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The real fraud was with the mail in ballots and ballot harvesting. Any fraud committed using the Dominion systems was secondary to the primary fraud efforts.

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Rapier108 said:

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The real fraud was with the mail in ballots and ballot harvesting. Any fraud committed using the Dominion systems was secondary to the primary fraud efforts.

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BusterAg said:

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Here we go: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/22/arizona-republicans-begin-audit-2020-election-ballots

We need one of these in Fulton county, too.

It will be interesting to see if this turns up substantial problems or not.

I would think that lack of any major problems would be a major source of confidence in the voting mechanism.

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BusterAg said:

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Here we go: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/22/arizona-republicans-begin-audit-2020-election-ballots

We need one of these in Fulton county, too.

It will be interesting to see if this turns up substantial problems or not.

I would think that lack of any major problems would be a major source of confidence in the voting mechanism.

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After seeing more votes than registered voters (even votes from more than 80% of registered voters is considered suspect) a lack of major findings would be a major red flag that the auditors are bought.

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BMX Bandit said:

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So are they really testing for bamboo?

It is that a joke like the "sharpie" hysteria many got duped into?

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BMX Bandit said:

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So are they really testing for bamboo?

It is that a joke like the "sharpie" hysteria many got duped into?

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Not a joke. Pulitzer can determine the country and even locale within that country by the composition of the paper. The use of bamboo in paper indicates China and other SE Asian locations.

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No Spin Ag said:

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aggiehawg said:

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BMX Bandit said:

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So are they really testing for bamboo?

It is that a joke like the "sharpie" hysteria many got duped into?

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Not a joke. Pulitzer can determine the country and even locale within that country by the composition of the paper. The use of bamboo in paper indicates China and other SE Asian locations.

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That's pretty amazing that it can be traced with that level of specificity. Are they looking into that because there's a theory out there that materials in paper can be manipulated to change votes in voting machines?

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Rapier108 said:

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The real fraud was with the mail in ballots and ballot harvesting. Any fraud committed using the Dominion systems was secondary to the primary fraud efforts.

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aggiehawg said:

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No Spin Ag said:

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aggiehawg said:

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BMX Bandit said:

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So are they really testing for bamboo?

It is that a joke like the "sharpie" hysteria many got duped into?

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Not a joke. Pulitzer can determine the country and even locale within that country by the composition of the paper. The use of bamboo in paper indicates China and other SE Asian locations.

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That's pretty amazing that it can be traced with that level of specificity. Are they looking into that because there's a theory out there that materials in paper can be manipulated to change votes in voting machines?

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No. It is the sourcing of the paper used by the companies paid to print the ballots. Individual printers also leave a kinematic artifact that Pulitzer can detect using his analysis.

Why is that important?

Because of the overly high adjudication rates. When the cues for the tabulators to "read" the ballots are misaligned, those ballots are kicked out for human adjudication. The tolerances on those scanners can also be adjusted to toss more ballots out for adjudication.

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BusterAg said:

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Any knowledge of the adjudication rate in Maricopa?

Also, any idea why some ballots in Georgia had a bar code, and others didn't?

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Earlier this week Arizona Daily Independent reported on the whistleblower's concerns with what appeared to be lax procedures for backing up the county's central count tabulators. The concerns included what appeared to be no chain of custody or steps to preserve the integrity of the data on the external back-up hard drives, which were placed in easily identified orange cases.

"I would think it should be just like handling physical evidence at a police crime scene," the whistleblower said, adding that the hard drive was likely taken off site for security. "But there was apparently no witness to the back-up, no logging or sealing of the hard drive."

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The whistleblower, however, said they also made some "concerning" observations with how the ballot adjudication process took place.

Adjudication is required when the Dominion Corp.'s Democracy Suite 5.5-B voting system used by Maricopa County senses an error in reading a ballot. In past elections this would typically involve a torn or crinkled ballot, or one that had some type of extraneous mark.

But a judge heard testimony last week in a trial for one election challenge lawsuit that county officials knew early on in the voting cycle that the recommended Sharpie pens were causing bleed-through on the ballots. And although officials insist the ballots were designed so bleed-through wouldn't matter, they did acknowledge the reports that many tabulation machines had issues at times accepting ballots.

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Add to that a much higher number of mail-in and early in-person voting than ever before and a new electronic adjudication process, and it wasn't long before the adjudication ballots got stacked up, the whistleblower said.

And that is where things got especially concerning, according to the whistleblower.

The delays and lag time became an issue at MCTEC, especially for the Dominion personnel who started discussing ways to "work around" the back log and speed up the process. One of those ways appeared to be going into the files containing batches of ballot images and splitting the files into smaller batches, the whistleblower said.

Once done, the subfiles would be put back into the larger main file. The problem for the whistleblower is that there appeared to be no check and balance to ensure those smaller files were properly accounted for once adjudicated.

"What assurances are there that all of this was done okay?" the whistleblower noted. "What audit trail, key stroke monitoring, access logs are there?"

Another issue the whistleblower discussed is the process the Arizona Secretary of State's office went through before certifying the Dominion Democracy Suite 5.5-B voting system used by Maricopa County.

The system must be accredited by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission and also certified by the Arizona Secretary of State. Several states, including Colorado, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Texas, tested various models of Dominion's Democracy 5.5 over the last year to determine whether to certify a specific model for use in the 2020 election.

Copies of those states' pre-certification examination reports are available online, but Arizona's testing reports of the 5.5-B from prior to certification are not readily accessible on the state's website.

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One of the reports prepared for the Texas Secretary of State's Office last year for a pre-certification examination of a Democracy Suite 5.5-A system noted that "during adjudication of the ballots in the test election, one of the Dominion representatives made a series of mistakes that caused the entire batch of adjudication results to be lost. We did not see this problem again during this exam, but the adjudication system is unchanged, so this vulnerability is still present."

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Thomas Lane was one of a half dozen observers whom Ward's attorney, Jack Wilenchik, called to the stand. Lane, who was observing on behalf of the campaign opposing Proposition 207, which legalizes recreational marijuana, said he watched election workers mistakenly negate votes for Trump. He said the software that tries to prefill what it believes to be the voter's choices generally favored Biden, regardless of what the original ballot said.

Oftentimes, the election workers caught those mistakes and corrected them, Lane said. When they didn't, he took notes and informed them after they completed the duplication process. The election workers said they would use the serial numbers he wrote down to find the improperly duplicated ballot and correct it later, Lane testified.

Lane said he doesn't know whether election workers ultimately corrected those mistakes, but they said they would.

Several credentialed Republican observers said they saw similar problems with the software, usually to Biden's benefit and Trump's detriment.

Kenneth Sampson said he was able to roam the downtown election center and compare the original ballots to the suggested duplications, which were side by side on computer screens.

"Across the board I saw those were wholly inaccurate," he said.

While some observers testified that election workers said they would correct the problems they witnessed, one observer, Lori Gray, said she didn't realize until later that she could get the ballots' serial numbers to report them to the county. Another observer, Jan Bryant, testified that she only saw "minor mistakes" and saw no problems with the duplication boards that copied new ballots.

Linda Brickman, the first vice chair of the Maricopa County Republican Party, testified that in her work on a bipartisan adjudication board, the software program often wouldn't allow her to correct mistakes that took legitimate votes away from Trump. And she said election workers wrongly determined that some votes that should have counted toward Trump's total were ineligible.

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Nothing can stop what is coming.

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BOMBSHELL update on #AmericasAudit in Maricopa County. Be sure to watch the entire report. We know you'll be as mad as we are! AZGOP Chairwoman @kelliwardaz exposes the #BigLie as we fight for Arizona and #ElectionIntegrity pic.twitter.com/sS61FV6xiV

— Arizona Republican Party (@AZGOP) May 10, 2021

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Here is the letter to Maricopa County Supervisor Chairman Jack Sellers from Arizona Senate President Karen Fann:

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Dear Chairman Sellers:

I am writing to seek your assistance and cooperation in the resolution of three (3) serious issues that have arisen in the course of the Senate's ongoing audit of the returns of the November 3, 2020, general election in Maricopa County.

I. Ongoing Non-Compliance with the Legislative Subpoenas
The first issue concerns Maricopa County's apparent intent to renege on its previous commitment to comply fully with the legislative subpoenas issued on January 13, 2021, which, as you know, Judge Thomason found were valid and enforceable.

To date, attorneys for Maricopa County have refused to produce virtual images of routers used in connection with the general election, relying on a conclusory and unsupported assertion that providing the routers would somehow "endanger the lives of law enforcement officers, their operations, or the protected health information and personal data of Maricopa County's citizens."If true, the fact that Maricopa County stores on its routers substantial quantities of citizens' and employees' highly sensitive personal information is an alarming indictment of the County's lax data security practices, rather than of the legislative subpoenas.

Similarly, the County's assertion that producing the internet routers for inspection would cost up to $6,000,000 seems at odds with Deputy County Attorney Joseph La Rue's prior representation to Audit Liaison Ken Bennett that the routers already had been disconnected from the County's network and were prepared for imminent delivery to the Senate.

Nevertheless, in an effort to resolve the dispute regarding production of the routers, we propose that agents of CyFIR, an experienced digital forensics firm and subcontractor of Cyber Ninjas, review virtual images of the relevant routers in Maricopa County facilities and in the presence of representatives of the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office. Such an arrangement would permit Maricopa County to retain custody and monitor the review of router data while ensuring that the Senate may access the information it requiresand to which it is constitutionally entitledto successfully complete its audit. The Senate has no interest in viewing or taking possession of any information that is unrelated to the administration of the 2020 general election.

Separately, Maricopa County has refused to provide the passwords necessary to access vote tabulation devices. Its attorneys' insistence that the County does not have custody or control of this information is belied by the County's conduct of its own audits, which, if they were as comprehensive as they purported to be, almost certainly would have entailed use of the passwords to examine the tabulation devices, and it strains credulity to posit that the County has no contractual right to obtain (i.e., control of) password information from Dominion.

I. Chain of Custody and Ballot Organization Anomalies

As the audit has progressed, the Senate's contractors have become aware of apparent omissions, inconsistencies, and anomalies relating to Maricopa County's handling, organization, and storage of ballots.We hope you can assist us in understanding these issues, including specifically the following:


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The County has not provided any chain-of-custody documentation for the ballots.Does such documentation exist, and if so, will it be produced?

The bags in which the ballots were stored are not sealed, although the audit team has found at the bottom of many boxes cut seals of the type that would have sealed a ballot bag. Why were these seals placed at the bottom of the boxes?

Batches within a box are frequently separated by only a divider without any indication of the corresponding batch numbers.In some cases, the batch dividers are missing altogether.This lack of organization has significantly complicated and delayed the audit team's ballot processing efforts.What are the County's procedures for sorting, organizing, and packaging ballot batches?

Most of the ballot boxes were sealed merely with regular tape and not secured by any kind of tamper-evident seal.Is that the County's customary practice for storing ballots?

The audit team has encountered a significant number of instances in which there is a disparity between the actual number of ballots contained in a batch and the total denoted on the pink report slip accompanying the batch.In most of these instances, the total on the pink report slip is greater than the number of ballots in the batch, although there are a few instances in which the total is lower.What are the reasons for these discrepancies?For your reference, please see several illustrative (i.e., not comprehensive) examples in the table below:

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III. Deleted Databases

We have recently discovered that the entire "Database" directory from the D drive of the machine "EMSPrimary" has been deleted. This removes election related details that appear to have been covered by the subpoena. In addition, the main database for the Election Management System (EMS) Software, "Results Tally and Reporting," is not located anywhere on the EMSPrimary machine, even though all of the EMS Clients reference that machine as the location of the database. This suggests that the main database for all election-related data for the November 2020 General Election has been removed. Can you please advise as to why these folders were deleted, and whether there are any backups that may contain the deleted folders?

The image below shows the location of the files known to be deleted. In addition, the main database for "Results Tally and Reporting" is not present.

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I am hopeful that we can constructively resolve these issues and questions without recourse to additional subpoenas or other compulsory processes.To that end, I invite you and any other officers or employees of Maricopa County (to include officials in the Elections Department) who possess knowledge or information concerning the matters set forth above to a meeting at the Arizona State Capitol on Tuesday, May 18, 2021, at 1:00 p.m. in Hearing Room 109. Chairman Petersen, former Secretary Bennett, and I will attend the meeting, which will be live-streamed to the public.

Please let me know at your earliest convenience whether you accept my invitation and, if so, which Maricopa County personnel will attend.

Thank you for your cooperation on these important issues of public concern.

Respectfully,

Karen Fann, President

Arizona State Senate

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