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Michigan Falling Apart for Biden, the Ballot Images Could Expose "Upside Down" Election Result
https://steemit.com/michigan/@munkl...own-election-result-in-antrim-county-and-more
[h=1]Michigan Falling Apart for Biden, the Ballot Images Could Expose "Upside Down" Election Result[/h]
In the first hint that Michigan's 2020 elections were manipulated, Republican officials are questioning how a deep red county which went 62% - 32% Trump over Clinton in 2016, and 60% - 38% Romney over Obama in 2012, could suddenly flip to 62% Biden to 38% Trump. Northern Michigan and the Upper Peninsula have always been notoriously red.
A Michigan state representative has called the results "upside down."
The county, and much of Michigan, uses the Imagecast Precinct optical tabulator, made by Dominion Systems, which contains an audit feature which automatically takes a digital image of each paper ballot as it is fed into the machine. Other candidates across the country have requested to see the ballot images in their races as a verification of suspicious results, but have been denied.
Any citizens can put in a request for the ballot images.
The anomaly in Antrim County opens the question of whether it and other counties might have had their results hacked to favor Biden, but by smaller, less obvious margins, in order to accumulate a margin of victory.
Michigan state representative Triston Cole (R-Mancelona,) especially questioned the election results when he saw that, in his township, another representative only got 2 votes. Cole said he knew for a fact that the representative had gotten at least six votes from his immediately family alone.
As of 10 a.m. this morning, the election results page on the county has been taken down.
Examining the ballot images for a race, which are all anonymous since the paper ballots themselves are anonymous and cannot be traced to a particular voter, is a far less costly way of verifying a ballot count, since it does not involve the special handling of the paper ballots by qualified election workers. In fact, it costs almost nothing, as all the images for a county could be easily downloaded onto a flash drive.
Just recently, in Massachusetts, a Republican US Senate candidate filed a lawsuit against the secretary of state, after the secretary's office admitted to destroying all the ballot images in his race. The candidate, considered a gadfly and an outsider, lost by a wide margin in a primary to a candidate who did not campaign. The lawsuit held that destruction of the ballot images was illegal since all records pertaining to any federal election must be preserved for 22 months, according to federal law (52 USC 20701.)
FULL COURT COMPLAINT: DR. SHIVA AYYADURAI VS. MA SECRETARY OF STATE WILLIAM GALVIN
Machine count hacking is when a vote-counting machine is programmed to count votes erroneously to deliver an advantage to a candidate. It has been extensively documented and called "child's play" by hackers at hacker conferences, such as at the Def Con Annual Hacking Conference.
Optical vote-counting systems which employ ballot imaging technology are described in "Voting Machine Digital Ballot Images Could Let Public Recount Elections, But Many Locales Aren't Saving or Sharing This Data"at Alternet.com.
Ballot Image Browsing Software
Source: Wired
Some election departments have argued that ballot images do not constitute election records. However, in various court cases, it has been explained that, in fact, the ballot images are primary documents, because when the vote counting systems in question automatically generate the ballot image, the optical reader does not discern votes from the paper ballot. It discerns them from the ballot image. ("Making Digital Ballot Files Public Is Key to Transparency")
Over 60% of US voting jurisdictions use this type of technology.
One organization which has been leading the fight for ballot images to be preserved universally is AuditElectionsUSA.org. The group has fought and won court battles in various states for ballot images to be preserved.
AuditElectionsUSA publishes a database of the counties and cities in the US whose voting systems use ballot imaging technology.
Ordinarily, in order to obtain a recount for a race, a candidate must undergo an uphill battle in court to force election authorities to access the paper ballots, which then require special handling and the payment of overtime to election workers properly trained in the process. But the ballot images in a race can easily be downloaded onto a flash drive or a DVD for citizens to examine and recount. Any significant anomalies discovered could then provide the basis for accessing the paper ballots.
Some Trump supporters are urging the Trump campaign to demand the digital ballot images for all races in which there are strange anomalies, such as Antrim County. However, because they are public records, any citizen can do the same.
HBO documentary Hacking Democracy, vote-count hacking demonstration
https://steemit.com/michigan/@munkl...own-election-result-in-antrim-county-and-more
[h=1]Michigan Falling Apart for Biden, the Ballot Images Could Expose "Upside Down" Election Result[/h]
In the first hint that Michigan's 2020 elections were manipulated, Republican officials are questioning how a deep red county which went 62% - 32% Trump over Clinton in 2016, and 60% - 38% Romney over Obama in 2012, could suddenly flip to 62% Biden to 38% Trump. Northern Michigan and the Upper Peninsula have always been notoriously red.
A Michigan state representative has called the results "upside down."
The county, and much of Michigan, uses the Imagecast Precinct optical tabulator, made by Dominion Systems, which contains an audit feature which automatically takes a digital image of each paper ballot as it is fed into the machine. Other candidates across the country have requested to see the ballot images in their races as a verification of suspicious results, but have been denied.
Any citizens can put in a request for the ballot images.
The anomaly in Antrim County opens the question of whether it and other counties might have had their results hacked to favor Biden, but by smaller, less obvious margins, in order to accumulate a margin of victory.
Michigan state representative Triston Cole (R-Mancelona,) especially questioned the election results when he saw that, in his township, another representative only got 2 votes. Cole said he knew for a fact that the representative had gotten at least six votes from his immediately family alone.
As of 10 a.m. this morning, the election results page on the county has been taken down.
Examining the ballot images for a race, which are all anonymous since the paper ballots themselves are anonymous and cannot be traced to a particular voter, is a far less costly way of verifying a ballot count, since it does not involve the special handling of the paper ballots by qualified election workers. In fact, it costs almost nothing, as all the images for a county could be easily downloaded onto a flash drive.
Just recently, in Massachusetts, a Republican US Senate candidate filed a lawsuit against the secretary of state, after the secretary's office admitted to destroying all the ballot images in his race. The candidate, considered a gadfly and an outsider, lost by a wide margin in a primary to a candidate who did not campaign. The lawsuit held that destruction of the ballot images was illegal since all records pertaining to any federal election must be preserved for 22 months, according to federal law (52 USC 20701.)
FULL COURT COMPLAINT: DR. SHIVA AYYADURAI VS. MA SECRETARY OF STATE WILLIAM GALVIN
Machine count hacking is when a vote-counting machine is programmed to count votes erroneously to deliver an advantage to a candidate. It has been extensively documented and called "child's play" by hackers at hacker conferences, such as at the Def Con Annual Hacking Conference.
Optical vote-counting systems which employ ballot imaging technology are described in "Voting Machine Digital Ballot Images Could Let Public Recount Elections, But Many Locales Aren't Saving or Sharing This Data"at Alternet.com.
Ballot Image Browsing Software
Source: Wired
Some election departments have argued that ballot images do not constitute election records. However, in various court cases, it has been explained that, in fact, the ballot images are primary documents, because when the vote counting systems in question automatically generate the ballot image, the optical reader does not discern votes from the paper ballot. It discerns them from the ballot image. ("Making Digital Ballot Files Public Is Key to Transparency")
Over 60% of US voting jurisdictions use this type of technology.
One organization which has been leading the fight for ballot images to be preserved universally is AuditElectionsUSA.org. The group has fought and won court battles in various states for ballot images to be preserved.
AuditElectionsUSA publishes a database of the counties and cities in the US whose voting systems use ballot imaging technology.
Ordinarily, in order to obtain a recount for a race, a candidate must undergo an uphill battle in court to force election authorities to access the paper ballots, which then require special handling and the payment of overtime to election workers properly trained in the process. But the ballot images in a race can easily be downloaded onto a flash drive or a DVD for citizens to examine and recount. Any significant anomalies discovered could then provide the basis for accessing the paper ballots.
Some Trump supporters are urging the Trump campaign to demand the digital ballot images for all races in which there are strange anomalies, such as Antrim County. However, because they are public records, any citizen can do the same.
HBO documentary Hacking Democracy, vote-count hacking demonstration
