Forensic investigators call it the oldest trick in the book. Faced with examination of a laptop, a crooked official switches it on without first isolating it from the Internet and, oopsie, the laptop receives a signal to wipe the hard drive, just as you can do to your lost smartphone.
It was a close call. Michigan county clerks said their Dominion Voting Machines used in the November 3rd general elections had to be 'wiped' and prepared for a new local election in January. That would destroy the last chance of finding evidence of how the vote count changed after tabulation was suspended and restarted between election night and the following morning.
Warm bodies did the trick. Campaigners for election honesty are said to have mounted a physical guard around the location of the voting machines. That allowed the forensic investigator of elections, Russell Ramsland, co-founder of Allied Security Operations Group, to gain access to at least part of the digital ones and zeros, and a clue to what happened on and after November 3rd.
It's Time to Heal... or to Heel.
Mass Adjudication Let Individuals Or Machines Change 68.05% Of Votes
On Nov 9th, 2020, I drew attention to the expertise of this particular forensic investigator in the post, U.S. Elections Are Bent And No-one Cares. In the weeks that followed even Republican governors and state senates were clearly reluctant to examine the voting system, even if that would put suspicions to rest. Finally someone did care and a Michigan judge allowed the results of a forensic audit of Dominion Voting Systems machines and software in one Michigan county to be released on December 14th.
What it revealed is damning: according to Ramsland's report for Michigan, Dominion Voting Systems “is intentionally and purposefully designed with inherent errors to create systemic fraud and influence election results.”
In the scanning and recording of votes, the machine recorded an error rate of 68 percent. To put this in perspective, the usual error rate is 1 percent or less.
The machines were set so that huge numbers of votes were sent to the penalty bin during scanning. Under the Dominion system these 'error votes' have to be adjudicated by a human, we don't know exactly whom: maybe a vote tabulating officer on the spot; perhaps remotely. With 68.05% of votes set aside for adjudication, however, they could simply be credited to one candidate en masse.
"The system intentionally generates an enormously high number of ballot errors," Ramsland wrote in the audit. "The intentional errors lead to bulk adjudication of ballots with no oversight, no transparency, and no audit trail. This leads to voter or election fraud. Based on our study, we conclude that the Dominion Voting System should not be used in Michigan. "
Ramsland added: "We further conclude that the results of Antrim County should not have been certified."
Who adjudicated these 'votes in error,' and when and where is not known. Files and adjudication logs are missing. The audit trail does not exist because the data was destroyed after the vote. This happened after the Antrim country clerk uploaded a re-provisioned CF card with updated software on Nov 6th, 2020. Evidence of crime - or not - officials were determined to delete something.
The same machines were used in 48 other counties in Michigan. Ramsland sees no reason to doubt they worked the same way.
Before the 2020 general election, a study by USA TODAY, Columbia Journalism Investigations and PBS series FRONTLINE investigation looked at precisely this issue. Michael Morley, an election law expert and assistant professor at Florida State University's College of Law.
Rejected ballots in the 2020 election battle between President Donald Trump and Joe Biden could become the post-election focus - USA Today, Oct 12, 2020
"Assume that everything goes perfectly 99.8% of the time,” Morley said. “Well, 0.02% of 70 million winds up being an awful lot of people."
USA Today, based in McLean, Virginia, was waving it in our faces. In the event, an error rate expected to be a fraction of one per cent, turned out to be of 68% in some counties and voting districts.
This scale of vote switching is consistent with events observed in late voting when large quantities of mail-in ballots were awarded exclusively to Joe Biden, erasing President Trump's lead and throwing the election to Biden.
Dominion Voting Systems criticized "fabrications" around the Antrim County results, in a post on its web site.
"There were no software glitches that switched votes in Antrim County or anywhere else. The errors identified in Antrim County were isolated human errors not involving Dominion." The company says election officials did not "update the programming in their tabulators after requiring changes to their ballot."
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