The U.S. voting system is so porous the tally can be changed on the fly, says Russell Ramsland, founder of Allied Security Operations Group on the electronic voting system. It’s a complex patchwork run by private companies, and all connected to the Internet and susceptible to hacking. These private companies conduct elections all over the world. Any candidate can be made to win or lose any election.
Trouble is that a good electronic hack is almost impossible to detect after the fact. Anyone who switches the votes can also change the audit trail. You cannot go back forensically and catch what happened.
Paper ballots may offer Trump some way to mount a legal challenge but that’s if the counters don’t “lose” them. American Thinker reckons Trump’s team has a good chance.
When the government says 'we found vulnerabilities but we found no evidence of votes being changed' -- No, they won't find an audit trail, says Russ Ramsland.
Ramsland's detailed investigation into the voting system reveals some alarming findings, in particular about how and where the data is stored while elections are in progress.
The voting results of 28 U.S. states are held in a database on a server in Frankfurt, operated by a company Scytl, based in Barcelona, that is in bankruptcy proceedings and whose ownership is unclear. From there results are reported to Associated Press.
If you want to get an unofficial tally of voting, users of the system can download it from Frankfurt. If you are monitoring a vote in Dallas, Texas, for example, that is six time zones to the east (that's seven hours ahead of Dallas).
The unofficial database and the actual database are behind the same firewall. Russ Ramsland suggests that the actual voter database can be changed.
So who would download such data? Ramsland says that in the 2018 mid-term elections in Dallas, his team saw data had been altered by a company called NGP VAN.
NGP VAN is comparable to SCL Group’s Cambridge Analytica, which in the
past has boasted that it can influence foreign elections and has worked
for the U.S. State Department
among others. NGP VAN is the official database provider to the
Democratic Party and that includes voter analytics or pre-election
snapshots. It looks at a history of primaries and draws relationships
between early voting and outcomes on election day. It may tell you, at
the end of early voting, how many votes would need to be added or
subtracted to meet your projection.
It takes the results and creates algorithms based on historical evidence and then, by tracking what is happening in early voting, projects what that means for the final results. It may tell you at the end of early voting, how many votes would need to be added or subtracted to meet your projection
In Dallas in 2018 his team saw NGP VAN interacting with the datastream. It can legitimately take data out of the stream. The problem is, it was entering data into the stream. This created timestamp mismatch errors which Ramsland detected.
So it is possible to monitor the votes in real time and to know how inputs need to be adjusted for the victory of a particular candidate. This is consistent with the rather precise late-stage adjustments to the voting tallies in key states where Donald Trump had a lead.
WHAT HAPPENED ON ELECTION NIGHT
On Nov 3rd, President Trump was comfortably ahead in five states that had Democratic governors. All those five states quit counting at the same time. They went offline for three hours. When they came back online, massive numbers of votes had been found for Joe Biden.
Michigan stopped voting for three hours and in the dead of night 138,339 votes showed up and every single one was for Biden. That represented almost 3% of the turnout. Michigan is calling this a data input error from one county. But it is not an input error unless the local operator was adding votes. And why was he or she adding any votes at all?
In the case of three states, every single vote that was found during those three hours was for one candidate, Joe Biden. That is absolutely impossible in terms of probability.
Ramsland was called in to look at the Kentucky vote. The State Board of Elections link went directly to a page operated by Clarity Election Night Reporting (ENR), which is run by Scytl. The page and data is copyright, Scytl.
Kentucky features in the famous live feed from Clarity on CNN. The top data is direct from Clarity. The ticker along the bottom of the screen is updated by CNN with a delay of a few seconds. This exposed that 560 votes went from the Republican Governor to the Democratic challenger -- a direct switch of votes.
"This is vote switching going on inside the computer. That is 1,120 votes which is about 25% of the entire loss margin that you just saw happen before your eyes." -- Russ Ramsland.
CITIZENS' GROUPS TRACK VOTES
A Dallas group downloaded the entire file of cumulative, cast votes in two counties and assigned unique identifier to the data string of each vote. Any change to that vote would be recorded. What they found was that through Wednesday, 57,000 votes were altered in early voting.
Altering means purged, purged and reinstated, cast by one person and recorded as another, double voting, voters with voter ID. In Houston 250,000 votes were altered on October 14.
Ghosts are people registered at a property who live elsewhere, in one case five people lived overseas and each of them voted twice.
Phantoms are people who check in on the poll booth as one person but their vote shows up as someone else. People go to vote and are told they've already voted, but they haven't. One man was told it must have been his wife that had voted. She had been dead five years.
Purged or tampered are records that the county records as having voted but later cancels, changes or tampers with them.
Vote manipulation was also apparent from the tabulation software. Undervotes are blank spaces on the ballot where a voter doesn't bother to select a candidate. Those "unused" votes can be reallocated to one particular party
Some changes are so big they can only be done by a computer programme. Some days it is just 200 votes here or there, which could be the local operator adding or subtracting votes.
WHAT TO DO?
- Make people accountable. The private companies running elections are often breaking state law
- Go to OpenRecords.Org and see if there are any ghost voters registered at your house.
- Vote on election day to throw off the forecast. There is a delay between early voting and election day and that provides a lot of time for voter analytics companies to figure out what they need to do to fix the results.
- Be an observer, judge or poll watcher.
- Contact a forensic data analyst and examine the results.
- Sue them.
- Go back to real paper ballots. Electronic voting devices can be changed in 10 different ways.
- Software should meet real certification standards and have the DHS do a penetration test.
- Paper ballots should be subject to spot audits.
- Blockchain voting system should be considered.
DOES ANYONE CARE?
The FBI apparently not, says Ramsland. One Department of Justice cyber security prosecutor told Ramsland "this isn't evidence, this is proof". The information was forwarded to FBI and it either is not interested, is not qualified or thinks it's a political hot potato.
Inside Department of Homeland Security, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency refused a meeting. A DHS field level team spent a day with Ramsland's Allied Security Operations Group but is facing resistance from above.
Texas Congressman Pete Sessions was defeated in a rigged race and, since reelected, he is taking an interest in cleaning up the voting system. The Texas Attorney General's office, however, deferred to the Secretary of State, which in turn has not been interested.
"We can never have another election as shamelessly rigged as this one has been by people who are trying to change the outcome of the election... As a democracy we rise or fall on believing that our vote is sacrosanct, protected and will be voted as we determined. That is simply not the case." -- Russ Ramsland.
See the vote switching live on CNN at 33 mins: https://youtu.be/ficae6x1Q5A?t=1994
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