is all of those
respective states will not be able to certify their elections. As such, the 12th Amendment is
instructive here. At that point, Congress will decide who becomes president. This also
happened in the 1801 and 1825. Each state delegation gets exactly **one** vote. Since
republicans control 26 of the 50 state delegations, you can guess how that vote might
tilt.
Isn't that preciously what your radical Dem brothers and sisters are up to hoping to snag
the Senate via Georgia on Jan 4th so that a one party America exists indefinitely? You are
"projecting" what your ilk is actually hoping to accomplish. 'Jeepers', yeah jeepers is
right. Nice try though.
You may want to read the complaint and resulting law suit filed by Lin Wood related to
Georgia mail in ballots. It eliminates your assumptions with fact. Yes, in Georgia the voter
signature validation was usurped for mail in ballots, allowing anyone with a mail in ballot
to vote.There are ample undercover videos of union postal workers selling mail in ballots.
Further there are many cases where mail in ballots were requested then the voter showed up at
the polls to physically vote. The voter indicating they had never requested a mail in ballot.
Plenty of documented cases, all you need do is look past you keyboard and tater chip
bag...
The secretary of state usurped the law in Georgia, telling polling places to ignore the
requirement to verify signatures of mail in ballots. The signatures are compared to the
drivers license database. The democrats (Stacey Abrams) worked with the secretary of state to
have such voting controls removed so the system could be easily frauded.
Audits will work if cross auditing is randomly performed and auditors have the authority
to either close the polls or invalidate the poll count based upon their discoveries.
Austin Texas = Kelly Reagan Brunner who was working at a Supported Living Center for
senior citizens has been arrested and charged with more than 100 counts of voter fraud. (She
was canvassing and changing votes).
Erie county elections, Poll worker posts on twitter about him throwing out Trump
votes.
7 Wards in Milwaukee report more votes than actual registered voters
Republican poll watchers prevented from entering Detroit poll counting center. official
states COVID 19 as their reason.
MIT scientists find objective evidence of vote tallies being forced negatively away for
the statistical mean by vote software. This was discovered in several states.
And on and on and on .........a landslide of objective evidence.
I'll tell you what Prof., if you think the cost of recounts is high, wait till you get a
load of the cost of the electorate's lack of confidence in the election process. That cost
will be measured in human lives.
But the Russians! Not my President. Resistance. Years of investigations into gossip
columnist Steele's paid report to the Democrats.
How could anybody with a brain in their head have ever taken Steele seriously? OK, he did
speak to a Yank who was once a Russian.
There was also a news aggregator run by Russians just as there are others run by other
humans. Only racists think that free speech should be restricted to Yanks.
[email protected]
Have you not been paying attention? The Dems states threw all election safeguards/checks
and balances in the garbage like the USPS workers did, and some claim poll workers did. Experts have done audits of the voting in swing states/counties and found highly
improbable vote counts......So.......
"... From 4 November 2020, the day after the election, until he left office on 23 December, Attorney General William Barr did nothing about electoral problems. The DOJ could have started grand juries in multiple suspect states when anamolies began to appear the week of the election, but did zero. When President Trump nominated Barr on 7 December 2018, I was very surprised, because of some of Barr's prior legal positions and associations. But that is another story. ..."
"... At the time of the 2020 election, mail-in and absentee voting had been greatly expanded, which has led to massive problems and some discussion. But the biggest danger which has received little exposure in mass media is in electronic voting and counting machines. In an electronic voting machine, the hidden electronic processes become the ballot -- not "your ballot" -- and the tabulation of ballots is also done by hidden electronic processes. No audit trail is possible. If a machine prints out a receipt with a bar code on it, that is not a ballot and it cannot be part of an audit. An audit requires original documents and items for every step in a process. ..."
"... The voting machine companies like to say their computer software code is "proprietary" and cannot be made public, and the stupid state and local governments seem to go along with it. Even if software source code is revealed in secret to a state agency, it can be changed later to permit fraud, and the governments will not know it. ..."
"... The problem of electronic voting machines was started and promoted nationwide in 2002 by Congress in the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) [3]. It promised states federal tax money if the states would implement some of its laughable "standards". Around 2004 or so, a group in San Antonio talked to me about the machines and a legal case, and I drafted a lawsuit paper to file and obtained an expert witness. But then the county's governing body offered them some money to educate voters about electronic voting machines, and they decided to not proceed with a case. At that time, the county election administration had electronic machines, and a maintenance contract that was expensive, but nothing remotely like the racket that exists today. Electronic voting machines are big business. Georgia paid at least $100 million for the Dominion voting machines it used in the 2020 elections, and New Jersey may pay from $60 to $80 million dollars or more to update its voting machines [4]. ..."
"... Peter Navarro is an Assistant to President Trump and Director of the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy, where he has consistently tried to rebuild domestic manufacturing and jobs, and cancel existing bad policies that favored China over U.S. jobs and industry. He has written two excellent booklets about problems with the 2020 presidential election. "The Immaculate Deception: Six Key Dimensions of Election Irregularities", and "The Art of the Steal: Volume 2 of the Navarro Report" [5] ..."
"... Election management systems, starting with Diebold, were it appears, specifically designed to do just that; manage elections. That this started in the export market as a foreign policy tool and has now come home to roost is all too symptomatic of other such dark practices, such as the information warfare and PSYOPS we are seeing much in evidence in what is left of politics in America. The resultant corrosive effect on democracy is near terminal - how many Trump supporters will believe a Warnock win was fair? ..."
"... As of this writing it looks like the election theft system put in place in Georgia is working as planned to ensure a Uniparty victory for the Democrats. The GOP will of course blame Trump and his supporters and go back to rolling in the grift over to Landslide Joe and the woman who couldn't win a single delegate. ..."
When using electronic voting machines you do not vote. Election workers do not count the votes.
Everybody knows that a valid election has three parts: qualified, eligible voters are listed; an eligible voter expresses a legal
vote on a ballot; and the votes are counted accurately. For a small organization or club, this is easy. All the candidates and voters
are in one room and everybody knows everyone else. Each member writes the name of their choice on a piece of paper and folds it over,
the votes are put in a box, and then the votes are opened and counted in front of everybody. Everything is done in the same room.
A local, state, or national election has the same parts, but with many more voters, and voting and counting locations, it is spread
out over a much bigger area. Many things are a system, including your cardiovascular system [1]. But since an election as a system
is created by people, it is amateurish and simple compared to the sophisticated cardiovascular system. Despite its simplicity, there
is little or no "transparency", today's trendy term. Because of human nature and the money and authority available through a government,
an enormous incentive is created to rig and cheat in an election.
Documents attached to various lawsuits, other information, and the blocking of public examination of ballots and electronic voting
and counting machines are showing huge problems and fraud in the November 2020 general election in an amount that can affect the
result. But those with the authority to do the most the fastest are so far doing nothing, from the federal Department That Calls
Itself Justice (DOJ), to local District Attorneys.
The Attorney General and the U.S. Attorneys in the 94 federal districts have a lightening bolt in their hands. Federal grand jury
subpoenas are nationwide in scope. A grand jury does not just issue formal criminal charges, it can also investigate, under the age-old
rationale that "the public is entitled to every man's evidence". Unlike the FBI, which is required by policy to have a factual "predicate"
before it can open an investigation, a grand jury is in no way limited. The U.S. Supreme Court in 1992 made clear that "the grand
jury can investigate merely on suspicion that the law is being violated, or even because it wants assurance that it is not" [2]--
"The grand jury's functional independence from the Judicial Branch is evident both in the scope of its power to investigate criminal
wrongdoing and in the manner in which that power is exercised. Unlike [a] [c]ourt, whose jurisdiction is predicated upon a specific
case or controversy, the grand jury can investigate merely on suspicion that the law is being violated, or even because it wants
assurance that it is not. It need not identify the offender it suspects, or even the precise nature of the offense it is investigating.
The grand jury requires no authorization from its constituting court to initiate an investigation, nor does the prosecutor require
leave of court to seek a grand jury indictment. And in its day-to-day functioning, the grand jury generally operates without the
interference of a presiding judge. It swears in its own witnesses, and deliberates in total secrecy" [citations in this passage are
omitted].
From 4 November 2020, the day after the election, until he left office on 23 December, Attorney General William Barr did nothing
about electoral problems. The DOJ could have started grand juries in multiple suspect states when anamolies began to appear the week
of the election, but did zero. When President Trump nominated Barr on 7 December 2018, I was very surprised, because of some of Barr's
prior legal positions and associations. But that is another story.
At the time of the 2020 election, mail-in and absentee voting had been greatly expanded, which has led to massive problems
and some discussion. But the biggest danger which has received little exposure in mass media is in electronic voting and counting
machines. In an electronic voting machine, the hidden electronic processes become the ballot -- not "your ballot" -- and the tabulation
of ballots is also done by hidden electronic processes. No audit trail is possible. If a machine prints out a receipt with a bar
code on it, that is not a ballot and it cannot be part of an audit. An audit requires original documents and items for every step
in a process.
The voting machine companies like to say their computer software code is "proprietary" and cannot be made public, and the
stupid state and local governments seem to go along with it. Even if software source code is revealed in secret to a state agency,
it can be changed later to permit fraud, and the governments will not know it.
The problem of electronic voting machines was started and promoted nationwide in 2002 by Congress in the Help America Vote
Act (HAVA) [3]. It promised states federal tax money if the states would implement some of its laughable "standards". Around 2004
or so, a group in San Antonio talked to me about the machines and a legal case, and I drafted a lawsuit paper to file and obtained
an expert witness. But then the county's governing body offered them some money to educate voters about electronic voting machines,
and they decided to not proceed with a case. At that time, the county election administration had electronic machines, and a maintenance
contract that was expensive, but nothing remotely like the racket that exists today. Electronic voting machines are big business.
Georgia paid at least $100 million for the Dominion voting machines it used in the 2020 elections, and New Jersey may pay from $60
to $80 million dollars or more to update its voting machines [4].
Before the 2008 general election, I wrote an editorial about problems with electronic voting machines to the main newspaper in
Bexar County, Texas, which had a population at that time of about 1,622,899. It was accepted for publication, but then I was told
that a person higher up at the paper ordered it killed and that it not be published, because it was "too controversial".
Two years ago I wrote an article on the issue, emphasizing that the electronic machines were more of a problem than the hot issue
of the day, voter identification cards. But since then, I have changed my opinion because absentee and mail-in voting have greatly
expanded to the point where voter ID and verification is now just as big a problem as the electronic voting and counting machines
are.
Peter Navarro is an Assistant to President Trump and Director of the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy, where he has
consistently tried to rebuild domestic manufacturing and jobs, and cancel existing bad policies that favored China over U.S. jobs
and industry. He has written two excellent booklets about problems with the 2020 presidential election. "The Immaculate Deception:
Six Key Dimensions of Election Irregularities", and "The Art of the Steal: Volume 2 of the Navarro Report" [5]:
Congress is to meet on Wednesday, 6 January 2021 to count electoral votes from the meetings of the Electoral College on 14 December
2020. The National Archives is involved first [6]
"The Office of the Federal Register (OFR) is a part of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and, on behalf
of the Archivist of the United States, coordinates certain functions of the Electoral College between the States and Congress.
Acting as an intermediary, it reviews the Certificates of Ascertainment and Vote before Congress accepts them as evidence of official
State action in preparation for the counting of electoral votes in Congress".
The National Archives Internet website also has information from its work on the 2020 election, and links to the certificates
of each Electoral College meeting from the states [7].
Some members of Congress are posturing or squirming as problems with the election have not gone away in favor of business as usual.
But resistance on the big day of 6 January to voting fraud requires that the member put his or her name to a writing objecting to
the electoral votes from the six most problematic states: Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, and Nevada.
But under the cover provided by media publicity, the vapid statements of 12 Senators are loaded with mushy language. Senator Josh
Hawley (Repub. Missouri) says he will:
"... object to highlight the failure of some states, including notably Pennsylvania [but not others?], to follow their own
election laws .... He will call for Congress to launch a full investigation of potential fraud and election irregularities and
enact election integrity measures" [8].
Republican Senators Ted Cruz (Texas), Ron Johnson (Wisconsin), James Lankford (Oklahoma), Steve Daines (Montana), John Kennedy
(Louisiana), Marsha Blackburn (Tennessee), and Mike Braun (Indiana), and Senators-Elect Cynthia Lummis (Wyoming), Roger Marshall
(Kansas), Bill Hagerty (Tennessee), and Tommy Tuberville (Alabama) in their statement bloviate for 12 paragraphs before saying--
"Accordingly, we intend to vote on January 6 to reject the electors from disputed states as not 'regularly given' and 'lawfully
certified' (the statutory requisite), unless and until that emergency 10-day audit is completed" [9].
They then say,
"We are not naive. We fully expect most if not all Democrats, and perhaps more than a few Republicans, to vote otherwise".
Yes, you are not naive, but you are con-men and con-women. You declare that:
"Congress should immediately appoint an Electoral Commission, with full investigatory and fact-finding authority, to conduct
an emergency 10-day audit of the election returns in the disputed states. Once completed, individual states would evaluate the
Commission's findings and could convene a special legislative session to certify a change in their vote, if needed".
So, Senator Ted Cruz et. al. You think you are going to set up a commission, after detailing in writing its "investigatory and
fact-finding authority", and carefully audit the "election returns" in the form of millions of votes. All in 10 days, by the 20th
of January.
And you 12 bulls**t artists said an audit would be only of "election returns", and would not include a forensic examination of
thousands of electronic voting machines, when so far their manufacturers, along with governors and state election officials, have
constantly worked to block any examination or monitoring of them. In case you Senators do not know it, computer software on an electronic
voting machine operates secretly with zero transparency.
U.S. Representative Mo Brooks (Repub. Alabama) stepped up to the plate and has been in the forefront challenging the election
results and the resulting Electoral College votes. He has said that more than 36 members of the House have signed to dispute the
voting results in the six states in question.
Brooks then exposed the 12 strutting senators plus Senator Kelly Loeffler (Repub. Georgia) as snakes in the grass, since as of
the time of his writing, only three have actually signed onto an objection, and that was to only one state apiece and not to all
six states: Cruz has objected to Arizona, Hawley has objected to Pennsylvania, and Loeffler has objected to Georgia [10].
The only solution is for all votes to be on paper ballots that are counted by hand, and for Congress to repeal the Help America
Vote Act.
The subject known as industrial engineering deals with designing the physical actions that are to be used to do a particular task.
The military and intelligence agencies have developed procedures to create, handle, and transmit information in a secure way. High
resolution cameras are now inexpensive with multiple features and can be used in vehicles [11]. You can carefully select a print
shop to print the ballots, with controls and cameras to monitor their placement at polling places.
These resources can create a legitimate paper-based election system, and will not cost $100 million or more for electronic machines
for one state.
The German Constitutional Court declared electronic voting machines illegal in March 2009 [12].
Congress is the culprit pushing and providing money to promote electronic voting machines starting with the HAVA law in 2002.
Politicians and bureaucracies do not want to admit they were wrong or made a mistake.
When electronic voting machines are used, voters no longer mark their ballots. Local election officials no longer count them.
Devices created and programmed out of public view do it. No genuine recount or audit is possible. Any fraud is undetectable, or almost
so after a time-consuming examination.
The perfect crime, except it is not a crime.
It is all legal, or so the U.S. Congress has tried to say.
And no voting procedures -- including the use of electronic voting and counting machines -- were changed before the runoff elections
for two U.S. Senators in Georgia on 5 January.
A few things still trouble me that don't appear in any later dicussions of this topic, including this very good one:
The fact just about every other European country and other industrialized nations now prohibit 'electronic voting" in their
federal elections, due to inherent ability to corrupt outcomes. Claims "electronic voting" undermines election integrity and thereby voter trust. Which they seem to value more than the US.
Hilary Clinton's recovered email around the time of the Haiti earthquake where she touts the use of Dominion Voting Systems
to someone else, because she assured them they provide "very happy results".
An excellent post Mr Willmann. I wholeheartedly agree with your views on electronic vote counting, the words "voting" and "machine"
must be separated, for good.
Election management systems, starting with Diebold, were it appears, specifically designed to do just that; manage elections.
That this started in the export market as a foreign policy tool and has now come home to roost is all too symptomatic of other
such dark practices, such as the information warfare and PSYOPS we are seeing much in evidence in what is left of politics in
America. The resultant corrosive effect on democracy is near terminal - how many Trump supporters will believe a Warnock win was
fair?
As your personal experience attests, interest in free and fair elections can be trumped by cold hard cash. And rather than
be innocently unaware of the implications of introducing electronic voting, at least some state authorities seem to have been
suspiciously desperate to get systems put in with no regard for conducting the appropriate due diligence.
The "much bigger area" you describe is a logistical headache, but last I checked liberty wasn't easily achieved. In the recent
Federal elections I am reading that this area may extend out all the way to Rome. More on that will come out soon perhaps.
I too was puzzled by Barr & the DOJ's inaction wrt evident widespread election fraud...
As of this writing it looks like the election theft system put in place in Georgia is working as planned to ensure a
Uniparty victory for the Democrats. The GOP will of course blame Trump and his supporters and go back to rolling in the
grift over to Landslide Joe and the woman who couldn't win a single delegate.
Is Mitch McConnell a shadow lobbyist for Dominion?
Notable quotes:
"... In July, McConnell blocked two bills, one that would provide $775 million to "bolster election security," along with requiring a physical paper trail of every single ballot cast in the country, and a second that would mandate political candidates, their staff members, and their families, to notify the FBI if any foreign government offered to assist them. ..."
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) quashed two election integrity bills in July
last year after receiving thousands in donations from Dominion lobbyists.
In July, McConnell blocked two bills, one that would provide $775 million to "bolster
election security," along with requiring a physical paper trail of every single ballot cast in
the country, and a second that would mandate political candidates, their staff members, and
their families, to notify the FBI if any foreign government offered to assist them.
On Wednesday during a
hearing in front of Georgia State Senators, inventor Jovan Pulitzer testified that his team
found a polling location in Fulton County, GA, that was connected to the internet so they were
able to hack into the Dominion Voting machines system and take over the poll pad and establish
a two way communication of sending and receiving data. All this was happening in real-time
while Mr. Pulitzer was testifying.
Poll locations are not supposed to have internet access. The polling site in question is
being used for the current Georgia Senate runoff elections so this confirms that the runoff is
connected to the internet. It appears that the Georgia Senate runoff elections are rigged just
like the 2020 election. Are you okay with this? Stay tuned!
The problem with the indisputable evidence isn't that it's being disputed. It's being
blatantly ignored. We are losing our country, our middle class and our freedom because truly
evil people are not being forced to follow the laws.
"Most secure election ever" unless there is a smart thermostat in the room... or any
wireless device... oh and the USB slots on the side of the machines... and then there is the
free downloadable version of the code we used to program the machines... and the instructions
on how to hack our machines on numerous websites... But other than that this is the most
secure election ever.
There was a guy that testified a while back about the claim that these machines are not
connected to the internet. I don't remember his name, which state, or anything like that.
Just that he was on via a zoom call. Anyhow, this guy said that on election night there was a
machine that wasn't working properly because it was coded to the wrong location or precinct.
The poll Supervisor called support which i believe he said was in Colorado. They were able to
remote into the computer & fix it. An internet connection must be present for remote
support. The guy even had a print out record of the call.
Less than a month before the election, a Swiss bank that is 75 percent owned by communist
China
forked over $400 million in cash to Staple Street Capital, the parent company of Dominion
Voting Systems.
Dominion, which operates electronic voting machines in 28 states, has been the
subject of election fraud inquiries and lawsuits alleging that the machines and their
software switched, altered and deleted votes on behalf of Joe Biden.
As first reported by
Infowars , an SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) filing from Oct. 8 shows that
Staple Street Capital received $400 million "with the Sales Compensation Recipient identified
as UBS Securities." Back in Dec. 2014, $200 million was received by Staple Street Capital from
the same source.
... ... ...
In other words, UBS Securities is a 100 percent Chinese-owned corporation, and it gave
nearly half a billion dollars to a company that runs most of America's elections, just days
before the most contested and obviously fraudulent election in American history.
1. As a Graphic Designer with a degree, I didn't understand why so many ballots were spit
out as unreadable by the voting machines on November 3rd. But after watching Jovan Pulitzers
testimony today in Georgia I now completely understand. Let me explain..
2. As a graphic designer all elements/layers of my design must line up in order to print
on the paper properly. Otherwise it can put out blurred images on the final product at the
printing shop. The printing machines follow something put on my art/documents
3. called "Registration Marks". Every student in Graphic Designer in college is stressed
that these are never to be off or you are wasting the printers time and the clients time.
Which is very bad, graphic designers get fired for this.
4. Back in the old days when we did this work by hand it was easy to make these mistakes,
before the computers I'm dating myself here because that's when I started before computers.
Now I design everything on computers that go to a printer.
5. On computer software, say photoshop for example, we no longer make these mistakes
because the software sets all registration marks electronically every time in every layer of
our art/document. In Mr. Pulitzers testimony he points out that
6. the Registration Marks (he called bullseye/target) are not lined up in the
predominantly Republican areas voters voting papers. And he shows you that the Democratic
areas voters voting papers are perfectly accurate Registration Marks. See below
7. You can see the Republican areas voter documents were off on the Registration Marks.
Very off. Because these are documents meant to be scanned by a counter, those bad
Registration Marks will toss the document out as uncountable.
8. Why was this print run allowed to proceed? Any print manager would have seen this in
the printers proof and rejected the print run. How did the Registration Marks get
misaligned?
9. Who printed these ballots? I have more that a few questions for them, like who designed
these Republican areas ballots? Why weren't they corrected? Why are the missing barcodes on
the Democrat ballots? I can think of many more questions. I bet you can too.
10. I bet I'm not the only Graphic Designer out there today to make this connection
finally to the tabulation machines rejection rates now.
11. Jovan Pulitzer's testimony today if you want to watch.
Looks like Sidney Powell overplayed her hand with her Hugo Chavez claims and might pay the
price... They also attack her penchant for self-promotion.
This is a solid legal document that attack exaggerations and false claims and as such it puts
Sydney Power on the defensive. But at the same time it opens the possibility to analyze Dominion
machines and see to what extent votes can be manipulated, for example by lowest sensitivity of
the scanner for mail-in ballots and then manually assigning votes to desirable candidate. This
avenue is not excluded.
It also does not address the claim of inherent vulnerabilities of any Windows based computer
used in election, irrespective whether they were produced by Dominion or any other company due to
the known vulnerability of windows OS especially to the intelligence agencies attacks. As
well as the most fundamental question: whether the use of computers in election represents step
forward or the step back in election security? Especially Internet connected voting machines and
centralized tabulation centers deployed in 2020 elections.
So the success here depends whether they can narrow the scope tot ht claims made and avid
discovery of the voting machines themselves.
The weak point is that the letter references the testimony of Chris Krebs, who is a former
Microsoft employee and as such has a conflict of interests in accessing the security of Windows
based election machines produced by Dominion and other companies. Moreover he is now a computer
science processional but a lawyer, who does not has any independent opinion on the subject matter
due to the absence of fundamental CS knowledge required.
Notable quotes:
"... For example, you falsely claimed that Dominion and its software were created in Venezuela for the purpose of rigging elections for the now-deceased Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez, that Dominion paid kickbacks to Georgia officials in return for a "no-bid" contract to use Dominion systems in the 2020 election, and that Dominion rigged the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election by manipulating votes, shifting votes, installing and using an algorithm to modify or "weight" votes such that a vote for Biden counted more than a vote for Trump, trashing Trump votes, adding Biden votes, and training election workers to dispose of Trump votes and to add Biden votes. ..."
"... Fifth, you had a financial incentive in making the defamatory accusations. Your own conduct and statements at the press conference, media tour, and on your websites make it clear that you were publicizing your wild accusations as part of a fundraising scheme and in order to drum up additional business and notoriety for yourself. ..."
Sidney Powell Defending the Republic 10130 Northlake Blvd. #214342 West Palm Beach, Florida
34412
Re: Defamatory Falsehoods About Dominion
Dear Ms. Powell:
We represent US Dominion Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiaries, Dominion Voting Systems,
Inc. and Dominion Voting Systems Corporation (collectively, "Dominion"). We write regarding
your wild, knowingly baseless, and false accusations about Dominion, which you made on behalf
of the Trump Campaign as part of a coordinated media circus and fundraising scheme featuring
your November 19 press conference in Washington, D.C. and including your "Stop the Steal" rally
and numerous television and radio appearances on -- and statements to -- Fox News, Fox
Business, Newsmax, and the Rush Limbaugh Radio Show, among others.
... ... ...
I. Your reckless disinformation campaign is predicated on lies that have endangered
Dominion's business and the lives of its employees.
Given the sheer volume and ever-expanding set of lies that you have told and are continuing
to tell about Dominion as part of your multi-media disinformation "Kraken" fundraising
campaign, it would be impractical to address every one of your falsehoods in this letter.
Without conceding the truth of any of your claims about Dominion, we write to demand that you
retract your most serious false accusations, which have put Dominion's employees' lives at risk
and caused enormous harm to the company.
For example, you falsely claimed that Dominion and its software were created in
Venezuela for the purpose of rigging elections for the now-deceased Venezuelan dictator Hugo
Chavez, that Dominion paid kickbacks to Georgia officials in return for a "no-bid" contract to
use Dominion systems in the 2020 election, and that Dominion rigged the 2020 U.S. Presidential
Election by manipulating votes, shifting votes, installing and using an algorithm to modify or
"weight" votes such that a vote for Biden counted more than a vote for Trump, trashing Trump
votes, adding Biden votes, and training election workers to dispose of Trump votes and to add
Biden votes.
By way of example only, just last week, you made the following false assertions about
Dominion to Jan Jekielek at The Epoch Times:'
Effectively what they did with the machine fraud was to, they did everything from
injecting massive quantities of votes into the system that they just made up, to running
counterfeit ballots through multiple times in multiple batches to create the appearance of
votes that weren't really there. They trashed votes.
These statements are just the tip of the iceberg, which includes similar and other false
claims you made at your Washington, D.C. press conference and to other media outlets with
global internet audiences. Your outlandish accusations are demonstrably fake. While soliciting
people to send you "millions of dollars"2 and holding yourself out as a beacon of truth, you
have purposefully avoided naming Dominion as a defendant in your sham litigations-effectively
denying Dominion the opportunity to disprove your false accusations in court. Dominion values
freedom of speech and respects the right of all Americans-of all political persuasions -- to
exercise their First Amendment rights and to disagree with each other. But while you are
entitled to your own opinions, Ms. Powell, you are not entitled to your own facts. Defamatory
falsehoods are actionable in court and the U.S.
Supreme Court has made clear that "there is no constitutional value in false statements of
fact." Gertz v. Welch, Inc., 418 U.S. 323, 340 (1974). Dominion welcomes transparency and a
full investigation of the relevant facts in a court of law, where it is confident the truth
will prevail. Here are the facts:
1. Dominion's vote counts have been repeatedly verified by paper ballot recounts and
independent audits.
Dominion is a non-partisan company that has proudly partnered with public officials from
both parties in accurately tabulating the votes of the American people in both "red" and "blue"
states and counties. Far from being created to rig elections for a now-deceased Venezuelan
dictator, Dominion's voting systems are certified under standards promulgated by the U.S.
Election Assistance Commission ("EAC"), reviewed and tested by independent testing laboratories
accredited by the EAC, and were designed to be auditable and include a paper ballot backup to
verify results. Indeed, paper ballot recounts and independent audits have repeatedly and
conclusively debunked your election-rigging claims, and on November 12, 2020, the Elections
Infrastructure Government Coordinating Council and the Election Infrastructure Sector
Coordinating Executive Committees released a joint statement confirming that there is "no
evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way
compromised" and that the 2020 election was the most secure in American history.3 The Joint
Statement was signed and endorsed by, among others, the National Association of State Election
Directors, National Association of Secretaries of State, and the U.S. Cybersecurity &
Infrastructure Security Agency ("CISA") -- then led by a Trump appointee, Chris Krebs.
In addition, your false accusation that Dominion rigged the 2020 election is based on a
demonstrably false premise that wildly overstates Dominion's very limited role in elections.
Dominion provides tools such as voting machines that accurately tabulate votes for the
bipartisan poll workers, poll watchers, and local election officials who work tirelessly to run
elections and ensure accurate results. Dominion's machines count votes from county-verified
voters using a durable paper ballot. Those paper ballots are the hard evidence proving the
accuracy of the vote counts from Dominion's machines. If Dominion had manipulated the votes,
the paper ballots would not match the machine totals. In fact, they do match. Recounts and
audits have proven that Dominion did what it was designed and hired to do: accurately tabulate
votes.
2. Dominion has no connection to Hugo Chavez. Venezuela, or China.
As you are well aware from documents in the public domain and attached to your court
filings, Hugo Chavez's elections were not handled by Dominion, but by an entirely different
company -- Smartmatic. This is a critical fact because you have premised your defamatory
falsehoods on your intentionally false claim that Dominion and Smartmatic are the same company
even though you know that they are entirely separate companies who compete with each other.
Dominion was not created in or for Venezuela, has never been located there, and is not owned by
Smartmatic or Venezuelan or Chinese investors. Dominion has never provided machines or any of
its software or technology to Venezuela, nor has it ever participated in any elections in
Venezuela. It did not receive $400 million from the Chinese in the weeks before the 2020
election or otherwise. It has no ties to the Chinese government, the Venezuelan government,
Hugo Chavez, Malloch Brown, George Soros, Bigfoot, or the Loch Ness Monster. Dominion does not
use Smartmatic's software or machines, and there was no Smartmatic technology in any of
Dominion's voting machines in the 2020 election.
3. You falsely claimed that Dominion's founder admitted he "can change a million votes,
no problem at all" and that you would "tweet out the video later''-- but you never did so
because no such video exists.
During at least one of your many media appearances, you promised to "tweet out [a] video" of
Dominion's founder admitting that he "can change a million votes, no problem at all." Your
assertion -- to a global internet audience -- that you had such damning video evidence
bolstered your false accusations that Dominion had rigged the election. Yet you have never
produced that video because, as you know, it does not exist. Dominion's founder never made such
a claim because Dominion cannot change votes. Its machines simply tabulate the paper ballots
that remain the custody of the local election officials -- nothing more, nothing less. 4. You
falsely claimed that you have a Dominion employee "on tape" saving he "rigged the election for
Biden''-- but you know that no such tape exists. In peddling your defamatory accusations, you
also falsely told a national audience that you had a Dominion employee "on tape" saying that
"he rigged the election for Biden." Your own court filings prove that no such tape exists. In
them, you cited an interview of Joe Oltmann, a Twitter- banned "political activist" who -- far
from claiming he had that shocking alleged confession "on tape"-claimed he took "notes" during
a conference call he supposedly joined after "infiltrating Antifa." This is a facially
ludicrous claim for a number of reasons, including the fact that he lives in Colorado, where it
would have been perfectly legal to record such a call if it had actually happened. As a result
of your false accusations, that Dominion employee received death threats.
II. Because there is no reliable evidence supporting your defamatory falsehoods, you
actively manufactured and misrepresented evidence to support them.
Despite repeatedly touting the overwhelming "evidence" of your assertions during your media
campaign, every court to which you submitted that socalled "evidence" has dismissed each of
your sham litigations, and even Trump appointees and supporters have acknowledged -- including
after you filed your "evidence" in court, posted it on your fundraising website, and touted it
in the media -- that there is no evidence that actually supports your assertions about
Dominion. Indeed:
One federal judge observed that you submitted "nothing but speculation and conjecture
that votes for President Trump were destroyed, discarded or switched to votes for Vice
President Biden." Op. & Order Den. Pl.'s Emer. Motion, for Deck, Emer., and Inj. Relief
at 34, Whitmer v. City of Detroit, No. 20-cv-12134 (E.D. Mich. Dec. 7, 2020) [Dkt. 62].
Another federal judge commented that the attachments to your complaint were "only
impressive for their volume," are "largely based on anonymous witnesses, hearsay, and
irrelevant analysis of unrelated elections," and include "expert reports" that "reach
implausible conclusions, often because they are derived from wholly unreliable sources."
Order at 24-25, Bowyerv. Ducey, No. 2-20-cv-02321 (D. Ariz. Dec. 9, 2020) [Dkt. 84].
Despite your claim that you have so much "evidence" that it feels as if you are drinking
from a "fire hose," when asked by your interviewers and other media outlets to provide that
evidence, you have failed to do so each and every time. Conservative television host Tucker
Carlson even called you out for failing to provide any evidence to support your
assertions.4
After you put the purported "evidence" in your court filings, Trump loyalist and U.S.
Attorney General Bill Barr stated, "There's been one assertion that would be systemic fraud
and that would be the claim that machines were programmed essentially to skew the election
results. And the DHS and DOJ have looked into that, and so far, we haven't seen anything to
substantiate that."
... ... ...
Fifth, you had a financial incentive in making the defamatory accusations. Your own
conduct and statements at the press conference, media tour, and on your websites make it clear
that you were publicizing your wild accusations as part of a fundraising scheme and in order to
drum up additional business and notoriety for yourself. Your financial incentive and
motive to make the defamatory accusations is further evidence of actual malice. See Brown v.
Petrolite Corp., 965 F.2d 38, 47 (5th Cir. 1992); Enigma Software Grp. USA, LLC v. Bleeping
Computer LLC, 194 F. Supp. 3d 263, 288 (S.D.N.Y. 2016).
Sixth, you cannot simply claim ignorance of the facts. As a licensed attorney, you were
obligated to investigate the factual basis for your claims before making them in court.
31 There is no factual basis for your defamatory accusations against Dominion and
numerous reliable sources and documents in the public domain have repeatedly debunked your
accusations. As such, you either conducted the inquiry required of you as a licensed attorney
and violated your ethical obligations by knowingly making false assertions rebutted by the
information you found, or you violated your ethical obligations by purposefully avoiding
undertaking the reasonable inquiry required of you as a member of the bar. Either is additional
evidence of actual malice.
Taken together, your deliberate misrepresentation and manufacturing of evidence, the
inherent improbability of your accusations, your reliance on facially unreliable sources, your
intentional disregard of reliable sources, your preconceived storyline, your financial
incentive, and your ethical violations are clear and convincing evidence of actual malice. See
Eramo v. Rolling Stone, 209 F. Supp. 3d 862,872 (W.D. Va. 2016) (denying defendant's motion for
summary judgment and finding "[ajlthough failure to adequately investigate, a departure from
journalistic standards, or ill
A security director at Dominion Voting Systems , the company
charged by many of playing a role in 'rigging' the US election via voting machines, is suing
the Trump campaign and several conservative news outlets.
Eric Coomer has filed
suit , claiming he has received death threats stemming from the accusations that Dominion
helped sway the election in Joe Biden's favour.
The defamation suit identifies the Trump campaign, as well as Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell,
and the conservative news organisations Gateway Pundit, Newsmax, and One America News Network
(OANN).
The suit also personally targets conservative talking heads Michelle Malkin and Joseph
Oltmann.
Mr Coomer has been identified as the individual referred to by Oltmann as "Eric from
Dominion" in
statements made to OAN and other conservative outlets regarding alleged bragging to Antifa
activists about making sure Trump wasn't going to get re-elected:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/qZ_ks_sNITg
The lawsuit states that Mr Coomer has been made "the face of false claims" in relation to
Dominion's alleged influence over the election.
The suit further states that photos of Coomer, as well as his home address and personal
family details have been made public by some pro-Trump websites.
Mr Coomer has stated that "I've worked in international elections in all sorts of
post-conflict countries where election violence is real and people are getting killed over it.
And I feel that we're on the verge of that."
In an
op-ed posted by the Denver Post , Coomer declared that he has "no connection to the Antifa
movement" and "did not 'rig,' or influence the election."
The lawsuit comes on the
heels of a similar threat of legal action by voting machine company Smartmatic, which has
issued legal notices to Fox News, OAN and Newsmax, accusing the networks of a "campaign [that]
was designed to defame Smartmatic and undermine a legitimately conducted elections."
The legal notice is also said to have specifically named Fox News hosts Lou Dobbs, Jesse
Watters, and Maria Bartiromo, and indicates that Smartmatic could pursue legal action against
them personally.
Dominion itself has not yet issued any legal notices to media outlets. It has, however,
sent a letter to Sidney Powell , demanding she retract some "wild and reckless" allegations
she has made about them. 43,247 272 NEVER MISS
GoldHermit PREMIUM 9 hours ago
Can't wait for the discovery phase
BaNNeD oN THe RuN 8 hours ago
Exactly, it is very unlikely that the cheating occured at the machine stage since a manual
recount would prove the machine's error.
Cheating was done at the ballot level. The data clearly suggests it happened.
Trump supposedly got 11 million more votes in 2020 than in 2016.
Clinton 2016 - 65,853,677
Biden 2020 - 81,284,778 (+15.4mm)
Total Votes 2016 - 137,143,218
Total Votes 2020 - 158,537,765 (+21.4mm)
The data strongly suggests that both teams cheated and that the Democrats were simply the
better cheaters this time.
That is a meritocracy of sorts, right?
Gerrilea 7 hours ago
NO, the ballots AND the machines. The "recounts" have not happened...not legitimately.
BaNNeD oN THe RuN 7 hours ago
A manual recount happened in Georgia and confirmed the machine result
All the reports of the cheating in Georgia involve mail in ballots or boxes of ballots
counted after the R scrutineers had left.
WedgeMan 7 hours ago remove link
Liar. They did a count using a sample of the ballots and got different number from the two
machines because the software had been replaced with the cheating software.
MoreFreedom 8 hours ago
That's why he'll drop the suit. Imagine if people filed lawsuits against Democrats because
their affidavit of election fraud caused people to make death threats against them. They
claim such suits are without merit.
Just read the Antrim Country Forensics Report on Dominion Voting System. It's just a
computer with software, that can be changed during an election (and was in at least one
documented case) over the internet by anyone in the world with administrative access to the
machines or servers.
HowdyDoody 5 hours ago (Edited) remove link
2017 - Voting machines are easily hacked - CNN report
It should be interesting to see how the systems were secured during those 3 years.
Edit:
" The legal notice is also said to have specifically named Fox News hosts Lou Dobbs, Jesse
Watters, and Maria Bartiromo, and indicates that Smartmatic could pursue legal action against
them personally. "
This smacks of lawfare. Interestingly (((The Only Democracy In The Middle East))) excels
at that (via Shurat HaDin) - partly in response to attempts to hold it to account. From wiki
(yeah, I know)
"The NGO Forum of the 2001 Durban Conference (31 August 2001 - 8 September 2001) called
for the "establishment of a war crimes tribunal" against Israel."
For some reason, that appears to have gone nowhere.
As for Croomer, there is very little background. He says "I've worked in international
elections in all sorts of post-conflict countries where election violence is real and people
are getting killed over it." - That sounds straight out of CIA/USAID organised US regime
change ops.
MoreFreedom 8 hours ago (Edited) remove link
I agree, but it would be great if it does go to court.
Mr Coomer has stated that "I've worked in international elections in all sorts of
post-conflict countries where election violence is real and people are getting killed over
it. And I feel that we're on the verge of that."
Looks like Dominion is a favorite of "post-conflict countries were election violence is
real and people are getting killed". Note the contradiction between "post-conflict" and
"people are getting killed". Croomer wants to say his machines are the favorite of
"post-conflict" law abiding countries but it seems his machines go to where political
violence occurs as a result of crooked elections of despots, or leads to it. Quite an
endorsement for election fraud IMHO.
Just read the Antrim County Forensics Report on Dominion Voting System. As an IT guy, my
reading is that Croomer will lose his lawsuit, which is why he'll drop it later. You may not
have even read in the MSM, that Antrim county did 3 counts of the electronic ballots on 3
different days, and got 3 different results. And no one may have made it clear to you, that
68% of these ballots filled out on electronic screens were flagged as needing to be
adjudicated, and they were adjudicated and likely changed by someone with sufficient
authority (an administrative user on the system) but the logs have been removed so we don't
even know who did it. Did you hear the Dominion voting systems were connected to the
internet? Did you know that some Dominion employee changed voting software via the internet
during the elections? The MSM wants to keep it quiet. FEC guidelines are that no more than
0.008% (1 of 250,000) should require any adjudication. And did you read the Antrim county, a
reliably GOP country, initially had Biden winning on the first count, but in actuality it
went to Trump?
I'd like to see Dominion defending against Trump's lawyers and explain how their systems
work (which they don't, claiming it's a closed system) and how fraud is prevented. The report
states:
We conclude that the Dominion Voting System is intentionally and purposefully designed
with inherent errors to create systemic fraud and influence election results.
Max21c 8 hours ago (Edited)
Vote out any voting machine company that is not open source and does not make it's code
available well in advance of the election... and do it worldwide... (fawk the CIA and British
Gestapo)... let the bums in the secret police pick better behaved puppets and make the CIA
puppets better govern...
As long as the voting machines are not open source then they are an enigma machine and
it's the jeopardy of Pandora's box being opened in numerous elections afterwards over charges
and suspicions of election fraud...
Open source for the kernel... open source for all the kernel modules... open source for
all the firmware on all the chips, ic's and boards... open source for the higher level
applications... et cetera... all the board changes and firmware changes recorded and posted
publicly per notice of the change and available for scrutiny and all the "software patches
and upgrades" also recorded and posted publicly per notice of the change.. make the changelog
available...
source code + the compiler and linker and all the compiled code and all the libraries,
header files, and other files... turned over in advance... and any changes thereafter also
turned over...the whole shabang... nothing concealed and nothing held back...
donkey_shot 8 hours ago (Edited)
eric "from dominion" coomer who bragged openly about "taking care of the elections" is
suing fox, oan and newsmax?
these people know no shame...and are obviously as dumb as rocks, too.
can`t wait for sidney powell and/or lin wood to take up the case and rip this guy
another.
NAV 8 hours ago remove link
To trust that justice will be done via America's stacked judicial system is like a Russian
trusting in Stalin's judicial system. That is why Coomer is suing; he's been assured the
DeepState has his back. All that stands now between American patriots and freedom is their
guns.
Other than President Trump, no one cares enough about America to protect it . So why are
we spending $1,000 billion annually to defend ourselves from alleged foreign threats when
there is no defense against our country's theft by the ruling Establishment and woke Democrat
identity politics ideologues? Why vote Republican when the party does not defend us?
The journalist Katerina Blinova writing in Sputnik International captured the meaning of
the stolen presidential election. Democrats are turning America into a "
one-party system ".
If the Democrats succeed in stealing the Georgia senatorial seats as well, which is likely
given the absence of protection against electoral fraud, they will rapidly move to
consolidate one-party dictatorship.
... ... ...
Trident5000 5 hours ago remove link
Fact: Nobody has even audited Dominion code because they claim IP protection.
JosephJohnson 9 hours ago
It is very good that Dominion is suing! --For the legal "facts discovery" process and
accompanying legal investigations involving such a lawsuit will be awesome to have revealed
in court! The defense will surely bring out some very interesting facts concerning voter
fraud with the Dominion machines. Let the lawsuits begin.
propaganda4u 9 hours ago
Not to mention all payments to and from politicians and Dominion.
Sinophile 9 hours ago remove link
" Mr Coomer has stated that "I've worked in international elections in all sorts of
post-conflict countries where election violence is real and people are getting killed over
it. And I feel that we're on the verge of that."
This guy is unbelievable.
skippy dinner 4 hours ago remove link
You have missed a step.
If A merely alleges that B cheats on his taxes, nothing happens.
But if B sues for defamation , then that puts the onus on B to prove he is squeaky clean.
*Then* A gets the powers of discovery on B's tax filings.
Suing for defamation is a dangerous game. Rich and famous people have done time for
perjury - e.g. famous novelist and politician Geoffrey Archer.
Hail Spode 8 hours ago
Notice that Dominion as a company did not file the suit, only an employee of the company.
And not over the issue of whether their machines and software can, by design, be used to rig
an election. Only over the issue of what he said on a particular occasion.
IOW Dominion is still acting guilty and this still would not open the door to
discovery.
Freddie 7 hours ago remove link
The new thing I saw online was the Dominion machines have a wireless card built in that
can connect to the Internet via wi fi to the thermostat in an office building. No need to
have a Cat 5 cable plugged into a router. It goes Wi Fi to the building thermostat that is wi
fi.
So Dominion is claiming that they have no relationship at any time and in any way
what-so-ever with the CIA or any other intelligence agency or secret police agency of any
country? And they have no ties to any political party and are so super squeaky clean they
should be selling soap? Matter of fact they're so super squeaky clean Proctor & Gamble is
afraid of them and may have to pay consideration to Dominion to keep them out of the consumer
and industrial soap markets.
2banana 9 hours ago
They are trying to keep this lawsuit very narrow with the Antifa focus.
Lawsuits have wide discovery data requests with pretty severe consequences for not
delivering the requested data.
Dominion's top engineer assured Antifa activists that he had "made f**king sure" that
President Donald Trump wouldn't win the presidential race, according to reports.
Dominion Voting Systems' Vice President of U.S. Engineering Eric Coomer allegedly spoke
with Antifa members on conference calls and reportedly assured the other participants by
saying:
"Don't worry about the election, Trump's not gonna win. I made f**king sure of that!"
Dominion Voting Systems is one of the largest voting technology companies in the United
States.
Eric Coomer's profile as director at Dominion Voting Systems was recently scrubbed from
their website...
Hopefully for him he was honest with his attorneys so they could give him the best
possible advice. It would be a shame for him to get blindsided in the discovery process.
snatchpounder PREMIUM 9 hours ago
Excellent, dominion just opened the door and the *** ******* they're going to get will be
hilarious.
jayman21 PREMIUM 9 hours ago
Hope you are right. We need a functioning gov't more than ever. Doubt they will get what
they deserved until the sheep start to wake up en mass ~40% would due the trick.
FakeScience PREMIUM 8 hours ago
In a fair justice system maybe. I'd bet money that it goes before a Soros funded judge who
doesn't allow any discovery by the defendant and only accepts evidence by Dominion.
snatchpounder PREMIUM 8 hours ago
Yes the court system is thoroughly corrupt so it's going to be hard to find a judge who
isn't a bought and paid for Soros hack.
Cactus52 9 hours ago
Time for Discovery. They do realize the defendant is allowed to do this
Jung 10 hours ago
So why can they do this, while the MSM is hardly ever sued for their malicious, defamatory
fake news? Are they really afraid of the owners of the MSM? It would be one of the ways to
get rid of the endless propaganda and censorship.
Here's what Coomer had to say to his "friends" on Facebook on July 21, 2016, who are Trump
supporters (language editted):
Facebook friend land- open call-
If you are planning to vote for the autocratic, narcissistic, fascists, a$$-hat blowhard
and his Christian jihadist VP pic, UNFRIEND ME NOW!
No, I'm not joking.
I'm all for reasoned political discourse and healthy debate- I'm looking at you ( 3
names of friends).
I disagree with you three on many philosophical grounds but respect your opinions.
Only and absolute F**KING IDIOT could ever vote for that wind-bag f**k-tard FASCIST
RACIST F**K!
No bulls**t, I don't give a damn if you're friend, family, or random acquaintance, pull
the lever, mark an oval, touch a screen for that carnival barker -- UNFRIEND ME NOW.
I have no desire whatsoever to ever interact with you.
You are beyond hope, beyond reason. you are controlled by fear, reaction, and bulls**t.
Get your s**t together.
Oh, it that doesn't persuade you, F**K YOU! Seriously, this f**king a$$-clown stands
against everything that makes this country awesome!
You want in on that? You deserve nothing but contempt.
ableman28 6 hours ago
Just because people who don't like trump have facts on their side, boo hoo. We have belief
and that is much stronger than reality. Let those courts hear the suit and if Sydney loses
big deal. What are they going to do, disbar her and seize her assets to pay the other sides
legal fees and judgement.
"Yes, my son, that is exactly what is going to happen."`
naro 6 hours ago
Why doesn't the Trump reelection office announce a $10 million reward and a full pardon
for any Dominion insider who can provide evidence of rigging of the machines to favor
Democrats?
Decimus Lunius Luvenalis 10 hours ago
Personally, I thought the voting systems fraud were pretty big with little, if any, direct
evidence. Powell claimed to know the algorithm but we never saw it. That said, truth is an
affirmative defense to a defamation claim, and discovery goes both ways.
Itchy and Scratchy 10 hours ago remove link
The software is probably long since erased and the audit trails destroyed. They will find
nothing.
Constitutional Attorney Matthew DePerno is an American hero. Two weeks ago, Michigan 13th Circuit Court Judge Kevin A Elsenheimer
agreed to allow Mr. DePerno's client, William Bailey, and a highly skilled team of IT experts to perform a forensic examination
on 16 of the Dominion voting machines in Antrim County, MI. On Monday, Judge Elsenheimer agreed to allow the results of the
forensic examination to be released to the public. The results were damning.
After the forensic examination of 16 Dominion Voting machines in Antrim, Co., MI, Allied Security Operations Group has concluded
that the Dominion Voting machines were assigned a 68.05% error rate. DePerno explained that when ballots are put through the
machine, a whopping 68.05% error rate means that 68.05% of the ballots are sent for bulk adjudication, which means they collect
the ballots in a folder. "The ballots are sent somewhere where people in another location can change the vote," DePerno
explained. The allowable election error rate established by the Federal Election Commission guidelines is 1 in 250,000 ballots or
.0008%.
Based on the Allied Security Operations report, Constitutional Attorney Matthew DePerno states: "we conclude that The Dominion
Voting System should not be used in Michigan. We further conclude that the results of Antrim County should not have been
certified.
The stunning report was widely criticized by the Democrat Party mainstream media and by the dishonest Secretary of State Jocelyn
Benson and Attorney General Dana Nessel
Yesterday, The Detroit News announced that AG Nessel is planning to seek sanctions against lawyers "who pushed to overturn
Michigan's election results."
Sanctions sought against lawyers who pushed to overturn Michigan's election
Attorney General Dana Nessel said she plans to seek sanctions against lawyers who filed lawsuits against the sta
"It is unfathomable that licensed attorneys would deliberately file false and misleading affidavits and pleadings with the Court
in an effort to disenfranchise millions of Michigan residents," Davis said. "Not only should these individuals and their
attorneys be assessed financial sanctions, but they also should be barred from practicing in the federal courts in the Eastern
District of Michigan."
While Nessel didn't mention the names of lawyers she may pursue sanctions against, she indicated that those who filed later,
after the initial allegations had been assessed and denied immediate relief, were more culpable.
She said she could file against a lawyer associated with a case challenging Antrim County results and false statements he made on
Newsmax and OANN. Matthew DePerno filed the case in Antrim County on behalf of resident William Bailey.
"I think we need to go back to a time where you can trust an attorney is making an accurate and truthful representation to the
court because if they don't, then they won't be able to practice law anymore," Nessel said.
DePerno responded to MSNBC's far-left producer Kyle Griffin who tweeted the article by the Detroit News, that DePerno refers to
as a "hit piece." In his response to Griffin, DePerno wrote: "Thanks Kyle for showing us what fascism and state run media look
like. #Fascism #totalitarianism
Earlier today, Mr. DePerno appeared on the popular Frank Beckmann radio show on WJR (760 AM) where he explained how his law
license is now being threatened by Michigan's far-left AG Dana Nessel.
DePerno called on MI Democrat AG Dana Nessel to "resign," saying she violated her oath of office with these threats. He called
her out for "thuggery" and told the WJR host that in "his opinion" she is "acting like a fascist." DePerno also calls out Nessel
for threatening MI lawmakers with criminal prosecution who dared to challenge the validity of the election results in MI.
Nessel, who is anything but warm and fuzzy, shared a videotaped public service announcement in which she appears wearing an
elf-like costume while wearing a witch-like hat on her head. For many in Michigan who are disgusted by her totalitarian tactics
and threats against those with whom she disagrees, the witch hat is the perfect choice for their overreaching AG.
2020 - Voting machines are totally secure. It should be interesting to see how the systems were secured during those 3 years.
Edit:
" The legal notice is also said to have specifically named Fox News hosts Lou Dobbs, Jesse
Watters, and Maria Bartiromo, and indicates that Smartmatic could pursue legal action against
them personally. "
This smacks of lawfare. Interestingly (((The Only Democracy In The Middle East))) excels at
that (via Shurat HaDin) - partly in response to attempts to hold it to account. From wiki
(yeah, I know)
"The NGO Forum of the 2001 Durban Conference (31 August 2001 - 8 September 2001) called for
the "establishment of a war crimes tribunal" against Israel."
For some reason, that appears to have gone nowhere.
As for Croomer, there is very little background. He says "I've worked in international
elections in all sorts of post-conflict countries where election violence is real and people
are getting killed over it." - That sounds straight out of CIA/USAID organised US regime change
ops.
President Donald Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani tells Newsmax TV his team can prove their allegations of voter
fraud, but the governors of the contested states won't allow access to their voting
machines.
Appearing Monday on "Spicer & Co.," Giuliani, career
prosecutor and onetime mayor of New York City, told host Sean Spicer that the Trump team needs
to prove only 10,000 contested votes in Arizona.
"Don't you think it's going to be pretty easy to show 10,000 noncitizens voted in Arizona?"
he said. "Give me the names of the people who voted and run them against a Lexis-Nexis" search,
he said. "I'll come up with 40,000 noncitizens."
"Nor will they let us look at the machines," he said. "If they didn't cheat, Sean, why won't
they let us examine the machines? Why does the governor of Georgia continue to hold onto the
machine the city paid $110 million for, and he refuses to let us examine them?
If President-elect Joe Biden doesn't want a cloud on his presidency, he should encourage an
examination of the machines, Giuliani said.
"There's no reason to go beyond anything that this election was a theft. It could be
proven," Giuliani said. "I can tell you one simple thing that would prove it make the American
people feel really good. Five or six of these crooked governors could let us have access to the
machines. In fact, if they did, maybe I would have to apologize for saying they're
crooked."
Gateway Pundit staff was first told by Michigan witness Senator Patrick Colbeck in early
November that the routers and WiFi connectors were used throughout the TCF Center during the
ballot counting on election night.
Crash
GIVE THEM NOTHING @CrashPatriot ·
Dec 16, 2020 What a joke @BlessUSA45 "Most Secure Elections In US HISTORY" and then when
pressed HE ADMITS - I was not referring to FRAUD !!!!
Troy @LibertyTroy Dems said vote machines were never on the Internet. BOOM Senator
Johnson: "...but those tabulators are connected on Election Day 'cause that's how they transmit
the data to the counties and also into the official -- uhm --" Krebs: "In some cases, yes,
sir."
The Dominion Voting Systems website has
removed the link and reference for SolarWinds from their platform .
It seems that the Dominion Voting Machines are trying to hide their relationship with
SolarWinds. SolarWinds has been the center of conspiracy since the past few days after the big
hack. The Dominion Voting Systems are being criticized for using a technology
firm that was hacked. These voting systems assist voting in 28 states, therefore being
attached to a technology firm that was hacked is not good for its name.
Dominion Voting
Systems website removes SolarWinds link
Previously, SolarWinds did not mention Dominion on its partial customer listing. However,
SolarWinds
maintained that their products and services are used all over the globe by approximately
300,000 customers. This customer base also includes all five arms of the United States
Military. Reports also indicate that 425 of the customers happen to be United States Fortune
500 companies.
The loophole in the security system of SolarWinds software paved the way for hackers to gain
access to the U.S. Commerce Department as well as the Treasury Department. The Department of
Homeland Security's Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Agency (CISA) stated that the Orion
products owned by SolarWinds were exploited by malicious hackers who managed to secure access.
The method employed by hackers also allowed them to gain access to the network traffic
management systems.
In the last few weeks, Dominion has attracted attention due to how widespread its systems
and machines are in the United States. Dominion machines are used in major states of the United
States. A number of witnesses have come forward to claim that Dominion products were connected
to
the Internet during the recent presidential election, raising doubts about security
mechanisms.
The reason why Dominion Voting Systems removed the link and reference of SolarWinds from
their website is unknown. However, if one connects the dot the reason is obvious. Dominion did
not want to be associated with a technology firm that was hacked
when it is already facing accusations regarding its security systems. Disclose.tv today
tweeted , "NEW –
Dominion Voting Systems deleted the link and reference to @solarwinds from its website."
Crucial Logs Missing From Some Michigan Dominion Voting Machines: Forensics Report BY
TYLER DURDEN MONDAY, DEC 14, 2020 - 12:44
Update (1225ET) :
The Epoch Times' Ivan Pentchokov reports that crucial security and adjudication logs are
missing from Dominion
Voting Systems machines from Michigan's Antrim County, according to a forensics report (
pdf )
released on Dec. 14 in compliance with a court order.
"Significantly, the computer system shows vote adjudication logs for prior years; but all
adjudication log entries for the 2020 election cycle are missing. The adjudication process is
the simplest way to manually manipulate votes. The lack of records prevents any form of audit
accountability, and their conspicuous absence is extremely suspicious since the files exist
for previous years using the same software," the report, authored by Russell Ramsland,
states.
"We must conclude that the 2020 election cycle records have been manually removed."
The absence of the adjudication logs is particularly alarming because the forensic exam
found that the voting machines rejected an extraordinary number of ballots for adjudication, a
manual process in which election workers determine the ultimate outcome for each ballot.
The office of Michigan's Democrat Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, Dominion, and a
spokesman for Antrim County didn't respond to requests for comment.
* * *
As Sara Carter of SaraACarter.com detailed earlier, a Michigan
judge ordered the public release Monday of a report submitted by lawyers supporting
President Donald Trump and the election fraud allegations they say will reveal serious
concerns that the computer machines used in the voting in Antrim County were compromised. The
forensic report allegedly contains data that will reveal that the computer systems used to vote
in the county were not secure and had foreign components that made them susceptible to
manipulation and or fraud , according to those directly familiar with the case.
Michigan's Assistant Attorney General Erik Grill, representing
Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, immediately shot back against the release of
the report, which President Donald Trump supporters say raises significant questions of voter
fraud and implications to the U.S. national security.
He suggested that the report being released is "inaccurate, incomplete and misleading,"
according to the
Detroit News.
"There's no reason to hide," said Grill, during a virtual court hearing Monday
morning.
"There is nothing to hide."
However, lawyers and computer experts working to expose what they say is a serious threat to
U.S. security and infrastructure say the report will reveal the irregularities in the data and
external foreign interference in the system.
The legal team "submitted the forensics report to the Judge (Sunday) at 8:30 a.m. per the
Judge's request," stated a source familiar with the report.
According to sources, who spoke to me this weekend the forensic
report of the computer system reveals that there are serious national security implications
to the evidence discovered because "the election system is categorized as critical
infrastructure, this is a threat to, it is a national security concern."
The lawsuit was initiated by Antrim County resident William Bailey. Circuit Judge Kevin
Elsenheimer, a former Republican lawmaker, allowed Allied Securities Operation Group and Bailey
to take forensic images of the county's 22 tabulators and review other election-related
material to ensure election integrity.
The forensic analysis has been under protective order. It could not be released prior to the
Judge's decision Monday, when Elsenheimer ordered the release with some redactions.
Antrim County has roughly 23,000 residents and the discovery that roughly 6,000 votes cast
using the Dominion Voting Systems that should have gone to President Donald Trump went to Joe
Biden without explanation triggered the ongoing investigation by Trump supporters.
The bizarre explanation that a failure to update voting software led to Joe Biden initially
receiving those thousands of votes ahead of Trump in the Republican-leaning county wasn't
accepted by the majority of Trump supporters, nor many of the Michigan GOP>
If the forensic report is accurate on the irregularities, as well as other issues of alleged
fraud regarding the Dominion Voting Systems used in XX states across the country, it may
snowball to other state legislatures requesting audits of their systems as well.
"when ballots are put through the machine, a whopping 68.05% error rate means that 68.05% of
the ballots are sent for bulk adjudication,...the ballots are sent somewhere where people in
another location can change the vote"
In his lawsuit, Matthew DePerno claims that based on the evidence they have provided to the
court that Dominion Voting Systems "committed material fraud or error in this election so that
the outcome of the election was affected."
At 5:30 PM on Friday, December 4, 13th Circuit Court Judge Kevin A. Elsenheimer granted
permission to William Bailey and his team of IT experts to conduct a forensic study of the 16
Dominion voting machines, tabulators, thumb drives, related software, and the Clerk's "master
tabulator." In his court order, Bailey was also granted the ability to conduct an independent
investigation of the images they obtained in their examination. According to DePerno, it would
take approximately 6 to 8 hours to obtain the forensic copies, and it made sense to do the work
on the weekend when most government employees and residents would not be in the building.
Matthew DePerno was able to quickly assemble a team of seven highly trained forensic IT
experts who agreed to arrive the next day (Saturday) to conduct the forensic examination.
Following Judge Elsenheimer's order for the forensic examination of the Dominion Voting
machines, the unelected Township Administrator Peter Garwood informed Mr. Bailey that he would
not allow the machines to be accessed until Monday at 11:00 am. DePerno explained that Garwood
also contacted Dominion officials and suggested they come to the Antrim County building where
the court-ordered examination was to take place. As a result, DePerno and his client, William
Bailey, were tasked with ensuring that the Dominion equipment inside the Antrim County building
wouldn't be tampered with before the team's arrival. According to DePerno, Garwood was told by
several elected county commissioners to stand down and allow the examination to take place over
the weekend. A group of patriots from northern Michigan answered Mr. Bailey's call for help.
For two days and nights, in freezing cold weather, the group of brave, volunteer patriots stood
ready and willing to protect the precious sanctity of our vote. On Sunday morning, the
seven-people IT forensic team arrived; Mr. Bailey and his attorney Matt DePerno were given
access to the county building and started gathering the forensic evidence. Shortly after the
collection began, Antrim County Administrator Peter Garwood began to take photos of the seven
IT experts. When one of the IT team members saw him taking photos of them, they demanded
Garwood delete them from his phone. According to DePerno, Garwood reluctantly deleted them.
While he couldn't say for certain, DePerno believes Garwood was attempting to dox the
highly-skilled IT forensic experts. Several photos of Mr. DePerno's vehicle were taken by
outside protesters as well.
Here's the first fornesic proof of Dominion Voting algorythmic voter manipulation. It
doesn't look like much (37 vote switch in Georgia's smallest county) but since nobody is
getting access to the machines or software, and state voting commissions are hurrying to
erase existing data - it's the first proof the Powell/Wood allegations.
Perfect example of peter principal on steroids with splash gender bias.
However with such examples of CIA leadership as Brennan, Pompeo perhaps it is past time CIA
was disbanded.
Biden is supposedly looking for a replacement. Tom Donilon was lined up, but he passed on
the offer and it seems the Biden team are looking at other options. Trump himself was mulling
to replace her only a few weeks ago. She's out the door one way or another.
I saw a report published yesterday that she is "intimately involved" with Abrams and
Pompeo in clandestine operations against Iran in Trump's remaining weeks in office.
The officials say Trump has been more passive in overseeing Iran policy and point to Pompeo
and Iran envoy Elliot Abrams as the two advisors heading the last-ditch effort to hammer
the Islamic Republic. The officials say both Pompeo and Abrams are in favor of quietly
backing covert actions carried out by other actors. One official said CIA Director Gina
Haspel has been "intimately involved" in the administration's clandestine strategy against
Iran.
Snopes is pretty well known as another left wing "fact" checker.
The founders are Democrat activists.
Are there any so-called "fact" checkers that are not left wing?
Politifact obviously gets their "facts" from Schumer and Pelosi press releases.
I only care what "Snopes" is saying because this is what the Bubble is hearing and
believing. To be forewarned is to be forearmed.
Snopes for, some reason, has already "gotten ahead" of this rumor - so even that is
interesting. Not that they are accurate, but that they are out there running defense and are
even expanding the topic ( gratuitously debunking election fraud and German raid for bonus
points ) for whatever in fact is their own agenda.
No, these links were not presented for their truth; just for the wider discussion since
the other side puts a lot of credence in them for their own purposes. Brain-washing the
"progressive set" with dismissive denials is part of their agenda. Which personally bugs me.
So I put their weapons of diversion on the table up front.
Snopes is most definitely a part of the perception management apparat. Along with several
others who get prime Google News real estate to tell the sonambulent sheep what to think.
"12. A search of indivisible.org network showed a subdomain which evidences the existence
of scorecard software in use as part of the Indivisible (formerly ACORN) political group for
Obama" (page 9)
Maricopa County GOP
chairwoman Linda Brickman on Nov. 30 testified before members of the Arizona State Legislature that she personally
observed votes for President Donald Trump being tallied as votes for
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden when input into Dominion
machines.
Brickman, the GOP head of one of the country's largest counties and a veteran county
elections worker, submitted her testimony in a sworn affidavit under penalty of perjury. She
testified that she and her Democratic partner witnessed "more than once" Trump votes default
and shift to Biden when they were entering votes into Dominion machines from ballots that
couldn't be read by machines.
She alleged that she was later threatened by election supervisors at the Maricopa County
Tabulation and Election Center (MCTEC) for speaking out about what she had witnessed.
" I observed, with my Democratic partner, the preparation of a new ballot, since the
original one was soiled, or wouldn't go through the tabulators. I read her a Trump Republican
ballot, and as soon as she entered it into the system, the ballot defaulted on the screen to a
Biden Democratic ballot, " Brickman told GOP Arizona State legislators on Monday.
She remarked that when she reported the issue to election supervisors, others in the room
also commented that they had "witnessed the same manipulation."
"We were never told what, if any corrective action was taken," Brickman continued. " All I
know is the next day, I was called outside the room that I was working in for signature
verification by a supervisor who said, 'I understand you caused some problems this week and you
thought our machines were not working correctly.'
"I was told at that point in time that I could not discuss anything or talk about what was
going on.
" Many people were threatened ," Brickman told the hearing. "They were told that their
voices would be suppressed, they would have to leave the room and not work there again. I'm
here because I think this is our duty to speak the truth."
Lt General Thomas McInerney and Lt General Michael Flynn gave interviews to WVW Broadcasting
Network today. It was Flynn's first interview since his pardon.
In stunning testimony, McInerney stated his sources have told him U.S. Army Special Forces,
possibly the famed Delta Force, raided the CIA-run server farm in Frankfurt, Germany.
5 soldiers were killed in the ensuing firefight, as well as one CIA paramilitary; the CIA
personnel were allegedly flown in from Afghanistan for security, according to related news
reports.
Subsequent review of the secured servers yielded proof that China, Iran, and Russia were
involved in the attempted coup against President Donald Trump, who will be shown to have won an
overwhelming victory for the American people, McInerney revealed.
"These people have committed treason," declared McInerney. He pleaded with President Trump
to not leave office until the treason is uncovered, otherwise America will be fatally wounded
and ripe for takeover by our enemies.
McInerney also stated that he believes President Trump knew the steal was coming, hence his
executive order issued for sanctions for interference in our elections by foreign powers.
According to his bio, McInerney was a forward air controller and fighter pilot during the
Vietnam War and had flown 407 combat missions during his four tours of duty. In other words, a
patriot and trustworthy.
Reports are now circulating that General Flynn is involved in helping the President with a
private intelligence operation. (
Click to Source )
The 57-year-old multimillionaire also appeared on several podcasts, including a November
23 appearance in which he said: "I'm a free agent, and I'm self-funded, and I'm funding this
army of various odd people," according to the
Daily Beast .
"It's really going to make a great movie someday," he added.
Byrne claims he's funding teams of "hackers and crackers" who realized all the way back
in August that Dominion voting machines could be used to steal the election from Trump .
Since the election, those voting machines have figured prominently in Trump supporters'
allegations of fraud, despite the company's repeated denials and any actual proof the
voting tallies were changed. -
Daily Beast
Byrne says he's been communicating with former Trump attorney Sidney Powell for weeks -
who last week
filed two lawsuits in Michigan and Georgia alleging massive schemes to rig the election
for Joe Biden.
According to Powell's Georgia lawsuit: "Old-fashioned ballot-stuffing" has been "
amplified and rendered virtually invisible by computer software created and run by domestic
and foreign actors for that very purpose," adding that "Mathematical and statistical
anomalies rising to the level of impossibilities, as shown by affidavits of multiple
witnesses, documentation, and expert testimony evince this scheme across the state of
Georgia."
In Michigan, Powell claims that "hundreds of thousands of illegal, ineligible, duplicate,
or purely fictitious ballots" enabled by "massive election fraud" facilitated Biden's win in
the state.
The suit claimed that election software and hardware from Dominion Voting Systems used by
the Michigan Board of State Canvassers helped facilitate the fraud.
Speaking to Christopher McDonald of The McFiles in a recent interview, the former head
of a $200 billion e-commerce company that has never once gotten hacked revealed that
Dominion Voting Systems were used to perform a "Drop and Roll" technique of voter fraud
that slyly padded the vote for Biden in at least five key swing areas of the country.
Atlanta, Detroit, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, and Maricopa County, Arizona (Phoenix) were
all rigged prior to election day to strip President Trump of his rightful win in each of
these states. Byrne also mentioned Clark County, Nevada (Las Vegas) as another election
fraud locale, though this one was more secondary.
According to Byrne, who is not a supporter of President Trump but rather a "small l"
libertarian, these five (or six if you include Clark County) areas are where a bulk of the
election fraud took place. It did not have to be widespread because these were the key
swing areas that Biden needed to "win" in order to steal the election.
" By cheating those five counties, you flip five key states, you flip the electoral
college, " Byrne says. " In places where Trump lost by 10,000, there may be 300,000 fake,
illegal votes for Biden. So this isn't even close. "
He further contends that the election systems that govern elections in America "are a
joke," especially those run by Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic software.
* * *
Is Byrne's 'army' Sidney Powell's research team?
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MadameDeficit , 4 hours ago
Do you really believe she was a Russian guns rights activist?
Doom Porn Star , 2 hours ago
Does it matter what I think about Butina? What matters is what I think about Byrne.
WHY did the FBI / DOJ need Byrne to spy for them?
What did Byrne get out of it? We may not know who Butina was working for; but, we sure
do know who Byrne said he was working for.
Trump did NOT get money for speeches in Russia. -Bill Clinton did.
Trump did NOT get money from the wife of the Mayor of Moscow. -Hunter Biden did.
Trump did NOT sell off Uranium assets in the USA to Russian businessmen. -Hillary
Clinton did.
Trump Jr. did NOT get a high paying no show gig @ Bursima. -Hunter Biden did.
"In a strange, post-Mueller twist, the conviction of Maria Butina , the redheaded gun
nerd and
unregistered Russian agent , has led to the resignation of a prominent e-commerce
executive. On Thursday, Overstock.com
CEO Patrick Byrne announced
that he would step down from the company he founded, days after
releasing a bizarre statement describing his involvement with Butina, the "Deep State,"
"Men in Black," and Russian-linked "political espionage" campaigns against Hillary Clinton
and Donald Trump. In a
letter to shareholders, Byrne lamented that his continued presence at the company "may
affect and complicate all manner of business relationships."
"While I believe that I did what was necessary for the good of the country, for the good
of the firm, I am in the sad position of having to sever ties with Overstock, both as CEO
and board member," Byrne
said in the statement. The company's stock price had plummeted
more than 40% in the days after Byrne first revealed his participation, earlier this
month, in what he called a "political espionage" case involving Russia. Following his
resignation, the company's market capitalization soared
more than 8% .
It was an ignominious end for Byrne, a celebrity in Libertarian circles, whose
labyrinthine involvement in the Russia scandal is difficult to verify. In an
interview with journalist and Fox News contributor Sara Carter published last month,
Byrne said he had been approached by Butina at FreedomFest in 2015, and came to suspect
that she might be a Russian agent. Byrne reached out to the FBI to share his concerns, but,
he said, was told to carry on with the relationship and report back. Over the next three
years, he and Butina had a sporadic intimate relationship.
The story gets weirder from there. Byrne said he came to have doubts about his
"nonstandard" relationship with the FBI and the intelligence community. He told Carter that
he believed he "was being used in some sort of soft coup" against Trump. (Butina's lawyer
confirmed the two had a relationship, while the Department of Justice said it could not
comment.)
It wasn't until Byrne appeared on Fox Business
Network, about two weeks later, that investors got spooked. Byrne claimed to have turned
over evidence of a conspiracy involving Clinton and Trump. "I think we're about to see the
biggest scandal in American history," Byrne told host David Asman. "Everything you think
you know about Russia and Clinton investigations is a lie.... it was all political
espionage. I think [Attorney General William Barr ] has gotten to the bottom of it."
"
SO, Patrick Byrne the Deep State tool is back with another bombshell?
What happened to the last bombshell?
ALL Byrne has done so far is get in bed with the FBI / DOJ Russiagate team and get a
Russian woman he was ckufing sent to prison and deported.
MadameDeficit , 2 hours ago
It's definitely a strange situation and relevant in terms of Byrne's potential
motivation, but who she was working for is the most important question.
The whole thing reeks of Deep State entrapment so...I'll give him the benefit of the
doubt for now.
Misesmissesme , 7 hours ago
So sad, that with all this evidence, a private citizen has to go to these lengths
because Barr and Wray are so far in the pockets of the deep state.
"There are many questions that are currently unanswered but there is one fact:
IF military personnel were killed by the CIA,
THEN the civil war between the people, the Deep State (and by extension, Russia, China
& Iran) has started."
Doom Porn Star , 7 hours ago
Patrick Byrne wasn't a free agent when he helped the FBI send Russian guns rights
activist Maria Butina to prison as part of the RussiaGate hysteria that was initiated by
Hillary Clinton to discredit and villainize Trump.
littlewing , 7 hours ago
Barr is a Bushie.
Go watch the Bush Sr. funeral again and the cards they got during.
Watch Biden get a card too, because the Bush Dynasty was both parties.
Clinton, Obama were also part of it.
Carter wondering why he didn't get one, turns to his wife and she didn't get one.
Notice Pence gets a card too, he is part of it.
Notice **** Cheney very aware of what is happening.
Dave Janda who worked in GHW Bush admin said he was a really bad guy and was involved in
human trafficking too.
Sick Monkey , 6 hours ago
The boards on these machines are quite simple like a phone. They were reset asap along
with any server data.
Nothing to see here unless operators are complete idiots. You need one of the boards to
check for wireless device maybe but I doubt it.
One of Gulliani's witnesses said he witnessed usb dives inserted 24 times without proper
chain of custody.
That's about as close as anyone will get to anything useful on the hardware.
Son of Loki , 7 hours ago
Dominion execs testified in Congress twice their machines could easily be hacked. Given
the data we have so far, there is zero probability that Biden won with legal votes.
Someone Else , 6 hours ago
This is all catching on like wild fire for many people. Sadly not for many others. If
you watch MSM (if you must) they still preface everything with "without evidence" and
"baseless". We know that simply isn't the case but a lot of people who hear this enough
believe it.
This is sewing discord between us who know and those kept in the dark. And its going to
get real ugly. It's a crime what the MSM is doing. Almost like programming mindless
soldiers with the WRONG program.
Doom Porn Star , 7 hours ago
Patrick Byrne, former CEO of Overstock.com , is an FBI stooge. He set up Maria Butina as
part of the RussiaGate disinfo campaign.
Leftsmasher , 6 hours ago
570,000 Pennsylvania votes For Biden in two hours in the early morning is not "slyly"
when the machines count 3000 per hour.
Ceickets feom Barr, busy getting ready for his next gig.
ze_vodka , 4 hours ago
At this point, we all need to realize that the election was entirely fake... and that
they are never going to let the fraud be pulled back.
There are two choices left:
1. Accept their dystopian future for us Deplorables (across the globe, not just the
USA)
2. Start doing something about it... start small and locally.
Onthebeach6 , 7 hours ago
The IT evidence is now overwhelming and I imagine it will be explained in detail to each
of the Legislatures.
If Biden stood down now it might save the Democrats but I doubt Xi would contemplate the
suggestion.
johnny two shoes , 7 hours ago
Of course that daily beast article frames it differently-
Former Overstock.com CEO Patrick
Byrne left behind a cloud of confusion when he
resigned in 2019 from the internet retailer he'd founded after panicking investors with
his bizarre claims that he had romanced a Russian agent at the behest of "Men in Black"
working for the United States government.
Now he's back...
but it's noteworthy that the narrative has been breached at the daily beast- that Trump
might be able to prove fraud.
philipat , 6 hours ago
It's a bit late for hackers isn't it? The machines are already off-line and probably
already wiped in most cases ('in compliance with standard operating procedures").
MAYBE, the CIA machines seized in the DOD raids in Frankfurt and Barcelona might confirm
"intervention" but we're running out of time. We'll see. Very soon.
philipat , 6 hours ago
He's also dodgier than a 3 Dollar Bill and has a VERY chequered past with allegations of
CIA involvement. It should be of concern that he is involved/
SurfingUSA , 7 hours ago
You know who could SERIOUSLY use a donation, since Matt Braynard also seems well-funded,
as well as Sidney Powell. Is Right Side Broadcasting, the ONLY outfit that is covering the
PA & AZ Legislative hearings.
We need an accurate, trustworthy voting system, no matter whether both "major" parties
are a fake uniparty and both candidates suck.
ReadyForHillary , 7 hours ago
And all results must be open to full audit by independent parties. Otherwise, no
deal.
Machines, code, ballots, signatures, everything. Individuals should be able to go online
and check that their vote (or lack thereof) is accurate.
B52Minot , 7 hours ago
I am surprised as others about the silence of Barr....and Durham....two folks who should
be all over this sorted and corrupt elections in which the Dem-China folks STOLE the
election....and the evidence is THERE yet the Feds are so SO silent......makes no
sense...and even Trump is wonder where they are when these folks work for HIM. Either Trump
is play acting and the Barr/Durham folks are presenting something HUGE or their sense of
defending our Republic and Constitution from these thieves is beyond distorted...it would
be so SO un-Patriotic and un-American......Either they are silent doing God's work to
defend this Country(and will show it soon) or they truly have lost their faith in this
Great Nation.
Doom Porn Star , 35 minutes ago
I'm quite familiar with DeepCapture.
Byrne has been kvetching about Overstock being being the target of naked short selling
and such for years. Old news. He's supposed to have plenty of money. I guess they didn't
short his stack or he figured out how to hedge his position.
IMO, the guy is limited hangout or diversion/disinfo.
He quarterbacks for the swamp. Then he doesn't?
Known for running a successful honeypot trap for the Deep State.
Walking around with almost as much money as Jeffery Epstein?
So there were skirmish between DIA and CIA and some people got hurt, if we are to believe
this guy. Are some retired US generals engage in some kind of disinformation compaign ?
Lt Gen McInerney reported that US Special Forces 305 battalion attacked CIA server farm in
Germany in server seizure operation. 5 soldiers and 1 CIA service member were allegedly
killed during the operation.
Allegedly, the specialized software like Hammer and Scorecard was used on this facility.
Hammer and Scorecard were created by the U.S. intelligence contractors and could be used to
interfere in the U.S. presidential election in 2020.
"But the important thing is they identify China, Iran and Russia as being involved in
this and manipulating the votes. In addition, the U.S. special forces command seized a
server in Frankfurt, Germany, because they were sending this data from those five states or
six states through the internet to Spain, and into Frankfurt, Germany. Special operations
forces seized those facilities. So they have those servers. They know all the data they
were providing."
Lt. General Michael Flynn claimed in his first interview since President Trump's
pardon:
"Everything that we are experiencing right now actually is more that just an assault on
President Trump. This is an assault on the American Republic."
Roberta M @BertmcdRm ·
Nov 28
Replying to @TheSharpEdge1 and
@5sahandful Incredible, isn't
it?!?! I've spread the word about this video all day. I hope everyone who has heard this, keep
retweeting it as much as possible! Scary stuff, if Biden succeeds! America is indeed, on the
Brink!!! George Papadopoulos
@GeorgePapa19 "I think there is probably something in the emails concerning George
Papadopoulos that maybe have her name in it," -- Senator Grassley On why CIA director Haspel is
refusing to release the documents the President ordered to be declassified. RDS Koffi @das_koffi · 16h Replying to @GeorgePapa19 A big mistake putting Haspel
in that position as CIA Director. Very disappointing. The damage is already done. The Golden Hand @BitcoinCultist ·
15h
Replying to @GeorgePapa19 How
can the CIA refuse to declassify a document? Banana Republic. 1 5 32 RobinHodl - - DYOR @RobinHodl_ ·
15h
Replying to @GeorgePapa19 She is
an employee, and insubordination is proper grounds for termination from employment. She should
be fired and the DoD should be brought in to secure the documents. Gary Winkelman @GaryWinkelman1 · 14h Replying
to @GeorgePapa19 She works for
the Queen? Station Chief in UK prior?
Fred -- Are you aware of DoD raids on 3 - letter server farms in Frankfurt - Barcelona -
Toronto and that these servers are now under analysis by the DIA?
Sydney Powell referenced early findings from the raids in her Georgia / Michigan lawsuits
and promised expert witnesses to follow in the Arizona Legislator meeting next week.
Meanwhile, the Legislator meeting in PA has generated bills in both PA houses to withdraw 20
electors from Biden and give them to Trump.
Condolences to the families of 3 - letter contractors and DoD patriots who died in the
Frankfurt confrontation. Congratulations to General Flynn retuned to the fight of suppressing
enemies foreign & domestic.
Note how he bypassed the problem of local administrators ( according to some data 2-6 for
each site ) manipulating votes. He also does not explain strange pause in countering of votes in
major battleground states. And the fact of deploying Dominion and other voting machines was at
attempt to control voters and voting.
Yes there are some heuristically arguments on the contrary. For example why Florida was
unaffected. But that does not change the fact that voting machines are evil and that they was
corruption during their acquisition.
It is unclear how with strait face he can claim that systems based on Microsoft windows and
connected to Internet can be secure. Or systems with Dominion technician having administrative
access and implementing patches on their own schedules.
Chris Krebs, a lifelong Republican, was put in charge of the agency handling election
security by President Trump two years ago. When Krebs said the 2020 election was the country's
most secure ever, Mr. Trump fired him. Now, Krebs speaks to Scott Pelley.
https://cbsn.ws/3o6JayT
I actually do not know what actually happened, but your defense of Dominion is pure
technical nonsense and/or incompetence. This is a small office class system with consumer
hardware, consumer OS and consumer hardware (on top of which there is some proprietary
software) which is a dream for any intelligence agency to work with.
Petrel, "Condolences to the families of 3 - letter contractors and DoD patriots who died
in the Frankfurt confrontation. Congratulations to General Flynn retuned to the fight of
suppressing enemies foreign & domestic."
Could you please provide a source for this information? Thanks.
NancyK, The 2020 election is not yet over. I remember when the 2016 election was over,
there were no sour grapes from the Dems as I understand you have said. But what were those
tens of thousands of women wearing some sort of genital hat the day after, what was that
about? Why were they cheering a washed up entertainer named "Madonna" who was screaming and
threatening to burn down the White House. Another women, a not so funny one, carrying around
a severed Trump look alike head, did you laugh or just wish it were true? I distinctly
remember antifa destroying cars, business windows, etc, just some kids having fun, no?
I learned of a Japanese Admiral who said, "I'm afraid we're about to waken a sleeping
giant." I have to wonder if Biden isn't thinking the same thing.
It's a beautiful day in the Free State of Florida.
As Krebs discussed, on 60 Minutes: 92% of ballots were paper or backed by paper. All
the machine and hand recounts of paper ballots validated previous results. The machines were
accurate (enough) before, during and after the election and produced that same
results.
I think we are all being spun by both sides so the truth is a little difficult. One has to
follow the actual court filings.
Actually a full recount has not yet happened in Georgia. They went through a canvass and a
post-election audit which all the news organizations are calling a full recount. A canvass is
looking for missing ballots, memory sticks, and the like. A post election audit takes a small
sample is not a full recount.
Monday, they will be wiping voting machines to actually scan all the ballots hence
more lawsuits to stop them from wiping the machines data so it can be preserved for
analysis.
Since the actual action is not being reported in the main we have to look for it and I am
not 100% sure I am following it correctly myself. I am 100% sure not to believe much of
anything the MSM puts out.
So the second order nullifies the first order to preserve data. The machines will be wiped
30 November 2020 and the ballots will be fed to perform a full recount. Naturally no human
being wants to plow through his crap but as a former voter who gave up long ago I am
collecting evidence and understanding for my county election board.
It is quite a stretch for Trump but it is interesting to see these allegations which have
stretch back to at least 2006 in Congress.
What I remember happening is that at the end of the machine voting Trump had huge leads in
the 5 swing states prior to the counting of the mail in ballots. Counting was allegedly
stopped at around 11PM eastern time in the 5 swing states in question and then at 4am EST his
lead evaporated. The MSM was telling us for weeks Trump would win the machine voting but lose
the mail in. The pump was primed.
I think the fight is over were these votes injected from overseas through the Scytle
server, were 100% of the mail in ballots legitimate, and was it fair to keep the observers
from actually observing? They are also arguing the equal protection clause as used in
2001.
Granted Giuliani is a joke but Powell is no lightweight. Neither was Giuliani back in his
pre-depends days. Hopefully we will obtain some sanity in our voting systems next go around.
Somehow I doubt it.
AWS currently holds the sole contract to provide cloud computing services to a number of
intelligence agencies, including the FBI and the NSA. That contract is set to expire in 2023
and this new award – managed by the CIA – will further weaken Amazon's once
privileged position in the federal money sweepstakes, which had already taken a hard hit when
Microsoft was unexpectedly chosen over Bezos' company for the Department of Defense's own cloud
services contract for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) program.
The Central Intelligence Agency will take full advantage of its access to money without
oversight to disburse the government funds at the agency's discretion. Although speculated to
rise into the tens of billions, the CIA has no plans to disclose the real value of the C2E
contracts. The Commercial Cloud Enterprise (C2E) procurement program was unveiled in February
by the premier U.S. spy agency in a bid to establish a cloud computing service platform for the
country's intelligence agencies separate from JEDI, which remains enmeshed in a protracted
legal contest with AWS and is two years behind implementation.
... ... ...
In fact, such practices are an intrinsic part of the military industrial complex and its
historical origins at the height of the British empire. The start of the Glorious Revolution in
1688 marked the beginning of 125 years of constant war for the global superpower of the day and
the slow but inexorable rise of an industry of war made up exclusively of freelancers who would
make the guns, rifles, and bullets their bloodthirsty Queen required.
As the empire grew, the processes for the production of weapons underwent a dramatic change
from artisanal modes to full-fledged factory-style production; all spurred by the biggest army
and navy in the world, which was pillaging and extracting resources to fuel the burgeoning
enterprise of capitalism.
This period also fine-tuned the relationship between the state and independent contractors,
with the former establishing laws governing them in order to leverage their overwhelming
advantage. Other strategies were also employed to both suppress the price the Crown paid for
materiel and to make sure that no single contractor held too big a stake in the supply
chain.
In her book
"Empire of Guns," Priya Satia details this entire process and destroys the myth that the
Industrial Revolution was the result of a cotton-picking machine when even a cursory look at
the history shows that it was guns and a state engaged in perpetual war that laid the
foundations of our current economic paradigm.
Now, we stand on the threshold of the so-called "Fourth Industrial Revolution" in a world
that has perfected weapons of war to atomic levels. New 'cyberweapons' are being forged and it
is only fitting that the war industry, led today by the United States, would return to its
origins to maintain its own monopoly on human suffering and devastation in the name of
profit.
Return to the roots
The public-private partnership has been another significant trend that also mirrors a
ubiquitous trend in Victorian England. But, in today's world, a parallel legal system has grown
alongside the state's war industry and is also now at the disposal of the corporations who wish
to dispute any deal, leading to considerable delays in the execution of contracts.
Cases like the JEDI suit affect the military readiness goals of the national security state
if it cannot move forward with a particular initiative due to litigation. Another recent case
is holding up the Cybersecurity Infrastructure and Security Agency's (CISA) efforts to
centralize inflow and outflow of data regarding cyber-threats.
In
October , the Government Services Agency (GSA), awarded a $13 Million-dollar contract to a
company called EnDyna to "create a centralized database that agencies can use to report,
discover and take actions against cyber threat information." A much larger competitor,
HackerOne, filed a protest questioning the award on grounds of failure to meet eligibility
requirements and the smaller company's competence to carry out the work.
Technicalities like these can hold up a project in court for years, so it makes perfect
sense for the state-run war industry to return to its roots and apply the tried and true
principles of divide and conquer against the people making their guns, whether real or virtual.
By taking the first few spots on the Big Tech pecking order and putting them in a room to duke
it out for a government contract, the war establishment is recognizing the growing power of
these firms and is unleashing the CIA to curb it and diminish threats to the supply chain of
the twenty-first century's permanent war economy.
Feature photo | The Central Intelligence Agency flag is displayed, partially cast in a
shadow. David Goldman | AP
Raul Diego is a MintPress News Staff Writer, independent photojournalist, researcher,
writer and documentary filmmaker.
"... The $107 million contract awarded by Georgia for Dominion Voting Systems should be thoroughly investigated for potential "benefits being paid to family members of those who signed the contract," according to former federal prosecutor Sidney Powell on Newsmax TV. ..."
"... "I think there are multiple people in the Secretary of State's office and other that should be investigated in Georgia for what benefits they might have received for giving Dominion the $100-million, no-bid contract," Powell said. ..."
"... The Atlanta-Journal Constitution reported in 2019, however, Georgia did receive three bids for the new voting systems, with Dominion winning on being "the lowest-cost system among three companies that submitted bids." ..."
"... That contract was pursued by the state after Stacey Abrams never conceded to Gov. Brian Kemp in the 2018 midterm elections, claiming the Secretary of State and Kemp unlawfully ''suppressed'' votes by voiding registrations found to be illegitimate. ..."
The
$107 million contract awarded by Georgia for Dominion Voting Systems should be thoroughly
investigated for potential "benefits being paid to family members of those who signed the
contract," according to former federal prosecutor Sidney Powell on Newsmax TV.
"There should be an investigation, a thorough criminal investigation, frankly, of everyone
involved in acquiring the Dominion [Voting] System for the state of Georgia," Powell told
Saturday's "The Count" hosted by Tom Basile and Mark Halperin.
"And frankly for every other state, giving how appalling the system is and the fact it was
designed to manipulate the votes and destroy the real votes of American citizens who were
casting legal votes."
Powell's investigation is turning up potential criminal allegations, including "money or
benefits being paid to family members of those who signed the contract for Georgia."
"I think there are multiple people in the Secretary of State's office and other that should
be investigated in Georgia for what benefits they might have received for giving Dominion the
$100-million, no-bid contract," Powell said.
The Atlanta-Journal Constitution reported in 2019, however, Georgia did receive three bids
for the new voting systems, with Dominion winning on being "the lowest-cost system among three
companies that submitted bids."
That contract was pursued by the state after Stacey Abrams never conceded to Gov. Brian Kemp
in the 2018 midterm elections, claiming the Secretary of State and Kemp unlawfully
''suppressed'' votes by voiding registrations found to be illegitimate.
24/Let's start with the relief requested (inside out, this is the quick way to read motions
since the relief requested dictates the relevance of everything else). They want impoundment
of voting machines, suggesting overall strategy (see above) of gathering discovery globally.
"In early October, 2020, a federal district judge in this same district (Northern District
of Georgia) ruled after several years of litigation that the Dominion software used to monitor
this election has substantial issues and it will affect an election.
The Plaintiffs were
Democrats who filed suit in response to the 2016 election. They sought an order forcing Georgia
to use different software.
They conducted discovery and hearings over years, including 3 days
of expert testimony about how these very voting machines work. The court ultimately denied the
request because it was simply too late to change the voting machines since the election at that
time was roughly a month away."
So this judge ruled that the Dominion software could improperly affect an election but said it
was OK to use it in the November 2020 Presidential election "because it was simply too late to
change the voting machines since the election at that time was roughly a month away."
I'm a former litigator in Illinois...Obama "won" his first election against a popular
incumbent who was a civil rights pioneer by claiming fraud in her nominating petition
signatures, which is seldom successful...But Obama had friends...
In general, I agree that courts
are reluctant to overturn elections for vote fraud, despite the theoretically low standard of
proof, but that is more for personal, political and societal reasons than legal reasons...
Courage is not common anywhere in our society, and certainly not on the
bench...
Unfortunately, that has protected the politically connected fraudsters to the extent
that vote fraud has completely destroyed the two party system in Illinois, with Democrats
running everything and the State being bankrupt....
The same would happen if Democrats prevail
in this election.
Smoking Gun: “Barron replied
that using large amounts of technology lends itself to problems, but the new equipment enabled them to log in to the poll
pads and fix problems remotely.” Remotely can only mean connected to Internet! A Major No No.
Are You Not Entertained?
@SheriHerman10,
Sidney Powell is so fierce she made Dominion shut down their offices, scrub their website, not show up for an important press
conference in PA today, lawyer up and have employees all fly the coup. She has all the evidence she needs.
in 2010 Eric Coomer joined Dominion as Vice President of U.S. Engineering. According to
his bio, Coomer graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a Ph.D. in Nuclear
Physics. Eric Coomer was later promoted to Voting Systems Officer of Strategy and Security
although Coomer has since been removed from the Dominion page of directors. Dominion altered
its website after
Colorado resident Joe Oltmann disclosed that as a reporter he infiltrated ANTIFA, a
domestic terrorist organization where he recorded Eric Coomer representing: "Don't worry.
Trump won't win the election, we fixed that." – as well as social media posts with
violence threatened against President Trump.
MA: On Nov. 14, the
Palm Beach Post reported that you spoke at a "Stop the Steal" rally attended by 500 Trump
supporters in Delray Beach, Fla. [an upscale community 20 miles south of Palm Beach]. Here are
some quotes from the Post's report:
"Stone suggested the CIA changed vote tallies to benefit Democrat Joe Biden."
"He [Stone] then hit on how the CIA used a supercomputer called the 'Hammer' and a program
dubbed 'Scorecard' to alter the vote."
Can you elaborate?
RS: As I wrote in stonecoldtruth.com , I believe there is both overwhelming and
compelling evidence of extensive election fraud of the old-fashioned variety to include abuses
in the mail-in ballot system; ballot harvesting; dead people voting; people voting multiple
times; and the wholesale manufacture of ballots after the polls had closed since Democrats knew
the margins by which Trump won.
I believe that there will also be substantial hard evidence of cyber manipulation of the
2020 vote. I raised the question of the "Hammer" and "Scorecard" programs, which [CIA]
whistleblower Dennis Montgomery – who designed the [latter] program – specifically
said was created for the purpose of voter manipulation in foreign countries. In fact,
confidential audio recordings released by U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow in November 2015,
revealed that this computer program was used by the Obama campaign on Florida state election
computers to steal the 2012 presidential election for Obama and Vice President Joe Biden.
I believe there is also substantial evidence of cyber manipulation of the 2020 vote by
Dominion Voting Services, among others. The company has been subjected to substantive
allegations in the past. It's funny to see Democrats who told us for four years that our
elections were being interfered with through the cyber efforts of the "Russians" now insisting
that such a thing is impossible.
MA: Why have Trump's lawyers been unable to confirm a single example of voter fraud?
RS: I reject the premise of your question. The president's lawyers have produced multiple
examples of voter fraud in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Wisconsin, Michigan and elsewhere. Don't give
into the mass hypnosis of the fake news media. If you want to see proof of this evidence you
can go here .
Just days before the 2020 election the bureaucratic forces behind the original claim of
Russian hacking of state election-related websites in 2016 launched a new drive to spawn fears
of Moscow-made political chaos in the wake of the voting.
The new narrative was not consistent with information previously published by the the FBI
and the Department of Homeland Security's new Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
(CISA), however. It was so incoherent, in fact, that it suggested a state of panic on the part
of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials worried about a possible transition to a
Joe Biden administration.
On October 20, Christopher Krebs, the head of CISA, issued a
video statement expressing confidence that "it would be incredibly difficult for them to
change the outcome of an election at the national level." Then he abruptly changed his tone,
adding, "But that doesn't mean various actors won't try to introduce chaos in our elections and
make sensational claims that overstate their capabilities. In fact, the days and weeks just
before and after Election Day is the perfect time for our adversaries to launch efforts
intended to undermine your confidence in the integrity of the electoral process."
Krebs' warning of a possible Russian announcement that hackers had succeeded in disrupting
the result of the U.S. election was so removed from reality that it suggested internal panic
DHS over the failure of Russian hackers to do anything that could be cited as interfering in
the election.
Two days after Krebs' dubious warning, the FBI and the DHS's new Cybersecurity and
Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued an "alert" reporting that "a
Russian state-sponsored APT [Advanced Persistent Threat] actor" known as "Berserk Bear" had
"conducted a campaign against a wide variety of U.S. targets."
Since "at least September," according to the DHS alert, the DHS warning claimed that it had
targeted "dozens" of "U.S. state, local, territorial and tribal government networks." It even
claimed that the supposed Russian campaign had compromised the network infrastructure of
several official organizations and "exfiltrated data from at least two victims servers." At the
same time, it acknowledged there was "no indication" that any government operations had been
"intentionally disrupted."
The report went on to suggest, "[T]here may be some risk to elections information housed on
SLTT [state, local territorial and tribal] government networks." And then it abruptly shifted
tone and level of analysis to offer the speculation that the Russian government "may be seeking
access to obtain future disruption options, to influence U.S. policies or actions", or to
"delegitimize" the "government entities".
On October 28, Krebs elaborated on the latter theme in an interview with the PBS
NewsHour . Referring inaccurately to government warnings about "Russian interference, some
of which targeted voter registration," which the FBI-CISA alert had never mentioned, PBS
interviewer William Brangham asked, "Do you worry at all that there might be infiltration that
we are not aware of?"
Instead of correcting Brangham's inaccurate suggestion, Krebs responded that "infiltration"
into voter registration files was "certainly possible," but that "[W]e have improved the
ability to detect compromises or anomalous activity."
Krebs then homed in on a scenario he obviously wanted the public to focus on: "[Y]ou might
see various actors, foreign powers, claim that they were able to accomplish something, [that]
they were able to hack a database or hack the vote count. And it's simply not true."
Although the October 22 alert did not assert any deliberate Russian government hack of
election-related sites, Krebs sought to keep speculation about both Russian capabilities and
intent alive.
The buried alert that undermined the frightening official assessment
Eleven days before Krebs debuted his speculation about Russia claiming to have hacked U.S.
elections, the FBI and CISA issued a separate alert that seriously undercut
his questionable claims.
The earlier document was clearly referring to the very same efforts by hackers to break into
various websites addressed in the October 22 alert. It not only referred to the same state and
local government networks and to the wider range of targets affected but also mentioned
precisely the same technical vulnerabilities that were targeted in the series of hacks.
The alert further stated that, "[I]t does not appear these targets are being selected
because of their proximity to elections information ." In other words, the two US agencies
conceded they had no basis for attributing the hacks in question to any election interference
plot.
The most striking difference between the two alerts, however, was that the October 9 alert
did not refer to any "Russian state-sponsored APT actor" as the October 22 one did. Instead, it
simply pointed to "APT actors" in the plural, indicating that the U.S. intelligence community
had no evidence indicating a single actor was at work, let alone one that was "Russian-state
sponsored."
Contrary to the impression that U.S. officials may have conveyed in referencing an "Advance
Persistent Threat," or APT,
it is now widely understood by cybersecurity specialists that this term no longer refers to
a state-sponsored actor. That is because the sophisticated tools and techniques once associated
with state-sponsored hacking have now become available to a much wider range of cyber actors.
Indeed, the codes for such high-end tools have been identified in the
Shadow Brokers and Vault 7
leaks, and the tools have been marketed widely at affordable prices on the dark web.
The October 9 alert firmly established the dearth of evidence on the part of CISA and FBI
about a Russian state-sponsored hacking team planning elections-related operations in the U.S.
The sudden pivot days later to an unqualified claim that a single state-sponsored APT had been
responsible for the same very large range of operations should have been accompanied by claims
of substantial new intelligence, or at least a reference to the evidence underlying the
dramatic new reversal. But no such proof ever arrived.
Scott McConnell, the spokesman for CISA, promised the Grazyzone on October 29 that he would
provide someone to answer questions about the October 22 alert by the close of business Friday.
In the end, however, no one from CISA responded, and there was no answer on McConnell's
line.
The peculiar reversal by the DHS and CISA on the hacking claims raise questions about the
institutional considerations taken by these agencies. Did indications that President Donald
Trump's campaign was faltering inform their decision to issue a more stridently anti-Russian
assessment in hopes of surviving a political transition?
The US officials who drew up the initial pre-election alert seemed keenly aware that despite
that drumbeat of over the past two years, no state-sponsored Russian hacking of election
institutions was underway. But as the Trump campaign sputtered, they had their own careers to
consider. Days later, DHS and CISA declared the wily Russians guilty of yet another malign
operations -- one that would not require them to have slightest evidence to support, and that
would be impossible for them to explain.
Just noticed that the lead story on 60 Minutes Sunday is furthering the "there was/is no
election security problem. So, I'd say somebody is over the target somewhere. Resist . .
.
Pretty educational video that touches several aspect of Dominion. 2-6 people
training in using Dominion are essentially administrators who have tremendous level of control
over the system. Essentially election are decided by those 2-6 administrators. Those people need
to be investigated in countries that experience anomalies.
Also tough anti-Trump sentiments within top executive on Dominions, especially Eric Coomer .
In Coomer case he was in the position to materialize his threats. This looks like another Peter
Strzok "he is not going to win" insurance.
I am a Canadian, amazing job Chanel . Dominion is in Toronto Canada sharing office space
with George S funded foundation , or at lest they were a week ago.. glad to see your on it
.
The Voter Fraud, and the Facts are all there making it a Crime scene. All Fake Ballots
need to have a Forensic test of the PAPER used, to determine it's Source of where the Fake
Ballots came from. It's obvious they're not legitimate.
Although all we know is true: dominion fraud etc. Democrats have covered everything, will
not be caught, and so results will not change. The world will have to live with the nonsense
of Biden & his corrupt Democrats. I'm Indian, feel sad to see America suffer this.
@Ron
Rathbone You are absolutely right. The machine wouldn't take mine and three people in
front of me. We had to leave them in a box in the back of the ballot machine.
New DemoNKracy: People of the government, by the government, and for the government - Jot
Kennedie - Don't think it will do any for the people, but the people should obey the new god
- Government of George Orwell prophecy.
If anyone believes that any software related voting machine cannot be altered I have a
bridge for sale. We need to go back to paper ballots and USA citizenship I'd cards to get the
ballot. Wake up people, the dems may have stole this one but don't forget Republicans can
cheat also.
So who in the Hell gave the ok to use this machine? Any Governor that allowed this in
their state should be removed from office as well as the Secretary of State.
There should an audit in all swing states, there needs to be sound respect, for the
integrity of our elections. The election does have irregularities and fraud, over 13k sworn
affidavits saying there was. This is 1 election, but if people don't have trust in the
election, we will be divided and the stability of our nation is in doubt.
I can follow him on the IT security. I and a couple of my friends with a couple flash
drives and using googledocs could easily compromise the Dominion machines and rig the
election results the way we want. Pretty damning report
I fear we do not fully understand the future consequences of just accepting this stolen
election. We will never have a say in who represents us if we allow this. The will of the
people will mean nothing going forward. We are entering a technological enslavement from
which there will be no way out. Speak now while other are around to speak up with you.
Tim, look at the Patrick Bryne story. He is the founder of
Overstock.com . He claims, with Sydney Powell, that he has the evidence, See the
interview with the BLACK CONSERVATIVE PATRIOT.
That's kind of funny that ANTIFA would be involved in this considering when you went to
www ANTIFA com it took you directly to Biden's website! What a f'n crook!
A guy who EVERYONE hates, can hardly talk, lives in his basement and can't draw flies on a
campaign stop wins the presidency with the most votes ever. DIDN'T HAPPEN.
The Dominion machines and software should be enough to officially make the 2020 election
illegitimate. Why is the Democratic Party the only party that is endorsing these voting
machines?
I want to believe this theory, but the Georgia recount were fairly consistent with the
initial count. Had absolutely no reason to think that Dominion switched the votes. Georgia is
ALL Dominion!
Dominion software company shares a office with George soros and the ceo is best friends
with Justin Castro-Trudeau. Trudeau also gave one hundred and twenty four million taxpayers
dollars to the Clinton foundation to rigg the American election. The dominion of canada,
dominion software company anyone see and realize that this company is keeping the plandemic
reset going.
Experts on both sides of the political divide concede that both voter fraud and election
fraud occur with considerable frequency since the advent of electronic voting machines. In
addition to Dominion and ES&S, only five other companies dominate this space: Tenex,
SGO/Smartmatic, Hart InterCivic, Demtech, and Premier (formerly Diebold).
Virtually all have been accused of vote count manipulation or other irregularities
associated with their systems. Hart, for instance, was accused of vote flipping
(the practice of switching the votes from one candidate to their opponent) in Texas. Dominion
also ran into issues in the Lone Star state when its systems failed
certification over accessibility problems.
"Much of the equipment being used to record and count votes," explains Jonathan Simon, "is
either modem-equipped, which leaves it highly vulnerable to remote interference, or programmed
with the use of other computers than are internet-connected, allowing the alteration of memory
cards and code running in either precinct-level machines (like BMDs, DREs, or Optical Scanners)
or central tabulators."
Examples of these dangerous weaknesses were explored in a recent video published by a self-styled
national security professional, L. Todd Wood , where
conservative elections security expert, Russ Ramsland, breaks down his findings from a forensic
analysis of a 1000+ page voter log taken out of Dallas County's central tabulation center in
the aftermath of the 2018 midterm elections.
https://cdn.iframe.ly/M7DMJcB?v=1&app=1
Ramsland identified instances of votes being replaced in 96 precincts, an inordinate number
of database "updates" and other serious irregularities that point to vote-count manipulation
and amount to election fraud. His most explosive allegation centered around claims of real-time
vote-swapping in the 2019 gubernatorial election in Kentucky, where Ramsland asserts that
thousands of votes originally given for the Republican candidate were swapped live on a CNN
broadcast and added to the tally of the Democratic candidate, Andy Beshear, who would end up
winning the election.
Ramsland also alleged that the election data of that race was being stored in a server in
Frankfurt, Germany before being cycled through the central tabulation database, which syncs
automatically with the numbers shown to television viewers. This server has been pounced on by
Trump supporters in recent days and repeated by Rudy Giuliani in his podcast on Friday when
he also purported to have direct evidence of election fraud.
While it is practically impossible for the layman to unravel the complexities underlying the
encryption and cloud technologies underlying the present-day election system in the United
States, few can doubt that moving towards a digital voting system removes whatever last
vestiges of control the regular American citizen had in a once participatory exercise of
democracy.
Asked if democracy can even exist under such conditions, Simon refers to a prediction he
made in "CODE RED," in which he augurs "an inexorable progression to where we are now: public
trust eroded, the losers making wild allegations, no one able to prove anything, [and] everyone
kind of waking up to the realization that our concealed computerized vote-counting process does
not yield evidence-based results."
It's critical that the legal team nail down the machine manipulation using SMOTE
(Synthetic Minority Over-sampling Technique) written by Aleksandar Lazarevic. Trail leads to
Belgrade, Serbia and Dominion Voting Systems with chips made in China.
In a prolific time for draconian government overreach, one of the lesser-known pieces of
legislation proposed by the Bush administration was the Help America Vote Act ( HAVA ),
passed by a
Republican-controlled House and a unanimous vote by a Democrat-led Senate in December 2001. The
bill was signed into law 11 months later and "greatly accelerated the full computerization of
U.S. elections," according to Jonathan Simon, an election integrity advocate and author of
"Code Red, Computerized Election Theft and The New American Century," in an interview with
MintPress .
Simon describes the legislation's carrot-and-stick approach to goad states into adopting
technologies like touchscreen voting systems known as DREs, which were later replaced with
barcode systems or BMDs, which were "entirely lacking in cyber-security provisions to protect
the increasingly concealed process it promoted." Among the bill's authors is none other than
the current Senate leader and Republican kingmaker, Mitch McConnell, who has
defended Trump's right to challenge the election results without committing to a particular
outcome.
"If, as was claimed," Simon continues, "HAVA would make voting easier and thus increase
turnout, as we can see clearly today, that was decidedly not a GOP goal, certainly not of a
tactician like McConnell." The partisan motivations Simon ascribes to HAVA are clear enough,
and, as he points out, should have been clear to Democrats as well. But, the argument that the
American liberal establishment had no inkling of the ramifications fails to account for the
Democrats' own forays into the closely held universe of electronic voting systems.
With the extremes of the American political spectrum lighting up in deep reds and blues,
whatever emerges out of the ashes won't resemble much that came before it, and regardless of
the election results, America's inexorable march towards techno-fascism is moving right
along.
Watch | America's Election Debacle Highlights Anti-Democratic Hijinks of Both Parties
Actual voter and election fraud takes place in every national American election and is just
as prevalent in state and municipal elections, as well. From vote splitting to voter
suppression tactics to direct manipulation of election results, both political parties have
usurped the electoral processes to lie and cheat their way into power more than once.
But with the advent of digital voting systems, even the scandals we always seem to hear
about far too late will vanish from sight, as well. The most straightforward aspect of
democracy – voting – is disappearing behind a curtain of ones and zeros that only
technocratic lackeys will be able to pull back. Trump, who was plucked from the reality TV
screen like Jeff Daniels in "The Purple Rose of Cairo" and inserted into the national contest
for the highest office in the land, will do nothing to change that.
Publically available FBI documents
show the sitting president has been an FBI informant since the early eighties and his rise to
the highest office in the land was not the case of a brash, independent billionaire who decided
to run for president to "Make America Great Again." After all, Donald Trump's long-standing
ties with the very "deep state" many of his staunchest supporters are convinced he is
dismantling, actually reveals a factional war among the ruling class behind the scenes.
With a president who is as deep state as it gets, if there's something we can take away from
the last four years and these last few days since the election, it's that the American
establishment's over-the-top partisanship has been a ruse undertaken to hide the fact that they
are united in waging a class war like never before.
This election proves that our Department of Justice, the FBI, CIA, and all our
intelligence agencies are controlled by the deep state and the military industrial
establishment so that they can install the candidates of their choice in every election,
otherwise they would have exposed the totally unsecure Dominion voting machines years ago.
They didn't manipulate the 2016 presidential election because it was a foregone conclusion
with them all that Hillary was a shoe in. It has been proven that they were able to access
the software to flip votes in 2018 from Bevin to Beshear to install him as governor in
Kentucky.
So now the question becomes, why bother to vote at all, Republican or Democrat. The fixers
are gonna choose, regardless of who gets the lever pulled for them the most. "Every vote
matters" no longer matters.
NO, always vote. The reason there is such obvious cheating on a national level is so many
voted for Trump the leftist had to dig up pre-print4d "Biden" votes in the middle of the
night in PA, WI, NV, and MI to counter the real vote. And their fear and mammoth cheating has
displayed for the world how criminal and anti-American the left is. And for that blatant
felony, we are going to win the election legally.
Part of the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency's mission centers on assuring
compliance with DHS dictates surrounding election security protocols. The standalone federal
agency with oversight from the Department of Homeland Security was formed two years after an
embarrassing incident involving DHS occurred during the 2016 general election, when Georgia's
then secretary of state, – now governor – Brian Kemp, announced that
cyberattacks on its voting systems had been
traced to the federal law enforcement agency.
In 2020 with CISA firmly in place, DHS' cybersecurity division implemented a "
24/7 war room " to ostensibly guard against election hacking. CISA's Krebs, a former
cybersecurity policy director at Microsoft, led the effort to "monitor a network of every
state's election system simultaneously until every vote is counted,"
according to News Nation , which was allowed to bring a camera crew into the
operation in Fort
Meade , Maryland.
In the lead up to the 2020 election, warnings about Russian and Iranian cyberwarriors
running roughshod over the electoral contest were everywhere in U.S. media. Dire warnings of an
existential threat to democracy by foreign actors that never materialized were leveraged to
implement new security measures in partnership with the private sector. Krebs floated the
excuse for a conspicuously absent horde of Eurasian hackers, that America's enemies chose to
"sit out this election" in a recent New York Timesarticle
.
The fact is that neither Russia nor Iran have anywhere near the level of access to America's
election system as the handful of private companies who are part of an electronic voting
machine cartel, which currently controls over 92% of the elections market in the United
States.
Unfortunately IMHO, the Kraken was either a careless misspeak or a bluff to shake the
trees to see if a whistleblower would fall out. If the later, it failed. If the former, I am
inclined to give Sidney a break. She has done yeoman's work for Flynn. And so the Kraken
seems destined to remain a creature of Scandinavian lore and Hollywood movies. I wish it were
not so. The Dominion software apparently is easily hacked and allows votes to be directly
manipulated without a trace. Hard to make a case without an audit trail. I wonder whether the
outcry from MAGA supporters will be sufficient to encourage states to choose a more secure
vendor or will Dominion still be in widespread use during the midterms? Kemp, Raffensberger
and company should be ridden out of GA on a rail after a good tar and feathering. Other
states have their own corrupt actors who should receive the same consideration. They all have
sold us out -- if the Dems take the Senate, even to slavery under socialism -- for 30 pieces
of silver. As for Kemp and Raffensberger, in a different age I might have suggested an
appointment with a high, sturdy branch in one of GA's many 100 plus years old live oaks.
As I listened to Lin's interview today I tho't that there must be something in the
Southern water. Both he and Sidney have that Southern drawl. Very genteel, polished and
extremely intelligent.
I am a very brave soul, but I don't think I would want to go up against either of them in
a court of law. 🙂
I forget who it was, either Lou or Tucker, that ended their interview telling Sidney half
jokingly to remember to lock her doors at night.
Please remember to PRAY God's protection for this wonderful woman!
When are they going to lay out the case? Lin Wood and Sidney have been making serious
statements. They have reputations beyond reproach. I believe them when they say they have the
goods. It's like they have to get the election called for Trump or they will surely be
political prisoners.
IF you watch the movie "Kill Chain: The Cyber War on America's Elections"* you will see
that a steal was supposed to happen in Florida that day and it got thwarted, before it got
started,
PLUS, they didn't have the mail in ballot scheme in place yet to back up their theft back
then. China Virus was their plandemic to make that happen, and to get the cash from the Care$
Act to get machines for everyone.
*"(2020)From voter registration to counting ballots, data security expert Harri Hursti
examines how hackers can influence and disrupt the U.S. election system."
Love Sidney Powell but that interview did not give me a lot of confidence. I sure hope she
has some solid evidence. Doesn't sound like she has much though. Don't have much time
left.
Biggest heist in the history of the US and nothing can be done about it is sickening. Barr
and Wray should be ashamed of themselves for letting something like this happen on their
watch. They did nothing. Thanks to them the constitution is now worth nothing. The rights are
gone. Law and order is gone. We are on our own.
How do Barr and Wray even look at themselves in the mirror?
Finally, I found out from this interview where I could send money to support this legal
effort. I'm tired of the RNC doing nothing. Sidney Powell will get my direct support now.
DefendingtheRepublic.org – is the right place.
At this point, the Trump administration has filed so many lawsuits, with so many affidavits,
and has made such far-reaching claims of fraud, that it's nearly impossible to sort through
them to know what, if anything, has actually been proven . However, one thing they
certainly have shown, beyond any reasonable doubt, is that electronic voting is a terrible
idea.
Notice, I do not say that anybody has proven that any fraud actually took place using
electronic voting machines in the 2020 election. They haven't. Sidney Powell has presented many
troubling questions about the vulnerabilities of electronic voting machines. As of yet,
however, we have no hard evidence that anybody actually exploited those vulnerabilities (if
they exist).
This is a distinction that many Trumpists are unfortunately failing to make. Casting broad
doubts about the security of voting machines does not prove that the election was stolen. Such
doubts, even if they turn out to be well-founded, will almost certainly be insufficient to
convince any judge to invalidate a single vote, let alone overturn the entire election
result.
Although the technology used in voting continues to evolve, it remains vulnerable to both malicious and unintentional errors. To
protect the systems against both, explains
Douglas
W. Jones
, a computer scientist at the University of Iowa and co-author of the book
Broken
Ballots
,
election
officials need to be able to check and double-check the election's results.
"There's a nice dictum that that [computer scientist and electronic-voting-security researcher]
David
Dill
came up with at Stanford University: if we do it right, the Devil himself could build the voting machines, and we could
hold an honest election," Jones says. "And doing it right means having genuinely auditable technology -- with ballots where the
average voter knows that the marks they made on their ballot express their real intent."
Scientific
American
spoke with Jones about how voting machines work, their vulnerabilities, and what to expect on and after Election
Day.
[
An
edited transcript of the interview follows
.]
What kinds of machines are in use across the U.S. today?
We've gotten rid of the punch card and mechanical lever voting machines. Those are now not so ancient history. What we're left
with are two categories of voting machines, both of which were introduced in the 1960s and 1970s. Optical scan voting machines
are the ones that are closely related to standardized test scoring machines, where you fill in a bubble on the ballot next to the
candidate names. Those are, at this point, the most widely used voting technology in the U.S. The other category we have are the
direct-recording electronic voting machines. The first of those was actually deployed in the 1970s in Illinois, but the vast
expansion in the use of those machines happened after the Help America Vote Act was passed in 2002. It's very clear [that] the
authors of the Help America Vote Act anticipated that direct-recording electronic voting machines would become the new normal.
But, in fact, they were extraordinarily problematic for security reasons.
A fundamental flaw of direct-recording voting machines -- that is, ones where you pull the lever on an old mechanical machine or you
touch the touch screen on a modern one -- all of those machines end up being completely impossible to audit. There's no way to know
whether the machine was honest or not, short of taking it apart and actually being able to inspect the mechanism. We have no good
way of doing that with software. The complete lack of any auditable record of the count, so that you had to completely trust
programmers, was a real problem. [But] the vast majority of votes in the U.S. today are being recorded on paper ballots that are
filled in by hand. That makes me feel reasonably good. And furthermore, a growing number of states have some kind of an audit
law.
This is an old rule in computer security that I first learned in the 1970s, no less true today. And that is: the biggest threat
to all of our systems is not the malicious outside hacker but rather the fact that there are lots of perfectly honest normal
people making errors. We humans have an amazing ability to be remarkably accidentally inventive with the mistakes we make. With
fill-in-the-bubble ballots, a typical error would be printing the ballot with the candidates in one order but programming the
scanner with the candidates in a different order. There was a famous incident of this happening [in] Pottawattamie County,
[Iowa], in 2006 in its June primary. The net result was that the numbers that came up were pretty nonsensical and bore no
relationship with anyone's expectation of the outcome of the race. The election officials noticed. They did a hand count, and
that completely resolved the problem. And they could because they had paper ballots.
In-person voters can feed their paper ballots directly into a scanner to be automatically counted. But how are absentee ballots
tallied up?
Late into the night on Election Night, at the election office, they've been counting absentee ballots all day, piling them up and
putting them through high-speed scanners that scan 800 ballots per minute -- speeds like that. Some jurisdictions have automatic
envelope openers where you just take a whole stack of absentee ballot envelopes, stack them up neatly, put them in the machine,
and it goes up and takes a sixteenth of an inch off the edge of each envelope so that the ballots can easily be shaken out of the
envelopes. You have signature-verification software being used by some jurisdictions, where the envelope gets sucked into the
machine, put in front of a camera, and the signature is -- either by software or displayed on someone's remote computer
screen -- checked. These actually resemble very closely the
machinery
used by the Post Office
for automatically reading mail addresses, except the purpose is to verify the signature. And that's
another whole can of worms, because in many cases, none of our laws really govern how we check signatures. It turns out that the
mathematics of signature acceptance and rejection ends up being horrible. If you reject any signatures, chances are you're
rejecting more signatures of honest, valid voters than you are catching invalid signatures.
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Does the counting process continue after Election Day?
We have long-standing traditions of things like a postmark deadline on the eve of the election. That's how it's been in Iowa for
as long as I've been here. So for the week after the election, late mail is still dribbling into the election office -- and all
those late envelopes are checked for their postmarks and, if the postmarks are acceptable, counted. Now there's a problem there,
as the Post Office, over the past few decades, has been reducing the frequency with which it applies postmarks of any kind to
letters. Yet the Post Office does automatically bar code every envelope that goes through its scanners these days. The Post
Office has the records to tell you when that bar code was applied. Its computer system is really good at this, but it's not
acceptable under some state laws. So postmark deadlines are a real problem because the Post Office has reduced the extent to
which classical postmarks are still used.
There's this period after the election during which the counts are checked and cross-checked, [a process called the
canvass
].
For example, in Miami, they have this giant spreadsheet showing one column for each candidate for each office; one row for each
precinct. After they had all those data, then they would go through the tapes printed out by the voting machines at the
precinct -- the summary tapes that showed the total number of votes -- and they would compare it with that spreadsheet for the purpose
of ruling out any error in their central tabulating software because there have been such errors. This can take several days
after the election, even if they aren't handling late absentee ballots. At that point, the Board of Elections then signs off on
the report of canvass. And the report of canvass is then forwarded to the state, which goes through the same process. A growing
number of states do postelection audits
before
they
sign the official canvass reports, and in other states, like Iowa, we do a postelection audit
after
signing
the report of canvass. Although the Iowa law says that the audit cannot change the outcome of the election, at least you discover
[if] you made a mistake. So it can take several weeks after the election to put the election to bed.
This is still a hypothesis not a proven fact. Proven fact is that nobody investigates why
votes counting was stopped and why unmarked vans arrives ar some station in the middle of the
night with additional mail-in ballots.
Philadelphia used also other types of voting machines
so this is not exclusively Dominion voting machines. . Philadelphia used also other types of
voting machines so this is not exclusively Dominion voting machines. .
But as for Dominion an interesting question is: why over 100 employees of the controversial
voting machine company Dominion have deleted their LinkedIn profiles. On November 6th, the
LinkedIn page for Dominion showed 243 employees on the site and by November 16th, only 140
remained
A fellow by the name of
Edward Solomon has done yeoman's work in digging into the Pennsylvania voting data and
showing conclusively, in my view, how the Democrats, with the help of Dominion, rigged the
vote. What was done in Pennsylvania, specifically Philadelphia, reveals how the Dominion
software magically created votes for Joe Biden to swamp the actual number of votes Donald Trump
was ringing up.
I will embed the video below. It last about 40 minutes. It is worth your time. But let me
give you the Reader's Digest version. When the early vote numbers rolled in, it was clear that
Donald Trump was on his way to a major win. The task for Dominion was to manufacture votes for
Biden without making it obvious. They tried, but failed.
Mr. Solomon takes the raw vote data that was being streamed by the NY Times and downloaded
it into a spreadsheet. That data allows him to look at vote totals by precinct and how they
changed over time. He found that a variety of ratios were used in different sets of precincts.
For example, his Exhibit 1 shows a group of precincts where the votes were being recorded at
the following ratio–1 vote for Trump and 48 for Biden.
The diabolical system employed by Dominion started with needing to generate a total vote
total for Joe Biden. Rather than employ a single computer calculation, Dominion used a number
of algorithm's. Mr. Solomon identifies at least 9 different calculations used to create these
votes.
Exhibit 1 Ratio of 1 to 48
Exhibit 2 Ratio of 1 to 18
Exhibit 3 Ratio of 4 to 65
Exhibit 4 Ratio of 3 to 48
Exhibit 5 Ratio 4 to 63
Exhibit 6 Ratio of 5 to 31
Exhibit 7 Ratio of 1 to 5
Exhibit 8 Ratio of 1 to 4
Exhibit 9 Ration of 1 to 6
The data examined by Mr. Solomon is only one part of the proof of the voter fraud. Data
from other parts of Pennsylvania will need to be examined to determine if there is a similar
pattern or if the data from Philadelphia and Pittsburgh are outliers.
The next evidentiary question to be asked, and answered, is whether there are actually
ballots that back up the numbers reported on the computer. If there are ballots for Biden but
no ballots for Trump, that is conclusive evidence of the fraud.
There are multiple sworn affidavits from witnesses of truck loads of ballots being
off-loaded at the center in Philadelphia. Those ballots must be examined. If the ballots only
show Joe Biden's name and there are no ballots matching the numbers reported for Trump, that
means one thing. Fraud.
Make voting so complicated and easily overwhelemed by processes and short timelines, it
loses all ability to be fair and accurate. Then beat up anyone who protests these new
layers of complexity as wanting to undermine the right to vote.
Voting is a right and a duty. People do have to sacrifice this one day out of 365 days
and show up in person, ID in hand, and exercise their duty to be an informed voter, filling
out a trackable paper ballot. Exceptions based on need are the exception; not common
place.
Europe prohibits "electronic voting" for good reason. Democrats have slowly and
systematically undermined out entire election process.
Just take a look at California. Networks did not wait even one second after the polls
closed to "declare" Biden won in California, before a single vote was counted. They knew
the obvious outcome of a state now long corrupted by a Democrat super-majority guaranteed
election system. No other outcome was possible in this state.
Term limits was the final coffin nail in this state. Never think term limits will solve
anything. Voters must dislodge the bums; not some arbitrary election rule. Nature abhors a
vacuum. Term limits created a power vacuum.
The highly organized and disciplined public sector union swooped into this power vacuum
and now cannot be dislodged. The spent the past 20 years rigging the system entirely in
their favor. A big piece of this take-over was passed always as "election reform".
Micael Levin weighs in on the proof of fraud, the quantity of fraud and the quality of
fraud, Democrats have moved their argument away from no fraud, to not enough fraud to
matter. Sure.
It is convincing. The fact the ratios were repeatedly exact copies is proof of the fix.
This never happens in real life and it shows that this was probably a last minute fix to
account for a bigger Trump lead than they expected, since with more time, they could
probably develop an algorithm that varied the numbers more. Since these are civil actions,
this should be enough right there if it were a fair system, but overwhelming political
pressure from the permanent regime is, unfortunately, another factor to be considered.
I believe the argument of machine fraud goes beyond just Dominion to others, so we can
discount that Philadelphia used another system.
He has done a good job highlighting anomalies, I just think it lacks the context to
judge, you can't look at it in isolation, you need to compare more to what looks clean.
I believe the argument of machine fraud goes beyond just Dominion to others, so we can
discount that Philadelphia used another system.
He has done a good job highlighting anomalies, I just think it lacks the context to
judge, you can't look at it in isolation, you need to compare more to what looks clean.
PBS Newshour had a 'white hat hacker' named Harri Hursti inspect the system and he said
"they have set up a complicated system which is centralized; it doesn't seem to have any
safeguards."
They described the system as having a lot of moving parts, saying "it's an assortment of
laptops, iPads, magnetic cards, touch screens, printers and scanners."
PBS says the devices replaced touchscreens in 2019 which didn't created a paper ballot, but
one of the women responsible for bringing about this change isn't terribly happy with the new
system either. And election experts have found several troubling problems with the new system,
especially the Q.R. codes it creates for tabulation:
Alex Halderman looked closely at the Q.R. codes where the votes are encoded for the
scanner. "By analyzing the structure of the Q.R. codes, I have been able to learn that
there's nothing that stops an attacker from just duplicating one, and the duplicate would
count the same as the original barcode."
And in late September, another concern came to light. During testing, election workers
found half the names of the 21 candidates for Senate intermittently disappeared from screens
during the review phase. Dominion sent out a last-minute software patch.
Halderman caution: "I'm worried that the Georgia system is the technical equivalent to
the 737 MAX. They have just made a last-minute software change that might well have unintended
consequences and cause even more severe problems on Election Day."
Hirsti expressed concern that the system was being rushed out with the proper testing:
You never want to rush something which is mission-critical, and this is mission-critical,
into production without proper time for testing.
That's really one of the ways bad actors are finding the vulnerabilities to exploit is
looking for honest vulnerabilities and finding out if they can be weaponized, if they can be
exploited.
The actual segment goes on for 7 minutes and you can watch it below:
Face it, politicians in general are lazy, incompetent, power-hungry, greedy and worthless.
Very few actually care about the American people or want to work for us. They keep getting
re-elected over and over because of promises made and NOT kept. They get in a back room and
make deals to NOT do their jobs and draw straws on who will take the blame. When election
time rolls around again, the people continue to believe their propaganda and vote them in
again...and the cycle continues. Look at Biden, 47 years in public office. The man has NO
skills...he can't do anything else. Same for most politicians. Never vote for someone that
has not worked in the real world...and don't vote for lawyers (they always find the loophole
in every law and use it to keep themselves living a lifestyle we only dream about).
All of the Dominion Voting machines should be impounded; the States to be reimbursed and
each machine checked by the Federal Government to see if software is corrupted or
preprogramed to favor one party or the other. Then the Federal Government should order new
unbiased machines-all should be checked and be calibrated in time for the next election.
These should be stored under lock and key in a Federal Facility and guarded by Federal
Marshals during the voting. It should be a Federal Crime to impede the will of the peoples
vote. Next Subpoena Soros to testify in front of the Senate to explore his tactics and
recommend Federal Prosecution for any violation of Federal or State Law in the United
States.
Everything connected to the internet is hackable. Why don't we just go back to paper
ballots, photo ID and same day in person voting? I think it really is that simple.
I Georgia there are paper ballots, after choosing the candidates you want you review the
screen then push print. A paper ballot with the selections are on the paper with the QR code.
The ballot is then scanned into a machine where it is also collected in an internal box.
Voters are encouraged to make sure their selections shown on the paper are correct before
feeding the ballot into the machine. I voted in Georgia, but I did not know there were all of
the problems with the security of the machines.
The corrupt politician/attorney leading CISA (@CISAgov IT sec agency within DHS) is
Christopher Krebs (@CISAKrebs). He only has 3 years experience in IT sec, much of that on
non-IT related infrastructure security. He has no IT or IT sec background. His bachelor
degree is "environmental sciences" and then he earned a JD. The schmuck is a lawyer who
brownnosed his way into DHS 3 years ago and was handed IT/infrastructure security with zero
experience.
Now, he says:
- 2020 was most secure election ever
>> bogus, unprovable claim: secure in what sense? Based on what, % of voter fraud, how
would he know that for any previous, let alone current election.
- 2020 had highest voter turnout in since 1908, based on that alone, even if fraud % were
steady with previous cycles, this election would have the most fraudulent votes cast ever,
and as turnout goes up, fraud exploits do to.
- 2020 saw a huge % increase in mail-in and early votes, which are most subject to fraud; we
would expect a higher % of fraudulent/illegal votes based on that alone - there is no metric
upon which to base his claim
- he claimed there was no evidence of fraud
>> demonstrably untrue - the Texas SOS office recommended denial of Dominion software
precisely because it lacked safeguards and was unsecure. As per reports above, Georgia had
issues with software during primary. We also know of issue in Antrim County, Michigan. Krebs
is lying.
- he told voters with questions about irregularities to "turn to your trusted election
officials" - the same ones committing the irregularities...that's like asking the Nigerian
Prince email scammer if he's real, do you expect them to be honest?
Krebs should not only be fired, he should be barred from working for the federal
government ever again.
I've worked IT security for two decades. We wouldn't hire this joker to work frontline
helpdesk.
Dominion voting systems got an "upgrade" before the election. But the powers that be don't
care.
They won. They won because of it. Future historians will write about it, but by then, it
won't matter.
With a paper ballot, even if the machine screws up, and there is a recount, they recount
the ORIGINAL PAPER BALLOT, and do so by hand.
With electronic votes, if they screw up vote assignment, you can't tell. If they lose
votes, the counts don't match, but you've still lost the original vote. In both cases, it's
IMPOSSIBLE to do a proper recount.
PBS Newshour had a 'white hat hacker' named Harri Hursti inspect the system and he said "they
have set up a complicated system which is centralized; it doesn't seem to have any
safeguards."
Alex Halderman looked closely at the Q.R. codes where the votes are encoded for the scanner.
"By analyzing the structure of the Q.R. codes, I have been able to learn that there's nothing
that stops an attacker from just duplicating one, and the duplicate would count the same as the
original barcode."
Halderman caution: "I'm worried that the Georgia system is the technical equivalent to the
737 MAX. They have just made a last-minute software change that might well have unintended
consequences and cause even more severe problems on Election Day."
A Denver businessman said he has received death threats after exposing a Dominion Voting
Systems employee who boasted about being able to rig the 2020 election against President
Donald Trump, a report said.
In an
interview with the Gateway Pundit's Jim Hoft on Sunday, Denver businessman Joe Oltmann
said he was able to infiltrate Antifa and during a Sept. 27 conversation with Antifa members
discovered "Eric from Dominion".
Oltmann told the Gateway Pundit that "Eric" was telling Antifa members they needed to
"keep up the pressure." When one of the caller's on a September group call asked, "Who's
Eric?" someone answered, "Eric, he's the Dominion guy."
As the conversation continued, Oltmann said someone asked: "What are we gonna do if
F*cking Trump wins?" Oltmann paraphrased how Eric (the Dominion guy) responded, "Don't worry
about the election, Trump's not gonna win. I made f*cking sure of that!"
Oltmann identified the "Dominion guy" as Eric Coomer. In 2010, Coomer joined Dominion as
vice president of U.S. engineering, the report said. According to his biography, Coomer
graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics.
Coomer was later promoted to voting systems officer of strategy and security at Dominion.
He has since been removed from the Dominion page of directors.
Oltmann said he was banned from Twitter after exposing Coomer.
Oltmann also told the Gateway Pundit that Coomer's profile is in fact being completely
"scrubbed from the Internet."
There are those who always vote, those who never vote and those who may or may not vote.
Maximizing voter turnout in the third group is the holy grail of the electoral
official."
It is a holy grail of a leftist agitator. The US law recognizes a citizen's freedom not to vote as equal to the voting for
a candidate of his or her choosing. Some people do not vote because they do not care, some
because they do not know which candidate to choose, and some because they are angry at the
society. Abstractly speaking, reluctant voters are not helpful to democratic process, just like
reluctant jurors are not helpful for court proceedings. Practically, voter mobilization (from
the word 'mob' ) is a tactic of the Left. People who do not care, or lack knowledge, or
are angry, can be easily convinced to vote for the Left. Continue reading Dominion Voting
Systems Corp →
Dominion Voting Systems' Democracy Suite has features that allow for election results
manipulation. The back-end software has an elections results editor, called Results Tally
and Reporting ( RTR ). Its users are election officials. RTR is an equivalent of
Microsoft Excel, but for election results. The software allows its users to enter "election
results" from removable memory cards, local file system, and network. It allows you to merge
multiple election results files. It allows the users to manually edit election result files. It
allows users to reject election results files. In other words, it allows arbitrary change of
results.
RTR runs not on a voting machine, but on an ordinary Windows laptop, which can be connected
to the Internet, and even controlled remotely.
The voting software developers can easily insert code, changing numbers in favor of or
against one candidate. No hacking is necessary. The malicious code can be designed to pass
tests and to be triggered only at the time of a real election, automatically or manually. Both
case are possible even the the machine is disconnected from the internet and has no ordinary
I/O devices. The malicious code can be activated manually in real time by inserting a ballot or
another paper with a pre-defined QR or image code. An audit of the source code is necessary,
but not sufficient. Dominion software runs on Windows, and the malicious code can be hidden in
any part of the operating system. Malicious code can be hidden in the firmware, too.
If a state wants to take risks and to rely on testing and the source code audit, they should
be conducted with the participation of technically competent representatives of both parties.
If the system passes testing and auditing, the machine image must be securely stored. All
supplied machines must have exactly the same hardware and the software as the audited
system.
As far as I know, thorough tests and source code audits are conducted very rarely, if at
all. Further, the vendors are not required to use only the audited image, and are allowed to
update the software almost at will. That means that election commissions are forced to blindly
trust the vendors. Blind trust is always wrong and invites abuse. But even "trust but verify"
is applicable only to trustworthy vendors. Dominion Voting is the opposite of trustworthy.
The only real solution to the vulnerability of EVS is not to use them at all. Manual ballot
counting has no software vulnerabilities, and is much cheaper. Virginia appears to be the only
state that decided to use only manual ballots.
... ... ...
In August 2009 (corrected), the rough breakdown of the EVS market in the US was (per
Brad Friedman ):
Less than a year later, after the "antitrust" actions of Obama's DOJ, it became:
50% Dominion
40% ES&S (restricted in competing against Dominion)
10% Hart Intercivic
Thus, the DOJ's actions did the exact opposite of its words.
An elections system vendor should be non-partisan, in a demonstrable way. Dominion is not
just partisan, but hyper-partisan in favor of the Democrat party, or even its pocket
vendor.
Dominion has many more ties to the Democrat party and its prominent supporters in the US and
abroad, which are not covered in this article.
Software Development in Serbia
Dominion develops much of its software in Belgrade, Serbia. Russia is a close friend to
Serbia, if not its only one. If anybody sincerely thought that Putin wanted to hack American
elections, their first location of interest would be the offices of Dominion Voting in
Belgrade, rather than the Trump Tower in New York.
By the way, Serbian and Russian languages use the Cyrillic alphabet. Most letters have the
same Unicode encoding in Serbian and Russian (the Basic Multilingual Plane, range 0410-04FF ). If any election officials found Cyrillic
text on a Dominion voting machine in 2016, it was probably left by its developers in
Serbia.
Remarks
This is the Agreement between
Michigan & Dominion , including specs of many Dominion products (PDF, 161 pages). Wi-Fi
connection and even a dial up modem are offered as an option.
Some of the companies referenced here as foreign based or foreign originating re-registered
in the US.
Dominion Voting Systems Series Part I
Part II (this) Part
III
Just few thougts
Dominion develops much of its software in Belgrade, Serbia. Russia is a close friend to
Serbia
At the time when ten SW was developing, Serbia had long beenin the hands of Germany and the EU.
Which is the same as writing in the hands of Soros and his NGO. Written Serbian is more similar
to neighboring Greek than Russian, and this also applies to Cyrillic.
A previous head of Dominions software was one Eric Coomer. He is a member or avid
supporter of Antifa, depending on how you view the group.
The same Eric Coomer was previously a skinhead when he was at Berkeley, based on ok'd
message board posts.
Google Eric Coomer Skinhead and view some of what comes up online.
From skinhead to Antifa? He is now apparently nowhere to be found. Seems to me at least,
that there may be a chance he may be CIA and that this may have been a domestic op to get rid
of Trump.
Here's an analogy : imagine the blues and reds both agree that I am a notorious thief,
even if it's only a false narrative. Then they hire me as a security guard. That would be
willfully, knowingly hiring a criminal, which would be criminal, not because of the facts,
but because of the logic.
A couple of thoughts about the Venzuela gambit. Evidently Tucker Carson wanted Sydney to
tell him all about the "Dominion" vote flipping in a public interview. Which would have been
tantamount to giving away all the potential Republican case, and given the Democrats prior
knowledge of what to expect. A no-go. Mentioning "Venezuela-Cuba" could have the effect of
heading off a direct civil war if the US Dems and Repubs have a" common enemy" to blame. (Too
late for Russia, China too touchy, not many other major targets). Note that Venezuela has a
paper trail created at the same time as the electronic vote...
"They are very bad. If something goes wrong with one of them, you would basically never know, because you can't audit the
results. And things have gone wrong," John Oliver said. "In one local New Jersey election, a husband and wife were both running
for seats on their county's Democratic committee. The DRE machines said that they lost, but they were in the unusual position of
actually knowing that that was a mistake."
"In one local New Jersey election, a husband and wife were both running for seats on their county's Democratic committee," Oliver
continued. "The DRE machines said that they lost, but they were in the unusual position of actually knowing that that was a
mistake."
The talk show host then played a news clip of the couple -- Ernest and Cynthia Zirkle -- explaining what had happened.
"I knew 33 of the people that voted for us, and we lost 33 to 10, and I knew that that wasn't the case," said Cynthia Zirkle.
The results had been switched with those of their opponents.
"We started calling people that we thought we knew voted for us, because it was just a in this district of this township, and we
know everybody in this district," added Ernest Zirkle.
Oliver noted it was true that Cynthia Zirkle had "literally went around and got signed affidavits from people saying that they
had voted for her."
"The fact is, unless you happen to personally know everyone who votes for you on a paperless DRE machine, there is no way to know
the results," he said. "It's a pretty good case against them, which makes it, frankly, completely insane that New Jersey not only
still uses them, but plans to keep using them for the 2020 election."
"And it's not just New Jersey, in 2016, 20 percent of voters voted on paperless DREs, and an estimated 12 percent will use them
in 2020, meaning 16 million Americans, spread out across all these states, are set to be voting on machines that pretty much
everyone agrees are deeply, deeply flawed," Oliver continued. "And if they malfunction, there could be no way of knowing, which
is absolutely terrifying. What we have to do here is obvious, it's so obvious, in fact, even this guy understands it."
John Oliver then played a clip of President Donald Trump explaining why it is important to have a paper backup system with
regards to voting.
"He's right. That's it. He's just all the way, completely right," said Oliver.
Dominion Voting Systems -- which has faced scrutiny in the wake of the 2020 presidential election -- has an ImageCast X model,
which can be deployed as either a Ballot Marking Device (BMD) or a Direct Recording Electronic Device (DRE), according to
The
Verified Voting Foundation
.
While Oliver has made his case for why he believes DREs are dangerous, Verified Voting has also explained why it believes BMDs
can be as well.
In 2019, Verified Voting
clarified
its
position regarding the use BMDs in elections:
Verified Voting believes that voters should vote on paper ballots, but we recognize an important distinction between
hand-marked and machine-marked ballots. Hand-marked paper ballots are not subject to inaccuracies or manipulation from
software bugs or malicious code. In contrast, machine-marked paper ballots produced using BMDs might not accurately capture
voter intent if the software or ballot configuration is buggy or malicious.
Verified Voting specifically opposes the purchase and deployment of new voting systems in which all in-person voters in a
polling place are expected to use BMDs. The trustworthiness of an election conducted using BMDs depends critically on how many
voters actually verify their ballots, and how carefully they do it. All voters who vote on BMDs should be made aware of the
importance of carefully and conscientiously verifying their ballots before casting them, and should be actively encouraged to
do so. However, empirical research thus far shows that few voters using BMDs carefully verify their printed ballots. Moreover,
if voters do verify BMD-marked ballots and find what they believe are discrepancies, there is no reliable way to resolve
whether the voters made mistakes or the BMDs did. For these and other reasons (such as cost) Verified Voting recommends that
the use of BMDs be minimized.
Verified Voting appeared to have since wiped clean the section of its website clarifying its position on the usage of BMDs, but
an
Internet
archive
shows what was displayed on the page in August.
It is, indeed, completely insane to use electronic voting machines unless the whole idea is to be able
to commit massive voter fraud and steal an election.
Some of these machines can be set to throw a set number of --- say Trump votes -- into a certain
folder that can just be deleted making all of those votes disappear as if they never existed.
The first video below highlights the couple that John Oliver was talking about:
____________________________________________
A Hacker Shows Us How Easy It Is To Manipulate Voting Machines
[2:16]
https://www.youtube.com/wat...
On this next one, it shows how many voters are just trusting these machines with EVERYTHING and no
paper trail, basically saying to the computer, "Please mark my ballot the way I say and I trust you to
do so".
Dominion Voting Machines have the ability to mark a ballot [2:16]
https://www.youtube.com/wat...
Electronic Voting Machine hacked by Computer Scientists (AcuVote-TS)
[5:21]
https://www.youtube.com/wat...
______________________________________________
All electronic software can be made to cheat with voter fraud, especially if that is the OBJECTIVE ALL
ALONG.
ComradeAdam
cageysea
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It would depend on the voting machine, a machine can be built that has no real vulnerabilities and no way to
change or input to voting data. And paper ballots are only as secure as the people that handle them and
count them. The biggest problem with voting machines is that they keep processes of the machine secret so no
one can trust what they are doing behind the scenes.
Personally, I think we need voter ID. Then the voting machines print out a paper ballot that you take from
the machine over to a ballot box, present your ID for a second time and drop the ballot in the box.
The ballots must match the machines totals and the voter rolls and all partisan observers must agree.
in India, you have all that PLUS you affix your thumbprint to the ballot with indelible ink. The ink
(apparently) is hard to wash off so that makes it harder for anyone to vote twice. A beautiful system.
Where I'm at, we had paper "Scantron" ballots and BMDs. Had a lot of older folk who did the BMD because
they didn't think they could fill in the bubbles.
What I thought was odd was that the BMDs we had were designed for blind people but there was no way for
blind people to verify their printout as it was just text, not braile.
Worst of all was that able-bodied younger people strideny thought that BMDs were electronic voting and
that it was "more secure", so they would become irate when they discovered that they spent 15 minutes
using a touch screen to print a ballot that they could've bubbled in 30 seconds by hand.
Closing the barn door after the horse is stolen. Why weren't Trump voters and Trump himself anticipating
just this sort of election theft before the election?
ohn Law
Gwynedd
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"It's not the people who vote that count, it's the people who count the votes."
Yes. Did it slip out by accident? I've been critical, well more than critical, let's say completely
objecting to the use of electronic voting machines for years. As somebody who worked in the tech
industry, I realized that there is a belief in the minds of average people, that machines are
objective and impersonal and cannot lie or make mistakes. Have you ever challenged somebody when
there's an obvious data entry error and they rigidly stick by whatever the machine says versus what
you're trying to tell them actually was the situation? Belief in the machine is almost a belief in
an infallible oracle. Obviously data can be corrupted and falsified as anybody who has had their
accounts hacked should realize. So voting systems that rely on electronics without some form of
physical verification are subject to fraud, and any counting system that does not have oversight
and is completely hidden from view electronically or otherwise is also subject to fraud or to quote
Stalin, it's not who votes it's who counts the votes. Fraud in voting machines has been going on
for decades. Even the very old paper punch systems used in the 40s through 80s could be gotten
around by simply having certain precincts non-functional during the day and not tell the voters
their votes would not be counted. I experienced this frequently in Philadelphia when I lived in a
section of the city that did not like the mayor.
doormouse
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Trump's mistake was trusting the experience of insiders...
He should have hired nothing but loyal people with no professional political experience, and not
assumed those under the heels of the democrats weren't still beholden to them, (if not
compromised), even if they publicly seemed to be enemies...
They had been in bed together for a century... Especially the petroleum industry, and Wall
Street...
"Corrupted by wealth and power, your government is like a restaurant with only one dish. They've
got a set of Republican waiters on one side and a set of Democratic waiters on the other side.
But no matter which set of waiters brings you the dish, the legislative grub is all prepared in
the same Wall Street kitchen." - Huey Long
"The only difference I ever found between the Democratic leadership and the Republican
leadership is that one of them is skinning you from the ankle up and the other, from the ear
down." - Huey Long
101010011000
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Why have machines at all? We have until Jan. 20 to seat new winners. What is the rush? Old fashioned
hand counting may take longer but it is more secure with proper oversight. We can wait a few days or
even weeks if it means honest elections. Networks will just not be calling winners before votes are
all tabulated and certified. It is not a horse race and shouldn't be treated as such. Hold your
tickets, please, we have a photo finish. We need voter ID and that number matched to each vote.
caperick
oldlady
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You're right. Any machine is corruptible. Hand counting with verified observers from both parties is totally
doable.
mrminwnc
oldlady
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people act like it's impossible to count 100 million+ votes, but it's not at all. it can be easily done precinct
by precinct, then all it takes is an adding machine. the old-fashioned kind, with the paper tape.
theresa
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Hay, Hay all you shift for brains!
"Federal Statute Law Title 52 USC 20511: Criminal penalties Text contains
those laws in effect on November 9, 2020
Title 52-VOTING AND ELECTIONS Subtitle
II-Voting Assistance and Election Administration CHAPTER 205-NATIONAL
VOTER REGISTRATION
Criminal penalties
A person, including an election official, who in any election for
Federal office-
(1) knowingly and willfully intimidates, threatens, or coerces, or attempts to intimidate, threaten, or coerce,
any person for-
(A) registering to vote, or voting, or attempting to register or vote;
(B) urging or aiding any person to register to vote, to vote, or to attempt to register or vote; exercising any
right under this chapter; or
(C) exercising any right under this chapter; or
(2) knowingly and willfully deprives, defrauds, or attempts to
deprive or defraud the residents of a State of a fair and
impartially conducted election process, by-
(A) the procurement or submission of voter registration applications that are known by the person to be materially
false, fictitious, or fraudulent under the
laws of the State in which the election is held; or
(B) the procurement, casting, or tabulation of ballots that are known by the person to be materially false,
fictitious, or fraudulent under the laws of the State in which the election is held, shall be fined in accordance
with title 18 (which fines shall be paid into the general fund of the Treasury, miscellaneous receipts (pursuant
to section 3302 of title 31), notwithstanding any other law), or imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both."
Thomas737
theresa
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SOROS, One of the owners of Dominion and SmartMatic too...
Any one of these articles should be good for "Evidence".
Democrat Senators Elizabeth Warren, Amy Klobuchar and Ron Wyden ALL
WARNED the USA about DOMINION being a Security Problem in the Elections!
Even the New York Times warned the US....
This is the DEFINITION of FOREIGN ELECTION INTERFERENCE that the
Democrats Complained about for the past 5 years!!!
Paper ballots. On Election Day. In person. Valid ID. If it's that important to people, they will find a way.
Limited exceptions (deployed military, etc). Otherwise, make it a PRIORITY.
Gary Eaker
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Our Voting Systems are antiquated and insecure.
Complete Makeover Desperately needed.
Black Box Voting, Bev Harris, was in the forefront of that investigation, and alerted the
public to the dangers inherent these machines and the scumbags who run the companies that
make and program them. Harris's organization bills itself as nonpartisan.
And Jonathan Simon. Simon seemed like a very good guy, but he may be too partisan (high on
the Trump-Hate-o-Meter) to throw his intellect and experience into the current fight. I don't
know.
The wireless interface on these voting machines allows access by people sitting in
automobiles outside. I don't know if (some of) the machines are connected to the internet but
there is no "air gap" such as would prevent outside electronic access:
It's not a question of "mystery software" that can "hack voting machines." Try to keep
up.
Also, some counties in Michigan use Dominion but most of them do not I believe.
Only about half the state. Of the top fifteen counties, Wayne, Kent, Ingham, Saginaw, St
Clair, Jackson, and Berrien use Dominion. Oakland, Macomb, Genesee, Washtenaw, Ottawa,
Livingston and Muskegon use Hart InterCivic, and Kalamazoo uses ES&S.
@Skeptikal
ng all past Federal elections involving Dominion (and functionally identical) machines into
question. The claims might, if aggressively followed up, significantly thin Democratic
leadership. If the Democrats cannot quash this, it could be the end of the Democrats.
I have no particular objection to this, but the Democrats might (Who knows, ANTIFA might
cheer.). If the Democrats were frightened before, they're much more frightened now.
Frightened people act unpredictably. Unpredictable acts are particularly dangerous now
because the Democrats still control the cities and several states. Remember that the
Democrats, although visibly declining, are still immensely powerful. If a serious dispute
arises, try not to get stepped on by the combatants. If you have any way to support Trump,
this would be the time to support him.
As in his first two articles concerning the 2020 election, in this third article, Mr.
Titley utters false or questionable "facts" [ e.g. , misidentifies or fails to
account accurately the voting apparatus or vote-tabulation software that particular counties
or precincts used], and displays a deep, wide ignorance of pertinent law.
Mr. Titley's theme appears to misdirect attention to Dominion Voting Systems "voting
machines" themselves. Dominion Voting Systems "machines" are not designed to be
fraud-effecting devices. They were not devised to erase votes or create false
votes or ballots -- though some experts argue that Dominion "machines" bear program-glitches
that can cause tally-errors.
If (as seems to appear) massive fraud occurred with use of Dominion Voting Systems,"
either (a) individuals must have manually-manipulated or remotely-hacked the
Dominion "machines" or (b) vote-count-altering software -- e.g. ,
"Smartmatic" -- must have been loaded into, and operated upon, particular Dominion "machine"
systems.
According to Sidney Powell -- a previous Assistant United States Attorney and U.S. federal
district Appellate Section Chief and now a private practitioner -- the problem is software
named Smartmatic:
[S]oftware, dubbed Smartmatic, was designed for the sole purpose of shifting voting
results.
"It was a feature of the system that was designed with a back door, so that people could
watch in real time and calculate with an algorithm how many votes they needed to change to
make the results they wanted to create."
Mr. Titley says Sidney Powell is Trump's lead attorney. She is not such, but a simply a
Trump-legal-team member. Mr. Titley says Sidney Powell asserted:
"They need to investigate the likelihood that 3% of the vote total was changed in the
pre-election voting ballots that were collected digitally by using the Hammer program and
the software program called Scorecard. That would have amounted to a massive change in the
vote."
Sidney Powell has said also: (a) Evidence indicates that Smartmatic software was used not
only in Dominion Systems "machines", but also in electronic
voting/vote-tabulating "machines" other than Dominion; and (b) Smartmatic
software's election-fraud-effect requires human operation seeking to alter vote-outcomes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95WWSQFBVCo
Mr. Titley closes his article with this:
Criminal charges and indictments must be brought against one and all proved to be
involved in the attempt to circumvent the American election process.
That indictment: Treason.
Surely, much flagrant criminal conduct explains the egregious state of the 2020 election.
But "Treason" does not -- cannot :
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in
adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.
U.S. Constitution Article III, section 3, clause 1
Per Article III, section 3, clause 1, one cannot commit "Treason" against the United
States unless either
(a) one wages war against the United States -- as by fighting for a foreign state attacking
or attempting to attack the United States or by joining an armed insurrection (against the
U.S. government) or
(b) one adheres to -- adopts a supportive association with -- a foreign power engaged in open
hostility against the United States AND renders ACTIVE aid or comfort to the troops or other
belligerency-agents ( e.g. , spies, saboteurs) of that foreign power.
The Article III, section 3, clause 1 term "enemies,"applies only to troops or other
belligerency-agents of a foreign power manifesting a state of open hostility against the
United States; the term's denotation does not include U.S. domestic rebels engaged in
insurrection against the U.S. government.
But if an insurrection's armed forces form a "body politic" (as did the Confederacy of the
U.S. civil war), then such armed force's members are "enemies" per Article III, section 3,
clause 1, since such belligerent body politic is effectively a "foreign" power. And if one
adheres to such belligerent body politic and renders aid or comfort to its troops or other
belligerency-agents, one commits "Treason." But such belligerent body politic is not an
"enemy" unless its belligerency manifests as war (armed violent
belligerence).
Article III, section 3, clause 1 applies only to disloyal acts committed during time of
war or armed insurrection and in pursuit or support of such war or armed insurrection
-- NOT to disloyal speech or anti-government conduct occurring in peacetime (rather than in
war or armed insurrection).
Despite Democrats and their individual and corporate supporters appear to have tainted,
criminally, this year's voting or other election processes, the Democrats and their
supporters have NOT levied war or armed insurrection against the United States or given aid
or comfort to the troops or other belligerency-agents of a foreign power. Hence, their likely
crimes cannot be "Treason."
You misunderstand how scorecard works. It intercepts the data on the way to server and
changes it. The NSA has access to all internet traffic and most likely a back door that
allows them to defeat encryption. Recently, some hackers discovered a back door in RSA keys
which are used to encrypt internet traffic. It was patched but I'm sure there was either
another way in or a new one created. Since all data is transmitted to a known server they
would intercept all traffic to the server and modify it. TCP/IP is a protocol that has
nothing to do the originating operating system. By the way, although not necessary for
scorecard to work, many voting machines are connected to the internet. In a recent
independent audit the machines examined, which run Windows 10, were unpatched and open to
many know vulnerabilities. Windows 10 a virus in it's own right, connects to Microsoft
hundreds of times a day and transmits god knows what information. They also had unauthorized
software installed indicating that local users had administrative rights to the system.
Another little known fact is that modern Intel processors have their own cell modem. So even
without an internet connection it is still possible to hack into a computer. Since the
connection is low level, intrusion prevention software is unaware of the unauthorized
entry.
If anyone can provide any details as exactly when this took place, where and any detail as
to who the people are in this video please comment and I'll fill in the details.
@AReply s,
but not Trump's? Gore is every bit as much of a turd as Trump if not more so. The issue is
the same regardless of who is behind it. It is wrong and has to stop.
It will not stop until electronics are removed. Who says that you have to know who has won
the vote count before you go to bed? That is bullshit. More voting stations ensuring a voter
is entitled to vote with paper ballots and the results counted where cast with observers
signing off on the count will put a big screw into rigging. Elections ought not be instant
gratification. Democracy is supposed to require work.
Yes, I am aware American style democracy is the best money can buy, but returning to hand
counted paper is the first step of many, in re-claiming government.
Although the machines hacked are old, nevertheless this an amazing, stunning example of
incompetence or corruption of election officials all over the USA
O'Connor pushed her about her claims that computer software used in the election,
particularly Dominion Voting Systems, has been tainted, and he wondered how she would prove it.
For starters, Powell said that her legal team has pictures of votes being manipulated in
real-time.
"It is terrifying, and it is a huge national security issue," Powell said. "Why the
Department of Justice and FBI have not done something, Dominion is closing its offices and
moving. No doubt they're shredding documents. God only knows what else. More than 100 Dominion
people have wiped any connection with Dominion off the internet."
She also claims that they have testimony from witnesses opening military ballots and
trashing them if they were for Trump, and substitute ballots were put in for Biden.
"I'm essentially staking my personal and professional reputation on these allegations, and I
have no hesitation from what I've seen in doing so," she noted. "In fact, I think it would be
irresponsible if not criminal of me not to come forward with it."
She also says she would LOVE for Dominion to sue her over her allegations so she can conduct
civil discovery. Powell also reacted to Fox News host Tucker Carlson's criticism of her on his
program on Thursday night.
The Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
(CISA) issued a statement last week defending the integrity of the 2020 election. The problem,
however, is two of the main election software companies that have been called into question
– Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic – sit on CISA. And that information was
never disclosed, the
Epoch Times reported.
Below is the the joint statement put out by the Executive Committee of the Election
Infrastructure Government Coordinating Council (GCC) and the Election Infrastructure Sector
Coordinating Council (SCC):
"The November 3rd election was the most secure in American history. Right now, across the
country, election officials are reviewing and double checking the entire election process
prior to finalizing the result.
"When states have close elections, many will recount ballots. All of the states with close
results in the 2020 presidential race have paper records of each vote, allowing the ability
to go back and count each ballot if necessary. This is an added benefit for security and
resilience. This process allows for the identification and correction of any mistakes or
errors. There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or
was in any way compromised.
"Other security measures like pre-election testing, state certification of voting
equipment, and the U.S. Election Assistance Commission's (EAC) certification of voting
equipment help to build additional confidence in the voting systems used in 2020.
"While we know there are many unfounded claims and opportunities for misinformation about
the process of our elections, we can assure you we have the utmost confidence in the security
and integrity of our elections, and you should too. When you have questions, turn to
elections officials as trusted voices as they administer elections."
The two election software companies are members of the GCC's Sector Coordinating
Council:
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Arrikan, Inc./Chaves Consulting, Inc.
Associated Press (AP) Elections
BPro, Inc.
Clear Ballot Group
Crosscheck
DemTech Voting Solutions
Democracy Live
Democracy Works
DMF Associates
Dominion Voting Systems
Election Systems & Software (ES&S)
Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC)
Freeman, Craft, McGregor Group
Hart InterCivic
KNOWInk
Microsoft
Microvote General Corp.
NTS Data Services
PCC Technology Inc.
Pro V&V
Runbeck Election Services
SCYTL
SLI Compliance
Smartmatic
Tenex Software Solutions
The Canton Group
Unisyn Voting Solutions
Voatz
VOTEC
Votem
Voting Works
VR Systems
According to the Election Infrastructure Subsector Coordinating Council
Charter , the goal of the group is to "advance the physical security, cyber security, and
emergency preparedness of the nation's election infrastructure, in accordance with existing
U.S. law" and "serve as the primary liaison between the election subsector and federal,
state, and local agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), concerning
private election subsector security and emergency preparedness issues."
CISA's goal , on the
other hand, is to work "collaboratively with those on the front lines of elections -- state
and local governments, election officials, federal partners, and vendors -- to manage risks
to the Nation's election infrastructure
State and local election officials decide what voting software and programs to use and
CISA has no control over that.
Interestingly enough, I received an email tonight from Dominion about "setting the record
straight." They cited the above statement as reason to trust them but failed to disclose
their CISA connection.
Here's some of the bigger points made in their email:
Dominion Voting Systems categorically denies false assertions about vote switching and
software issues with our voting systems.
According to a
Joint Statement by the federal government agency that oversees U.S. election security,
the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity, & Infrastructure Security Agency
(CISA): "There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes,
or was in any way compromised." The government & private sector councils that support
this mission called the 2020 election "
the most secure in American history ."
...
3) Dominion is a nonpartisan U.S. company
Dominion has no ownership relationships with the Pelosi family, Feinstein family,
Clinton Global Initiative, Smartmatic, Scytl, or any ties to Venezuela. Dominion works with
all U.S. political parties; our customer base and our government outreach practices reflect
this nonpartisan approach.
As reported by the
Associated Press , "Dominion made a one-time philanthropic commitment at a Clinton
Global Initiative meeting in 2014, but the Clinton Foundation has no stake or involvement
in Dominion's operations, the nonprofit has confirmed." The meeting included bipartisan
attendees focused on international democracy-building.
There have been no "raids" of Dominion servers by the U.S. military or otherwise, and
Dominion does not have servers in Germany.
...
7) Assertions of voter fraud conspiracies are 100% false
All U.S. voting systems must provide assurance that they work accurately and reliably as
intended under federal
U.S. EAC and state certification and testing requirements. Election safeguards -- from
testing and certification of voting systems, to canvassing and auditing -- prevent
malicious actors from tampering with vote counts and ensure that final vote tallies are
accurate. Read more from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency .
This isn't the first time Dominion's software has been called into question. Democrats
voiced concern over the software last December. The Denver Post
warned about their election security earlier this year. The Michigan GOP
said a software glitch caused 6,000 votes to flip from Trump to Biden, although the
Michigan Secretary of State
said that wasn't the case. It's
one of the reasons Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said the legal process needs to play out in the
courts.
Trump campaign counsel repeatedly accused Dominion and its officers of criminal conduct and
business improprieties. Those are categories of "per se defamation" under the common law. No
special damages must be shown in such per se cases. Individual officers could bring defamation
claims and the company itself could bring a business disparagement action.
Businesses can be defamed like individuals if the false statement injures the business
character of the corporation or its prestige and standing in the industry. In Dun &
Bradstreet, Inc. v. Greenmoss Builders, Inc ., 472 U.S. 749 (1985) the Supreme Court allowed a
business to sue a credit reporting agency for defamation where the agency mistakenly reported
that the business had filed for bankruptcy.
Restatement Second § 561 Defamation of Corporations states:
"One who publishes defamatory matter concerning a corporation is subject to liability to
it
(a) if the corporation is one for profit, and the matter tends to prejudice it in the
conduct of its business or to deter others from dealing with it, or
(b) if, although not for profit, it depends upon financial support from the public, and
the matter tends to interfere with its activities by prejudicing it in public
estimation."
There could be lawsuits in Colorado or the place of the alleged defamation. The lawsuit
would likely be filed under state law but moved to federal court under diversity jurisdiction
arguments.
The press conference was an explosion of potentially defamatory claims by individuals or
companies. The only clear defense is truth. The team insists that it can prove these
allegations. It may have to do so. Not only can the individual lawyers face such lawsuits but
the Trump campaign itself could be liable under the principle of respondeat superior, where an
employer is liable for the conduct of his employees when they are acting within the scope of
their employment. Ironically, the Latin term means "let the master speak." The President or his
campaign could be forced to speak in a defamation case if they have not spoken in the promised
court filings.
" The maintenance of Americans' constitutional rights should not depend on the good
graces and sketchy ethics of a handful of well-connected corporations who have stonewalled
Congress, lied to Congress, and have questionable judgment when it comes to security
"
-Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore)
Barely two weeks ago allegations that the 2020 US Presidential election had been rigged on
behalf of DNC presidential spawn Joe Biden were met with almost universal scepticism. This past
week may have changed that.
In the
article of Monday, Nov 9 the author examined the problems with the mail-in ballot totals in
the five key swing states and the legal and legislative challenges to them including re-counts
and the SCOTUS intervention of the PA Supreme Court.
The subject of alleged DNC election fraud has now shifted to an examination of the machines
that count each ballot and render the results. The voter is supposed to believe that Joe Biden
defeated Trump and at the same time lost seats in the US House and state legislatures. This is
possible but highly improbable.
Today, Nov 17, in preparation for a multi-state legal challenge to results created by these
voting machines, lead Trump attorney and former Assistant US Attorney Sidney Powell, said:
"They need to investigate the likelihood that 3% of the vote total was changed in the
pre-election voting ballots that were collected digitally by using the Hammer program and the
software program called Scorecard. That would have amounted to a massive change in the
vote."
Here, begins that examination. As shown, there is reason for concern.
Numbers don't lie. Mounting evidence to date suggests that voting machines do, particularly
the ones sold by Dominion Voting Systems Inc. As the third part of this chronology begins it
has now become obvious that Trump's campaign operatives expected election fraud. They have
since very quickly brought legal challenges to bear in AZ, GA, MI, PA, WI, and NV. However,
most of this news first circled around only the mail-in ballots.
From Trump's perspective, as of this writing, 87,804 (WI-20,540; GA-14,045; PA- 53,219) are
needed to flip the election. MI is the toughest and shows Biden up by a reported 146,123
votes.
Interestingly, regarding the numbers in each state- and AZ- the Dominion voting machine's
results are in dispute in all. Whereas, the proceedings regarding the mail-in ballots
may provide a switch of perhaps thousands of votes, issues with the Dominion machines,
if proven, could be in the 100's of Thousands. Or More.
This past week, evidence is surfacing.
Before 2020:Warning Signs
Days before the 2020 election important news was buried. On September 30 a report in the
Philadelphia Inquirerdetailed that"a laptop and several memory
sticks" used to program Dominion voting machines in Philadelphia had mysteriously
vanished.
But concerns about Dominion had begun far earlier.
The U.S. Constitution leaves election management up to state and local officials, so voting
systems and protocols vary across thousands of jurisdictions. Partly for this reason, a 2019
investigation was launched by senators Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Ron
Wyden (D-Ore.), and other Democratic lawmakers into the three largest suppliers of US digital
voting machines, Dominion Voting Systems, Election Systems & Software, and Hart InterCivic.
Together they hold over 92% of all US distribution of voting machines.
"(W)e have concerns about the spread and effect of private equity investment including the
election technology industry -- an integral part of our nation's democratic process These
problems threaten the integrity of our elections and demonstrate the importance of election
systems that are strong, durable, and not vulnerable to attack."
The Committee revealed that the Dominion machines were vulnerable to internal and internet
hacking. Because all these machines interface their ballot totals via wireless digital modem
external interference is all too possible. Further concerns were
provided by NBC news in very early 2020.
In the State of
Texas , well before the 2020 election Dominion Voting Systems and their proprietary
"Dominion Democracy Suite 5.5 " was rejected three times. From the summary:
"The reports identified multiple hardware and software issues that preclude the Office of
the Texas Secretary of State from determining that the Democracy Suite 5.5-A system satisfies
each of the voting-system requirements Specifically, [if] the system is suitable for its
intended purpose; operates efficiently and accurately; and is safe from fraudulent or
unauthorized manipulation."
Previously, Federal regulation attempts on voting machines in 2018 were fruitless since this
was opposed by some state election officials and the White House on the grounds that it would
impose on states' rights.
A prudent measure that had some bipartisan support ( S. 2593 in the 115th Congress )
ended up going nowhere. Introduced by Sen. James Lankford
(R-Okla.) this bill would have required voting machines to produce a printout to let election
officials confirm electronic votes. Lankford and Wyden had said that they intended to
reintroduce paper-trail bills. They did not.
The Penn Wharton Public Policy Initiative published
a report that explored their attempts to look into Dominion and other voting companies:
"Part of the challenge is that it is difficult to compile even basic facts about it. The
industry earns an estimated $300 million in revenue annually is dominated by three firms [and
is] limiting the amount of information available in the public domain about their operations
and financial performance."
Nonetheless, Republicans and Democrats agreed in a 2018 omnibus bill ( Public Law 115-141 ) to
divide among the states $380 million for voting system upgrades. Georgia's legislature also
approved a plan to spend as much as $150 million on equipment that cybersecurity researchers
say is still
hackable . Most of that equipment was supplied by Dominion.
According to Business Insider , Georgia "became the only state in the country last year
to overhaul its entire election system, paying Denver-based Dominion Voting Systems $106
million for new voting machines, printers and scanners."
The NY Times reported that some Democrats in the Georgia Legislature opposed
purchasing the Dominion system and there is "some evidence that heavy lobbying and sales
tactics have played a role in their adoption in Georgia and elsewhere."
In hotly contested Georgia, during 2019's test run a
now-deleted Atlanta Journal Constitution article detailed "a glitch" that surfaced
when six counties tested the Dominion system. The problem occurred in at least four of the six
counties where the
new voting system was being
tested before being used statewide during the March 24 presidential primary. The problems
weren't rectified by primary date, which was moved to June due to the coronavirus pandemic.
According to the New York
Times :
"Georgia's statewide primary elections on Tuesday were overwhelmed by a full-scale
meltdown of new voting systems Scores of new state-ordered voting machines were reported to
be missing or malfunctioning, and hours-long lines materialized at polling places across
Georgia. Some people gave up and left before casting a ballot Predominantly black areas
experienced some of the worst problems.
Who is Dominion?
Dominion Voting Systems is a company from Toronto, Canada , that has headquarters in Denver, Colorado, and is
one of the three major firms providing voting machines in U.S. elections. The others are
Election Systems & Software, and Hart InterCivic with ES&C in the top spot and Dominion
at number two.
A
2014 form filed with the State of California says Dominion was founded in 2003 in Canada
and in 2009 moved to the U.S. Its principal officers were listed as John Poulos, CEO; Ian
MacVicar, CFO; and James Hoover, vice president of product line management. Dominion Voting Systems , claims to work with 1300
voting jurisdictions including nine of the 20 largest counties in the nation.
Dominion produced the software used in MI , GA and all the remaining states in question.
Like many corporations, Dominion purchased influence in congress. Bloomberg reported in
April of last year that Dominion hired lobbying firm, Brownstein Farber Hyatt & Schreck.
House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi's former chief of staff, Nadeam Elshami, is one of the lobbyists
for that firm.
At the state level, Dominion employs eight registered lobbyists in GA alone. They include
Lewis Abit Massey ,
a former Democratic Georgia Secretary of State, and Jared Thomas, former chief of staff for
Republican Governor Brian Kemp.
ES&S also has its own lobbying effort recently adding Peck Madigan Jones to the
lobbying firm Vectre Corp. ES&S paid Vectre $80,000 during the last three months of
2018 alone. According to the Washington Post, Dominion also reported donating in between
$25,001-$50,000 to the Clinton Foundation. Why the Clinton Foundation?
Locations of US
voting machines: Dominion is shown in Orange; ES&S in Blue. (Source: Penn Warton)
The news site, Truthout, reported that Dominion "was recently acquired by New York-based hedge
fund Staple Street Capital." An executive board member of Staple Street Capital, William Earl Kennard , is a
former ambassador to the EU who was appointed to that
position by Barack Obama. In 2018,
Dominion publicly announced it had been acquired by its management team and Staple Street
Capital.
Interestingly, on November 6, Deadline reported that
Kennard was named to the board of WarnerMedia parent company to AT&T, which owns CNN .
Long ago, Dominion earned $44 million in 2012. It listed its addresses for manufacturing and
development as Toronto; Belgrade, Serbia; Denver; Plano, Texas; and Baldwin Park, California. A
2020 filing lists their registered agent as
Cogency Global in Florida. Its directors were listed as Hootan Yaghoobzadeh of Staple Street
Capital, Stephen Owens , also
of Staple Street, and Benjamin Humphreys. Yaghoobzadeh and Owens both have past ties to the
Carlyle Group investment firm. In 2015, Carlyle was the world's largest private equity
firm.
" Glitches."
Beyond the reports of problems with the mail-in ballots, in the aftermath of the election
two weeks ago, the independent reports of voting machine irregularities have in combination
developed serious concerns about Dominion and their software that they feature as "Democracy
Suite 5.5." All of these problems favored Biden, never Trump.
First, on Tuesday, in the wee hours of the morning Dominion machines
erroneously gave Democratic candidate Joe Biden a 3,000 plus vote advantage in Antrim
County, MI. After a manual recount of the votes, officials posted updated results showing
President Trump won the county with 9,783 votes making up 56.46% of ballots cast. Joe Biden
earned 7,289 votes or 42.07%. CNN "went blue" for Biden before the error was
discovered.
With the machine results being utterly mathematically disconnected to the hand-count tally
Antrim County officials have blamed the county's election software saying totals counted did
not match tabulator tapes.
In Oakland County, Michigan, according to the Royal Oak Tribune another glitch in a
completely different ballot counting system, Hart Intercivic, switched over 1,200 Republican
votes to Democrat. The switch initially caused County Commissioner Adam Kochenderfer to lose.
Once the glitch was found, and the votes were properly attributed, Kochenderfer went from
losing by 100 votes to winning by over 1,100. Hart uses its proprietary system called Verity.
Eleven Michigan counties use Hart's systems
Back in GA, voters were unable to cast machine ballots for a couple of hours in Morgan and
Spalding counties after the electronic devices crashed, state officials said. In response to
the delays, Superior Court Judge W. Fletcher Sams extended voting until 11 p.m.
The companies "uploaded something last night, which is not normal, and it caused a
glitch," said Marcia Ridley, elections supervisor at Spalding County Board of Elections.
Ridley said that a representative from Dominion called her after poll workers began having
problems with the equipment Tuesday morning and said the problem was due to an upload to the
machines by one of their technicians overnight. Said Ridley,
"That is something that they don't ever do. I've never seen them update anything the day
before the election."
There is a reason for Ridley's observation. By GA law the machines are supposed to be
certified for accurate use by the state before the election day. How was this possible with
Dominion uploading data unknown during that night?
This matter may be far from over in GA. Trump has already filed for an injunction, per state
statute, which cites, "These vote tabulator failures are a mechanical malfunction that,
under MCL 168.831-168.839, requires a "special election" in the precincts affected." The
keyword here is precincts. Plural.
In Oakland County Michigan, Dominion machine errors resulted in a Democrat being wrongly
declared the winner of a commissioner's race by 104 votes – only to have their seat flip
back to the rightful Republican candidate after the error was caught.
More importantly, Wisconsin reports came in that showed that the vote totals for Rock County
appeared to be switched between President Trump and Joe Biden. 9,516 votes were eliminated from
President Trump and moved to Joe Biden. If this one report is proved true, then the 19,032-vote
shift would nearly wipe-out, of its own, Biden's reported 20,540 vote lead in Wisconsin and his
electoral votes.
Pennsylvania and its twenty electoral votes are also hotly in contention. Dominion machines
are being used in Armstrong, Carbon, Clarion, Crawford, Dauphin, Delaware, Erie, Fayette,
Fulton, Luzerne, Montgomery, Pike, Warren, York counties.
State Sen. Kristin Phillips-Hill, R-York, says she started getting calls shortly after the
polls opened Tuesday morning that the machines were jamming and causing delays.
Phillips also highlighted another problem. "If that ballot is rejected, for example, if
they over-voted for county commissioner, and that ballot is rejected, then that person has no
way of knowing that their vote has been invalidated. That's not acceptable," she said.
Due to Dominion machine delays, PA election officials admitted that if ballots could not be
immediately scanned by the machines, those ballots were instead stored so they could be counted
later in "emergency holding boxes will be scanned at the polling places."
Those "stored" ballots were not always scanned. The Pennsylvania GOP had to
bring a lawsuit to ensure that all York County ballots were counted. These had been placed
in suitcases quickly purchased by Dominion and none were scanned.
AZ is also reporting problems. Boasts Dominion's website: "Arizona: "Serving 2.2 million
Maricopa County voters with Democracy Suite 5.5 "
Yep. Maricopa County. The contested county where this week, Arizona GOP Chair Rae Chorenky
was been forced to resign after failing to sign the required Certificate of Accuracy for the
Dominion voting machines.
Concerns Mount.
The key difficulty in examining potential election fraud by Dominion and possibly their
counterparts is in going beyond isolated incidents and establishing a systemic fraud. One
safety mechanism Dominion and other providers tout is that while voters might make their
choices on a touchscreen machine, a paper ballot with a bar code is printed out where the voter
can confirm their choices before inputting the paper ballot into a machine. Here's the problem,
according to a US News story :
"[The machines] register votes in bar codes that the human eye cannot decipher. That's a
problem, researchers say: Voters could end up with printouts that accurately spell out the
names of the candidates they picked, but, because of a hack, the bar codes do not reflect
those choices. Because the bar codes are what's tabulated, voters would never know that their
ballots benefited another candidate."
These bar codes are vitally important to the subject of election fraud. They are also of
great interest to Ray Lutz of California based Citizen's Oversight.
For those unfamiliar with Lutz and Citizen's, his organization has garnered great
respect across the state for, among other examples, championing the successful closure of the
San Onofre Nuclear Generation Station (SONGS) and next the exposure of demonstrative election
fraud in the 2016 California primary that tipped the scales for Hillary Clinton rather than
Bernie Sanders. Lutz is no stranger to using the courts effectively for the public good.
To this end, Lutz just a month before the election announced the launch of Citizen's new
ballot checking software called AuditEngine . In reply to an inquiry for data,
Lutz said,
"We are still gathering information at this time. We may have a lawsuit in NC to get poll
tapes data. Also, we will be seriously looking at PA."
In a press release this week Lutz forewarned:
"Ballot images can thwart changes to paper ballots, magically losing or finding new
ballots in the recount. Citizens' Oversight today sent a request to keep the images By
preserving the ballot images, we can make sure the paper ballots recounted in Georgia match
ballot images that were made on election night, and are not modified by any unscrupulous
campaign operatives."
As Citizen's takes a closer look at GA and possibly PA while others examine the swing
states, the likely hood of this showing a massive shift towards Trump in every state is a
difficult proposition. However, in the era of the citizen investigator, the work of one
anonymous source is picking up traction, so much so that many alternative media sources are
quoting it, as is the Trump campaign.
The methodology of this investigation is thorough but needs corroboration by experts.
However, the person releasing this analysis obtained the same data as was
captured by the New York Times on election night from Edison Research. It is the same data
that was used for election coverage by ABC News, CBS News, CNN and NBC News. The report
provides a careful and plausible methodology and a state-by-state list of votes switched from
Trump to Biden and of votes simply erased by
Dominion machines. His results show discrepancies- some very large- in every state and
particularly in GA and PA where, if proven, those states would flip for Trump.
Following the Dots Down the Rabbit Hole?
For the reader who cares to look beyond "Plausible Deniability" and connect the dots
of possibility, days before the election of Nov 3 Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney (Ret.) cast his own
suspicions that were in keeping with the charges levelled today by Sidney Powell.
McInerney stated he was warned in 2018 by Admiral James Aloysius "Ace" Lyons Jr., just
before his death, that a plot to fix the 2020 election was in the works. Lyons served as
Commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet from 1985 to 1987. He also wrote a column about Seth Rich
being the one who leaked the 2016 DNC email tranche that blew HRC out of the water and which
The Washington Times deleted.
McInerney, although previously discredited for his backing of the 2002 Iraq "weapons of
mass destruction" claims, thus described the two US/ CIA covert operations called
"Hammer" and "Scorecard." Both were designed for the CIA in the aftermath of
9/11.
The author has verified the existence of both programs.
" The Hammer" is a counter-intelligence surveillance program used to spy on
activities carried out through protected networks (like voting machines) without detection.
"Scorecard" is a vote-manipulation application that changes votes during data transfer.
Adding credence to the allegations of both men is a previous report by Alan Jones and Mary
Fanning of the American Report that was published on March 17, 2017 . The claims in that report
mirror those of Lyons and McInerney and refer to the information provided by the man who
designed both Hammer and Scorecard, Dennis Montgomery, who has turned whistleblower.
Montgomery states that Hammer and Scorecard were designed by him under the supervision of
the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper and then CIA director John Brennan.
In a subsequent article, The American Report connects the dots from Brennan and Clapper to
Christopher Krebs, currently the head of the DHS's Cyber Security and Infrastructure Agency
(CISA). It should be noticed that it is Krebs who has in recent days been the DHS point man for
denying any and all allegations of election fraud as an MSM spokesperson on the matter.
[Breaking News: Moments ago, Trump fired Christopher Krebs effective immediately]
John Brennan, James Clapper and Krebs are all DNC disciples and have been vociferous in
their public disdain for Trump over the past four years. With this and the week's
aforementioned national news in mind, next came the news yesterday, that Sidney Powell
considered the reports about Hammer and Scorecard credible, saying on Fox News, that,
" it explains a lot of what we're seeing All of those districts need to be checked for the
software glitch that would change the vote for Michigan dramatically. The same thing is
happening in other states. We've had hundreds of thousands of ballots appear for solely Mr
Biden which is statistically impossible as a matter of mathematics. It can all be documented
it is being put in files that we will file in federal court."
As if this all were not enough to create bi-partisan concern for the 2020 election, just
moments ago it was revealed that a memory card was found during the audit in Fayette county GA
with 2,755 votes, most of them for Trump. The news comes one day after
2,600 uncounted ballots were found on another memory card in Floyd County, GA – which
were also mostly cast for President Trump.
The new margin total statewide in GA is now a 12,929 lead for Biden.
Observers might notice that there does not appear to be any sense of panic by the Trump
campaign, nor their lawyers and that all have so far moved methodically via the courts and in
announcing the steady stream of reported violations.
Certainly, Trump has lost in some court proceedings so far, but the big cases, such as the
SCOTUS intervention with the rulings of the lower PA Supreme Court are still in play as are the
states final vote certification, the results of which preclude further legal action.
[Breaking News: Officials in Wayne County, Michigan – home to the city of
Detroit, have refused to certify the results of the Nov. 3 election.]
As suggested in the first article in this series, "Trump's (64Day) Election
End Game" Trump continues to play the long game at least until the Jan 6 meeting of the
Electoral College in Wash. DC. Since the time of that article, the subject of the Electoral
College has been examined across the nation's news media and transformed from skepticism to
probability.
What should become most important, if these many allegations come together as substantial
truth, is that the issue of 2020 Election fraud must become a bi-partisan issue and
quickly.
As was suggested in the previous article, "Of
Color Revolutions, Foreign and Domestic," the advent of America's own color revolution
may be at hand and become the most significant threat to America since the civil war. To view
this only as an indictment of one party allows those loyal to that party to ignore
consideration of facts. This will only split the country further.
To prevent a US color revolution, the one the Dems are already calling, "Purple,"
there must be a bi-partisan investigation by both sides of the aisle that transcends party
loyalty to that of the priority of saving the country. Not Joe Biden. Not Donald Trump.
Criminal charges and indictments must be brought against one and all proved to be involved in
the attempt to circumvent the American election process.
That indictment: Treason.
About the Author: Brett Redmayne-Titley has authored and published over 180
in-depth articles over the past twelve years. Many have been translated and republished
worldwide. He can be reached at: live-on-scene ((at)) gmx.com. Prior articles can be viewed at
his archive:www.watchingromeburn.uk
Dominion Voting Systems has denied several times to media outlets that its software and
devices are not secure or that they were used to switch votes.
"Dominion Voting Systems categorically denies false assertions about vote switching issues
with our voting systems," the company said in a statement . "Vote deletion/switching assertions
are completely false."
"No credible reports or evidence of any software issues exist," the company stated, adding,
"Human errors related to reporting tabulated results have arisen in a few counties, including
some using Dominion equipment, but appropriate procedural actions were made by the county to
address these errors were made prior to the canvass process."
A national coalition that includes the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and
Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the National Association of State Election Directors
said there is a lack of evidence supporting the claim that voting software deleted or switched
votes in the election.
"There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in
any way compromised," a
joint statement from the coalition said, and called the 2020 election "the most secure in
American history."
Dominion Voting Systems
is a member of CISA's Election Infrastructure Sector Coordinating Council, one of two
entities that authored the statement put out by CISA.
Trainor, in earlier remarks to Newsmax, said he believes locations where poll watchers were
not allowed "meaningful access" to observe vote tabulation could be involved in voter
fraud.
"I do believe that there is voter fraud taking place in these places," Trainor
told the outlet . "Otherwise they would allow the observers to go in."
The official referred to a case in Pennsylvania, where a court ordered them to allow the
Trump campaign to have poll observers watch from six feet away, but the order was defied.
"They have not been allowed that meaningful access," Trainor said, adding that if the law
was broken in this regard, the election was "illegitimate."
Smartmatic electric voting systems was founded by three Venezuelan engineers and
incorporated in Delaware . Smartmatic established its headquarters in Boca Raton,
Florida.
The Miami Herald has reported that the Government of Venezuela may own up to 28% of
Smartmatic, through an acquisition of another company named Bizta, and operated by two of the
same owners of Smartmatic.
Other reports say Bizta has repurchased those shares from Smartmatic. Regardless,
Smartmatic and Bizta partnered with Venezuela telephone giant CANTV to supply Venezuela with
voting machines and software as far back as 2004.
Welcome AMERICA To the Venezuela Election Experience
This election has ripped the band-aid off the ridiculous claims from the Left that voting
fraud is non-existent. Quote Tweet Heather Mullins - Real America's Voice (RAV-TV) @TalkMullins
· 4h BREAKING! Floyd County, GA: Nearly 2600 votes discovered in hand count that weren't
counted on election night. Most for Trump.
Election officials are working with Dominion Voting
Systems to determine what happened.
@GaSecofState is sending an investigator tomorrow.
Something fishy here. Usually voting machines are a CIA/NSA home playing field. Why Chavez wanted to play on other side field,
wher he has huge disadvanrtage, in not very clear.
Another interesting question is why poor countries buy this expensive crap. Why they need voting machines at all?
Notable quotes:
"... "I was witness to the creation and operation of a sophisticated electronic voting system that permitted the leaders of the Venezuelan government to manipulate the tabulation of votes for national and local elections and select the winner of those elections in order to gain and maintain their power," the affidavit states. ..."
WASHINGTON -- Trump campaign lawyer and former federal prosecutor Sidney Powell released an
affidavit on Nov. 16, from an alleged whistleblower who claims to have witnessed how election
software secretly manipulates votes without leaving a trace.
The whistleblower -- who says his or her background is with the Venezuelan military,
including the national security guard detail of the Venezuelan president -- outlines an alleged
conspiracy between Smartmatic software executives, former Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez, and
that country's election officials, to ensure Chavez won reelections and retained power for
years. The whistleblower said he was present at multiple meetings.
The Epoch Times was not able to independently verify the claims.
"I was witness to the creation and operation of a sophisticated electronic voting system
that permitted the leaders of the Venezuelan government to manipulate the tabulation of votes
for national and local elections and select the winner of those elections in order to gain and
maintain their power," the affidavit states.
"From that point on, Chavez never lost any election. In fact, he was able to ensure wins for
himself, his party, Congress persons and mayors from townships."
The whistleblower claimed the "software and fundamental design of the electronic electoral
system and software of Dominion and other election tabulating companies relies upon software
that is a descendant of the Smartmatic Electoral Management System."
"In short, the Smartmatic software is in the DNA of every vote tabulating company's software
and system, "the whistleblower said.
The affidavit alleges that Dominion is one of three major companies that tabulates votes in
the United States. Powell said in
a Nov. 15 interview, "We're getting ready to overturn election results in multiple states." She
claimed that the U.S. election software switched "millions of votes" from Trump to Biden.
The whistleblower claims that Smartmatic created a system that anonymized the voters'
choices inside the machine and then spat out the desired outcome by the end of the election
day. No vote could be traced back to an individual voter.
In the April 2013 Venezuelan election, the affidavit states, the conspirators had to take
the internet down for two hours to reset the machines, as Nicolás Maduro was losing by
too many votes to Henrique Capriles Radonski.
The whistleblower alleged that Chavez eventually exported the software to Bolivia,
Nicaragua, Argentina, Ecuador, and Chile.
A Dominion Voting Systems
spokesperson said on Nov. 12 that the company "categorically denies any claims about any
vote switching or alleged software issues with our voting systems."
"Our systems continue to reliably and accurately count ballots, and state and local election
authorities have publicly confirmed the integrity of the process," the spokesperson said in a
statement to the Denver
Post .
This article and headline was revised at 10 p.m. on Nov. 16 to remove a section pending
further verification.
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What the agency failed to disclose, however, is that Dominion Voting Systems, along with
Smartmatic, is a member of CISA's Election Infrastructure Sector Coordinating Council - one
of the two entities that authored the statement put out by CISA.
8) On Nov. 13, Dominion sent us an email titled "SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT" which cited the
joint statement published by GCC and SCC. Dominion cited the CISA statement as exoneration
but failed to disclose that the statement was written by a Council of which it was part.
9) Additionally, while it remains unclear whether CISA and the GCC/SCC have evaluated
concerns raised in the Georgia lawsuit, their public statements categorically deny any
problems with the systems. 5 320 1K
10) On Oct 11, Judge Totenberg wrote that the case presented "serious system security
vulnerability and operational issues that may place Plaintiffs and other voters at risk of
deprivation of their fundamental right to cast an effective vote that is accurately counted."
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Pre-Election Concerns Over Dominion Voting Systems Highlighted in Georgia Lawsuit
Cyber security expert raised concerns over integrity of system, including external
vulnerabilities, in sworn statement BY JEFF CARLSON November 12, 2020 Updated:
November 12, 2020 Print
Software and equipment from Dominion Voting Systems, used in this month's presidential
election, has been the source of ongoing controversy, with one legal declaration made by a poll
observer of Georgia 's
statewide primary earlier this year highlighting multiple problems.
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced the state's purchase of a
$106 million election system from Dominion Voting Systems in July 2019. In a lawsuit, which
originated in
2017, critics
contend that the new system was subject to many of the same security vulnerabilities as the
one it was replacing.
In an Oct. 11 order ,
just weeks prior to the presidential election, U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg agreed with
the concerns associated with the new Dominion voting system, writing that
the case presented "serious system security vulnerability and operational issues that may place
Plaintiffs and other voters at risk of deprivation of their fundamental right to cast an
effective vote that is accurately counted."
"The Court's Order has delved deep into the true risks posed by the new BMD voting system as
well as its manner of implementation. These risks are neither hypothetical nor remote under the
current circumstances," Judge Totenberg wrote in her order.
Despite the court's misgivings, Totenberg ruled against replacing the Dominion system right
before the presidential election, noting that
"Implementation of such a sudden systemic change under these circumstances cannot but cause
voter confusion and some real measure of electoral disruption."
Concerns Over Election
Systems
In an Aug. 24 declaration
from Harri Hursti, an acknowledged expert on electronic voting
security , provided a first-hand description of problems he observed during the June 9
statewide primary election in Georgia and the runoff elections on Aug. 11.
Hursti had been "authorized as an expert inspecting and observing under the Coalition for
Good Governance's Rule 34 Inspection request in certain polling places and the Fulton County
Election Preparation Center."
Hursti summarized his findings as follows:
"The scanner and tabulation software settings being employed to determine which votes to
count on hand marked paper ballots are likely causing clearly intentioned votes not to be
counted"
"The voting system is being operated in Fulton County in a manner that escalates the
security risk to an extreme level."
"Voters are not reviewing their BMD [Ballot Marking Devices] printed ballots, which
causes BMD generated results to be un-auditable due to the untrustworthy audit trail."
During observation at Peachtree Christian Church in Atlanta, Georgia, Hursti noted that the
"scanner would vary in the amount of time that it took to accept or reject a ballot."
Hursti stated that a dedicated system should not experience variable delays and noted that
"we are always suspicious about any unexpected variable delays, as those are common telltale
signs of many issues, including a possibility of unauthorized code being executed."
Hursti observed varying processing times at different locations, further raising concerns as
identical physical devices "should not behave differently while performing the identical task
of scanning a ballot."
Hursti stated in his sworn statement that his presence was requested by two poll watchers at
the Fanplex polling location who were observing certain unexplained anomalies. Upon arriving,
Hursti observed that for "reasons unknown, on multiple machines, while voters were attempting
to vote, the ballot marking devices sometimes printed 'test' ballots."
As Hursti noted, "during the election day, the ballot marking device should not be
processing or printing any ballot other than the one the voter is voting." Hursti stated that
this was indicative of a "wrong configuration" given to the Ballot Marking Device.
The issue also raised other questions in his mind:
"Why didn't the device print only test ballots?"
"How can the device change its behavior in the middle of the election day?"
"Is the incorrect configuration originating from the Electronic Pollbook System?"
"What are the implications for the reliability of the printed ballot and the QR code
being counted?"
Wholesale Outsourcing of Operation
During the runoff elections, on the night of Aug. 11, 2020, Hursti was present at the Fulton
County Election Preparation Center to observe the "upload of the memory devices coming in from
the precincts to the Dominion Election Management System [EMS] server." During this
observation, Hursti noted that "system problems were recurring and the Dominion technicians
operating the system were struggling with the upload process."
Hursti also noted that it appeared that Dominion personnel were the only ones with knowledge
of, and access to, the Dominion server. As Hursti stated in his declaration, "In my
conversations with Derrick Gilstrap and other Fulton County Elections Department EPC personnel,
they professed to have limited knowledge of or control over the EMS server and its
operations."
Hursti noted that this wholesale outsourcing of the operation of voting equipment to the
vendor's personnel was "highly unusual in my experience and of grave concern from a security
and conflict of interest perspective." Hursti referred to Dominion's onsite operation and
access as "an elevated risk factor."
Hursti also noted that the Dell computers running the Dominion server appeared not to have
been "hardened" -- the process of "securing a system by reducing its surface of vulnerability."
Hursti said that he found it "unacceptable for an EMS server not to have been hardened prior to
installation."
A 'Major Deficiency'
In addition to the hardening problems, Hursti observed that computers used in Georgia's
system for vote processing appeared to have "home/small business companion software packages"
on them. This raised areas of significant concern for Hursti as he noted:
"[O]ne of the first procedures of hardening is removal of all unwanted software, and removal
of those game icons and the associated games and installers alongside with all other software
which is not absolutely needed in the computer for election processing purposes would be one of
the first and most basic steps in the hardening process. In my professional opinion,
independent inquiry should be promptly made of all 159 counties to determine if the Dominion
systems statewide share this major deficiency."
In addition to the software packages noted above, Hursti discovered that one of the
computers had an icon for a 2017 computer game called "Homescapes" which Hursti noted called
into question whether "all Georgia Dominion system computers have the same operating system
version, or how the game has come to be having a presence in Fulton's Dominion voting
system."
Hursti also found a troubling blend of old and new equipment which carried additional
security risks due to a lack of patch updates:
"Although this Dominion voting system is new to Georgia, the Windows 10 operating system of
at least the 'main' computer in the rack has not been updated for 4 years and carries a wide
range of well-known and publicly disclosed vulnerabilities."
Hursti noted that the lack of "hardening" created security risks even for computers that
were not connected to the internet. He observed that when flash drives were connected to the
server, the "media was automounted by the operating system. When the operating system is
automounting a storage media, the operating system starts automatically to interact with the
device."
Hursti noted that the management of Fulton County's EMS server appeared to be an "ad hoc
operation with no formalized process." This seemed particularly apparent in relation to the
process of storage media coming in from various precincts throughout the night:
"This kind of operation i[s] naturally prone to human errors. I observed personnel calling
on the floor asking if all vote carrying compact flash cards had been delivered from the early
voting machines for processing, followed by later finding additional cards which had been
overlooked in apparent human error. Later, I heard again one technician calling on the floor
asking if all vote carrying compact flashes had been delivered. This clearly demonstrates lack
of inventory management which should be in place to ensure, among other things, that no rogue
storage devices would be inserted into the computer. In response, 3 more compact flash cards
were hand-delivered. Less than 5 minutes later, I heard one of the county workers say that
additional card was found and was delivered for processing. All these devices were trusted by
printed label only and no comparison to an inventory list of any kind was performed."
Hursti also observed that "operations were repeatedly performed directly on the operating
system." The election software has no visibility into the operations of the operating system,
which creates additional auditing problems, and as Hursti noted, "Unless the system is
configured properly to collect file system auditing data is not complete. As the system appears
not to be hardened, it is unlikely that the operating system has been configured to collect
auditing data."
Raising even greater concerns was the apparent "complete access" that Dominion personnel
appeared to have into the computer system. Hursti observed Dominion technicians troubleshooting
error messages with a "trial-and-error" approach which included access into the "Computer
Management" application, indicating complete access in Hursti's opinion.
As he stated in his declaration, "This means there are no meaningful access separation and
privileges and roles controls protecting the county's primary election servers. This also
greatly amplifies the risk of catastrophic human error and malicious program execution."
During these attempts to resolve the various issues that were occurring in real-time, Hursti
noted that it appeared as though Dominion staff shifted from on-site attempts at remediation to
off-site troubleshooting:
"The Dominion staff member walked behind the server rack and made manual manipulations which
could not be observed from my vantage point. After that they moved with their personal laptops
to a table physically farther away from the election system and stopped trying different ways
to work around the issue in front of the server, and no longer talked continuously with their
remote help over phone.
In the follow-up-calls I overheard them ask people on the other end of the call to check
different things, and they only went to a computer and appeared to test something and
subsequently take a picture of the computer screen with a mobile phone and apparently send it
to a remote location."
Hursti stated that this "created a strong mental impression that the troubleshooting effort
was being done remotely over remote access to key parts of the system."
Hursti also noted that a "new wireless access point with a hidden SSID access point name
appeared in the active Wi-Fi stations list" that he was monitoring.
All of this raised material alarms for Hursti, who noted that "If in fact remote access was
arranged and granted to the server, this has gravely serious implications for the security of
the new Dominion system. Remote access, regardless how it is protected and organized is always
a security risk, but furthermore it is transfer of control out of the physical perimeters and
deny any ability to observe the activities."
Recount
On Nov. 11, 2020, Georgia's Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger
announced that there will be a full recount and audit of all ballots cast in the
presidential election.
"With the margin being so close, it will require a full, by-hand recount in each county.
This will help build confidence. It will be an audit, a recount and a recanvass all at once,"
Raffensperger said.
Dominion Voting Systems did not respond to a request for comment.
The Democrats are either cheating or powers above them are cheating on their behalf.
Either way, the election is in the process of being stolen if we're to believe Lt. Gen.
Thomas McInerney during his most recent interview with Two Mikes.
The General described "Hammer" and "Scorecard," a pair of programs initially designed for
the CIA before being privatized by Deep State players from the Obama administration. We
explained how they work in an article last week, but the gist is this:
" Hammer " or "THE HAMMER" is a counter-intelligence surveillance program used to spy on
activities on protected networks (like voting machines) without detection
" Scorecard " is a vote-manipulation application that changes votes during transfer. It's
the least detectable form of election manipulation because it works during data transfer
between voting stations and data storage hubs. Unless both sides are looking for
irregularities, it's impossible to catch. If nefarious forces had people on one side or the
other (or both) during data transfer, it cannot be exposed.
What we're seeing happening in Michigan and Wisconsin have all of the trademarks of a
"Hammer" and "Scorecard" operation.
Voter fraud is happening right now. We all know it; one would be hard pressed to find a
single American on either side of the aisle who would not acknowledge that it's taking place.
Around half the country realizes (or is willing to admit) it's happening in favor of
Democrats, but very few realize just how deep this particular rabbit hole goes.
A CIA program known as "Scorecard" allows its users to change voting outcomes by hacking
into the transfer between local reporting stations and state or national data centers.
According to McInerney, it's a small amount, under 3%, to keep it from triggering any
alarms. He would know. He served in top military positions under the Secretary of Defense and
the Vice President of the United States.
Using software for elections is a grave error, if you want a honest and reliable count.
Paper ballots filled in under supervision at a polling place after an ID check are relatively
secure and can be recounted.
UPDATE: Sidney Powell discusses Hammer and Scorecard with Lou Dobbs
here . Explosive.
What Dan Greenberg forgets is that the existence of Hammer was established by WikiLeaks, and
can't be classified as a rumor.
I especially like "appeal to authority" argument: " The head of the government agency created
by Trump to protect against cyber attacks called the Hammer and Scorecard theory,
"nonsense.""
The government's head of cyber security declared the Hammer and Scorecard theory to be
"nonsense."
As evidence of 2020 meddling, the theory cites CNN election night coverage of the 2019
Kentucky governor's race that briefly shows inconsistent results in favor of the Democrat,
who ultimately won by more than 5,000 votes.
There is no indication of voter fraud in the 2019 Kentucky governor's race.
Some fans of President Donald Trump are sharing the theory that a package of CIA computer
programs have hacked the 2020 election. One program, called Hammer, cracks into protected
networks, while another, called Scorecard, changes vote totals.
Pamela Geller, a right-wing activist and Trump supporter, has posted more than one piece
about Hammer and Scorecard. On Nov. 9, her website Geller Report offered an item headlined, "
HAMMER / Scorecard Voter Software Fraud in Real Time ."
Geller offered a video clip taken from
CNN's 2019 election coverage of the Kentucky governor's race that she called, "Vote switching
right in front of your eyes."
Geller's post was flagged as part of Facebook's efforts to combat false news and
misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook
.)
Before we dive in, let's be clear that independent election security researchers see no
evidence that Hammer and Scorecard exist, and the head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency , a government
body created by President Donald Trump in 2018, has said this theory of election interference
is " nonsense ."
With that, let's look at the CNN evidence that Geller takes to be telling.
Dissecting CNN
Kentucky election coverage
The video consists of a
man giving a running commentary on shifting result totals in the 2019 Kentucky governor's race
in which Democrat Andy Beshear defeated incumbent Republican Matt Bevin. At one key moment in
CNN's live broadcast, the vote totals change inconsistently.
A large graphic shows Beshear with a total of 674,508, while a smaller running total at the
bottom of the screen gives him 673,948. According to the man giving the commentary, the total
at the bottom of the screen runs behind the more current one on the larger graphic. In that
light, a difference of 560 votes makes sense. The one on the bottom has yet to catch up.
But at the same moment, Bevin's totals show 661,675 on the large graphic, while the one at
the bottom shows 662,235. That's 560 votes less than the most up-to-date one on the big
graphic. In the view of Geller and the man speaking on the video, the fraud is obvious.
"You have just seen 25% of the loss amount of this race happen in front of your very eyes,"
the man giving the commentary said.
Two election security experts we reached were unimpressed.
No sign of Hammer and
Scorecard
"The broader issue here is that the election night results are not official," said
Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Charles Stewart III. "There's a post-election
canvas period when results are checked and mistakes spotted and corrected."
Stewart said there's a key flaw in the theory that the purported software package of Hammer
and Scorecard could intercept the digital transmission of vote results and change them. He said
the states that do send data that way also keep the data tapes of votes from the original
machines.
"The results only become official after the election department has compared the paper tapes
-- which are immune to supposed hack -- to the initially transferred results," Stewart
said.
The CNN election night results are "the sports aspect of elections, not the binding
results," said statistics professor at the University of California-Berkeley Philip Stark.
Stark cautioned that no election system comes with 100% ironclad protection against
hacking.
"Nothing is perfect, and they are all vulnerable," Stark said. He advocates for greater use
of paper ballots and careful post-election audits.
But that said, Stark sees no evidence that any results have been altered in this election or
past ones. Regarding the CNN inconsistencies, he noted that CNN contracted for the data feed
from a third party vendor. That puts CNN's number even further removed from the official
tally.
Stark said nothing in the CNN example holds up.
"That's not how anyone would hack an election," Stark said. "If you really wanted to change
the total, you would not change it on election night, where everyone could see it. You would
change it in the voting tabulation system."
And for those who think Hammer and Scorecard were deployed in the 2020 election, Stark said
that raises the question of why skeptics look only at the presidential race.
"If the motivation was to put the Democrats in power, why didn't they flip the Senate?"
Stark posed. "Biden will have a hard time without the Senate. Why would you leave the job half
done?"
One of the main promoters of the Hammer and Scorecard theory is a
discredited military contractor who claims to have created them.
We asked Geller to respond to the issues raised above. She didn't address the specific
matters but said that she sees ample evidence of fraud, including "eyewitness accounts of tens
of thousands of ballots coming in the back door (that) should give even you pause, despite your
baked-in far-left bias."
Geller said that a 2019 CNN video clip shows the work of purported CIA-built hacking
software Hammer and Scorecard in action. The clip shows a momentary glitch in election night
totals.
The head of the government agency created by Trump to protect against cyber attacks called
the Hammer and Scorecard theory, "nonsense."
Election security experts said election night totals are distinct from official results, and
post-Election Day vetting by state officials catches discrepancies between local results and
totals calculated at the central office. They also noted that if someone truly wanted to steal
an election, the example Geller cited makes no practical sense.
We rate this claim Pants on Fire.
CORRECTION: This report has been changed to correct the description of the narrator's
discussion of the winning margin in the Beshear-Bevin race.
This fact check is available at IFCN's 2020 US Elections FactChat #Chatbot on WhatsApp.
Click here , for
more.
Interview, Philip B. Stark, professor of statistics and associate dean of Mathematical and
Physical Sciences, University of California-Berkeley, Nov. 10, 2020
Email exchange, Charles Stewart III, professor of political science, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, Nov. 10. 2020
OR as Lieutenant General Thomas McInerney said live it were Hammer and Scorecard
that flipped the vote tallies. These NSA/CIA toys were made to modify foreign elections, only
now Brennan, Clapper and Mueller had turned them 180 degrees onto the US. Clever, modifying
local vote tally files send upstream over Internet on the fly. A few percent from A to B
usually does it as it doubles up.
https://rumble.com/vaz2ih-hammer-and-scorecard-from-the-censored-youtube-warroom-episode-470.html
That same trio was quite busy collecting leverage / compromat on the domestic
who-is-who, including bankers, anchors etc. https://www.blxware.org/
What's happening with the election? As one might normally say, "it's anyone's guess."
Except, it isn't. We have a very good idea of exactly what's happening. The Democrats are
either cheating or powers above them are cheating on their behalf. Either way, the election is
in the process of being stolen if we're to believe Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney during his most
recent interview with
Two Mikes .
The General described "Hammer" and "Scorecard," a pair of programs initially designed for
the CIA before being privatized by Deep State players from the Obama administration. We
explained how they work in an article last week, but the gist is this: "Hammer" or "THE HAMMER"
is a counter-intelligence surveillance program used to spy on activities on protected networks
(like voting machines) without detection while "Scorecard" is a vote-manipulation application
that changes votes during transfer. It's the least detectable form of election manipulation
because it works during data transfer between voting stations and data storage hubs. Unless
both sides are looking for irregularities, it's impossible to catch. If nefarious forces had
people on one side or the other (or both) during data transfer, it cannot be
What we're seeing happening in Michigan and Wisconsin have all of the trademarks of a
"Hammer" and "Scorecard" operation. As I noted earlier, the fix is in . The
General talked today with Two Mikes once again to give an update and to call on the White House
to act immediately before the election is fully stolen.
https://share.transistor.fm/e/3c1ea08f
This is the type of blockbuster information the left and even many on the right refuse to
report. We see with our own eyes how "Hammer" and "Scorecard" are being used in Wisconsin and
Michigan. Will the President let it fly?
The day before the election, General McInerney spoke to Two Mikes about the details
surrounding "Scorecard" and called on the White House and the Trump campaign to take action
before voting started.
I have 20 years plus in telecom and IT, project management. I can tell you that 80%+ of
these people have a leftist-bent and a very snide attitude towards Conservatives and
Libertarians. There is no way I would want these people to be in charge of anything related
to voting at all!
On these grounds alone, I say that elections should be paper, pencil and cardboard boxes
ONLY !
Woodley , 1 hour ago
With redundant counting, to be compared at the completion.
DieSocialJusticeWankers , 1 hour ago
Remember what the Dems have been doing to Trump for almost 5 years! Why wouldn't they
commit fraud???
Seems like a 100% expectation that the Dems would do this. I would be confused if they
didn't commit fraud.
They've been lying and scamming about Trump for 5 years! This is normal Dem behavior!
Earlier on Monday, President Donald Trump claimed he had "won the 2020 election", also
publishing a series of tweets, in which he lambasted "radical left-owned Dominion voting
systems". Although the official tally from the election is yet to be announced, Joe Biden has
declared himself US president-elect.
The US president's attorney, Sidney Powell, has called for CIA Director Gina Haspel to be
fired for disregarding warnings about voting software that Powell claimed was "designed to rig"
the 3 November election.
"Why Gina Haspel is still there in the CIA is beyond my comprehension. She should be fired
immediately", Powell told Fox News on Sunday, pointing to alleged problems with Dominion
Voting Systems' software used in several of the key battleground states during Election Day.
She referred to an array of "whistleblowers" who she said may confirm that the Dominion
software was ostensibly used to scrap "millions" of votes cast in favour of Trump.
When asked about evidence, Powell claimed that she had "lots of ways to prove it", but that
she was "not gonna tell on national TV what all we have".
Her remarks echoed those made by
President Donald Trump in his latest series of tweets, in which he specifically
criticised what he described as "radical left-owned Dominion Voting Systems", also insisting
that the US "cannot allow the fake results of the 2020 mail-in election to stand".
This followed the president tweeting that Joe Biden won "because the election was rigged",
adding in a follow-up post that he "concedes nothing", as the Democratic contender only won "in
the eyes of [the] fake news media".
Dominion, in turn, claimed in a statement published on its website that it "categorically
denies false assertions about vote switching issues with our voting system".
The Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency seemed
to strike the same tone, insisting "there is no evidence that any voting system deleted or
lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised".
The statement came after
Trump campaign attorney Jay Sekulow demanded recounts in every state using the Dominion
software that he claimed wrongly gave 6,000 votes to Democrats in one Michigan county during
the election.
"If 30 states have used the software that there's already proved to be a glitch of 6,000
votes in one balloting area [...] lawyers should be... demanding a manual recount.
Post-election litigation is important to protect the integrity of the election process, as the
president said, and to protect the constitution frankly", Sekulow asserted.
POTUS also suggested that the "glitches" in voting machines reported at some polling
stations on Election Day was evidence of the Democrats trying to "steal" votes from him during
vote counting in key states.
The worst think about Dominion software is that the fraud might be bipartisan and
preapproved. Implemented along with the introduction of voting machine for specific purpose of
controlling the results of the elections.
Otherwise it is "highly unlikely" that this Window based machines would be allowed by
intelligence agencies to tally votes in national elections. S voting machines are about the
control of population, not about counting votes.
Former federal prosecutor Sidney Powell , a Trump campaign lawyer, suggested
in a Sunday interview that there is still more evidence coming out in President Donald Trump's
claims of voter fraud and irregularities.
"We're getting ready to overturn election results in multiple states," Powell said, saying
that she has enough evidence of election fraud to launch a widespread criminal
investigation.
"I don't make comments without having the evidence to back it up," she added, saying that
elections software switched "millions of votes" from Trump to Democratic nominee Joe
Biden.
Powell notably provided legal counsel to Gen. Michael Flynn in 2019. She was named to
Trump's legal team in the past several days.
Powell said a whistleblower came forward and said the elections software was designed to
"rig elections," saying that "he saw it happen in other countries," referring to voting systems
Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic, or perhaps other software and machines.
"We have so much evidence, I feel like it's coming in through a fire hose," Powell said,
while noting that she won't reveal the evidence that she has.
"They can stick a thumb drive in the [voting] machine, they can upload software to it even
from the Internet from Germany or Venezuela even," she said, adding that operations "can
watch votes in real-time" and "can shift votes in real-time," or alleged bad actors can
"remote access anything."
"We've identified mathematically the exact algorithm they've used -- and planned to use
from the beginning" that allegedly switched votes to Biden, Powell remarked.
Powell also made reference to a 2019 investigation from Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.),
Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), as well as other Democratic lawmakers into
Dominion Voting Systems, Election Systems & Software, and Hart InterCivic. The senators had
expressed concerns about the security of the voting systems.
"(W)e have concerns about the spread and effect of private equity investment in many
sectors of the economy, including the election technology industry -- an integral part of our
nation's democratic process,"
wrote the lawmakers in their letters to the firms about a year ago.
"These problems threaten the integrity of our elections and demonstrate the importance of
election systems that are strong, durable, and not vulnerable to attack."
Later in the Sunday morning interview, Powell said that her team has "detected voting
irregularities that are inexplicable" in states where officials believe they have valid
systems.
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, left, and President Donald Trump in file
photographs. (Getty Images; Reuters)
During the election, Republicans in the House were able to flip at least 11 seats while the
GOP is poised to maintain control of the Senate. Some conservatives have questioned how such a
voting pattern is possible for Biden to win the presidential election, let alone receive more
votes than any other presidential candidate in American history, including President Barack
Obama's victory in 2008.
Companies Respond
The Department of Homeland Security's cybersecurity agency issued a statement on Thursday
calling the 2020 general election the "most secure in American history," despite multiple legal
challenges alleging a variety of alleged voting irregularities across a number of battleground
states.
"The November 3rd election was the most secure in American history. Right now, across the
country, election officials are reviewing and double-checking the entire election process
prior to finalizing the result," read the statement released by the Cybersecurity and
Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).
Smartmatic, in a statement on Saturday, said that it has no ties with Dominion Voting
Systems. Powell suggested that Smartmatic is operated by Dominion in the interview.
Dominion, over the past several weeks, has repeatedly denied its systems were compromised in
some way.
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"In the aftermath of the 2020 general election, there has been a great deal of
misinformation being circulated about Smartmatic and other companies that provide election
technology to voting jurisdictions in the US. We would like to dispel these incorrect
statements with facts," the firm wrote, adding that it "has never owned any shares or had any
financial stake in Dominion Voting Systems."
Dominion also refuted allegations that its machines changed votes from Trump to Biden on
Election Day and beyond.
"Dominion Voting Systems categorically denies any claims about any vote switching or alleged
software issues with our voting systems," a company spokesperson said in a statement
to The Denver Post. "Our systems continue to reliably and accurately count ballots, and state
and local election authorities have publicly confirmed the integrity of the process."
...as an aside, I'm willing to bet this will be memory holed very soon by
Gawgle...however, the presentation has been copied and preserved for posterity.
Any takers? ;-)
Colonel Lingus , 2 hours ago
Used to be Globalist BS with the Diebol equipment before Dominion (had a backdoor bigger
and nastier than a Kartrashian). Here's how you fix voting. Take it away from the States.
Capital punishment if one even thinks about having anything like the "hanging chad" nonsense
ever. Publicize the quick and brutal speedy trial, and burning at the stake for the
perps...(Lots of libturd Dem's wouldn't be home for Christmas too bad)
skizex , 23 minutes ago
at least 28-30 states use the software.
philipat , 2 hours ago
IF (and that's a big if) electronic systems are to be used for elections, the software
should be open-source and the systems should not be open to the internet. Given the
importance of elections to our "democracy", the Federal Government should be capable of
developing and publishing such software. If not, BUY a Company and do the same.Personally, I
still believe that paper ballots, which can be checked and recounted at will, remain the best
and least suspect method.
nmewn , 2 hours ago
"Personally, I still believe that paper ballots, which can be checked and recounted at
will, remain the best and least suspect method."
Correct and agreed.
Also, the great thing about paper ballots is we can "see" which ballots only have one mark
on them...that being...for President (which is another statistical anomaly).
I mean, what "real live legal voter" only votes for a Presidential candidate and nothing
else on the down ballot selections? Like, who do you prefer being your Senator, your
Representative?
There is a historical representation from past elections to compare that to in this one
;-)
Ms. Erable , 1 hour ago
Dunno why fed.gov hasn't used The Big .Gov
Stick via the Federal Elections Commision to dictate the standards required of states to
paticipate in a federal election. Your state doesn't meet the standards? Your results for any
and all federal offices are null and void - possibly resulting in your state having zero
representation at the federal level.
teutonicate , 3 hours ago
Trump Lawyer Sidney Powell: "We're Getting Ready To Overturn Election Results In Multiple
States"
Once it becomes apparent that this scandal is busting wide open, expect a lot more
"evidence" from rats jumping the corrupt ship - rather than being caught when the music
stops.
Powell already says that she has evidence coming at her "like a fire hose". I bet, there
has to be a lot of rats out their looking for an exit!
According to Gateway Pundit the head of security for Dominion posted a pro-antifa
manifesto.
MadameDeficit , 1 hour ago
Yup, Eric Coomer.
Oltman alleged that "Eric" was telling the Antifa members they needed to "keep up the
pressure." When Oltman asked, "Who's Eric?" someone answered, "Eric, he's the Dominion
guy." Oltman said that as the conversation continued, someone asked, "What are we gonna do
if F*cking Trump wins?" Oltman paraphrased how Eric (the Dominion guy) responded, "Don't
worry about the election, Trump's not gonna win. I made f*cking sure of that!"
As part of our attempts to investigate Antifa in Colorado, I have been logging onto
Antifa "conference calls" (for lack of a better word). A few weeks ago, I was on one of
those calls and heard a man named Eric Coomer, an executive at Dominion Voting Systems,
reassure other leftists on the call that Trump could not win because he 'made sure of it.'
As we investigated Coomer further, we found that he was rabidly anti-Trump and emphatically
pro-Antifa. Not only was he rooting for Trump to lose, but he also wanted it to be by a
huge margin so there would be "no recounts."
In the computer quality control business we used to have a term for the process (first
used on the Space Shuttle Transportation System Computers). It's called the "Forklift
Upgrade". When there is any doubt, replace and remove the whole damned machine. The military
and law enforcement use this technique on life critical systems. You got a glitch, you
replace the whole damn machine. That's why we have modularization.
No fixing, no sudden arrivals of repair people in the middle of the night. You only
replace with another sealed certified machine. After replacement, you have the poll managers
run THEIR audit and visible to all parties that want to see it, maybe even post the audit on
the wall so all voters can see it.
Poll managers make decision and they can actually do it themselves. No techies allowed on
site except to vote.
Those companies rely on lobbying and are in the pocket of politicians. They depend on contracts and they spent a lot of money on
lobbying. 2020 Election Security - C-SPAN.org
Whether or not the company's machines were misused, it poses structural risks, and suppressing criticism will make Trump supporters
even more dubious WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 09: (L-R) President and CEO of Election Systems & Software Tom Burt, President and CEO
of Dominion Voting Systems John Poulos, President and CEO of Hart InterCivic Julie Mathis testify during a hearing before
the House Administration Committee January
9, 2020 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
It is unlikely that many of the 73 million people who cast ballots for Donald Trump in 2020 will ever accept the legitimacy of
his loss. Who could convince them? If the media sources demanding Trump's concession held any sway with Trump's voters, they would
not have been his voters. They do not know for sure that the election was stolen, but they do know with apodictic certainty that
the media would lie to them if it was. So if Donald Trump says the election was stolen, that's good enough for the Deplorables.
Yet even the President's most faithful must have flinched at his recent tweet accusing a leading manufacturer of voting machines
of committing election fraud on a mass scale.
It is hard to overstate the irresponsibility of broadcasting such a serious accusation without proof. It shocked me, and my startle
response has become pretty desensitized over the last four years. Sure, it turned out Trump was right when he accused the Obama administration
of spying on his 2016 campaign, but this is different. Dominion Voting Systems is not staffed with Obama appointees, after all. I
decided to poke around a bit to see what, if anything, could possibly be behind Trump's wild accusation.
A Twitter user named Joe Oltmann had tweeted a few screenshots of a Facebook user posting Antifa manifestos and songs about killing
police. The Facebook account belonged to Eric Coomer, and Oltmann claimed it was the same Eric Coomer who is the Director of Product
Strategy and Security for Dominion Voting Systems. Within hours of Oltmann posting the information, however, the Facebook page of
Eric Coomer was taken down, so I was unable to verify that Antifa Coomer and Dominion Coomer were the same person. By the end of
the day, Joe Oltmann's Twitter account was suspended as well. I had followed his feed throughout the day. I can say with certainty
that he posted nothing remotely offensive or provocative. I have no doubt whatsoever that Twitter suspended him for posting the screenshots
of Coomer's Facebook page. Interesting.
Searching around some more, I found that Dominion Coomer is an avid climber who used to post frequently on climbing message boards
under his own name. He confirmed it himself in a post where he mentioned getting his nuclear physics Ph.D from Berkeley in 1997.
Dominion's Eric Coomer received his nuclear physics Ph.D from Berkeley in 1997. In another post on the same message board, Coomer
gave out his email address. It was his old campus address from the Berkeley nuclear physics department. I plugged that email address
into the Google machine, and things got weird.
I found Eric Coomer had a long history of posting on websites for skinheads. He was a heavy user of a Google Group for skinheads,
and seems to have possibly been a content moderator for papaskin.com. Only these aren't the neo-Nazis our mothers warned us about.
These skinheads call themselves SHARPs, or Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice. Think of them as a sort of punk rock Antifa. In 2012,
roughly 18 SHARPs attacked a smaller group of suspected racists in a Chicago restaurant with bats and batons. That same year, three
neo-Nazis were charged for the 1998 double murder of two SHARPs in Nevada.
Given that Dominion's Director of Security and Strategy, Eric Coomer, was an enthusiast of a street fighting anti-racist skinhead
culture going back at least into the 1990s, it seems very likely that Joe Oltmann was correct in identifying him as the Facebook
user recently endorsing Antifa and posting anti-police rhetoric. I shared this information on a few message boards to let other people
run with it. Within hours, Papa Skin, a skinhead website which had been up for over 20 years, was taken offline. (Whoever took it
down missed the FAQ page, you can find it here http://www.papaskin.com/faq/faqs.html
).
Of course none of this proves any fraud took place, but we deserve some answers. One need only imagine if it was Joe Biden contesting
the election results, and the Director for Strategy & Security at a major voting machine provider turned out to be a Proud Boy with
decades of involvement in extremist, even violent, right wing political groups. Democrats would rightly point out that this person
endorses engaging in illegal behavior to achieve political goals. They would ask how such a person ended up in such an important
position of public trust, and what it might say about the procedures in place to ensure Dominion's responsibilities are handled in
good faith.
Another reality of the Dominion fiasco, whether or not there was any fraud using its machines, is the structural risk created
by having the same company run machines in more than two dozen states. If there were glitchy machines causing a dispute in one state,
like Democrats' claims about Diebold machines in Ohio in 2004, and even if that dispute led to competing slates of electors, that
is something the American political system has seen and withstood before. Having potentially tens of millions of people doubting
results in a half-dozen different states thanks to the same company running machines in all of them is an unprecedentedly serious
problem, whether or not their doubts are well-founded.
Moreover, platforms like Twitter and WordPress would do well to consider that censorship of people discussing Dominion and its
employees is likely to have the opposite effect that they think it will: Twitter bans, site removals, and wiping of bios from websites
are only going to make Trump's hardcore supporters think Dominion has something to hide. You can't make disagreements go away by
banning one side and pretending there is unanimity.
Darryl Cooper is the host of the MartyrMade podcast.
Good summary of one of the pools, run by the Associated Press.
"How do news organizations count the vote returns on election night?
Votes are tabulated county by county by the Associated Press, a non-profit news agency which uses its national network of more
than 4,000 reporters on election night to record the vote tallies from county clerks and other local officials. The AP also gathers
information from state websites that post election returns. Reporters feed that information back to AP's vote counting operation,
where analysts make decisions about which races are ready to be called.
What do reporters do with the local tallies?
AP reporters across the country phone the results to data entry people in specially set up election centers where they are
entered into an electronic system. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the election centers are virtual in 2020. All vote counts
are subject to a series of checks and verifications, including computer programs that set off alerts if there are inconsistencies
with the vote count because of previous voting history or other data."
Link provided is much appreciated. Gathering data from state websites is what I expected. Such website scraping is probably
fully automated simply to be able to keep up. Keep in mind that State/county/precinct results in a truly enormous volumes of data.
Of course AP is advertising its effort, but having that amount of data transferred through a human chain would result in far too
many errors.
Nobody types data into JSON files. They are exported from databases.
If data was being corrupted by human error, the errors would be random and would benefit both sides.
Yeah, Muller didn't even know who GPS was during his presentation.and his two year waste of money and 400 page report was a
big dud. Didn't even interview Assange.
Recently the Director of National Intelligence revealed that mid 2016 Obama was briefed that Clinton instigated the Russiagate
hoax. Still Obama not even let that run but requested Comey during the meeting 5th January 2017 to put the "right people" on it.
Actually there is only Obamagate weaponizing of the intelligence services against the Trump campaign. Oh yeah do not overlook
the kickback scheme with Ukraine and China of Biden so there is a Bidengate too.
"It is hard to overstate the irresponsibility of broadcasting such a serious accusation without proof."
Actually this demonstrates the total lack intellectual curiosity and of really wanting to know what is going on.
You may note that the chairman of Smartmatic Peter Neffenger now has joined the Biden transition team. So he will be in charge
of covering up this election fraud mess?
yea, so it's not at all surprising that a high ranking military deep stater should be in a director's role at both warmonger
Biden's transition team & a widely used automated voting system. Smartmatic's software was found to be faulty in elections in
2010 & 2013 in the Philippines & has been rejected three different times by the state of Texas for security problems. Smartmatic
- which has had a working relationship with Dominion - also has been providing electoral services to Venezuela since 2004; & in
2017 was forced to admit that the results of the 2017 legislative election had been tampered with.Given that the Democratic(sic)
Party here also aims for a socialist govt., that somehow seems alarmingly appropriate.
As another European, I have no problem believing that Dominion Voting Systems is attempting to steal the election for Biden.
After all, DVS has acquired the voting machines division of Diebold, which we all know stole the 2000 and 2004 elections for W.
Bush. The whole current mess just proves that DVS has been thoroughly infected by the Diebold virus, and cannot help but to tamper
with election results. I believe that the software itself is designed to divine the political leanings of the company's executives,
and alter the voting results accordingly.
This also explains the weird House and Senate results, as no matter how leftist the DVS bosses are, they like their Trump tax
cuts too much to have them reversed by the unified legislative and executive branches the polls had predicted.
All this is so transparant even a bag of Deplorables can see it, and Trump, unlike those losers Gore and Kerry, is absolutely
right to go golfing every day fight this electoral travesty in the most Rudyly way possible.
Somewhat ironic indeed that the color revolution is now coming home to the US. However given the amount of chaos the US is
able to impose on the rest of the world I prefer Trump over a repeat of the Obama/Biden starting open and covert wars all over
the globe. At least Trump never started any wars but only got tricked by the Pentagon/State Department in wrongful and misplaced
"retaliations" which he then steadfastly refused to escalate into wars.
For those wondering what the actual source of this controversy is about--as opposed to the wild ad hominem tangent the
author went on--sharp-eyed viewers on Election Night noted that literally between one minute and the next (from 10:07 to 10:08
PM CST) Trump's displayed vote total in Pennsylvania went from 1,690,589 to 1,670,631, while Biden's went from 1,252,537 to 1,272,495--a
shift of exactly 19,958 votes in each direction.
From there, a blogger at Gateway Pundit (Yes. I said it. I'm also including the source they were using, so get over yourselves
and do your own legwork--don't be a news snob, like the current top-rated comment on this post) analyzed what s/he claims is
Dominion's Pennsylvania election data , from the New York Times (by way of Edison Research, which serves as a distributor
for Dominion's election data to various media outlets). I have included the link here, for anyone who is interested in looking
at the data for themselves.
S/he found the vote "switch" in question, and others besides--220,883 votes "switched" from Trump to Biden in Pennsylvania,
as well as 941,248 "lost" votes--places where the total number of votes decreased during the counting. Analysis of other states
using Dominion were claimed to have found similar results, though none so dramatic--the next-largest states with vote shifts were
New Jersey (with 80,242) and Florida (21,422) neither of which were in doubt. The largest "lost vote" totals after PA were in
Virginia (789,023) and Minnesota (195,650).
The total number of "lost votes" was roughly 2.7 million, which is where Trump gets his "deleted votes" claim from--the problem
being that he erroneously assumes all the lost votes were for him, which I do not believe is backed up by the data.
The major problem with the story, assuming you accept the source, is that there is no analysis of whether votes were also shifted
from Biden to Trump. It seems likely that there would be, which would make this merely an example of machine sloppiness rather
than malicious vote-rigging.
However, even if the vote shifting did go both ways, you still have Dominion, for unknown reasons, shifting clumps of votes
between the two candidates and deleting other clumps of votes altogether.
Even if there's a valid explanation for it--which there probably is--it's a very bad look. Dominion's people need to explain
what their systems were doing, and why, ASAP.
"Moreover, platforms like Twitter and WordPress would do well to consider that censorship of people discussing Dominion and
its employees is likely to have the opposite effect that they think it will: Twitter bans, site removals, and wiping of bios from
websites are only going to make Trump's hardcore supporters think Dominion has something to hide. You can't make disagreements
go away by banning one side and pretending there is unanimity."
This entire episode stinks to high heaven. In the early morning of November 4th Trump had a huge lead in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania.
Michigan and Georgia. Instead of continuing to count votes Milwaukee, Detroit, Philly an Atlanta for some strange reason stopped
counting. Atlanta told the media water pipe busted and flooded the counting area. Completely false. Republican poll watchers were
kicked out and magically hundreds of thousands of votes were discovered for Biden
Of particular interest to me was something that Baris spotted as he compared former Vice President Joe Biden's performance
with Hillary Clinton's in 2016. Baris noted that Clinton outperformed Biden in every U.S. city except for the following four:
Milwaukee, Detroit, Atlanta and Philadelphia.
Baris wrote, "Trump won the largest non-white vote share for a Republican presidential candidate in 60 years. Biden underperformed
Hillary Clinton in every major metro area around the country, save for Milwaukee, Detroit, Atlanta and Philadelphia."
If you dig into the actual source material for the article you posted, what you find is a rather unremarkable statement by
Democratic senators that EVERY vendor of voting machines had potential risks that they should be aware of and guard against. The
dishonest Washington Examiner, however, pulled out only Dominion.
That's strange. In Michigan for example a very red county that Trump carried big in 2016 strangely went Biden in 2020. Republican
county officials investigated and found that over six thousand votes had been switched from Trump to Biden. They blamed it on
a glitch with the software.
The only kind of machines that should be allowed are the "stupid" ones that can't do anything except count results from paper
ballots. They're both cheaper and easier to audit.
It has to be almost 15 years now that computer security people have been crying for open-source software and hardware for electronic
voting, and have been criticizing closed, proprietary systems as the greatest threat to our democracy. And, here we are. None
of us can act surprised.
Preventing GOP observers which was done at the election count, and the recount, is alone enough, with a competent and fair
judge, to win the election for Trump. Add to that the mail in fraud, 10's of thousands of people on the voter lists who have been
verified as dead, off shore processing and data manipulation - its a shoe in. But lets not forget, even if all this fails, its
GOP legislators who choose the electors, so Trump's return is practically certain. But lets assume a miracle happens and none
of this take place, no results are returned, the EC is asked to vote, USC gives each state a vote, GOP controls most states -
Trump is still returned. Its really is over, bar the shouting. Trump is just taunting his haters now, for fun, via tweets.
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teutonicate 3 hours ago (Edited) removelink
Trump Lawyer Sidney Powell: "We're Getting Ready To Overturn Election Results In Multiple
States"
Once it becomes apparent that this scandal is busting wide open, expect a lot more
"evidence" from rats jumping the corrupt ship - rather than being caught when the music
stops.
Powell already says that she has evidence coming at her "like a fire hose". I bet, there has
to be a lot of rats out their looking for an exit!
Bryan S. Ware serves as the Assistant Director for Cybersecurity for the Department of
Homeland Security's (DHS) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). In this
role, Ware leads CISA's mission of protecting and strengthening the nation's critical
infrastructure against cyber threats.
Senior DHS cybersecurity official Bryan Ware to step down
crudflow , 44 minutes ago
I willing to bet Ware is up to his eyeballs in this fraud. He is trying to cover it up,
and he is running for the hills. Sounds pretty suspicious to me.....
...as an aside, I'm willing to bet this will be memory holed very soon by
Gawgle...however, the presentation has been copied and preserved for posterity.
Any takers? ;-)
SurfingUSA , 3 hours ago
If you haven't already read "Licensed to Lie" by Sidney Powell. She figured out all the
wheels within wheels of both corporate fraud, those set up to take the fall for Enron /
Andersen, and fed gov skullduggery starting with Andrew Weissmann, who connects dots between
Enron & Mueller. This 2020 election is kind of cakewalk in comparison.
"... evidence is being collected that will prove beyond reasonable doubt (i.e., the type of evidence required to obtain a criminal conviction) that the CIA had some sort of nefarious relationship with Dominion Software and that Dominion Software was being used abroad and in the United States to conduct voter fraud. ..."
"... I fully expect CIA officials to argue they had no idea that Dominion was engaged in such nefarious activity. Their denial carries as much weight as the claim by Captain Louis Renault in the iconic scene in Casablanca ..."
"... The coup attempt to dethrone Donald Trump continues. ..."
"... So why for 2020, suddenly the big push in the US to get everyone to vote electronically, after decades of failed practices elsewhere in the world. Purveyed by many of the same player foisted on the US election systems. ..."
"... This voting process was rejected elsewhere because it undermined trust in these country's election integrity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_voting_by_country ..."
"... I was involved in the early 2000's as a contractor in a project to create a system to allow DoD service personnel to vote digitally & replace the hard copy absentee ballots. After investing tens of millions of dollars & years, the DoD computer security folks said that there was no way that it could ever be assured that a digital voting system could not be hacked. They would not certify the security & integrity of a digital voting system & the project was scraped. ..."
When I saw this it did not make sense. Let me explain. I spent four years working at State
Department's Office of Counter Terrorism (now it is the Bureau of Counter Terrorism). I was one
of two officers who dealt directly with the FBI in the investigation of the terrorist bombing
of Pan Am 103. I learned through this experience that US law enforcement cannot operate in
other countries without the permission of those countries.
I also spent 22 years scripting terrorism exercises for U.S. military special operations. My
job was to replicate State Department and Embassy communications that would occur during a
terrorist crisis. So, I have a lot of experience in working real world with US law enforcement,
US military and our Embassies in sorting out the issues that arise when the United States wants
to pursue a law enforcement or military operation in a foreign country.
The U.S. Army did not conduct a raid in Germany on either Sctyl or Dominion offices or
servers. They are foreign nationals and we must operate in accordance with German law.
Moreover, the U.S. Army does not have law enforcement powers with respect to such entities. So
what happened? I am reliably informed that a unit under the command of USEUCOM (i.e., United
States European Command) did in fact conduct an operation to take control of computer servers.
But these servers belong to the CIA, not Dominion or Sctyl. The U.S. military has full
authority to do this because any CIA activity in the European theater is being conducted using
military cover. In other words, CIA officers would be identified to the German government (and
anyone else asking) as military employees or consultants.
Such an operation would have been carried out with U.S. law enforcement present to take
custody of the evidence. That means that the evidence will be under the control of the
Department of Justice through US Attorneys and can be used in court or other judicial
proceedings.
This is not the first time that a military unit attached to EUCOM has compelled a CIA
computer facility to hand over evidence. A dear friend of mine (a retired DEA officer) told me
about an incident where he entered a CIA facility in Frankfurt backed up by the US Army to get
info the CIA was withholding (this took place in the 1980s).
I also have confirmed what
Jim Hoft reported the other night–the CIA's Gina Haspel was not informed in advance
of this operation. Based on this fact, I think it is correct that action was taken in Germany
on territory under U.S. control and that a CIA facility was targeted.
I also have learned that FBI Director Christopher Wray was excluded from this operation.
Wray, more than Haspel, has been working aggressively to undermine and sabotage Donald Trump.
This means that some other U.S. law enforcement agency (e.g., US Marshals, DEA, Secret Service,
etc) had the lead in collecting the evidence.
Sidney Powell is a serious lawyer. She is not going to make a false claim. Period. She
embodies honesty and integrity.
Given her recent statements on Maria Bartoromo and Lou Dobbs and Eric Bolling, she clearly
knows that evidence is being collected that will prove beyond reasonable doubt (i.e., the type
of evidence required to obtain a criminal conviction) that the CIA had some sort of nefarious
relationship with Dominion Software and that Dominion Software was being used abroad and in the
United States to conduct voter fraud.
I fully expect CIA officials to argue they had no idea that Dominion was engaged in such
nefarious activity. Their denial carries as much weight as the claim by Captain Louis Renault
in the iconic scene in Casablanca:
Capt. Louis Renault: I am shocked, shocked that there is gambling going on in here .
Waiter: Sir here are your winnings
The coup attempt to dethrone Donald Trump continues.
Germany, along with most other countries around the world prohibit or severely limit
"electronic voting" Declared it was too vulnerable to fraud and hacking after trying this
method - now paper ballots only.
So why for 2020, suddenly the big push in the US to get everyone to vote electronically,
after decades of failed practices elsewhere in the world. Purveyed by many of the same player
foisted on the US election systems.
One of the financial markets commentators I follow, Peter Granduch, retweeted the
following article and said a friend who used to be high up at DoJ said this article is
broadly correct.
I was involved in the early 2000's as a contractor in a project to create a system to
allow DoD service personnel to vote digitally & replace the hard copy absentee ballots.
After investing tens of millions of dollars & years, the DoD computer security folks said
that there was no way that it could ever be assured that a digital voting system could not be
hacked. They would not certify the security & integrity of a digital voting system &
the project was scraped.
Completely coincidental to your reporting is the de-platforming of The Conservative
Treehouse, set for Wedenesday, due to the narrative there. Also coincidental is the ongoing
targetted harrassment of Trump's lawyer's to get them to quit, a tactic harkening back to the
'30s. If they were so certain Joe had won they would not be afraid of transparency.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/2020/11/if-media-didnt-think-trump-could-win-it-wouldnt-be-daniel-greenfield/.
From Rasmussen: "Biden underperformed Hillary Clinton in every major metro area around the
country, save for Milwaukee, Detroit, Atlanta and Philadelphia in these big cities in swing
states run by Democrats the vote even exceeded the number of registered voters." https://twitter.com/rasmussen_poll/status/1327931164552802305
I'm sure we'll shortly be informed by all the usual suspects that this is Qanon level stuff
here, nothing to see, nothing to report, now move along.....
O/T
Increasingly I turn to SST
first, for the information that, as my second source for information, Unz.com declares,
offers ". . . Important, and Controversial Perspectives Largely Excluded from the American
Mainstream Media."
With this distinction: Unz is free-wheeling and as even its creator states, provides an
outlet for "bizarre and insane" commentary, whereas SST is hosted and moderated by persons
who have had education, experience and responsibilities at the highest levels of influence at
the national international levels.
Hats off to Col. Lang and those contributors to whom SST provides a platform.
So what do you make of the meetings that Haspel had with Sen. McConnell, and Senate Intel
Members last Tuesday? Did Haspel's meetings occur right after the seizures in Germany or
not?
Do you know the date that the seizures occurred? Before or after last Tuesday? Germany is
also 6 hrs ahead of D.C..
Unhinged citizen:
The GOP has no more use for Trump than the Democrat-media party does.
They are all parasites in the same swamp.
I wouldn't be at all surprised to find out that McConnell voted for Biden.
It's not Dem vs. Republican, hasn't been for a long time.
It's fast becoming America vs. the swamp (and their allies in various state outposts - like
Governor "hairdo" in California and the vicious little bridge troll in NY.)
I am getting the feeling that Donald Trump is saving the best for the last, i.e. pulling
the rug out from under the IC. Another indication for me has been Sidney Powell and her
insistence on seeing this whole election fraud incident through. Judging from her record as a
reputable Texas attorney with a ton of success and the severity of this ongoing situation, I
don't believe she would put her reputation and career in jeopardy for something that is not
serious and is not going to be a major revelation.
I also would like to applaud Trump for finally appointing Col. Doug McGregor (a true
non-interventionist) to the DoD as an advisor and committing to what he had promised back in
'16, i.e. pulling troops out of the ME and putting a stop to endless wars of nation-building
there.
Deap:
It's a no lose for the Democrats.
If they couldn't somehow cheat to a win using computerized voting, then they scream "voter
suppression."
If they do cheat their way in (as they did), then computerized voting is fine and dandy and
the model for future elections.
It was the Lincoln Project, a Republican PAC against Trump, that doxed Jones Day lawyers
and subtly threatened them with future loss of business. They were joined by other
Republicans such as the 43 Alumni for Biden and REPAIR.
Skinny Joey used to be Trump's fixer in Atlantic City.
Rasmussen also predicted that 33% of black voters would vote for Trump. He got what? Maybe
eight percent? All men, no black church ladies.
Every illegally cast vote suppresses the legal vote cast by another voter. Insufficient
risk to benefit ratio to allow imposition any system as subject to fraud as "electronic
voting" has proven to be world wide.
Lieth, cite your source for black vote totals - AP projections, exit polls, or certified
state vote counts. Numbers are all over the place right now, or else you are intentionally
running a disinformation campaign.
All of the above state significant increases in the black vote, including what you
dismissively label "black church ladies" - black women Trump vote doubled over 2016. Trump
definitely broadened the diversity the GOP tent - kudos to him for that alone, and to Blexit
efforts which were gaining momentum as well, for all the right reasons.
Voting system vendors, local election officials and computer science professors testified on
2020 election security before the House Administration Committee. Among the witnesses were
Election Systems and Software CEO Tom Burt and U.S. Election Assistance Commissioner Donald
Palmer. Election vendor CEOs told lawmakers they had not seen any evidence of election system
tampering. Other topics discussed included election infrastructure and supply chain security,
voting equipment testing and election system modernization efforts.
Allegations are probably false as US military has no jurisdiction to operate this way in
Germany, but they really put this shady company and its role in 2020 elections in the
spotlight
The real questions are: why Spanish company was involved at all. Is this this company a front
for CIA, or MI6? Why the US lawmakers agreed to such a huge risk as electronic infrastructure the
US national elections, essentially giving intelligence services full control over vote counting?
Why bribed key lawmakers? Was neoliberal MSM hysteria that Russian hacked the US election system
a project?
CLAIM: The U.S. Army raided the Frankfurt office of the Spanish election software company
Scytl to seize servers that had evidence of voting irregularities in the Nov. 3 U.S.
election.
AP'S ASSESSMENT: False. Both the Army and Scytl told The Associated Press the claim is not
true. Furthermore, Scytl does not have offices or servers in Frankfurt, Germany.
THE FACTS: Social media users Saturday were sharing reports published by conservative
websites claiming servers that would reveal wrongdoing in the U.S. election had been
confiscated by U.S. military forces in Germany. Most posts said the servers belong to the
software company Scytl, which is based in Barcelona, and some suggested the servers housed
information from Dominion Voting Systems.
The false claims followed a Zoom call this week that featured Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert,
of Texas, suggesting that "U.S. Army forces" had seized servers from a Frankfurt office of the
software company Scytl.
In his remarks, which were widely shared on social media, Gohmert acknowledged that the
information about the alleged raid only came from a "German tweet in German," and had said, "I
don't know the truth."
The Associated Press reached out to Gohmert's spokesperson but did not hear back.
In his recorded remarks, Gohmert said he had heard from "former intel people" that Scytl
maintained data that could be "gleaned" to prove Republican votes had been changed to Democrat
in the Nov. 3 election.
But, according to the company, Scytl does not tally votes. Nor is there credible evidence
Republican votes were changed to Democratic votes in the election.
George Papadopoulos, a former Trump campaign adviser who pleaded guilty in special counsel
Robert Mueller's probe, tweeted on Friday afternoon: "Breaking: Congressman Louie Ghomert has
stated that The U.S. Army has seized servers for Dominion in Germany."
When asked by The Associated Press if the Army had engaged in an operation to recover
servers in Germany, an Army spokesperson responded Saturday, "Those allegations are false."
Scytl also refuted the claim. As the false conspiracy spread online, the company released a
statement Friday titled, "Fact Checking Regarding US Elections: Debunking Fake News."
In the statement Scytl said: "We do not have servers or offices in Frankfurt" and "The US
army has not seized anything from Scytl in Barcelona, Frankfurt or anywhere else." It also says
Scytl does not "tabulate, tally or count votes in the US."
Jonathan Brill, the president and general manager for Scytl's U.S. division told the AP,
"Scytl products sold to US customers are fully housed in the US, utilizing Amazon Web Services
and have never been housed in Germany."
The company provided four election-related products to city, county and state clients for
the Nov. 3 U.S. election, including an interface to train election workers, online tools to
educate voters, an online platform for voters to request absentee ballots and an online
platform to display real-time election results tabulated by local election officials.
Scytl and Dominion do not have ties to one another, according to statements from both
companies.
"There is no truth whatsoever to the claims," a Dominion spokesperson wrote in an email when
asked if the company stored data on servers in Germany and if it was aware of a U.S. military
operation to seize those servers.
The claim is the latest in a series of false information that has circulated about Dominion
Voting Systems since the election, including the meritless theory that the company's voting
machines
deleted or switched Trump votes.
There is no evidence of widespread fraud in the 2020 election. In fact, election officials
from both political parties have stated publicly that the election went well and international
observers confirmed there were no serious irregularities.
__
This is part of The Associated Press' ongoing effort to fact-check misinformation that is
shared widely online, including work with Facebook to identify and reduce the circulation of
false stories on the platform.
Again, while the post contain valuable information about Scytl, please understand that this
is a rumor. I no way US military are allowed to operate this way in Germany. This would be a
diplomatic scandal. George
Papadopoulos twit can well be a fake.
According to intelligence sources US Military raided voting machine company Scytl servers in
Germany for evidence of manipulation in 2020 US Elections after it was exposed in vote
switching scandal by GreatGameIndia .
Scytl has a long history of election fraud in various nations including injecting backdoors in
its election software. The issue has prompted experts to question why the sensitive job of
counting votes was outsourced to a foreign company? How could a bankrupted Spanish company
Scytl count American votes in Spain ? George Papadopoulos @GeorgePapa19 · Nov 13
Breaking: Congressman Louie Ghomert has stated that The U.S. Army has seized servers for
Dominion in Germany.
According to Congressman Louie Gohmert, Texas there is "compelling evidence" of vote
switching in the 2020 presidential election compiled by the Spanish electronic voting machine
company Scytl.
The Texas lawmaker said in an interview with Newsmax TV that US military forces seized the
company's server in Frankfurt, Germany. Gohmert said there are some who believe it's U.S.
intelligence "that manipulated all this" to cover themselves.
In a Facebook conference call, Gohmert elaborated that he received the information Sunday
from "some of our former intel people that there was extremely compelling evidence that could
be gleaned from Scytl," the Barcelona company that was "responsible for aggregating all the
information from all the machines."
, you might want to look into this issue. If the Dominion machines used in Maricopa County
never published technical reviews then they might have been BLACK BOX VOTING MACHINES! What are
they hiding by not publishing? Is it legal to not publish?
Quote Tweet
Merissa Hamilton
@merissahamilton
· Nov 11
#THREAD CONCERNING Neither @SecretaryHobbs nor @maricopacounty published technical reviews
of the Dominion Voting Systems software Vendor driven sales demos conducted Oct 29 '19 &
Jan 28' 20 were considered sufficient for cert by Hobbs' Equipment Cert Advisory Committee #Sad
twitter.com/brahmresnik/st
Thursday on Fox News Channel's "Hannity," Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) was critical of how votes
were counted in last week's presidential election.
Gaetz pointed to the unlikely demographic of recently registered voters and
potential flaws in voting systems manufactured by Dominion to bolster his claim.
"Here's what we know: The chairman of the Federal Election Commission said there was fraud
in this election, and when you take the mail-in ballots and balance them against the registry
of people who changed their addresses, you see there are tens of thousands of people, 17,000
alone in Georgia who actually moved and then voted in the state that that they moved from," he
said. "You know, Reince mentioned these nursing home mystery votes coming in, and the state of
Pennsylvania, more people over the age of 90, registered to vote in 2020 than in like the prior
four years combined. I call it the Dorothy effect, this notion that there was an immediate
interest and surge of voters over the age of 90 during a pandemic. We have yet to find one
nursing home where these Democratic registrations were occurring in mass that seems to suggest
that those ballots may have been turned in by someone other than the person they were addressed
to."
"Now, this isn't impossible to fix. In Florida, we have a standard that requires a review of
those mail-in ballots before Election Day. That way, you're able to give them greater scrutiny
and ensure a proper scrutiny. But here's one thing I know, Sean, those Dominion software
systems, they changed more votes than Vladimir Putin ever did, and we spent four years and tens
of millions of dollars over this fiction of Russian collusion with a Trump campaign. I'd say a
few more weeks ensuring we had a fair election in 2020 is worth this great nation's time."
When you add up all the various methods of fraud used to sway this election towards Biden we
are not talking just a few dead people voting, we are talking millions of votes either taken
from Trump and given to Biden or just outright deleted from Trump.
There is no way Biden received enough legal votes to beat Trump. It's just not possible
under the circumstances.
How a Stolen Election has been set aside inside just one week:
A Judge rules that PA Secretary of State, Kathy Bookvar, lacked statutory authority to issue
the guidance she did on November 1, which resulted in all Republican observers being excluded
from counts. This rules out hundreds of thousands of fake votes and the case moves to SCOTUS.
TRUMP WINS.
The investigation of the Dominion foreign owned machines led by Pelosi former chief of
staff, Nadeam Elshami continues. Smartmatic owns Dominion was number 2 or 33 in Soros's Change
the World Fake Charity.
The servers for these machines are owned in Canada or Spain - they won't allow inspection. Thus
it will end up with full audit of all these states, no matter how long that may take. Only then
will the complete depth of this heist be realised. For now, it is enough to win the election
for TRUMP but it cannot stop there. In Michigan, Philadelphia, Nevada, Arizona, Georgia,
Wisconsin... 30 states in all used this system. A complete audit is required (is already
happening in Georgia). Eventually as many as 30 million votes may have been tampered with. As
many as 10 million may have been destroyed for TRUMP alone !!! They didn't know that there were
eyes watching this scam, all prepared. Millions of votes being driven in, from out of state, to
shore up their losing counts ??? Never before in history have they sunk so low.
Even now another attempted cheat: the USPS has ordered that all TRUMP /Republican will be
suppressed whilst all mailings will be delivered for Biden...
See Rudy here:
https://mobile.twitter.com/...
Biden will never be President - instead he will be an inmate !!! Lin Wood, lawyer
He may even share a cell with someone called Murdoch !!!
Looks like the Pretend PresElect and his blackmailing co-conspirators are making their
pressure count: Porter Day pulls out of PA and now this:
Newsmax is reporting that Benjamin Hovland, who chairs the U.S. Election Assistance
Commission,
and Bob Kolasky, the assistant director of the Cybersecurity and
Infrastructure Security Agency, part of the Department of Homeland
Security along with 10 others are reporting that this election is "the most secure in US
history".
WTF? Those threats about shunning apparently involve more than just cocktail parties.
The swamp's Soviet style bureaucratic apparatus is every bit as toxic to those that fall out
of line as found in every totalitarian state in the history of the planet.
I think they're more Maoist but maybe that really doesn't matter? For some reason the
Chinese seem more brutal and single minded. They have definitely run God out of their culture
in ways the Soviets never did
The Obammunists with the weight in the Dem Party are indeed Maoist or some close
variation.
Valerie Jarrett was told that new-hire Van Jones was a 'former' communist. She only asked
"What kind?"
When the answer was "Maoist", she replied with one word: "Good".
I looked for myself county by county. Repub. Votes for president, house and senate were
about the same in almost every county. But biden got 100,000 more than his fellow dems. Not
possible. Especially with 2 senate seats.
Local sources are often more complete, but national news is hiding a lot. And one-horse
operations like BB don't have the posse needed to track everything down.
Biden won't sit a day in prison. He'll keel over first. His son is another story. Anyone
higher up the "food chain" (Obama -Hillary etc.) will never serve time either. They're
"untouchable" because of the politicians in this country wouldn't want to start a trend.!
But if we manage to save law and Constitution, then let's follow them. Twenty years in
prison would give us a chance to send them postcards from all the places they wish they
were.
Of course, if we can't save the Constitution, then there are no rules at all, and all kinds of
things would happen, for a state of "nature, red in tooth and claw" would prevail.
I don't think they will pull this off. The threats they are throwing around are a way of
saying "Don't you dare check the vote!"
It shows they know the fraud is massive, and think it will be caught if our agents don't
give up.
The course for us is to keep up the pressure on the people who do the checking, and soon
enough, the prosecuting and judging.
And then get busy making sure they cannot try again.
We still have to fight and not give an inch. You are right, though. We shall win. Even if
you don't live in Georgia, you are perfectly entitled to write to the authorities in Georgia
and insist they stop limiting Republican observers to one every 10 tables. Secretary of State
Brad Raffensperger awarded a $107m contract to them to provide their technology. Elections
security is my top priority , he said at the time. My suspicion is that he took a
commission from them (or their associates) as well so has a deep conflict of interest. He needs
to be audited financially.
😆 🤣 😂 keep telling yourself that 🤡. You're so delusional
just like the rest of the beta cucks on breitbart. Can't wait to see you eat your asinine post
come January when Biden is sworn in... you'll be crying the blues while the world moves on.
Actually, that is not my criterion. I'm sure you could do an online search (for yourself) on
how to "spot" a troll. Heck, there are even sometimes folks that look like conservative
"trolls" of a sort, and there are also accounts that are used for other purposes -- like giving
upvotes to others. Thing is, folks who come here to spew insults without giving anyone any
thought-oriented viewpoints or reactions to articles are typically trolls.
Folks who get too emotionally charged in the insults -- much the same --
Screen names also have histories and are recognizable.
Here's one pattern:
New guy + insults + nonsense = troll
"nonsense" often indicates an automated mechanism is being employed for posts.
We need a new academic field: Troll Studies.
Some (not all) of those who pretend to be 'friendlies' can be called 'concern trolls'. That
term has been around for a while. I contrast them with 'nuisance trolls'.
People who actually attempt to persuade the audience without dishonesty I don't classify as
trolls at all.
God help us all if that happens but at least we will get a smidgen of satisfaction watching
them go "what? But we were on your side. Why do we have to eat dirt and lose freedom
too?Waaaaa!!"
Words of a puffy eyed "alpha"poll puffer, been crying for four ? or is it five years
now.
LMFAO
What you gonna burn down if this attempted theft get righted?
Make sure it's not your two moms basement🤣
Honestly, can't you people even come up with your OWN insults? I'm sick to death even of
CONSERVATIVES using "beta cuck", "snowflake", "soy boy" and "Mama's basement."
Top Democrats Raised Concerns About Dominion Voting Technology in 2019
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Democrat leaders, including Sens. Elizabeth Warren (MA), Amy Klobuchar (MN), and Ron Wyden (OR), wrote a letter in December
2019 to the private equity firms controlling the United States' three leading voting technology companies, expressing concern
in the letter about the voting technology industry's "vulnerabilities" and "lack of transparency."
The
letter
was
sent on December 6, 2019, to three private equity firms, taking issue with "vulnerabilities and a lack of transparency in the
election technology industry and the poor condition of voting machines and other election technology equipment," Warren's
office
said
of
the letter. The letter sought information about what role the firms had in perpetuating the technology issues.
H.I.G. Capital, investing in Hart InterCivic
McCarthy Group, investing in Election Systems & Software
Staple Street Capital, investing in Dominion Voting Systems
At the time, those three voting technology companies facilitated 90 percent of voters, the letter noted, citing the Wharton
School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Today, Election Systems & Software and Dominion Voting Systems facilitate more than three-quarters of voters, while Hart
InterCivic was "quietly sold" by its owner, H.I.G. Capital, in April of this year, according to an October 28, 2020,
report
from
the
Wall
Street Journal
, which also cited Wharton School.
Dominion entered the spotlight in the days following the election after unofficial results were reported erroneously in Antrim
County, Michigan -- one of many locations that utilizes Dominion's software for its elections. The results attracted attention
late on election night after showing presidential candidate Joe Biden (D) leading President Donald Trump in the heavily red
county. A statement from Michigan's secretary of state
explained
the
error was an "isolated user error" and not a software error.
Gwinnett County, Georgia, which also utilizes Dominion's software, experienced a delay in vote counting because of an unknown
issue with the software. The county
reported
that
Dominion technicians had resolved the issue by November 8 and that the county was able to count its remaining ballots that
day.
Trump's campaign and many Republican pundits have sounded alarms over the voting technology, but the letter from leading
Democrats in 2019 indicates concerns may be bipartisan.
The Democrats' letter identified a multitude of issues, at one point referencing a Vice report, saying, "In 2018 alone 'voters
in South Carolina [were] reporting machines that switched their votes after they'd inputted them, scanners [were] rejecting
paper ballots in Missouri, and busted machines [were] causing long lines in Indiana.'"
The letter also noted that around 20 election technology vendors had competed in that market in the early 2000s but that the
vendors have since consolidated to where only a few control the "vast majority of the market."
Warren told the
Journal
in
an email, "Private-equity firms 'have taken over nearly all of the nation's election technology -- and how they do business is
clouded in secrecy.'" Staple Street Capital, which purchased Dominion in 2018, reportedly partially responded to the
Democrats' letter at the time, while the other two firms did not respond.
Dominion
issued
a
vehement statement Friday fully rejecting various accusations that have been circulating about the company since the election.
Dominion said that it "categorically denies false assertions about vote switching issues with our voting systems," that the
company is nonpartisan, and that "assertions of voter fraud conspiracies are 100% false."
This just in. Sidney Powell says she has evidence of Dominion and that is was used on
November third. She also says that she has evidence the governors were involved. Release the
Kraken!
It's an interview of Sidney Powell by Lou Dobbs. At the 1:14 mark Sidney says that they
are also looking into which governors and Secretary of state's were INVESTED in Dominion.
Apparently we have these idiots also caught trying to make money off of voter fraud.
Wasn't Brian Kemp, the GOP governor of GA, the SOS of GA before becoming Governor? Isn't
he the guy who won't call on the legislature to address these voting irregularities? Is he
the guy in charge of this fake recount?
Is it possible this guy is also a Trojan horse, never Trumper? This recount is a sham, the
Governor is GOP, looks like to me that another traitor has been uncovered!
This is a false rumor, but information about this shady and probably controlled by intelligence agencies company is interesting.
Notable quotes:
"... Andrea Widburg at American Thinker earlier reported that Scytl has (or had) connections to Soros and the Democrat party. Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen' s Vulcan Capital has invested $40 million in Scytl , and other source points out that Bill Gates also owns stock in Scytl . ..."
In spite of the mainstream media and Big Tech continue flagging and suppressing the information that regarding the electoral fraud,
enormous evidence just keep flooding in.
Earlier today Rep. Louie Gohmert has confirmed on Newsmax that a software company called Scytl , has been improperly collecting
the election data through Spain was raided by a large US army force and its servers were seized in Frankfurt, Germany.
Scytl is a Barcelona-based software company that sells election software in more than 20 countries, including the USA, Mexico,
France, Norway, Switzerland, Austria, BiH, and India.
As it shows on the company's website:
Scytl has successfully delivered election modernization projects in the US since 2008, and most recently for the 2018 Midterm
Elections when over 70M voters from more than 900 U.S. counties successfully leveraged Scytl's technology. Also, during the 2016
US Presidential Election Scytl's technology provided over 53 million registered voters and thousands of election staff across 28
states the benefits of more efficient, scalable, and accessible election processes, consolidating Scytl as the leading election
modernization provider in the United States.
According to a report by Forbes in 2017:
Scytl applies end-to-end encryption, vote return cords, and a bulletin board audit service. Scytl's customers include France's
Ministry of Foreign Affairs , the European Green Party, the Parliament of the European Union, and the Swiss Canton of Fribourg .
In January 2012, the company bought SOE Software. Scytl also holds more than 40 patents and patent applications.
However, the company was declared bankrupt in June this year. The company filed for bankruptcy as part of a broader analysis of
security vulnerabilities associated with digital voting.
Andrea Widburg at American Thinker earlier reported that Scytl has (or had) connections to Soros and the Democrat party. Microsoft
co-founder Paul Allen' s Vulcan Capital has invested $40 million in Scytl , and other source points out that Bill Gates also owns
stock in Scytl .
When the U.S. government confirmed that the Dominion Voting System is involved in the electoral fraud, the intelligence community
was instructed to search for its servers and found out that they were in Germany. However, the CIA was totally excluded from this
operation.
By obtaining the servers, the US government, on the other hand, will have direct evidence of this electoral fraud: when was the
ballot-counting stopped; who gave the instruction to stop ballot-counting; and who initiated the algorithm which enabled to switch
votes
It has been obvious that the US voting system has been an unverifiable black box ever
since Bush vs. Gore and Bush vs. Kerry. Voting machines are produced by companies whose
ownership is not public knowledge and whose agenda is unknown. And There could well be people
or groups outside of these companies with technical skills, access to the software, and the
motivation to create mischief.
By design of the system we cannot know if the system has been rigged. Nor can we tell if
there are single, centralized manipulators or multiple, localized manipulators, each
jockeying for advantage with the machines they have access to or with all the software for a
given manufacturer.
The question is: why do neither of the two parties care about it? Democrats were quick to
accept the results in 2000 and.2004 and not raise a stink or demand a transparent, auditable
process afterwards. And Republicans haven't cared either.
Curious!!! Has each been coopted by a promise to get their share of the spoils?
Verifiable systems are clearly possible. Curiously, it is Venezuela that uses one. Each
electronic ballot produces a receipt , which each voter verifies and places in a receptacle
where it can be counted. In a large, randomly selected number of precincts, paper receipts
are publicly tallied and compared with machine results in the presence of representatives of
the candidates. Tallies of the precincts are made public and sent to a central vote
tabulation center, which publishes vote counts from each precinct.
Venezuela's system was created as a reaction to a system that had been designed to give
the appearance of democracy when in fact the two major parties had colluded to alternate
years in power. We have no way of knowing if this is what happens in Washington, or whether
outside, covert forces manage the results, or whether the will of the people is actually
being reflected by the results.
In any case, it a shameful situation for a country with the audacity to declare itself the
world's greatest democracy.
This looks like an algorithm that is in place to trigger after a certain Republican lead
is achieved (they don't want to make it too obvious). Once triggered the algorithm transfers
some individual votes from Trump to Biden.
As the Republican lead increases, the number of votes transferred also increases.
It's a sort of feedback loop that punishes trump as the Republicans do better.
One of the effects of the loop is to show Biden as an individual having significantly more
votes than the democrats as a party.
Another possible effect is (I'm not certain on this one) is that it tends to push the
votes for individuals towards a 50/50 split, because you can't take more from Trump than he's
actually got. So in heavy Republican states, Trump individual votes can all be skewed to
Biden, and Biden get's his own votes.
As I said, I'm not absolutely certain on this second effect, I may be wrong but it
certainly looks like that.
... As a professional analyst of "big data" I can tell you that it is extremely rare in
nature/social sciences - like the never happens kind of rare - to see such a tight
correlation as we do in the data he presents (the negative correlation between a district's %
republicans and % of Biden votes).
It is also rare to the point of being just about impossible for such a phenomenon to begin
to abruptly (at the point where a district's republic constituency hits 30%).
I further agree that it looks exactly like someone programmed the counting machines to use
the same vote switching logic in all of the districts. This would be easy logic to code. I
could do it myself in an afternoon in SQL or SAS and I'm not a professional coder, just a
dilettante that has learned to code analytical software. I know my IT guys could do it easily
in various coding languages.
So the mail-in voting things was always a red herring and good old fashioned counting
machines were always the game.
Do the actual ballots still exist. Should be easy enough for the courts to assess the
merits of Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai's analysis and then order a recount on "clean" machines.
Finally, I note that one district in MI has already admitted to counting issues that
favored Biden. They said it was a "glitch" in the software. Software doesn't just develop
glitches. Code is a physical thing; a script. It can't re-write itself. The glitch
explanation is insulting.
1) respect for rule of law
2) respect for constitutional governance of rule of law
3) respect for a quarter millennium of American tradition
4) fear of God's judgement
5) fear of legal punishment
The globalists and their socialist handmaidens have none of these. There might be a
handful of low-level drones who fear #5, but those fears are overblown. Brenda Snipes was
cheating down in Broward for 15 years (thanks Low Energy Jeb!) and merely got fired
(finally).
IF they had the means, THEN they did cheat. Democratic forms of governance can produce
good governance only when the electorate has a sufficient degree of shared political culture.
The culture of most of the world (most Europeans included) is "not cheating outgroups when
you can is morally equivalent to stealing from your own group and is therefore wrong."
I haven't watched the video yet. However, I do a little coding on the side as a side
hustle.
The guys I respect say that there is no such thing as a Software Glitch. That software
performs as coded or indicated and it is extremely easy to code for counters +1. A caveman
could do it.
Any glitch is a red flag for fraud. Also, uploading an update the night before is a huge
red flag since there will not be time to real time test for errors.
And last one guy was mocking the pay for a job advertised for Election Software job per
hour as insultingly low.
My impression is the experts in the field of coding have little respect for the security
of software in the electoral field. This is non-partisan viewpoint from what I can tell.
I have seen the following families of evidence of fraud
1) anecdotes
2) probabilities (Biden getting more votes than Obama only where he needed them, down ballot
differences et al)
3) statistical analysis like this, Benford and some others
4) computer nerds looking at the machines (just beginning)
They all point the same way and they all occur in the necessary places.
BUT
1) can you convince objective judges?
2) are there any objective judges?
3) if the judges conclude there was fraud, what to do?
Whatever happens. half the country will be convinced the election was stolen. Then
what?
"hate doesn't go in a straight line" An apt comment by Dr. Shiva's colleague. The Wayne
County data is an eye opener. It would be interesting to see them do this same analysis to
Washtenaw County.
Sylvia1, That's precisely what they are showing, the heavier the Republican district, the
more the algorithm swaped votes. watch the intro of that video again, their explanation and
example are pretty good.
... As a professional analyst of "big data" I can tell you that it is extremely rare in
nature/social sciences - like the never happens kind of rare - to see such a tight
correlation as we do in the data he presents (the negative correlation between a district's %
republicans and % of Biden votes).
It is also rare to the point of being just about impossible for such a phenomenon to begin
to abruptly (at the point where a district's republic constituency hits 30%).
I further agree that it looks exactly like someone programmed the counting machines to use
the same vote switching logic in all of the districts. This would be easy logic to code. I
could do it myself in an afternoon in SQL or SAS and I'm not a professional coder, just a
dilettante that has learned to code analytical software. I know my IT guys could do it easily
in various coding languages.
So the mail-in voting things was always a red herring and good old fashioned counting
machines were always the game.
Do the actual ballots still exist. Should be easy enough for the courts to assess the
merits of Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai's analysis and then order a recount on "clean" machines.
Finally, I note that one district in MI has already admitted to counting issues that
favored Biden. They said it was a "glitch" in the software. Software doesn't just develop
glitches. Code is a physical thing; a script. It can't re-write itself. The glitch
explanation is insulting.
Of course, the mainstream media is working overtime to cover up this story.
However, even the
New
York Times
has confirmed that Rudy Giuliani is saying that Dominion whistleblowers are coming forward:
Many of those
people have said, contrary to evidence, that Dominion software was used to switch votes. Some people even suggested that the
company was doing the bidding of the Clintons, a conspiracy theory that was shared on Twitter by President Trump. On
Wednesday, Rudolph W. Giuliani, the president's lawyer, said he was in contact with "whistle-blowers" from Dominion, though he
did not provide evidence.
Dominion,
originally a Canadian company that now has its effective headquarters in Denver, makes machines for voters to cast ballots and
for poll workers to count them, as well as software that helps government officials organize and keep track of election
results.
Georgia spent
$107 million on 30,000 of the company's machines last year. In some cases, they proved to be headaches in the state's primary
elections in June, though officials largely attributed the problems to a lack of training for election workers.
Dominion did not
immediately respond to a request for comment.
In Antrim
County, Mich., unofficial results initially showed President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. beating Mr. Trump by roughly 3,000
votes. But that didn't seem right in the Republican stronghold, so election workers checked again.
It turned out
that they had configured the Dominion ballot scanners and reporting software with slightly different versions of the ballot,
which meant that the votes were counted correctly but that they were reported incorrectly, state officials said. The correct
tallies showed Mr. Trump beat Mr. Biden by roughly 2,500 votes in the county.
In Oakland
County, Mich., election officials also spotted an error after they first reported the unofficial counts. They realized they
had mistakenly counted votes from the city of Rochester Hills, Mich., twice, according to the Michigan Department of State.
The revised
tallies showed that an incumbent Republican county commissioner had kept his seat, not lost it. Oakland County used software
from a company called Hart InterCivic, not Dominion, though the software was not at fault.
Both errors,
which appeared to go against Republicans, spurred conspiracy theories in conservative corners of the internet. That drew a
response from Tina Barton, the Republican clerk in Rochester Hills, Mich., the city that had its votes briefly counted twice.
Democrats investigated Russia for four years.
Why won't they commit to a few weeks to verify the integrity of our election?
We need transparency in our election process!
But Democrats appears to be fighting against that transparency that voters desire!
Trump's latest lawsuit could potentially flip the battleground state of Michigan.
It is requesting that 1.2 million incorrectly filled out ballots be tossed.
Four voters
filed a federal lawsuit seeking to exclude presidential election results from three Michigan counties due to allegations of
fraud, echoing several other legal challenges brought forward since President Donald Trump refused to concede defeat.
Trump earned
147,000 fewer votes than Democrat Joe Biden in Michigan, according to unofficial election results that are being certified
this month by county canvassing boards. The new lawsuit seeks to eliminate ballots cast in Wayne, Washtenaw and Ingham
counties, which would amount to 1.2 million votes, giving Trump the lead in Michigan.
Birmingham
attorney Maxwell Goss and Indiana attorney James Bopp Jr. are representing plaintiffs in the lawsuit. Bopp serves as a
campaign adviser to Trump. He was an Indiana delegate for Trump in 2016 and served as a legal adviser for George W. Bush and
Mitt Romney.
The lawsuit,
filed in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan, cites an assortment of allegations made by the Trump
campaign, Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel, right-wing media organizations and ongoing lawsuits filed since
the election.
Plaintiffs also
cite ongoing investigations launched by the Michigan Legislature and a variety of other claims that have been debunked. The
allegations include charges of Republican ballot challengers being harassed and illegal tampering with ballots.
Plaintiffs
conclude that "this evidence suffices to place in doubt the November 3 presidential election results in identified counties
and/or the state as a whole." However, the group of voters also claims to have additional evidence of illegal ballots being
included in unofficial results, based on "expert reports" and data analysis.
"Upon
information and belief, the expert report will identify persons who cast votes illegally by casting multiple ballots, were
deceased, had moved, or were otherwise not qualified to vote in the November 3 presidential election, along with evidence of
illegal ballot stuffing, ballot harvesting, and other illegal voting," the lawsuit states.
At least one of
several other Michigan lawsuits making similar allegations has been thrown out for lack of evidence and other flaws.
Oakland County
residents Lena Bally and Gavriel Grossbard, Eaton County resident Carol Hatch and Jackson County resident Steven Butler are
listed as plaintiffs in the new federal lawsuit. Grossbard was a Republican candidate for Michigan's 9th Congressional
District, but lost in the August primary.
The lawsuit
names as defendants Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and members of the Michigan State Board of Canvassers, Wayne County Board of
Canvassers, Washtenaw County Board of Canvassers and Ingham County Board of Canvassers.
Plaintiffs are
seeking to exclude votes from Wayne, Washtenaw and Ingham counties. They argue that including results from counties "where
sufficient illegal ballots were included" would unconstitutionally cause legal votes to be "diluted."
Gen McInerney first broke the story on March 19th, 2017 on Dr Dave Janda's Operation Freedom
podcast, including the fact that John Brennan, James Clapper, Robert Mueller and James Comey
were directly involved with Barack Obama in operating The Hammer as a means of leverage and
blackmail their targets. Within moments of this broadcast, Peter Strzok and Lisa Page were
texting each other about it, as seen in their declassified texts!
The following day, on March 20, 2017, Comey perjured himself when he testified before the
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence that the FBI Counterintelligence Division had
"no information" to support Trump's tweet claiming that President Obama had "wiretapped"
him.
The Deep State is completely desperate to keep a lid on The Hammer. Since November 2019,
former CIA officer, Kevin Shipp has been using platforms like Greg Hunter's USA Watchdog to
claim that The Hammer is a fraudulent psyop that pushed its way up to Gen Michael Flynn's the
defense team, with the potential of jeopardizing the credibility of his case.
Also, Shipp recently started telling everybody that Q is a nefarious psyop, coinciding with
the exact moment when Congress voted to condemn QAnon and its believers – and at just the
same moment that YouTube de-platformed dozens of our favorite creators and that Twitter and
Facebook terminated thousands of users' accounts.
Here's how nuclear it is on Facebook: When someone asked me about QAnon, I answered with 3
words: "Q is real" and I was instantaneously locked out of my account for 12 hours for making a
post associated with "domestic terrorism"!
I always liked Shipp but sadly, I can only conclude that he is a disinformant. Maybe they
used The Hammer on him
On September 21, 2020, 30-year NSA veteran, Bill Binney tweeted, "@Kevin_Shipp posted a
message today implying I changed my mind about the Hammer program. he did this without talking
to me. point is I have not changed my mind on this subject. it still needs to be investigated
by AG Barr and Durham."
As for James Comey, we know that he's been aware of The Hammer since at least August 19,
2015, when Montgomery gave 47 hard drives containing over 600 million pages of documents to his
office. Montgomery had become a whistleblower upon seeing firsthand how the Obama
administration had turned The Hammer against Americans. He received two limited immunity
agreements in exchange for evidence production and testimony.
Montgomery says the Obama White House provided 1,200 preloaded Blackberry devices to trusted
Obama insiders, including to Hunter Biden and that the FBI and DOJ are in possession of this
body of evidence. This would indicate that they have long been aware of Hunter and Joe Biden's
espionage activities, such as the sale of a US military technology manufacturer to the CCP via
Hunter's private equity company, Bohai Harvest.
Montgomery says the 1,200 BlackBerry devices, similar to those used by Obama and Hillary
communicated over a closed encrypted secure network, known as PIN-to-PIN messaging that did not
traverse the Internet, operating directly off The Hammer network. Each of those devices could
access The Hammer Vault, a secret database of The Hammer's illegally-collected data, including
corporate and military intellectual property and US Defense secrets, accessible only to Obama
team insiders.
Montgomery's 600 million pages of documents show that for more than four years before the
2016 election, four contractors working for the Obama Administration's FBI illegally surveilled
American citizens. Moreover, the FISA court was made aware of this and has communicated its
findings to the Justice Department.
SCORECARD
Yesterday on the War Room, Gen McInerney revealed that the Obama administration added an
application to The Hammer called Scorecard, which he says, "Changes votes at a certain point in
the voting stream – and by the way, the Obama administration used it in the 2012
Elections in Florida and both Obama and Biden are very familiar with this.
In their article published at TheAmericanReport.org on October 31, 2020, Mary Fanning and
Alan Jones report :
"The Obama administration illegally commandeered The Hammer and Scorecard. They moved The
Hammer to Fort Washington, Maryland on February 3, 2009. The Obama White House had an encrypted
VPN in order to access The Hammer at will.
"On December 20, 2015, as part of a summary of information disclosed in The Whistleblower
Tapes, The American Report revealed the following on The American Report's official Facebook
page:
"Florida voter registration disk removed and new disk inserted for redistricting via "The
Hammer" computer system in Fort Washington Maryland via Navy Intel cover (they stole the
Florida election via re-districting in Florida? How many other states did Brennan and Clapper
do this?)"
Gen McInerney continues, "They used [Scorecard] in the Primaries and Bernie lost to Biden
So, it is ready to go. I just found out about this yesterday. Sidney [Powell] played a very
important role in assisting me and [journalists] Mary Fanning and Alan Jones in trying to get
the word out, so the American people know all this enthusiasm you're talking about in
Pennsylvania gets changed very quickly with this software program [Scorecard] that switches 3%
of the votes."
McInerney was in the US Air Force for 35 years, where he had an extensive operational career
and retired as the Number Three man. He says, "I'm currently in the cloud business now and
that's why I'm so intimately familiar with what Hammer and Scorecard can do. And nobody knows
it."
Bannon then says, "Hammer was the single most important and the single most sophisticated,
basically system that came up after 9/11 for intelligence or really counterintelligence about
Radical Islamic jihad and the ability to monitor that. Is that the beginning of how this
started? It was a foreign surveillance system that allowed the National Security and
intelligence apparatus to watch our enemies. Is that how this thing started?"
McInerney replies, "That's how it started, Steve. Very sophisticated. Very, very capable. It
was then adopted with the software packages, like on your iPhone, to the voting business. And
it was used in foreign countries. It was then moved over to the CIA and they started looking at
US Citizens. That is illegal. The CIA cannot look at US Citizens. Only the FBI, with the proper
FISA warrants, etc. Sidney knows all about this. You know all about this.
"And it is extremely important, that this was taken out of the CIA when the Obama
administration left. They used some kabuki to get it out. They still have it up and running. We
know where it is located. It's active tonight, it's active, they've been looking at a whole
host of things – as has the DNC, using false IPs – and they are looking around and
they are trying to set up this voting thing that happens on Tuesday night.
"It's gonna look good for President Trump but they're gonna change it. And that's the danger
that America and everybody must realize."
Bannon asks Gen McInerney, "Dennis Montgomery he was being rounded up at his house. He had
47 hard drives I think, he had taken from Fort Meade. How does Dennis Montgomery fit into the
story?"
"He's a genius," Gen McInerney responds. "And he loves America. Dennis invented The Hammer.
Dennis invented Scorecard. He's the programmer that made all of this happen. And he's on our
side, at great personal risk, as well as he hasn't benefited financially from it. He's an
absolute genius. So, he's extremely important to what's going on.
"It would have happened in 2016, Steve, except something happened to it that night, when the
Obama crowd and the Democrats tried to use it. I can't talk about that."
Bannon responds that when he first heard of it, Project Hammer was so compartmented that
just the name of the project, itself was classified. He says, given that Gen McInerney is
claiming, two days before the 2020 Election, that the DNC is going to try to steal it and given
the large amount of Left Wing media watching the podcast, he asks Sidney Powell why this isn't
a 'tinfoil hat conspiracy theory'?
Sidney replies, "Well, Gen McInerney has been talking about it for at least three years. A
separate source came to me, completely unconnected out of Dallas, that had identified computer
replacement of votes and there's a story out about that, from more than a year ago. And then,
now, it's coming up again. We've got more verification.
"The point is, the reason this is all happening is because there are trillions of dollars at
stake. The Globalists, the Communists, the Marxists, the Chinese Communist Party want to
control the world and the power and the dollars that go with it. And hey have to destroy the
independence of We, the People and the freedom and leadership of the United States to do that.
That's their last big target. We are the end of the line for liberty and freedom and any
semblance of justice.
"They will spend any amount of money. They are willing to do absolutely anything to try to
continue the graft and corruption that all of the evidence that's now just coming out against
Joe Biden exemplifies. It wasn't just Joe Biden. It's probably 80% of our public officials, at
least in the Federal Government and many in the States, too
"Look at General Flynn's Twitter feed and look at the articles he's written recently, about
how important this election is. And it's not just to this country, it is to the entire world.
It is anybody who has any hope for freedom anywhere."
Bannon comments that when Dennis Montgomery gave 47 hard drives with over 600 million pages
of documents to James Comey's office at the FBI and he asks Gen McInerney "What was he trying
to expose? What should the American people know today on the eve of this election that 250 Flag
Officers sent a letter to President Trump, including my old boss, Tom Hayward, that said, 'It's
the most important election in the history of the Republic.'
"What is Montgomery trying to tell us? What is the message we need to hear today?"
"Well, he's telling us right now, Steve that we are on the verge of being compromised
through cyber warfare. Which he is a master of, he's the most brilliant person in our country
on cyber warfare and they have used this. They moved it from the intelligence – a very
highly-secure program – and they've moved it from there over to political treachery. And
that's what it is.
"When they moved it out of the CIA, they moved it for their political use, as they have
politicized the intelligence community, as we saw in the Russia Hoax and what they've done to
General Flynn. All these things that you and Sidney have been talking about, that want to
change America from what it is. It goes back to the Electoral College, to the Supreme Court.
All these things are bundled to change America from being a Democratic Republic to a
Totalitarian regime.
"That means a Socialist country, the next step is Communism. That's why there can be no
agreement between this Democratic Party and the Republican Party. One choice is freedom. One
choice is Communism. It's that simple It is an either-or. If we don't win the election, that
will be the last free election this country ever has."
Bannon then says, "Just want the DNC to know that we're going to pull the plug on Scorecard.
You're not going to use cyber warfare to steal this election They're not going to steal it
because we've got Patriots, like Gen McInerney, Sidney Powell and others, that are on watch,
that are on the ramparts 24/7, OK? And we're going to be relentless in this We're gonna get the
plug pulled on Scorecard and Hammer. Sorry Brennan, sorry Comey, sorry DNC, sorry President
Obama, sorry – not sorry!
" This is the fight of a lifetime. This is the inflection point of the Republic. McInerney's
right. We lose this. It's over."
Bannon asks Sidney Powell again, why The Hammer is not a woo-woo conspiracy theory.
She replies, "Well, there's multiple sources that this exists – an absolute
confirmation of it. It's even moved off its original site into a private company But Obama,
Biden, Brennan, Clapper, Comey, Mueller – all know about it; helped create it and know
how to use it against the American people.
"There's evidence that any number of judges, I think over 100 judges they collected
information on. A lot of lawyers. Thousands of lawyers, including me, I'm told was collected on
by it. And businesses, particular businesses, churches. They've gotten names and addresses of
people from certain churches, anti-abortion groups. They're using it for their social and
political issues."
Bannon asks, "When you're FBI Director, you're gonna clean all this up? Can the American
People get your commitment that you're gonna do this?"
"Yes. Regardless of political party. I will be a very Equal Opportunity offender."
Dennis Montgomery Developed Hammer after 9/11. Hammer and Scorecard were used in 2012 for
Biden and Obama. Just as you say and also used to STEAL from Bernie Sanders this year.
Complete Election Fraud
"This software is a CIA spy program designed to use on protected networks
(like voting machines) without detection. It is important to note that
Montgomery claims that in 2009, under then-President Barak Obama, this
software was "commandeered and repurposed" by John Brenan and James
Clapper into a "private and parallel domestic surveillance system."
Dennis Montgomery is a genius, a real prodigy who worked with the NSA to develop
"Hammer".
"Scorecard" was developed using the intrusion capabilities of Hammer to focus upon
election software.
It definitely appears that the Dominion computers all had this program running.
Vote switching is its primary feature. The sure-fire telltale signs of Republican totals
DECREASING is rampant. It's an impossibility for votes to decrease for any candidate.
The fact that the totals at that given point in time, are universally decreasing for
Republicans ONLY and given to Democrats with identical totals is truly alarming.
Many videos are circulating showing these vote switches in real-time. All these videos are
proofs. Irrefutable evidence that votes were manipulated to swap votes from Republican votes
to Democrats.
Impossible to deny.
Scorecard was used in many elections and Democrat primaries.
Wish someone would post at least part of the actual malware code. If written properly,the
vote tally for the victim would continue to increase, just switching an occasional 'random'
vote to the opponents' tally. There would never be an actual decrease in the tally, and there
would be no real 'pattern' to discern - very hard to detect by itself unless the actual code
was available. I could write more, but there might actually be a 'Non-brain-dead' liberal
reading these comments!
Would that mean any legislation that those elected by fraudulent means would be put to
review?
I mean that if this software fraud investigation goes retrospective and it's found that over
time local, state and the federal government's have had illegal candidates sitting will the
votes of the illegal candidates be struck from any legislation that they voted on?
Everything should undergo a review. Especially any act that passed by a narrow margin. If say
3 ineligible candidates sat in any particular legislature all bills that passed by 3 or less
votes during their term should be reviewed.
Any legislation which only passed because of the addition of ineligible votes could be deemed
null and void.
Seems to be a theme by the "serious conservatives" at Fox News: downplaying the scope and
severity of the election fraud. Solomon actually said there was only one glitch in MI and it
was resolved in a friendly manner with the county officials. He said there were no other
problems with Dominion software as far as he was aware, WHILE Sidney Powell was reporting the
same thing as Gateway Pundit - that it was across the country and there is evidence of
millions of votes impacted positively for biden because of the software. Hannity didn't
challenge him either when the opposite was being reported in other outlets.
He seems to be taking the paper ballot used to stuff the ballot box route based on the
statistics along with the data showing large numbers of ballots cast by people who had
previously submitted change of address requests yet had not been removed from voter rolls.
Seems those type of people would be ripe for targeting for submitting an illegal ballot in
their name. Those number is the 100's of thousands....
The book is mixed. Good information often is intermixed with absurd statements. And often
authors overplay their hand.
Still if read with a grain of slat one can find interesting, systematized information about
Flynn prosecution and Russiagate gaslighting. This information is presented via the prism of
Hammer, the newer surveillance system similar to Prism, that supposedly was used by Obama
administraqtion to spy on the US citizens including General Flynn, supreme court judges and even
members of FICA court.
In February 2009, the Obama administration commandeered a powerful supercomputer system
known as THE HAMMER. THE HAMMER includes an exploit application known as SCORECARD that is capable of hacking into
elections and stealing the vote, according to CIA contractor-turned-whistleblower Dennis
Montgomery, who designed and built THE HAMMER.
This is a blatant attempt of CIA to steal functions of NSA. Which strongly suggests that
Obama was a CIA-democrat.
On March 19, 2017, General Mclnerney and Admiral Lyons dropped The
American Report's expose 011 The HAMMER, the illegal surveillance operation overseen by Obama,
Brennan, and Clapper with which they spied 011 Americans and targeted their political
adversaries. The radio show is a Live show, and fifteen minutes before General Mclnerney's
segment he emailed me that he would be coming forward with time-sensitive information provided
with the support of Admiral Lyons.
The information focused 011 an illegal surveillance operation which utilized a platform, THE
HAMMER, developed by Dennis Montgomery, which Obama, Brennan and Clapper, with the support of
Comey and Mueller, had "privatized" to illegally-surveil political opponents. Their "operation"
violated the rights of many hundreds of Americans, including citizen Donald Trump, General
Flynn, government officials, and Supreme Court and District Court Judges. General Mclnerney
then came on the Live show and delivered the information noted above to the American public.
This was the first time this information was presented 011 Radio or TV. I would like to say
that the information of the illegal "operation" shocked me .... however, having been involved
in health care policy for years and having had "time in the swamp".... it angered me but did
not shock me.
The credit for exposing the illegal "operation" THE HAMMER and bringing it to the attention
of General Mclnerney and Admiral Lyons should go to investigative journalists Mary Fanning and
Alan Jones of The American Report and military intelligence officials who confirmed the illegal
"operation." Mary Fanning and Alan Jones have presented information in at least two dozen well
researched, well sourced, and very thorough investigative articles on the illegal surveillance
parallel platform.
The reaction to the segment was significant. The listening audience demanded that the
illegal "operation" be investigated, Deep State operatives expressed displeasure over the
information being made public, and for some "reason," my computer immediately after the show
malfunctioned and would not allow me to send emails. The screen repeatedly seized. This was not
a common occurrence -- this was rare.
Of note, several years after the segment, the Department of Justice released text messages
between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, which Tire American Report exposed and built a timeline
around. Included in those texts were messages between Strzok and Page on the evening of March
19, 2017 referencing the information General Mclnerney brought forward on the show. Over the
ensuing years, there have been those who thoroughly researched the illegal "operation" who are
also well-versed and experts in information technology.
The two most well-respected surveillance experts in the world, Bill Binney and Kirk Wiebe,
have been supportive of the existence of the illegal parallel platform of THE HAMMER and they
in fact have come forward stating that they had also participated in parallel platforms.
Admiral Lyons was an incredible Patriot and a friend who also regularly appeared 011 my
show. From March 19, 2017 until his death in December of 2018, he repeatedly told me ....
"David, continue to focus on the Hammer surveillance .... it is the key to the coup, the key
for General Flynn's Freedom, and the key to Save Our Country.
-- David H. Janda M.D. Host, Operation Freedom
... ... ...
(7) Brennan and Clapper ran THE HAMMER computer system out of a secret Fort Washington,
Maryland facility beginning on February 3, 2009, after President Barack Obama took office;
(8) Florida voter registration disks were removed, and new disks inserted by Brennan and
Clapper via THE HAMMER supercomputer system, whereby they stole the Florida election via
redistricting;
Operation "Scorecard" reveals shadowy interference at the polls.According to According
to
NOQ Report , Lt. Gen. Tom McInerney exposed "Scorecard." The Dems' alleged superweapon for
voter fraud.
"A CIA program known as "Scorecard" allows its users to change voting outcomes by hacking
into the transfer between local reporting stations and state or national data centers.
According to McInerney, it's a small amount, under 3%, to keep it from triggering any alarms.
He would know. He served in top military positions under the Secretary of Defense and the Vice
President of the United States," says QMN.The covert technology "was built by the CIA to
surreptitiously steal elections in targeted countries. Now, that technology is being turned
against the United States of America and is about to be activated on Tuesday to steal the
election for Biden," The covert technology "was built by the CIA to surreptitiously steal
elections in targeted countries. Now, that technology is being turned against the United States
of America and is about to be activated on Tuesday to steal the election for Biden,"
McInerney boldly claimed . "This might also help explain why Joe Biden told voters at a
recent (small) rally that he didn't "need their vote" to become President, and why Nancy Pelosi
says Biden will win no matter what the votes say on Nov. 3rd."Operation Texas Scorecard.Project Veritas is at it again with undercover work to show
ballot harvesting. Project Veritas is at it again with undercover work to show ballot
harvesting.
Newly released footage reveals an operation in San Antonio, Texas, collecting votes for
Democrats, a pollster saying to a voter,
Dems' ballot harvesting Minnesota.
In the first of a series of reports, Project Veritas
investigators reveal a ballot-harvesting racket in Rep Ilhan Omar's (D) Minneapolis district
involving her campaign workers and political allies, In the first of a series of reports,
Project Veritas investigators reveal a ballot-harvesting racket in Rep Ilhan Omar's (D)
Minneapolis district involving her campaign workers and political allies, reports QMN
News . "Whistleblower Jamal Osman, a Minneapolis community leader and chair of the city's
Somali Watchdog Group, alleges Omar's involvement, and says that his brother, Liban Mohamed, is
one of Omar's "many people." "It's an open secret. She [Omar] will do anything that she can do
to get elected and she has hundreds of people on the streets doing that," he told Veritas in an
on-camera interview last Tuesday. "Whistleblower Jamal Osman, a Minneapolis community leader
and chair of the city's Somali Watchdog Group, alleges Omar's involvement, and says that his
brother, Liban Mohamed, is one of Omar's "many people." "It's an open secret. She [Omar] will
do anything that she can do to get elected and she has hundreds of people on the streets doing
that," he told Veritas in an on-camera interview last Tuesday. "Whistleblower Jamal Osman, a
Minneapolis community leader and chair of the city's Somali Watchdog Group, alleges Omar's
involvement, and says that his brother, Liban Mohamed, is one of Omar's "many people." "It's an
open secret. She [Omar] will do anything that she can do to get elected and she has hundreds of
people on the streets doing that," he told Veritas in an on-camera interview last Tuesday.
"It's an open secret. She [Omar] will do anything that she can do to get elected and she has
hundreds of people on the streets doing that," he told Veritas in an on-camera interview last
Tuesday. "It's an open secret. She [Omar] will do anything that she can do to get elected and
she has hundreds of people on the streets doing that," he told Veritas in an on-camera
interview last Tuesday.
Dems deceit fracks election in Pennsylvania.
Rosa:
My polling place in Philly was handing these out. And no, no one handed out a GOP or any
other party option. pic.twitter.com/LZ9C2ZYl5w
TIPers knew the groundwork was in motion with mail-in ballots and all the other tricks
that would tip close states to the candidate with no chance of winning on his own. That would
be Joe Biden. They don't know Trump, America's top warrior, yet.
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Karen Fann, Senate president, has asked the state to test voting machines.
Capitol Media Services Karen Fann, Senate president, has asked the state to test voting
machines.
Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs said the election was run using laws established by
the Republican controlled Legislature. She rejected request to test voting machines.
By Howard Fischer Capitol Media Services
PHOENIX – Senate President Karen Fann is seeking an independent analysis of the
testing of Arizona voting machines.
In a letter to Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, the Prescott Republican said she is not
claiming there was fraud in the just-completed election.
"But many others are making that claim," Fann said. And she contends that the outside review
will put the "current controversy" to rest. Watch now: Ballots processing in Pima County Play
Video
But Hobbs said Fann, while professing no belief in fraud, is herself trafficking in
conspiracy theories by even suggesting that an extra – and legally unrequired –
step is necessary to quell rumors.
"It is patently unreasonable to suggest that, despite there being zero credible evidence of
any impropriety or widespread irregularities, election officials nonetheless have a
responsibility to prove a negative," she wrote Tuesday in a response to Fann.
"To be clear, there is no 'current controversy' regarding elections in Arizona, outside of
theories floated by those seeking to undermine our democratic process for political gain,"
Hobbs said. "Elected officials should work to build, rather than damage, public confidence in
our system."
And the secretary left no doubt about what she intends to do.
"I respectfully decline your request to push aside the work that remains to be done to
ensure an orderly completion of this election and instead launch and fund with taxpayer dollars
a boundless 'independent' evaluation of 'all data related to the tabulation of votes in the
2020 General Election,"' Hobbs wrote.
Fann told Capitol Media Services there's nothing improper about her request, even absent any
proof of fraud.
"There are a lot of questions that the voters have," she said. "And for the integrity of our
democracy, why wouldn't we want to get to the bottom of these questions?" Quality journalism
doesn't happen without your help.
And if there's nothing there, Fann said, "let's find out what they are and either put them
to bed or get those questions answered."
Hobbs said everything being done follows the election laws as established by the
Republican-controlled Legislature.
She pointed out the equipment used to tabulate votes can be used only if first certified by
the U.S. Election Assistance Commission and her own office, after review by a special State's
Equipment Certification Advisory Committee.
Then there are "logic and accuracy" tests on each piece of equipment – tests that need
to be done in public – both before and after the election to ensure the machines are
properly recording votes.
And there even is a law that requires that 2% of the ballots from select precincts be
counted by hand to ensure the tally matches what the machine has spit out. And that is open to
party officials who even can video record the process.
All that, Hobbs said, was made public for months before the election.
Possibility of hacking into and changing voters counts in the US electronic election system does exist. To what extent CIA
penetrated it remains unclear, but judging from some presentation the system is deliberately kept very vulnerable to exploits via
patchwork of shady private companies involved. Yes you got it right, the equipment for the USA election is not run by the USA
government, it is run by private companies, including Amazon.
I wish they'd stop with the Hammer and Scorecard BS.
Unless they have proof, trying to suggest that the CIA swayed the election just makes
all the other more legitimate claims sound like more nonsense.
There are real issues already here, like crates of ballots being brought in and
opened in sealed rooms, observers being banned, voter count and patterns being way off
normal, ballots being found in garbage or burned, etc. Dozens of reports.
Why would they do all that other stuff when some CIA puke can fire up a program
that just alters the counts on the fly? Trump's people need to focus on the real
issues, trying to blame everything under the sun just makes them look exactly like the
sore losers the left is saying they are.
This really is about more than just Trump. If the media and Democrats aren't willing
to stand for fair elections, the rest of the country needs to see it and do something
about it.
CherokeeRose Not Woke Yet, But
I'm Hoping
Posted: 11/10/2020 1:43:19 AM EST Originally
Posted By IronBalaclava:
JUST IN(11/8/2020):
Absolutely excellent podcast with Lt Gen. Tom McInerney a couple days BEFORE the
election, regarding the use of Project Hammer's Scorecard application to
steal votes:
Keeping the DNC party about 3% ahead.
To be used in battle ground states such as: FL, WI, MI, GA, TX, PA, AZ
In this expedited upload edition of the Operation Freedom Radio Show [November 1
2020] Dr. Dave chats with Gen. Tom McInerney about recently discovered information
regarding voter fraud:
For those with short attention spans, it's only 23 minutes. Please listen in, copy,
paste and spread the word:
In February 2009, the Obama administration commandeered a powerful supercomputer system
known as THE HAMMER. THE HAMMER includes an exploit application known as SCORECARD that
is capable of hacking into elections and stealing the vote, according to CIA
contractor-turned-whistleblower Dennis Montgomery, who designed and built THE HAMMER.
THE WHISTLEBLOWER TAPES, confidential audio recordings released by U.S. DIstrict Judge
G. Murray Snow's courtroom in November 2015, revealed that SCORECARD was deployed by
the Obama team against Florida election computers to steal the 2012 presidential
election on behalf of President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden.
SCORECARD is
now being activated to steal the vote on behalf of Joe Biden once again.
Biden utilized
THE HAMMER and SCORECARD while running for Vice President in 2012. Votes are again
being stolen on Joe Biden's behalf as he runs for President of the United States in
2020. This time, SCORECARD is stealing votes in Florida, Georgia, Texas, Pennsylvania,
Wisconsin, Michigan, Nevada, and Arizona, according to Montgomery.
"THE HAMMER is the key to the coup" U.S. Navy Admiral James A. "Ace" Lyons (Ret.) proclaimed
to U.S. Air Force Lieutenant General Thomas Mclnerney (Ret.). Admiral Lyons, who led the
largest military command in the world as Commander of the U.S. Navy Pacific Fleet, spoke those
words to General Mclnerney one final time as General Mclnerney sat beside Admiral Lyon's
deathbed.
Dennis Montgomery designed and built THE HAMMER foreign surveillance supercomputer to keep
America safe after 9/11. Montgomery is a software designer and computer expert who worked as a
government contractor for the CIA, FBI, NSA, and Defense Department.
According to military sources, THE HAMMER was a powerful foreign surveillance tool intended
to monitor terrorists and other foreign adversaries.
On February 3, 2009, at the beginning of President Obama's first term, John Brennan and
James Clapper illegally commandeered the foreign surveillance tool known as THE HAMMER and
transformed it into a domestic surveillance system that went operational at a secret government
facility at Fort Washington, Maryland.
Montgomery became a whistleblower to expose Brennan and Clapper's illegal use of THE HAMMER
for domestic surveillance.
Brennan and Clapper illegally spied on Americans, including President Obama's political
enemies, using that domestic surveillance data for "blackmail" and "leverage," as disclosed in
"The Whistleblower Tapes" and by Montgomery.
Robert Mueller's FBI supplied the computers for THE HAMMER, according to The Whistleblower
Tapes and according to Montgomery.
Brennan and Clapper used THE HAMMER to spy on Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts,
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, 159 Article III
judges, FISA Court Presiding Judge Reggie Walton, members of Congress, Wall Street executives,
Rudy Giuliani, Lt. General Michael Flynn, Donald
Trump, Trump Tower, multiple Trump businesses, and members of the Trump family, according to
Montgomery. Montgomery asserted that Brennan
spied on Donald Trump because the CIA feared Trump. According to The Whistleblower Tapes,
Brennan and Clapper wiretapped Donald Trump "a
zillion times."
In an interview with his attorney Montgomery said, "There has been a wiretap on Trump for
years.
August 2015, FBI Director Comey took possession of 47 hard drives of illegal surveillance
from Dennis Montgomery under two limited immunity
agreements. According to Montgomery, the 47 hard drives proved Brennan and Clapper had Donald
Trump under illegal surveillance.
December 2015, after the FBI verified the 47 hard drives, Montgomery received greater
immunity. Montgomery provided testimony inside a
Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) at the FBI Washington DC Field Office while
under oath and being videotaped, for three and
one half hours, before Assistant U.S. Attorney Deborah Curtis and FBI Special Agents Walter
Giardina and William Barnett.
March 4, 2017, President Trump on Twitter accused President Obama of wiretapping Trump
Tower.
March 7, 2017, WikiLeaks dumped CIA Vault 7 that confirmed the existence of THE HAMMER
(HAMR).
НАМR (pronounced hammer) - throwing framework for browser exploits
WildTurkey (n.) A animal of the avian variety that has not been domesticated. Also a
type of alcohol with a high proof (151). It get's you HAMR'D
WildTurkey is the name of the collection of iOS related plugins for the HAMR framework.
The project WildTurkey has a makefile that helps build all the related plugins and a HAMR
BEM and a FEM. The BEM is the Back End Manager and manages the creation of a FEL (Front End
Listener). The FEL will actually handle the exploitation process of a device. Build
everything by:
cd <ZOO_REPO_DIR>/wildturkey
make <clean> <all|sot|sol>
10.2.3.119 ( DNS name to be assigned...) is a Debian VM that has HAMR 1.3. Use that
server to build and run your fels, and remember to stop your fel when you are done to not
eat up ports.
To build a fel:
scp the plugins to the server
ssh into the server
make sure you have a plist (a sample exists on the share drive under
MDB/Temporary/test.plist)
If using the sample, make sure you change the URL key under
targets>global
Also if using the sample, the passphrase is moo
./bem build <plist path> <output name> <plugins>
where output name is the name of the fel (for example test.fel)
Now you can either run the fel through the bem and the fem via 4.b, or directly via
4.a
python test.fel # input the passphrase when prompted
see the hamr docs because I'm too lazy to look it up right meow
In order to build a FEL, you need to have a configuration plist. Until we build an easy
to configure plist here is a sample one:
Dominion software is used in 28 states. The are used in all Georgia 158 counties. "The
Dominion Voting Systems... was rejected three times by data communications experts from the Texas
Secretary of State and Attorney General's Office for failing to meet basic security
standards."
A quote from DESIGN FLAW IN DOMINION IMAGECAST EVOLUTION VOTING MACHINE ANDREW APPEL OCTOBER
16, 2018: ""The Dominion ImageCast Evolution looks like a pretty good voting machine, but it has
a serious design flaw: after you mark your ballot, after you review your ballot, the voting
machine can print more votes on it!." pretty good voting machine, but it has a serious design
flaw: after you mark your ballot, after you review your ballot, the voting machine can print more
votes on it!."
FLASHBACK: DR. ANDREW APPEL TESTIFIES TO CONGRESS ON THE POSSIBILITY OF VOTING MACHINES BEING
HACKED
Computer chicanery seems the likelier, more easily-provable election fraud to me,
especially to account for the huge Ballot Fairy drop of tens of thousands of Biden votes that
occurred in the wee hours of Nov. 4th, when counting had ostensibly halted in battleground
states. Now, some may argue that fraudulent votes couldn't be added randomly because they
would require corresponding registered voters, like a credit/debit function in accounting.
Well, any claims of this sort seem either naive or disingenuous to me as an IT person with
administrative access could assign votes erroneously, if not create numbers out of thin air.
Unless a thorough audit would ensue, who would be the wiser?
Besides, the fact that only Republican oversight was hindered at counting centers is a
HUGE red flag and should be telling. I'm trying to keep faith in AG Barr but it's
challenging. POTUS is the Ultimate Outsider and this alone puts him at odds with a
bi-partisan club of entitled, elitist antagonists.
Dominion Voting Systems rebuked claims that the company has a financial relationship with the husband of Sen. Dianne Feinstein
and that the company manipulated the results of the 2020 election.
"The company has no
financial relationship with Mr. Blum ," Kay Stimson, Dominion's vice president of government affairs, told the Dispatch
. "This is a false claim spread on social media."
Trump legal adviser Sidney Powell said Democrats, including Feinstein's husband, Richard Blum, invested in the voting system company
to "steal" elections not only from Republicans but from other Democrats.
Fox News's Maria Bartiromo said that she had seen reports that Blum was a "significant shareholder" in Dominion and that a former
chief of staff for Nancy Pelosi is a "key executive."
"They have invested in it for their own reasons and are using it to commit this fraud to steal votes," Powell told Bartiromo during
an interview. "I think they've even stolen them from other Democrats in their own party, who should be outraged about this also."
Powell said that Democrats "had this all planned" and that they inserted ballots filled out only for apparent President-elect
Joe Biden when President Trump's vote tally went too high.
Apart from sworn affidavits, at least
one of which has been recanted , no evidence of widespread voter fraud has yet been found.
Claims of Democrats being involved in Dominion are misleading, the Dispatch reported. It confirmed that Nadeam Elshami,
Pelosi's former chief of staff, is a lobbyist for Dominion and reported that Bartiromo "fails to mention that a number of Republican
staffers are as well."
There is also no evidence to suggest that Blum ever had a financial stake in Dominion. At one point, Blum Capital Partners, a
firm chaired by Blum, held a 16.7% stake in Avid Technology, which viral posts alleged developed voting software that was used in
Michigan.
Those claims are also false, according to a spokesman who told the Dispatch that Avid produces software "to produce music,
movies, TV news, and shows," not voting software. The representative also said that Blum Capital Partners "has no holdings in Avid
today."
Avid is also not connected to Dominion.
The Washington Examiner reached out to Dominion for further comment.
Computers only do what they are programmed to do. There is no such thing as a "glitch"! Code is code and it is in-putted by
a human.
It is fraud, plain and simple...
jammyjo , 38 minutes ago
Working as designed too. Must have been some H1-Bs coding to spec. Otherwise, they would have taken into account the effect
of coattails in presidential elections. Oh well, they'll fix that in Dominion 2.0.
We all know the CIA and the technocracy are behind the entire election fraud in the first place, Pelosi and Pals and their
Dominion Counting Software. Its disgusting, the entire world is disgusted.
You vote in person with an ID. Exemtions given to the disabled and those who are 67 and older. Continue to control elections
at the state level in keeping with the constitution. Set a national database that all votes can be verified through social security
numbers. Federal law mandating all counties report deaths to the registry so they can be removed from the database. Idk but the
current system is garbage. If you want a fare election regardless of political affiliation something would have happened along
time ago. And yes there has been fraud. I'm not saying a Democrat rep. contacted every election official. I'm saying these individuals
overseeing these counts had the mentality of "by any means necessary". Why? Because orange man evil, so they feel it's justifiable.
Such an irony: The Constitution of the United States and the Declaration of Independence were signed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
And today the state of Pennsylvania just desecrated our Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. What a shame.
Having been a computer programmer, I've never understood why everyone just went along with trusting the voting machines to
be accurate...to have not been purposely compromised by the left.
Why is this CRITICAL ?? Because the last UN-RIGGED election Turkey had was in 2000. After 2002 every election was rigged like
this one. GAME OVER and one party rule !
As a result of the 2002 HAVA Act, most counties don't run elections anymore. Private Co/s with Private Shareholders under contract
to counties run our elections. And these companies do it with virtually NO Transparency or Supervision.
The entire election system infrastructure is a complex patchwork of various private companies doing various parts of it. ALL of
it is exposed to the internet, the idea of it being air-gapped is a myth. The voting companies own manuals show this. Some of these
companies conduct elections all over the world, effectively being in a position to control some of the outcomes
Some of the companies are foreign owned with servers outside this country, and they are the last ones to actually control the
so-called "unofficial" votes. BUT, it is the "Unofficial" votes that eventually control "Official" votes.
There are no security standards, similar to NIST, for election software. Hence any certifications are largely just agreed on an
ad hoc basis between the certifying company and the election company and therefore don't mean much.
Most State SoS offices fail to grasp the extent and vulnerabilities within their systems, and so they grant waiver to their State
law and voting code to counties and election companies that exacerbate the problem.
Our investigation revealed at least a dozen or more entry points where votes can and are being switched and the audit trails changed
or erased so that a forensic investigation finds no trace. It has to be caught in real time. Even the operator of the election system
can change votes undetected.
As an attorney and forensic technologist, the DB reset is what triggered me to watch the whole thing - This is amazing. Why
do we never hear more of these things???????? DB reset totally cuts the chain of custody and invalidates the whole election. INSANE
- and that's just at 10 minutes in!!!!!
According to the US Constitution the election was scheduled for the 1st Tuesday after the 1st Monday in November. Nothing else
matters (fraud, counting votes next day etc..) Election ended that day. Federal Law over-rules all these illegal state laws. TRUMP
won constitutionally. Time to go to Supreme Court of the United States
Also, Mayor Giuliani has claimed mamy Cases of Fraud and is Filing Lawsuits as Trump's
Lawyer.
Also, Tucker Carlson has also claimed that his Team have verified a good number of
Reported Incidents.
Statistical Analyses Claimants are coming forward as well.
Those who claim that there were none or not enough - including you, B - need to read
around a bit more and wait before making presumptive assessments when we don't have All the
Claim Cases, related Data, and Votes Affected.
Personally, I've seen enough to believe this Election is Compromised. Dominion are
allegedly vested by the Pelosis (which alone raise a few Red Flags for a RICO
Investigation).
It may be Prudent to Not only Hold Audits; but Redo the Federal Election Seats (WH and
Congress) again with Federal Ballots Monitored by Federal Personnel.
Biden should have been sent to Bethesda/Walter Reed/Hopkins for an Alzheimer's/Dementia
Review Panel (put my Own Mother through the Drill every several years prior to her going to
her Nursing Home); and Hunter should have been Arrested for Crack/Child Molestation while
being further investigated for MoneyLaundering/RICO with Pops.
Giuliani is Confident Here As Well. One thing for Certain, B, is that Giuliani has an
Outstanding Reputation as a Federal Prosecutor; and Does. Not. Bπ££$#!+.
Around. When it comes to Criminal Cases.
I'll rely on Giuliani's Assessments more than anyone else's on this Matter.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas.) said in an interview that aired Sunday that he believes an
investigation should be launched into software used to count ballots amid concerns of election
irregularities.
The Republican senator told Fox News that the same software that was
linked to an incident in which votes were switched in a county in Michigan should be
investigated to rule out potential vote tabulation issues elsewhere in the country.
Antrim County in Michigan, which uses voting machines by Dominion Voting Systems, flipped
from Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden to President Donald Trump after over 5,000
votes were found to have been incorrectly registered for Biden.
"That same software is used in 47 counties throughout Michigan," Cruz said . "That needs to be examined to determine
that there isn't a problem counting the votes. And the legal process is how you resolve those
questions."
Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson said in a statement that the
problem ballots in Antrim County were due to human error, not a software malfunction.
"The erroneous reporting of unofficial results from Antrim county was a result of accidental
error on the part of the Antrim County Clerk," she said. "The equipment and software did not
malfunction and all ballots were properly tabulated. However, the clerk accidentally did not
update the software used to collect voting machine data and report unofficial results."
Dominion Voting Systems didn't immediately respond to a requests for comments from The Epoch
Times.
Benson added that even if the incident of incorrectly tabulated votes hadn't been quickly
flagged, it would have been noticed during the county canvass.
"As with other unofficial results reporting errors, this was an honest mistake and did not
affect any actual vote totals," she said. "Election clerks work extremely hard and do their
work with integrity. They are human beings, and sometimes make mistakes. However, there are
many checks and balances that ensure mistakes can be caught and corrected."
Cruz, in his interview, said the software should be examined in order to definitively rule
out any possibility of vote tabulation problems and to allay concerns of voters amid an
election that is facing claims of fraud.
"If there is a glitch that's built into the software system, it'll be shown and it's easy to
define that," Cruz said. "I think this is a great exercise to get back the trust of the
American people."
"You know, one of the frustrating things just as an American watching this, you hear all
these allegations of what's going on, it's hard to know what the facts are, what the truth is,"
Cruz said, adding that allegations of voter fraud "could easily end up in the Supreme
Court."
Biden was declared by a number of media outlets as president-elect on Saturday and has
claimed
victory in the presidential race.
Trump has alleged voter fraud and said any declarations of victory are premature, with his
campaign announcing a raft of legal challenges.
"The simple fact is this election is far from over," Trump said in a statement. "Joe Biden
has not been certified as the winner of any states, let alone any of the highly contested
states headed for mandatory recounts, or states where our campaign has valid and legitimate
legal challenges that could determine the ultimate victor."
"Legal votes decide who is president, not the news media," Trump added.
The explanations of the "glitches" are ridiculous, and the "glitches" were detected in one
county but apply to software used in 47 counties plus the entire state of Georgia.
The way the "glitches" were detected was luck, or a huge mistake on the part of the
fraudsters.
You may be right. Or it may all come crashing down in the automatically-triggered recount.
Or the political machine may succeed in doing a fake recount without observers and shutting
the book on this. We'll see.
One Dominion unit having a glitch is a glitch. Multiple Dominions across multiple states and
scores of counties having glitches all in favor of the same candidate is corruption. Pure and
simple.
On zero evidence, a manufactured dossier, and a frenzied TDS media, Trump was hounded for
almost 3 years with investigations. Now in 2020, with a mountain of evidence, we're about to
have a true investigation of true election interference.
RIP Alex Trabek, 1940-2020. 80 years old. A great life.
Dominion disagrees with these findings, stating that multiple large
local governments across the country -- such Cook County, Illinois, which
includes Chicago, and San Francisco and San Diego counties in
California -- have purchased their system.
Why do the same names keep popping up, wherever controversy is? Feinstein, Pelosi and
the Clinton Global Initiative
1) Dianne Feinstein's husband owns 60% percent of the Dominion Voting company 2) Nancy Pelosi's longest serving aide is now a Lobbyist for the Dominion Voting
company 3) Dominion Voting makes philanthropic contributions to the CGI (Clinton Global
Initiative)
Posted by "The Gateway Pundit" on November 8, 2020:
My husband was a mainframe IT professional for 40 years. His department maintained 401k
systems for BOA's corporate clients.
He said you NEVER implement a system at the last minute. You do system testing repeatedly
over a long period of time to make sure the program is working correctly.
He was stunned when I told him they updated the system the night before. Stunned.
When they did system updates at Merril Lynch/BOA, they worked on it for months and did
numerous test runs before putting it into operation.
If they had access to update the software the night before the vote, they had access during
the voting process, as well as after. Changes could be made in real-time. How secure was the
VPN access?
VPN access is secure. But that assumes someone without authorization to VPN in to the
machines (like the manufacturer) will have access to each machine no matter what. A VPN only
stops or slows down an unauthorized access.
"New normal" as in: having Dominion software flip votes from Trump to Biden, corporate
media doing a witch hunt on Trump for 5 years, MSM lying about everything from George Floyd
not dying from a drug overdose, MSM literally fanning the flames to incite a race war? I
could go on.
I don't think I'd go that far. There is a numerical analysis method called "Benford's Law"
that has been used in the past to show instances of voter fraud in Iran. When applied to voting
patterns for candidates other than Biden it shows no problems in any states. Apparently it does
not show problems for Biden either in states where he lost or those obviously liberal ones that
were almost bound to support him. However, when the analysis is performed on the results coming
in from swing states where we are being told he pulled off some very lucky victories the
picture becomes different. So different that big tech are pulling down posts about it.
Since the CIA wrote Scorecard and Hammer, and since there are a few computer forensics folks working for Trump, it's possible
they were able to monitor and log changes to votes on election night and beyond.
If Trump was smart enough to catch these activities and proves fraud to reverse the States he needs to win, he deserves another
term.
If he was not smart enough, he'll lose due to the lack of evidence.
There would be a good reason for Trump not to mention any of this yet. They still might be using the software to change votes
in some States.
In the words of Sun Tze: "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
Hammer is a machine in the CIA, perhaps a server unit, and Scorecard is one of the programs. The system was designed to hack
into and interfere with foreign country voting elections results. Expect more to be reported on it this week.
Qr code readers on our phone would solve the matching of the text. Scanners and to the tabulation databases still could be
vulnerable, but one the paper copy is verified by the voter and archived it can be audited.
The question is whether Scorecard, Hammer and all of the Internet connections between Dominion and the various State voting
servers were used to change votes on Super Tuesday when Joe Biden unexpectedly blew out Bernie Sanders in one shot for the nomination,
just after several other candidates ducked out.
Here is a lengthy video by a Dallas company that specializes in cyber security it's extremely detailed and will make you sick
when you realize this is a cluster that will never get unraveled. And worse, the FBI isn't interested.
A laptop and several memory sticks used to program
Philadelphia's voting machines were stolen from a city warehouse in East Falls, officials confirmed Wednesday,
setting off a scramble to investigate and to ensure the machines had not been compromised.
Though it remains unclear when the equipment was stolen,
sources briefed on the investigation said the items vanished this week. The laptop belonged to an on-site employee
for the company that supplies the machines. It and the USB drives were the only items believed to have been taken.
Two days ago
we
reported
that Republican poll watchers were being turned away from Philadelphia voting stations:
There was reportedly a problem with the state's voter database.
Trump observers were being blocked entry to satellite voting locations in Philly, according to President Trump's 2020 election
security staffer and GOP advisor Mike Roman.
Philadelphia is notorious for Democrat voter fraud. In May of this year a
South
Philadelphia judge
of elections was found guilty of taking thousands in bribes to inflate vote totals for Democrat
candidates.
In
July former Rep. Michael "Ozzie" Myers
, 77, was indicted on multiple counts, including conspiracy to violate voting rights
by fraudulently stuffing ballot boxes.
In
Philadelphia, voter turnout in 20 of the wards was 97 percent and greater. That is 97 percent of the bloated voter rolls
that probably include dead people. Zombies are in these days, and in Philadelphia, they vote.
In 2017 in the US as a whole there were more people eligible to vote than there were eligible voters.
Per
National Review:
The
Election Integrity Project of
Judicial
Watch
-- a Washington-based legal-watchdog group -- analyzed data from the U.S. Census Bureau's 2011–2015 American
Community Survey and last month's statistics from the federal Election Assistance Commission. The latter included figures
provided by 38 states. According to Judicial Watch, eleven states gave the EAC insufficient or questionable information.
Pennsylvania's legitimate numbers place it just below the over-registration threshold.
My tabulation of Judicial Watch's state-by-state results yielded
462 counties where the registration rate exceeded 100 percent. There were 3,551,760 more people registered to vote than
adult U.S. citizens who inhabit these counties.
We are unaware if any of this has been addressed in Philadelphia or across the nation. Now Philadelphia has its voting
machine keys stolen. What is next?
The Feds need to step in in Philadelphia and all the other big cities
and ensure voter integrity.
These Democrat cities are where elections are stolen.
"... Well they're holding Cook County, Illinois, which includes Chicago, and San Francisco and San Diego counties in California as examples of their satisfied customers. Every one of them a pillar of election fraud for decades. ..."
Forget about the Chinese and the Russians, this fraud was carried out by the
douchebags at our very own, CIA. Those people are the most arrogant bunch of low life's
that you will ever meet. I had to deal with a bunch of them while overseas.
They used CIA's Hammer and Sickle. I'm sorry I meant to say Hammer and Scorecard. I
think the fact that our loudmouth neanderthal ex-CIA director John Brennan voted for
commie Gus Hall was on my mind.
Well they're holding Cook County, Illinois, which includes Chicago, and San Francisco
and San Diego counties in California as examples of their satisfied customers. Every one
of them a pillar of election fraud for decades.
As Pelosi recently said, " we have more arrows in our quiver". Nothing could bring
this country to its knees more than massive voter fraud, other than total nuclear
annulation.
Question why five key states stopped counting votes at the same time at 2:00a.m. when Trump was ahead ,then resumed 3 hours later
when votes turned ALL to Biden, none for Trump. Seriously?
It's worst than that. Dominion is the new brand name if Smartmatic, a Venezuelan "entreprise". Here in Brazil our elections
are being cheated extensively for decades because the entire national voting process are based upon these machines. Over here
the machines doesn't print a copy of the ballot in paper at all. It's a disgrace.
Dominion Voting Systems has ties to prominent Democrats, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Bloomberg reported in April of last year that Dominion Voting Systems hired a high-powered lobbying firm that includes
a longtime aide to Pelosi. They hired Brownstein Farber Hyatt & Schreck. Nadeam Elshami, Pelosi's former chief of staff,
is one of the lobbyists on the account.
In 2014, Dominion was listed in the Washington Post table as having donated between $25,001-$50,000 to the Clinton Foundation.
Also 60% stakeholder of Dominion is Finsteins husband. Nothing to be concerned about at all.
I mean why should we worry about Clinton hyping the Russia interference story to scare people both about Trump and the vulnerability
of old voting machines and simultaneously working with a foundation partner to provide 'reliable' ones...
Oh, and of course Pelosi's chief of staff is also chief executive of Dominion voting systems... cozy no?
the entire mail in thing is a fraud and you know it. people can go to the market and buy
food, they can dance in the street after they think Trump lost, but they can't vote in person
because of the virus?
this was an operation to steal the election and everybody knows it
Every vote counted by an old dominion machine needs to be recounted/audited.
Our election systems have been poorly designed on purpose so they could be hacked. They ALWAYS pretend it's incompetence. ALWAYS.
The first thing a criminal does is play dumb and pretend like they didn't know what they were doing. They knew exactly what they
were doing. Russia Russia Russia was BS and they knew it. They needed easily hackable machines for a different outcome, so they
changed them. It's that simple.
These electronic machines updated 50 year old punch card tech. The reason it wasn't updated in the past 50 years? Potential
for hacking and fraud. So of course our politicians rolled these out in states all over the country. This started around 2012,
but expanded mainly after 2018. They are very easy to hack, see:
All you need to do is change a few lines of code in the memory card. THESE ARE NOT GLITCHES!!!
And in terms of implementation all you need to do is send out a few repair men to swap out memory cards every so often. Swap
to the hacked one and then back so people won't notice or discover it later. Voting machines were open in most places for a month.
It's super easy to do this, the repairmen don't even need to know what they're swapping in and out. It's extremely simple and
would only need to involve a few memory cards per state. This is so easy to do it's absurd.
However, in the Milwaukee County of Wisconsin, which is in one of the key swing states, Joe
Biden's votes violate Benford's Law while other candidates' don't. (Joe Biden 69.4%, Donald
Trump 29.4%, Jo Jorgensen 0.9%. Source: theguardian.com)
And in Chicago of Illinois, Joe Biden's votes are abnormal.
So does that of Allegheny of Pennsylvania which includes Pittsburg. (Joe Biden 59.0%, Donald
Trump 39.9%, Jo Jorgensen 1.2%. Source: theguardian.com)
It looks like maybe Biden had lost big cities like Chicago and Pittsburgh, which is why the
fraudulent votes need to be brought in, which skew his curve away from a normal looking
one.
For those who are interested to reproduce the analysis, you can follow the instructions
here and give it a go.
"... This essay, however, argues that, despite its apparent utility in looking at other phenomena, Benford's Law is problematical at best as a forensic tool when applied to elections. ..."
"... It is not simply that the Law occasionally judges a fraudulent election fair or a fair election fraudulent. Its "success rate" either way is essentially equivalent to a toss of a coin, thereby rendering it problematical at best as a forensic tool and wholly misleading at worst. ..."
The proliferation of elections in even those states that are arguably anything but
democratic has given rise to a focused interest on developing methods for detecting fraud in
the official statistics of a state's election returns. Among these efforts are those that
employ Benford's Law, with the most common application being an attempt to proclaim some
election or another fraud free or replete with fraud.
This essay, however, argues that, despite its apparent utility in looking at other
phenomena, Benford's Law is problematical at best as a forensic tool when applied to
elections.
Looking at simulations designed to model both fair and fraudulent contests as well as data
drawn from elections we know, on the basis of other investigations, were either permeated by
fraud or unlikely to have experienced any measurable malfeasance, we find that conformity with
and deviations from Benford's Law follow no pattern.
It is not simply that the Law occasionally judges a fraudulent election fair or a fair
election fraudulent. Its "success rate" either way is essentially equivalent to a toss of a coin, thereby
rendering it problematical at best as a forensic tool and wholly misleading at worst.
As commenters have noted , the vertical scales are different. Narrow vertical scales make
changes look larger. While wide vertical scales smooth out changes. Biden's graph is using a
more narrow scale than Trump's.
Put them all together in one graph with the same scale and they don't look so different
anymore.
I had to eyeball
the numbers from the graphs, but more precise numbers won't change the outcome. I don't
even know if the numbers are correct. I can say with some certainty that the graphs are
deliberately constructed to sell a lie. One or the other scale is a natural choice, either
0 to max or min to max. Someone had to choose to use different vertical axes for each
graph.
Disclaimer: I have not looked at the actual data.
In general, the biggest problem with applying Benford's law to district level election data
is, that precincts are usually small and similar in size. For example, if all the precincts
have around 800 voters and one candidate consistently takes 40-50% of votes, then it is
expected, that the most frequent first digits will be 3 and 4.
Benford's law works better in cases where the values span multiple orders of magnitude,
which is not the case here.
For concrete examples, it is worth looking at the several Github issues on the source of the
analysis:
The disappearance of Benford's law in Milwaukee is a function of voter preference alone.
If one candidate has between 60% and 80% average chance of receiving a vote, then the sizes
of the wards in Milwaukee are too small to accommodate Benford's law.
More generally, several papers question the usefulness of Benford's law applied to election
data:
Unfortunately, my analysis shows that Benford's Law is an unreliable tool. And, as one
applies more sophisticated methods of estimation, the results become increasingly
inconsistent. Worse still, when compared with observational data, the application of
Benford's Law frequently predicts fraud where none has occurred.
It is not simply that the Law occasionally judges a fraudulent election fair or a fair
election fraudulent. Its "success rate" either way is essentially equivalent to a toss of a
coin, thereby rendering it problematical at best as a forensic tool and wholly misleading at
worst.
Looking at the actual Chicago data at https://www.chicagoelections.gov/en/election-results-specifics.asp
by precinct as of late November 7, the charts for Chicago look credible but the assumption that
Benford's law should apply do not, at least for Biden/Harris or the minor candidates.
Of the 2069 precincts (most of which are of broadly similar size), Biden/Harris won fewer
than 100 votes in 12 precincts, and more than 999 votes in 4 precincts. All the rest (more than
99%) had three digits for their votes, violating the requirement that natural data satisfying
Benford's law
should span several orders of magnitude . More than half the precincts (1100) gave
Biden/Harris from 300 through to 499 votes, making 3 and 4 the most common first digits (the
chart reflects this and is close to showing the actual frequencies by hundreds of votes, so
300-399 was the most common).
For Trump/Pence, votes were more widely dispersed: 99 precincts with 1-9 votes, 1339
precincts with 10-99, and 633 precincts with 100 or more votes. This dispersion over orders of
magnitude allowed a greater chance of coming closer to matching Benford's law.
For the minor candidates, they only reached double digits in a very small number of
precincts (and got 0 votes in hundreds of precincts - not shown on the charts) so the charts
are close to showing their actual vote distribution with censoring of 0 and 10+; again you
would not expect Benford's law to apply.
Chicago was an odd choice to investigate for suspected cheating in 2020 where the gap in
Illinois was 12 percentage points (1960 when it was 0.2 percentage points might have been more
interesting). I suspect it was chosen simply because the data is publicly available and the
distortions caused by similar precinct size led to this non-Benford law result. You will see
this elsewhere for similar reasons: in 2019 very few British MPs won a number of votes starting
with 5-9, as their constituencies are of broadly similar sizes and the winners usually got in
the range from 10,000 to 49,999 votes, again failing the spanning several orders of magnitude
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user3570982 ,
That's a good explanation, though not entirely accurate: There is no requirement for spanning
several orders of magnitude, and Benford's Law can be observable even when there is not a
wide span of magnitudes. If there is a wide span, Benford's Law tends apply more accurately,
but it's not a requirement. What's required is that there not be a cutoff of possible leading
digits (a bounding requirement). – user3570982 yesterday
Acccumulation , 2020-11-09 01:58:10
According to Wikipedia:
Benford's law, also called the Newcomb–Benford law, the law of anomalous numbers,
or the first-digit law, is an observation about the frequency distribution of leading
digits in many real-life sets of numerical data. The law states that in many naturally
occurring collections of numbers, the leading digit is likely to be small.
...
It tends to be most accurate when values are distributed across multiple orders of
magnitude, especially if the process generating the numbers is described by a power law
(which is common in nature).
Beford's Law is not some universal phenomenon, and it failing to hold is not "proof" of
fraud. For instance, we can play this game with the vote percentages that Donald Trump
received in 2016: 11 first digit of 3, 19 first digit of 4, 16 first digit of 5, 9 first
digit of , and 1 first digit of 7 (yes, this adds up to 56; some states don't assign electors
based on state-wide totals, and there's also DC). Clearly, Trump's vote percentages were
fraudulent! In the reddit thread, u/Three-Twelve
says
In the case of the Milwaukee data and Detroit cited in the pictures above, the number of
votes per voting area does not span over several orders of magnitude, so Benford's Law is
not applicable.
The size of a precinct is likely a stronger predictor of the number of votes for Biden,
than Biden's support is. If these people want to claim that this is evidence that the number
of voters per precinct is not random, that would be more supported by the evidence, but also
much more vacuous (it's hardly earth shattering news that some precinct sizes are preferred
over others).
The amount by which a candidate's level of support predicts their vote count, compared to
how well precinct size does, will increase the more that level of support varies (as a
percentage of that support). Thus, if Biden's support varies between 90% and 95%, and Trump's
varies from 5% to 10%, Biden's support is varying by a bit more than 5% (the math is a bit
confusing, as this is a percentage of a percentage; 5% is a bit more than 5% of 90%), and
Trump's support is varying by 100% (5% is 100% of 5%). So Trump's vote totals will vary more
than Biden's, and thus Trump's totals will have more variance across orders of magnitude, and
Beford's Law will be more applicable (note that Jo Jorgensen, who has even less support than
Trump, has a distribution that is also closer to Benford). For an apples to apples
comparison, we'd want to compare to places where Trump was the favored candidate, but those
are rural areas, and I would expect precinct sizes to vary more in rural areas than in
cities.
The Wikipedia article further says:
Based on the plausible assumption that people who fabricate figures tend to distribute
their digits fairly uniformly, a simple comparison of first-digit frequency distribution
from the data with the expected distribution according to Benford's law ought to show up
any anomalous results.
Biden's distribution is consistent neither with Benford, nor with a uniform distribution.
It is, however, a very good fit for a Poisson or lognormal distribution.
Whenever you have a statistical analysis, it's important to remember that the what it can
tell you is that the observed data is unlikely given your null hypothesis. Going from that to
that the null definitely is false requires further justification, and assuming that because
the null is false that means that your favored alternative is true is a false dichotomy. If
someone has a model in which this voting data is unlikely, all that is an argument for is
that their model is false. Democrats engaging is fraud is just one possible way the model
could be false. share
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Do vote counts for Joe Biden in the 2020 election violate Benford's Law?
Simple, uninformative answer: They apparently considerably deviate from it, at
least on one of the presented charts.
Caveat: This observation alone is not sufficient to jump to any conclusions yet. Two
additional questions need to be answered before attempting any jumps:
How (im)probable is this observation under our "normal worldview"?
Although a commonly observed pattern in election datasets, there are no guarantees for
Benford's law to necessarily always emerge. It is therefore important to understand
when it is expected to emerge and how far can we expect a given district to
deviate from it. This can be done by, for example, analyzing previous elections (
assuming those represent "normal voting"). We can model each district's
vote distribution based on historical data and measure the expected degree
of deviation from Benford's law. Once this is done, we may assess the probability of
seeing the observed deviations under these "normal conditions" (a.k.a. the
"p-value"). If this probability ends up being low, we will be able to say that "we are
very surprised" by our observations.
What is the cause of the deviation?
If the analysis in step 1 happens to result in a "sufficietly low" p-value, i.e the
data does not match a "normal" worldview, our next order of business is to come up with
an explanation - a model of a "new" worldview, which fits the data better (e.g. by
including a particular voting fraud process). Only then we can try to jump to any
conclusions.
Metacaveat: Although this all would be pretty standard, textbook-approved methodology of
data analysis, give up your hopes that this could help anyone "learn the Truth". Both steps
include enormous amounts of subjective judgement and, in the end, it is still one's own
beliefs that determine which conclusion to jump towards.
The first step ("modeling normality"), despite relying on mathy techniques and bearing
resemblance to hard science, is, none the less, a form of art. Depending on which historical
data one picks and how one processes it, it may be possible to end up with the p-value
estimate ranging between "unbelievable" to "totally expected".
The second step ("modeling abnormality") is even more subjective - one can usually find
hundreds of valid explanations, ranging from data errors to seasonal abnormalities to various
types of fraud, and the final decision will be determined by one's prior beliefs as to which
of these explanations "seem more plausible".
Given how politically charged the question is, convincing someone else in any chosen
judgement's "objectivity" here is probably hopeless. However, I would be extremely interested
if anyone actually attempted a systematic analysis and suggested a tentative p-value estimate
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The charts for this question are from this repo . I created a fork of the repo
here . I did
chi-squared statistics tests on all the counties and all the counties have in the repo have
statistically significant data for deviations from Benford's law.
My understanding is that the chi-squared test should be valid for sample sizes over 50.
Which is what the benford statistical testing module I'm using says. They use Donald Trump's
2016 election vote data as an example. It did not violate Benford's law. Quote from the
module's README:
Dataset should preferably cover at least 1000 samples. Though Benford's law has been
shown to hold true for datasets containing as few as 50 numbers.
I think the graphs' weird proportions are mostly just to make the text display correctly.
I think it's mostly due to laziness and not thinking about the weird proportions.
There's discussion in the main repo's issues page on how accurate Benford's law is or is
not for detecting election fraud. There's also people saying in the issues saying that using
the second digit instead of the first is more accurate for detecting election fraud. I don't
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Benford's Law catches Biden red handed: a repost Posted on 11/6/20 at 8:59 pm 63 6 Look at these fricks
in Milwaukee. Trump "lost" by 20,000 votes when there was a 100,000+ only Biden vote dump at 4
in the morning.
Two Statistical Curiosities That Allowed Biden To Pull Ahead In PA: A Limerick and
more.
The votes that was tallied in Philly
were not added up willy-nilly.
For the fraud is state-wide
leaving no place to hide.
It's treason; deny it is silly.
Two Statistical Curiosities That Allowed Biden To Pull Ahead In PA:
A brief note. I've been asked
to examine the Pennsylvania votes. That work is ongoing. Update See below for a serious
critique of Benford's law.
I'm showing here (with
permission) the one analysis I found most curious.
This is official county-level timed voting data that started at 2020-11-04 11:00:00, a day
after the election, to 2020-11-07 11:29:00 which is Saturday night. That is, these are all late
vote counts. They start, county by county, where the vote left off on election night.
This is a picture of the running totals by the time the votes were added, summed across all
counties, during those time periods. They do not start at 0, but at the totals given after
election night.
The early gains for Biden are from, mainly, Philadelphia, Allegheny, Montgomery, Chester and
Berks counties. A simple plot
shows the size of vote additions for both candidates, when new vote totals (greater than 0)
were added by county (and not all counties added votes after election day).
All goes well for Trump until 2020-11-04 21:15:00 when he loses just under 10,000 votes, but
curiously from three different counties simultaneously: -1,063 Allegheny; -2,972 Bucks; -7,135
Chester. Biden never lost any votes (at least, in this late voting).
Understand that this does not mean the decreases happened at this time, but that they were
recorded in the official data as happening at that time. And the same is true for our next
observation.
Biden's next curiosity was the big increase of 27,396 votes at 2020-11-06 08:53:00 over one
consecutive reporting period. This bump is just like the blue-red F-memes you have seen: this
only seems more spread out because of the finer time scale used.
These two curiosities account for a 37,263 vote swing for Biden. Biden's total, as of the
end of this data, was 3,344,528, and Trump's 3,310,326. Biden therefore "won", in this dataset
anyway, by 34,202 votes.
Biden could not have pulled ahead without the curiosities noted above.
There is more to come. Stick around.
Update Benford's law is only useful in uncovering multiple and on-going instances of
cheating. As in somebody consistently cooking financial books. As I showed above, assuming the
curiosities are cheats, it only took two instances to tip the balance. Benford's law will never
pick this up: never.
I'm skeptical of what I'm seeing in other analyses, because if somebody turns something up
with Benford, it implies that many, many vote totals were tampered with, which increases the
possibilities of getting caught. And you don't need to tamper with many. Only a few.
his is a map of the extent to which Dominion voting machines software is presently used.
When votes are tallied it produces results that are not credible according to statistical
science.
Joe Biden's votes violate Benford's Law, President Trump's do not.
Benford's law or the first-digit law, is used to check if a set of numbers are naturally
occurring or manually fabricated. It has been applied to detect the voting frauds in Iranian
2009 election and various other applications including forensic investigations.
Benford's Law ,
also called the Newcomb–Benford law, the law of anomalous numbers, or the first-digit
law, is an observation about the frequency distribution of leading digits in many real-life
sets of numerical data. The law states that in many naturally occurring collections of numbers,
the leading digit is likely to be small. For example, in sets that obey the law, the number 1
appears as the leading significant digit about 30% of the time, while 9 appears as the leading
significant digit less than 5% of the time. If the digits were distributed uniformly, they
would each occur about 11.1% of the time. Benford's law also makes predictions about the
distribution of second digits, third digits, digit combinations, and so on.
Plots of the first digits of counts in various precincts and wards for selected
counties/cities.
This is Pittsburgh.
But even cities where we know the outcome, the numbers have been manipulated such as
When this fraud is corrected the electoral map will look quite different, and may even swing
a few house and senate votes.
Hoft linked to a November 7 2020 GNews.org item with the headline "Joe Biden's votes violate Benford's Law
(Mathematics)," which began with a cascade of pseudointellectual lies:
As the vote counting for the 2020 Presidential Election continues, various facts suggest
rampant frauds in Joe Biden's votes. So does mathematics in terms of the votes from
precincts.
Benford's law or the first-digit law, is used to check if a set of numbers are naturally
occurring or manually fabricated. It has been applied to detect the voting frauds in Iranian
2009 election and various other applications including forensic investigations.
On Gab , a blog post written by Hoft was atop its list of trending
topics, featuring the following headline:
UPDATE: Facebook and Twitter Suspend Accounts That Posted on Benford's Law Showing Biden's
Implausible Vote Totals -- LABELING IT "SEXUAL EXPLOITATION"
This part appears to be legitimate; we are contacting Facebook for details. However, that
warning appears to be more a reaction to previous claims made by Hoft
and his ilk. We have contacted Facebook for comment.
In that November 8 2020 post, Hoft primarily accused Facebook and Twitter of censoring
shares of his tweet and the GNews.org post, writing:
We have heard from many readers who told us once they retweeted this tweet or tried to
post it on Facebook their account was suspended! The social media giants are preventing
Americans from posting this mathematical evidence that proves Joe Biden's numbers violate the
Benford Law of normal distributions!
In a prescient November 6 2020 analysis
by the Election Integrity Partnership ("Vote Data Patterns Used to Delegitimize the Election
Results"), claims about Benford's Law were one of several topics discussed in relation to
potential efforts to delegitimize the final vote tallies with social media-enabled election
interference.
The Election Integrity Project also displayed two charts, one called "Vote Tallies Projected
against Benford's Law," and the other, "Final Vote Tallies Projected against Benford's Law."
Contrasting the two, they wrote:
The figure above ["Vote Tallies Projected against Benford's Law"] shows the leading digit
of reported vote tallies across select counties. For instance, the final tally in Dane
County, Wisconsin was 338,946. This would count for one county in the 3 column. But why would
anyone care to look at this kind of frequency distribution? Data forensic experts use these
distributions to investigate fraud. They look at whether empirical distributions of leading
digits deviate from a special distribution described by Benford's Law. The law posits that
leading digits of numbers are more likely to be smaller numbers (e.g., 1) than larger numbers
(e.g., 9).
Armchair investigators during the election have already begun to argue that too many of
the submitted vote totals begin with larger single digit numbers (7 or 8 for example), which
is being spun as evidence of voter fraud. We caution against this conclusion. Having the
distribution of leading digits stray from the expected percentages predicted by Benford's Law
can happen by chance, though it is more common when the law's assumptions are violated, as
they often are with vote tallies. Benford's Law, and other math-based inquiries, can be used
to detect voter fraud, but the vast majority of these violations are not conclusive evidence
of fraud.
[ ]
Returning to our voting tally in Figure 1, you will see that the tallies deviate from the
line of expectation. So, does this mean fraud? Does it mean that vote counters were up to
something nefarious? In this case, absolutely not. First, the example above is a simulation
based on a computer script, rather than one based on real voter data. If we consider the
final output of this 72 county simulation, it ends up looking like Figure 2 ["Final Vote
Tallies Projected against Benford's Law"]:
These final results are more predictable and follow the expected counts more closely, but
still exhibit expected deviations. These same deviations are occurring in the voting counts
currently being reported in the 2020 election. Our aim in this post is to prepare the public
and journalists for these misleading arguments and to provide context for the claims already
being made online.
In their conclusion, the Election Integrity Partnership noted that claims about Benford's
Law "proving" election fraud were based on early, incomplete data -- not to mention a
fundamental misunderstanding of how it works. Essentially, claimants citing Benford's Law were
cherry picking
early or
incomplete results to stake their claim:
At this stage, the assumptions that lead to Benford's law are violated leading to the
patterns generated in the Figure 1 above. Only once all counties have been counted does the
distribution approach something consistent with Benford's law, seen in Figure 2. Even at this
stage, the distribution of county sizes still makes it unlikely to exactly match
expectations. A more complete model might include non-random voting patterns whereby rural
counties lean a different direction than urban ones. This, compared with the relationship
between the rate of vote counting and county or precinct size would probably cause more
drastic violations of assumptions. As this is a rapid response, incorporating this complexity
was impractical.
Unsurprisingly, a spike in interest involving one particular mathematical principle
(Benford's Law) led to drama over on the topic's Wikipedia page. On the "Talk" page for
"Benford's Law," one section ("Benford, QAnon, and the 2020 election") began:
Following the 2020 United States presidential election result, a number of QAnon folks
have been promoting a theory on social media that the failure of voting numbers for Biden to
match Benford is a demonstration of likely electoral fraud. This is likely why there has been
a big increase in interest in this page, and in particular the electoral fraud section. The
short answer is no. These claims are baseless, and come from a misapplication of Benford's
law to particular cities in a county, or wards in a city, as opposed to all counties/cities
in the US (which is how Benford detected possible fraud in Iran. If you do this analysis in
the US you find that yes, all the numbers fit Benford perfectly). Of course, this cannot be
posted in the article as it would constitute original research, but it is worth keeping a
close eye on the article as there may be misleading edits made in support of the conspiracy
theory over the next few days. Awoma (talk) 09:46, 8 November 2020
Application (or misapplication) of Benford's Law to the 2020 election eventually made an
appearance in a massive , regularly updated
Twitter thread by political reporter
Isaac Saul cataloging disinformation around the results of the 2020 election:
On November 5 2020, Saul first mentioned Benford's Law, noting
that he was not initially familiar with the principle nor its purported relation to current
election fraud claims:
Saul eventually cited a 2011
paper ("Benford's Law and the Detection of Election Fraud") from Political Analysis
, vol. 19, no. 3. Its abstract explained:
The proliferation of elections in even those states that are arguably anything but
democratic has given rise to a focused interest on developing methods for detecting fraud in
the official statistics of a state's election returns. Among these efforts are those that
employ Benford's Law, with the most common application being an attempt to proclaim some
election or another fraud free or replete with fraud. This essay, however, argues that,
despite its apparent utility in looking at other phenomena, Benford's Law is problematical at
best as a forensic tool when applied to elections. Looking at simulations designed to model
both fair and fraudulent contests as well as data drawn from elections we know, on the basis
of other investigations, were either permeated by fraud or unlikely to have experienced any
measurable malfeasance, we find that conformity with and deviations from Benford's Law follow
no pattern . It is not simply that the Law occasionally judges a fraudulent election fair or
a fair election fraudulent. Its "success rate" either way is essentially equivalent to a toss
of a coin, thereby rendering it problematical at best as a forensic tool and wholly
misleading at worst.
A 2006 paper [ PDF ] presented at a political
methodology conference addressed the application of Benford's Law alone to evidence claims of
election fraud:
Another important issue concerns whether Benford's Law should be expected to apply to all
the digits in reported vote counts. In particular, for precinct-level data there are good
reasons to doubt that the first digits of vote counts will satisfy Benford's Law. Brady
(2005) develops a version of this argument. The basic point is that often precincts are
designed to include roughly the same number of voters. If a candidate has roughly the same
level of support in all the precincts, which means the candidate's share of the votes is
roughly the same in all the precincts, then the vote counts will have the same first digit in
all of the precincts. Imagine a situation where all precincts contain about 1,000 voters
each, and a candidate has the support of roughly fifty percent of the voters in every
precinct. Then most of the precinct vote totals for the candidate will begin with the digits
'4' or '5.' This result will hold no matter how mixed the processes may be that get the
candidate to roughly fifty percent support in each precinct. For Benford's Law to be
satisfied for the first digits of vote counts clearly depends on the occurrence of a
fortuitous distribution of precinct sizes and in the alignment of precinct sizes with each
candidate's support. It is difficult to see how there might be some connection to generally
occurring political processes. So we may turn to the second significant digits of the vote
counts, for which at least there is no similar knock down contrary argument.
On skeptics.stackexchange.com, one reader
asked about the Benford's Law and Biden votes rumor. Another commenter reiterated that such
claims were predicated on cherry-picked early numbers, and promoters of the claim were
lying with
graphs :
I'll address just the second charts, because they are straight out of How To Lie With
Statistics.
As commenters have noted, the vertical scales are different. Narrow vertical scales make
changes look larger. While wide vertical scales smooth out changes. Biden's graph is using a
more narrow scale than Trump's.
Put them all together in one graph with the same scale and they don't look so different
anymore.
[Graph]
I had to eyeball the numbers from the graphs, but more precise numbers won't change the
outcome. I don't even know if the numbers are correct. I can say with some certainty that the
graphs are deliberately constructed to sell a lie. One or the other scale is a natural
choice, either 0 to max or min to max. Someone had to choose to use different vertical axes
for each graph.
Rumor's that Biden's victory was impossible because it somehow "violated" Benford's Law
gained further traction after Biden's victory was called on November 7 2020, promoted by
disinformation purveyors like Jim Hoft. Under even the slightest scrutiny, the claims dissolved
for a number of reasons -- such as their basis on early or single-district results, and general
existing indications that Benford's Law was a poor model with which to "prove" election fraud
across the board.
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6 Look at these fricks in Milwaukee. Trump "lost" by 20,000 votes when there was a 100,000+ only Biden vote dump at 4 in the morning.
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