Claim: there was no fraud in the Trump 2020 election
Echomail found some interesting discrepancies.
MARICOPA COUNTY
Maricopa County conducted an audit of the 2020 election and found a few discrepancies, not enough to call into question the result. Their audit, however, was at least questionable, considering they were auditing their own success, and was at least vulnerable to accusations of conflict of interest.
Dr Shiva Ayaduri’s Echomail conducted an analysis of the ballot images from the Arizona 2020 election for the Arizona Senate Election Audit and found some rather more interesting discrepancies; it is surprising that the Maricopa County audit did not notice these things, isn’t it?
Echomail’s report asks why are these verified and approved stamps behind the pre-printed envelope triangle? This is indeed a very unusual discrepancy.
The only reason I can see for this discrepancy is that these ballots were printed afterwards with the stamp image as a layer and the person creating the fraudulent ballots was in a hurry and stuffed up the photoshopping, accidentally putting the stamp on the layer behind the supposedly pre-printed triangle.
Echomail is very cautious and doesn’t state this theory directly in their report, but it begs the question, what other explanation could there be for this strange discrepancy?
To my knowledge, no one from the Maricopa County board of supervisors has answered Echomail’s questions in their audit. What is the answer to this? Some would say if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck then it is a duck.
EchoMail identified 34,448 return envelopes being 2-copy, 3-copy and 4-copy duplicates from 17,126 unique voters. No duplicates were reported in the Maricopa County election audit. EchoMail identified 464 more blank signatures and 1993 more scribbles than the Maricopa County audit.
Furthermore the number of EVB return envelopes increased, while the number of rejections decreased.
There is an unexplained surge in duplicates, blanks and scribbles between 4th November and 9th November 2019, after the election when the EVBRE signature verification process was being conducted.
Furthermore a random sampling of signature legibility four weeks before the election and four days after the election shows something very curious:
None of these discrepancies have been explained.
The Cyber Ninjas report shows other discrepancies too.
The largest number, the 255,326 VM55 votes that do not have an EV33 entry, means that they were postal votes received that were apparently never sent out.
What does it all mean?
One would like to see proper answers to some of these questions.
The litigious actions of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors and Dominion, resisting the audits, refusing to hand over the voting machine passwords, and subsequently suing the Cyber Ninjas for all their documentation (it looks as though the Cyber Ninjas company has been ruined by the expense of the whole process) does not inspire confidence in their impartiality, nor does it make one believe that there is nothing to hide.
Furthermore, it is very clear that some voting machines were connected to the internet via internal modems in the months leading up to the 2020 elections.
MESA COUNTY COLORADO
The two Mesa County forensic reports, number one in September 2021 and number two in March 2022 by the Mesa County Clerk and Recorder, Tina M. Peters, who took forensic images of the hard drives of the voting equipment after the election, then had these images compared to the subsequent images after the Dominion updates, does nothing to quell the suspicions of fraud in the 2020 elections.
Tina Peters’ home was raided by the FBI in November of 2021; they claimed she allowed an unauthorised person to participate in a routine update of the county voting system, and took her mobile devices and computers. This action did not help the credibility of the FBI at the time, and looks even more partisan and suspicious in the light of the jury’s acquittal of the two men framed by the FBI in the Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping conspiracy case.
Tina Peters’ first report discovered that extensive amounts of data on the hard drive had been destroyed by the Dominion updates, including the system logs, making a forensic audit impossible. This is completely illegal.
Her second report, which examined the vulnerabilities of the software and hardware, discovered that any individual could change the vote totals without leaving an audit trail.
To flip votes was simple and could be done easily and quickly.
They enumerate the failings of Dominion’s systems and show that the security was inadequate and did not meet Dominion’s own standards.
They conclude that the systems did not have the integrity controls as required by Colorado law.
Furthermore, there were wireless network cards inside the machines that made them vulnerable to hacking from a person with an iPhone, in a carpark, for instance.
FACT CHECK HALL OF INFAMY
Sites such as Colorado Politics claim that Tina Peters has given no evidence of election fraud. No, perhaps she hasn’t – but what she has done in her reports is showed that because of Dominion’s actions in allegedly illegally deleting the logs, election fraud cannot be ruled out.
Dominion’s own documents show that they do understand that they are responsible for proving the integrity of the voting process afterwards.
CONCLUSION
The continual efforts of Dominion and Maricopa county over the past year to evade proper audits and scrutiny of the 2020 election doesn’t prove that fraud occurred.
But nobody can deny that something smells fishy.
I’ve heard it said, innocent people have nothing to hide. I’ve heard it said, the criminal always runs. I’m not sure that’s true; quite often innocent people might well fear the police or the authorities, and run anyway, particularly when the FBI is raiding the Mesa County Clerk and Recorder’s house when she is clearly a person dedicated to truthfulness and integrity, risking a lot for these values.
But when organisations are covering things up, avoiding handing over information, trying to weasel out of audits, it’s a completely different matter.
So one has to ask the question, what does Dominion have to hide?
What does Maricopa County have to hide?
Voting machines are inherently less reliable than human beings, because the simple voting system using pens and bits of paper and ballot boxes and poll watchers (scrutineers) is something even a child can understand that anyone can audit – whereas a system where experts are necessary to audit the system – where everything is complex – is inherently more vulnerable to problems, and it becomes impossible to prove the integrity of the voting process. Furthermore, once experts have control of something, you have a problem of trustworthiness. The pen and paper voting system puts its trust in a large group of people to have integrity, some or most of whom would feel the necessity of being truthful, whereas a system that requires experts must of necessity require us to trust one or two people in the know. It is a vastly more corruptible and more vulnerable system, when you are beholden to the flaws and treachery of a few individuals who could be bribed, rather than the flaws and treachery of a large number of people, who have no particular motivation individually to be corrupt.
This is not an accusation, but an observation. It’s better that the trust is distributed across a large number of people, rather than giving the power to a few experts: this is the whole point of democracy.
And the integrity of the voting process must be provable. It’s not enough to say, fraud was not proven. Integrity must be proven – and with pencils, bits of paper and scrutineers, it can be, in a way anyone can understand.
Some might say that what looks like a giant cover up could be merely a cover up of flaws, faults, missteps and mistakes – it might have been easier to believe that this was so than that there was a conspiracy, in the past, if organisations and people were covering up their steps afterwards – but the whole thing sends up such a stench of dishonesty, misinformation, intentional persecution, and lies, that one has the uneasy feeling that perhaps something even more dubious is going on.
My conclusion? There’s a stench in the air all around the 2020 election. And it’s only getting stronger.
CHANGE LOG
4:05 pm 12 April 2022 - added reference to the Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping case.