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July 20, 2020 by pbcnow

The Republicans own virtually ALL of the VOTING MACHINES

Response from PBC Supervisor Of Elections is at the end.

This is from an anonymous member:

We live in an age of news overload, especially of the sky-is-falling genre.  It’s enough to make one suspect we are facing a global pandemic of paranoia!  So, please, take the research below seriously without feeling we must go hide under our beds or give up.

Originally meant for a prominent newscaster/news analyst who ignored it, it is from one of our members who wishes to remain anonymous:

In 2015 I became fascinated with the lawsuit of Beth Clarkson, Kansas statistician who found anomalistic results of the elections. Beth Clarkson attempted to sue the Secretary of State, Kris Kobach. Needless to say, with Governor Sam Brownback, her court case was not allowed to pursue. As I continued my research, I came across the information of the Diebold Machines, that segued into the ownership of ESS, The McCarthy Group, and various trade names, all owned by Republicans. I began reading about the changing of the Voting Machines in various articles, BLACKBOXVOTING.ORG, and various websites were my source of information at that time. It seems to me that we need to reveal and explore the changing of algorithms even more now, especially since Donald Trump is trying to prevent us from the Mail-in Voting process. To give you some history, I had started with the story of CHUCK HAGEL back in 2009 with his investment in the Voting Machines once owned by the Ahmanson family, the Christian Reconstructionist. The Republicans have now excelled in owning virtually ALL of the VOTING MACHINES. The algorithms will be changed remotely in our next election.

I have listed a few websites that I went to back in 2015, 2016, and 2017. I am asking you to dig deeper. Perhaps you will come across some of the information on Shelby County, Tennessee where inconsistencies were observed where remote access to the election management program took place in multiple jurisdictions. The Brennan Center, NYTimes, NPR have all discussed faulty voting machines. It amazes me that we are not discussing the reason why Donald Trump wants you to use the Voting Machines instead of Mail-In Ballots, especially during this pandemic. It is very clear to me. We need to let people know that the machines are the ones that are rigged. Stopping the Mail-In Ballot is another form of Voter Suppression.

Below are some of my resources over the years.

Tea Party Manipulation of Voting Machines & Chuck Hagel investor in Voting Machines -The Beginning.
https://www.politicususa.com/2013/12/01/tea-party-manipulate-voting-machines-2014-2016.html

Mathematician Suspicious of Election Fraud Hires Lawyer to Force Kansas to Hand Over Voting Records
https://www.alternet.org/2015/09/mathematician-suspicious-election-fraud-hires-lawyer-force-kansas-hand-over-voting/

https://www.infowars.com/kansas-statistician-suing-state-to-obtain-election-records-says-voting-results-dont-add-up/

Sam Brownback would not allow Beth Clarkson to bring a lawsuit against Kris Kobach.
https://www.cjonline.com/news/2016-01-27/kansas-voting-machine-lawsuit-statisticians-lawyer-says-votes-audit-vital-each-1

Votes Are Being Counted As Fractions instead of As Whole Numbers
http://blackboxvoting.org/fraction-magic-1/

Global Election Systems – There are at least 30 States who use the Vote Counting System. I have a map showing the States. It is about the Voting Machines ESS & The McCarthy Group , Republicans, own the majority of the Voting Machines.
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/government-news/2019/07/whos-behind-voting-machine-makers-money-of-unclear-origins/

Additional links of interest:

How New Voting Machines Can Hack Our Democracy
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/12/17/how-new-voting-machines-could-hack-our-democracy/

Americas New Voting Machines brings new fears of election
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/apr/22/us-voting-machines-paper-ballots-2020-hacking

In 2020 Cyber Security Warn of Vulnerabilities facing electronic voting machines
https://www.npr.org/2019/09/04/755066523/cyber-experts-warn-of-vulnerabilities-facing-2020-election-machines

Why Vote By Mail Option is Necessary
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/protect-democracy-expand-vote-mail

The Supervisor of Elections Wendy Sartory Link responded to our member’s research in vote manipulation:
Thank you for the email and related information.
I think there are a couple of important things to note:
1. ESS is the only vendor in the state that provides high-speed tabulation. The other vendor, Dominion, does not have a high-speed option. That is why the large counties all use the ESS equipment.
2. The machines that tabulate in election day and early voting ballots, and the machines that tabulate the vote by mail ballots, are both made by ESS.
3. In Palm Beach County, we will be purchasing a new system called Clear Ballot. It is currently authorized for use in Florida for audit purposes only. However, beginning in January 2021, it will be authorized for recount purposes as well. The great thing about this system is that it is not made by the same vendor, reads the ballots using a different technology, and will be a back up for us in confirming the results. We are doing a trial run with it in August. When it is in full use, every ballot will run not only through our tabulation equipment (from ESS) but also through the Clear Ballot system. Results can be compared and confirmed using two completely different systems and methods of tabulation.we may not run all tally types in August, but we hope to in November.
I hope this helps to alleviate your concerns. We also run tapes and totals from the machines before the totals are sent to the warehouse from the tabulators through the direct secure modem. Before the results are certified as final, we compare the results from every machine tape to the ones that were modemed in on election night.
Respectfully,
Wendy Sartory Link

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  1. Laurie Aubry says

    May 3, 2021 at 10:20 pm

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