Backsliding on Election Integrity in Florida (and Elsewhere)
Last March I arrived in person to vote in a mayoral race for Jacksonville, FL (Duval County has a funky election scheduling system, but that’s not important right now).
Previously, to vote in-person one was required to show photo ID; that was still the case. (Excellent!) Then one was given a paper ballot to be completed, which was then scanned – not so good, for reasons this short video makes abundantly clear (courtesy of law professor David Clements). Note that the electronically reported results do not match the hard copy votes.
Duval County uses ES&S, not Dominion, but my understanding is that they all use similar source code; in any case, the point is that an electronic machines can be programmed to accomplish nefarious ends.
At least with paper ballots (assuming good chain of custody) there is a tangible audit trail that can be utilized.
In March, to my horror, for the first time, the voting location was stuffed with touch-screen voting machines. The staff was steering people to use them, calling it “ExpressVote.” They still allowed the option of pen-filled paper ballots and scanning, which I chose (not sure how long that will last).
Ostensibly, the ExpressVote is an ES&S touch screen device that prints out a “paper ballot” with the voter’s selections. In theory the voter can check their printed ballot to confirm that their selections were accurately, but how many do? A pen filled-in ballot unquestionably reflects the voter’s intent; a printed one, not so much.
Even more questionable, this link describing ExpressVote explains that it simultaneously produces bar codes (which are what is actually scanned and tabulated). Since humans can’t read bar codes, and with the above-linked Clements video in mind, the potential for “two sets of books” on one printed “ballot” becomes obvious.
After all, programming voting machines to produce one visible outcome while registering another is not exactly new, and likely has become even more sophisticated and difficult to detect over recent decades.
Moreover, are those bar codes proprietary, and so can only be read via an ES&S machine? Again, consider the possibility that programming then returns a desired result, not the actual one.
Oh, the ExpressVote / scanner-tabulator equipment is connected to the Internet, and uses thumb drives (see pages 9, 26 and 75 of this 2022 Duval County poll worker guide).
In theory, a hand recount of printed non-bar code sections of those ballots, plus pen-filled traditional ones could provide a tangible record for a verifiable audit. That is, if those printed and pen-filled ballots are retained with valid chain-of-custody procedures. That’s a lot of “if’s,” particularly when we recall the first video linked above.
This raises the question of how many other jurisdictions in Florida, and elsewhere, are expanding the use of touchscreen voting???
It gets worse (for Florida and elsewhere).
Fortuitously – or perhaps Providentially – as this was being written, Professor Clements posted an interview with Kris Jurski of The People’s Audit (Florida), titled “Massive Digital Manipulation of Florida Voter Rolls.”
It is a must-watch for everyone, not just those in Florida.
As you watch what The People’s Audit uncovered (so far), it is immediately apparent that there is a highly sophisticated group or groups hacking voter rolls on a near undetectable level, evidencing a level of sophistication and financial backing that very much intends to change the outcome of elections, at least certain key elections – and is successful in doing so. Presumably, across the country.
In ways that local election officials are unlikely, and may even be unable to detect!
As watching it, this writer was reminded of “Hammer and Scorecard” disclosed first by The American Report, and then compellingly exposed by Mike Lindell in this short video:
https://frankspeech.com/video/proof-32tb-pcaps-and-dennis-montgomery-are-real
THE BOTTOM LINE IS THAT – DESPITE THE COORDINATED EFFORT TO SUPPRESS ANY QUESTIONING OF “THE MACHINES” – AFTER THE FRAUDULENT ELECTION OUTCOMES OF 2020 & 2022, THE USE OF TOUCHSCREEN VOTING, AND ELECTRONIC MACHINES OVERALL, SHOULD BE DIMINSHING, NOT EXPANDING!