Georgia Evidence of Election Fraud

If you are a low-information person, you probably don't know that the Georgia Senate held a hearing into allegations of election fraud and it's quite damning. In this post I'll link to the testimony and go over the information that was covered.

The chairman of the judiciary subcommittee in Georgia examined fraud in the 2020 election and has released a 15-page report calling the results of the 2020 election “untrustworthy” and recommending that the certification of the results be rescinded. His Subcommittee heard testimonies from witnesses during an open hearing at the Georgia State Capitol on Thursday, December 3, 2020.

On Wednesday, December 30 2020, members of the bipartisan Georgia Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Elections and members of the Senate Judiciary committee held a hearing to consider the committee report from the December 3rd meeting and to hear more witnesses. The report was accepted with one dissenter. The full video is below.

It goes on for over 5 hours and is structured as about 20 witnesses. I would say about 10-20% of the testimony is some form of confirmation bias. Another 50% of it is regular people involved in the election outlining numerous poor practices and illegalities, each of which may not amount to a hill of beans, but the point is that it is illustrative of a broader problem (or not). It certainly may be the case that all elections could have produced the same spate of testimony, it's just that some of us are paying attention this time.

But there's a solid 25% of the testimony that presents a collection of potent circumstantial evidence that is truly troubling and makes a cohesive narrative of some sort of organized fraud that should definitely be investigated.

The most damning circumstantial evidence comes from State Farm Arena where absentee ballots in Fulton county (a Democrat enclave that includes Atlanta) were counted.

Observers Sent Home

Multiple witnesses have sworn under penalty of perjury that all the observers were sent home at 11:30pm claiming that vote counting had ceased for the night and will begin again next morning. There were 3 contemporaneous news reports saying the same thing. Some of the reports and witnesses say they were told it was because of a water main break. That was the new report I heard personally on election night as well. Furthermore there is security camera footage showing the supervisor addressing everybody, and then everybody leaving.

The above is covered in testimony from Witness Garlan Faborino who was there (02:01:30) and from Bob Cheeley, a trial lawyer going through the video (03:39:45).

Poll Workers Continue Counting

Immediately after the observers leave, 5 female poll workers begin counting ballots again. They pull out cases of ballots stored beneath a skirted table out of view from the observers' station due to the curvature of the room. This is already four violations of State Election Law. The skirted table, the concealed bags, the observers not being able to see the entire room, and counting without observers present. These 5 women have NOT yet been interviewed under oath or otherwise for some inexplicable reason.

Evidence of Manufactured Ballots

Witnesses testify that they observed stacks of mail-in ballots that were unfolded (should not be possible), that were filled in identically, that were filled in with what appears to be perfectly printed ovals, that had suspect-looking watermarks, and that were 100% for Biden.

Such testimony is given throughout by multiple witnesses, but one such is from witness Suzy Boils at  04:16:50.

Evidence of Multiple Scans of Same Ballots

Bob Cheeley at 03:39:45 shows on the video two women in camera view feeding the same pristine stack of ballots four times through the scanning machine without performing any of the activities associated with a failed scan. They just appear to be counting the votes 4x.

Evidence of a Vote Spike for Biden Immediately After

The women finished their unobserved counting at around 1:30am. At 1:35am there shows an upload into the election system of a large batch of ballots,136,000 for Biden versus 29 for Trump (98% for Biden - statistically impossible).

This testimony is provided by David Cross at 02:19:00 who analyzed the data feeds that were given from the Secretary of State system to the Edison system that aggregates the data for the media. He was not provided with the detailed timestamped event data from the Secretary of State despite asking repeatedly for it.

The red line is Trump votes and the blue line is Biden votes. The unnatural jumps do not occur anywhere else except in the contested swing states late at night after counting was shut down.  He goes on to show unexplained late-night spikes of a similar nature in Michigan and Wisconsin. A >95% Biden tally CANNOT be explained by saying the Democrats favour mail-in voting. Such a pattern is not seen outside of the Democrat-controlled precincts in swing states.

Audit of Physical Ballots

the Trump team has repeatedly asked for the physical mail-in ballots from Fulton County to be audited. They had a witness, Jovan Pulitzer, an expert in matters of paper analysis, show how it is possible to detect fraudulent ballots (01:13:30) using scanning technology. Lawyers have requested access to the paper ballots to perform this audit, and are ready with the equipment to do it, which is guaranteed under law, however the Secretary of State is blocking it and they have gone to court to seek an injunction to force him to.

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There were several other serious allegations in the Georgian testimony as well, however the State Farm Arena feels more like the "smoking gun" than the other.

Another thread was around  signature verification for mail-in voters that contrary to State Election Law was virtually non-existent.

Another thread was around how in Fulton County the state said that 93.67% of the scanned-in ballots needed to be adjudicated, which is a ridiculously high-level indicating that the scanners were essentially not working at all. There was then testimony that the adjudication system allowed individuals to make arbitrary decisions, and how there were opportunities for unobserved individuals to make those changes without leaving any sort of an audit trail. Once a ballot is adjudicated, the computer image of the previous ballot is completely eradicated and replaced with no record. Recounts then count a printed version of the adjudicated ballot.

Furthermore, they demonstrated how the systems can be hacked into remotely and adjudications manipulated remotely. To make the point, during the testimony the team stated that one of their security experts had gained access to a voting terminal used in the State Senatorial runoff and was able to transfer data in and out of it. By Georgian Election Law, these voting terminals may not be connected to the internet at all, so this s a clear violation of law already.

The team has sued for access to perform forensic audits on the voting machines but has been refused by the Secretary of State.

There was evidence presented that poll workers who had come forward to testify in the Dec 3 hearing have been terminated from their poll worker jobs of long-standing are are suing based on whistleblower status.

One of the more damning testimony came right at the end from a Data Science group that analyzed the county-level vote uploads (04:38:30).

• Showed how in 40 instances, totaling a 200,000 vote swing, votes were decremented from Trump and or added to Biden at the County level (and therefore obscured in the aggregated State feeds). This occurred both for mail-in and for in-person voting.

• For in-person voting there is no conceivable legitimate means by which votes could be decremented from a candidate. There is no opportunity for innocent human error. Neither is possible given the system.
• Voters fill in ballots on a machine touchscreen. An image of that ballot is generated by the software (it is not scanned in).
• Those computer-generated images are placed on SD cards and transferred to a central location.
• In the central location the images are analyzed and votes counted.
• The images are generated by and analyzed by the same software suite. There should be a 0% error rate in that process.
• From there the data is uploaded to a Dominion Software Server, and from their transmitted to the State Sydl system where it it is forwarded to the Secretary of State System for certification, and to the Edison system for dissemination to media outlets.
• At no point in this process can a negative vote increment be registered.
• And yet there were 40 instances of just this, totaling a 200,000 vote swing, more than enough to overturn the Georgia election result.
• There IS an opportunity for anybody with access to a Democracy Suite workstation (where the SD cards are entered after transport) to manually alter the vote counts in various ways, none of them legitimate given the overall system.
• Multiple people had such access, they shared an admin credential, they could access without supervision, and the machines were Internet connected and could demonstrably be accessed remotely.
• The Secretary of State has been blocking all audits of this process and of the voting systems used.
  

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In conclusion, I think those who are claiming there is "no evidence of fraud whatsoever" absolutely have their head in the sand. Those claiming fraud is always there but "it was not enough to overturn the election" also have their heads in the sand.

There is tremendous circumstantial evidence of fraud that warrants a full and complete investigation. I am not pre-judging the result of any such investigation, but there is certainly more than enough evidence to justify it.

Those claiming that any such inquiries are "anti-democracy" do not understand democracy.

Those claiming that the courts have reviewed this evidence and thrown it out are also fooling themselves and falling for a media narrative. The evidence has not been tested in court, the suits were thrown out on procedural grounds (lack of standing, too late, not their jurisdiction, remedy sought would not be within their power). Yes, some judges made scathing remarks when throwing them out, but they are scathing remarks regarding the above (and in many cases quite justified!).

Those claiming that Georgia has had multiple recounts and audits and they show everything is just fine are not realizing that the recounts and audits are recounting and auditing the wrong things, as covered in the testimony, and the right things are being deliberately hidden and/or slow-walked, possibly to get past inauguration day.

We are hopeful that based on this evidence that the Georgia State Legislature will overrule the certification of the election results by the Secretary of State. They need to call a session and do this before Jan 6, but I doubt there is the political will, so this election will likely go down in history as the most blatantly fraudulent stolen election in US history. Be proud, USA, your comrades in Canada welcome you into the Communist fold ;-)

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Here is the blow-by-blow (apologies for any typos - not proofread - these are my raw notes as I watched the video in full).

Call to order at 00:07:00 by Chairman Senator William Ligon

First item on the agenda is to consider a motion to approve the report based on the Dec.3 meeting available here: REPORT, passed with one dissenter (the committee is bi-partisan).

00:09:00 Witness Cathy Lisom - Republican Election Official and chair of the Coffee county Republican Party

• Evidence of messed up scanners in primaries, request for replacement, not done. Means a lot of the ballots need to be manually adjudicated.
  
• Showed how people using the software can manipulate adjudicated ballots to change literally anything on it at all - showed a YouTube video of how to do it.
• Showed how nobody can observe what is going on as the type is too small to see from 6 feet away which was the mandated distance - so no effective observers.
• During recount on multiple scans of 15000 ballots machine counts were off by ~50 on each of 15 runs.
• Said from the County end they cannot see a log, or before and after images, of adjudicated ballots.
• Described a chaotic recount process without observers and with armed police.
  

00:28:00 Witness Ann Dover - Interim Director for Cherokee County Election Office

• Testifying about the ENet system for registering voters, checking-in ballots.
• First issue - the absentee ballot portal see people receiving ballots that aren't their ballots - system inserting a random address when people are requesting ballots.
• Second issue - when they get an absentee ballot back by mail they scan in the bar code and it checks it in under somebody else. Have used the system before, but never seen this before. Reported it to the state, got an unsatisfactory answer.

00:34:00 Witness John Cochran - An automation engineer with extensive and impressive experience in data auditing and validation

• An observer and monitor of the 3-day risk-limiting audit around Nov 16 in Gwinnett county.
• Arlo open-source auditing system from VotingWorks used for the first time by the people using it.
• Used to do an 100% audit of 5,000,000 votes. Usual way is to test a random sample.
• 2 people entering data from batch tally sheets written by hand after manual counts
• None of this information is kept locally, all sent to the cloud. Counties have no access to the independent county tallies.
  
• Demonstrates how the system is easy to hack into.
  
• How final tallies are arrived at from the Secretary of State was opaque and unobserved without records.
• Concerned about lack of transparency of the audit.
  

00:50:40 Witness Marcy McArthy - Businesswoman in the Cyber Security industry - also 2020 National Delegate for the GOP - worked on elections security committee in DeKalb County.

• Shared how processes and control were altered and removed entirely.
• Possible for workers and volunteers to perform presidential adjudication unobserved and without any record of audit trail whatsoever.
• Rules changed for Voter Review Panel from 1 Repub + 1 Dem to 1+1 + 2 "non-partisan" who were all League of Women's Voters who are all effectively Democrat as were the supervisors.

01:13:30 Witness Jovan Pulitzer - Pattern Recognition Expert with 200 patents

• Shows "Kinematic Artifacts" of how you tell if paper was folded.
• Shows how counterfeit and machine-printed ballot marks can be detected.
• Can detect if ballots filled in by machine, if folded or not, if run through scanners multiple times.
  
• Offers to run the State Farm ballots through his systems to do this detection in 2 days.
• Complains nobody is given access to the original physical ballot.
• Shows how in Fulton county, areas that were Democrat majority were printed differently than Republican majority areas. Republican had bar codes used for traceability, Dems did not have bar codes.
• Shows how registration mark misaligned in Republican areas so that you have a higher rate of adjudication (therefore more opportunity to change the vote in adjudication).
• But cannot do a full audit of that because no access to the physical ballots. Why hiding these?
  
• In Fulton County 93.67% of the votes needed adjudication and were therefore subject to all the unaudited fraud possible in the adjudication process. 780% increase in rate from 2016!

02:01:30 Witness Garlan Faborino - IT Expert on Voter Integrity leading Georgia's Committee on Election Security - Sate Farm Arena Observer, Fulton tabulation observer, audit monitor, recount monitor, organizer for election observers. Votes for write-in Constitution County candidate, not for Trump or Biden.

• Recent court ruling overturned previous one with the result that the system was made unverifiable
• He noticed an abnormal 20,000 Fulton County spike for Biden
• He noticed 3 boxes and stacks on tables with 100% Biden ballots.
• 4 auditors detected potentially fraudulent absentee ballots
• Not creased from being mailed
• Not marked with writing instrument (printed)
• Differences in the paper used
• Filed a request to view physical ballots and it was denied.
• Debunks "have not the votes been counted 3 times.
• orignal results hidden in bar codes 100% unverifiable to voters
• recount just rescanned the unverified bar codes
• audit results entered directly into State system, top down, not bottom up, in violation of standard practice.
• No meaningful monitoring in any of the above.
• Dominion System Anomalies
• Spalding county: Last minute update on election eve causing 2 hour delay without audit trail.
• Coffee County: malfunctioning scanners
• Ware County: system flipped 37 votes from Trump to Biden in Dominion System based on hand count, certified by Elections Director
  
• Requested forensic exam of Dominion machines
  
• Secretary of State sent threatening letter to counties telling them not to allow forensic exams of Dominion machines
• USA Today fact check of this was a lie.
• State Farm Arena
• Testified room is curved. From observing station cannot see the whole room. Skirted tables. Hidden ballot bags. Starting and stopping of counting. All disallowed by Georgia Law.
• Testified that monitors were told to leave after being told scanning was ceased. Video evidence plus multiple sworn affidavits. Multiple news sources reporting this at the time. Scanning then proceeds. As soon as monitors learned of this they returned, hours later.
  
• video shows multiple re-scanning of the same batches of ballots over and over again without visibly trying to resolve any problems.
  
• After unobserved late night scanning, vote tallies jumped up by 136,000 for Biden versus 29 for Trump.
• Voters are suing to inspect the State Farm Arena ballots as Fulton County is refusing to produce the ballots in question.

02:19:00 - Witness David Cross - Owns Investment Management Firm in Georgia - Concerned Citizen

• Dove into the data to look at the Edison election feed (comes from feed to Edison for distribution to the media in near real-time) from multiple states.
• Cannot use original timestamped data because Secretary of State will not give it out. Why? Why is Secretary of State not investigating???
• These vote jumps are all statistically impossible.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• During Georgian recount at least 9 of the ballot bags did not have security tags attached which should not be possible. Could have 15000 ballots without chain of custody which would change the county results.
  

• Compares bag with to one without - member of the press got a photo before they were kicked out for ostensible touching a bag with their foot.
• Raises various other issues that seem suspicious and asks why nobody investigating.
  

 02:32:00 - Witness Sandra Metz - Clark County Poll Worker, Athens Georgia

• Testifies on all sorts of dubious stuff uique to this and 2018 election.
• Testifies how a voter with a Florida voter ID was being allowed to vote without checking if he already voted in Florida.
• Testifies how a man was not registered to vote was allowed to vote.
• Testifies that person with license was scanned and found to have already voted. Said "oh yes, I received two ballots by mail and sent them both in, I want to vote a third time in person" - nothing was done.
• When closing the polls you put a numbered tab on. During recount, tabs were torn off and thrown away without traceability.
• Testifies that when case opened was 12 ballots short. Called election worker over. Election worker when away and returned with 12 ballots (!)
• Testifies people who were distressed because were told they already voted by absentee ballot that they never requested.
• Showed people at previous election gathering info for voter registration that can be used to later request absentee ballots to a different address.

02:39:00 - Witness Debbie Fisher -  Cobb County Part of Voter Review Committee, monitor during recount

• On Nov 16 reviewed 298 military ballots on one day. Of those, noticed several disturibng things. Inordinately perfectly filled out bubbles, no stray marks, no checks, no Xs, only perfectly filled in ovals. 90% of them had no paper folds (yet required to mail-in in Cobb county). One 2 had blue ink versus black ink. Some of the water marks were solid grey in front of the print. Noticed that 80-90% were going for Biden, and batches that were 100% for Biden. Statistically impossible.
• In a neighboring county, military ballots were 93% for Biden. Highly unlikely.
• Number counted were 1782 from military. Number recounted by machine was only 1400.
• This time a number of the military ballots came in via email but with little to no verification (law required mail-in).
• Contacted Secretary of State 3 times and no response.

02:52:00 - Witness Susan Knox from Cobb County

• On Nov 19 as people were certifying the audit at Jim Miller Park saw a huge A1 Shredding and Recyling truck that was shredding massive amounts of ballots. Has photo and video evidence of shredding. No other government documentation should be present there - it's a state fairground pressed into duty for this election. No evidence at all should be shredded.
  
• Called 911 and were told police was not allowed to respond to anything election-resulted. Needed to contact Secretary of State who responded it was "routine shredding" without more info.
  

03:01:30 - Witness Sally Grubbs -  Marietta Georgia

• Very passionate testimony about things she has seen and the response from officials.

03:22:15 - Rudy Giuliani Statement

•  Disputing Secretary of State saying "this was the cleanest election in history" whereas based on he evidence Georgia is rife with irregularities and fraud.
• Will live on as the dirtiest election in American history.
• Urging Georgia State Legislature to do something about, especially because Georgia has the most compelling video evidence in the country from State Farm Arena.

03:39:45 - Bob Cheeley - Trial lawyer since 1982 in Georgia.

• Sharing evidence of State Farm Arena video - should shock the conscience of anybody who sees it.
• Went through the video carefully showing us what occurred.
• All poll watchers cleared out because water main break suspended counting
• Next morning everybody were shocked to learn that 5 women worked from 11pm-1am scanning ballots.
• Shows lady taking the same stack running through the scanner over and over again.
• Other lady doing the same thing
• Immediately as soon as done got the huge spike from Georgia at 1:30am.
  
• Why was scanning allowed to go without any observers / supervision at all?
• These ladies never called to testify.
• Request to examine the ballots to determine if legitimate got the run around. Have scanners from Pulitzer ready to go to examine. Latest word was they would not be made available without a court order - running out the time. Under Georgia law must be given access.
• Fulton County judges running out the clock - 2-3 week delays so far. No judges assigned. Total breakdown in the system.
• Calling on Legislature to do their job and not certify under these conditions.

 03:55:20 - Witness Christine McKinnell - resident of Cobb County

• Testified re multiple irregularities
• Noted differences in Democrat and Republican ballots.

 04:09:40 - Witness Dana Smith - Hart County

• Testified previously on Dec 3.
• Testifies to being harassed by local newspaper and not being invited back as a poll worker
• While counting absentee paper ballots a poll worker asked the question, since we're not looking at any signatures, who is verifying the signatures. One lady in her 70s says she validated 90% of the signatures.
• Complaining that may of the checks and balanced / safeguards were removed for signature verification.

 04:16:50 - Suzy Boils - Poll worker for 20 years

• Previously testified she discovered an extra large batch (107) of pristine ballots marked identically, exactly the same.
• Fulton County released her from her 20-year position.
• She sent in letter claiming whistleblower status.
• Worried that other poll workers will be reluctant to testify as a result of what happened to her

04:23:00 - Witness Jovan Pulitzer comes back

• Announces that his team has successfully broken into a voting machine at a polling station being used for the Senate race as he speaks.
• Should not be connected to the internet. Should not happen.
  
• But they are currently connected and downloading data in both directions.
• Can use this access on election day to switch votes or pump in extra votes.

04:26:00 -  Hal Burton - Statement from lawyer representing a number of individuals testifying and terminated

• "Nothing good happens after midnight"
• Donal Trump lost the election on one category of votes: in mail-in ballots in Democrat cities in swing states after midnight.
• There is a "major problem" in the Secretary of State's office.
  

04:28:30 - Bobby Piton - From Chicago, background in data analysis

• Went through Fulton County and compared to six other surrounding counties.
• Displayed statistical evidence based on first name and last name uniqueness how the Fulton County uniquely seemed to have a very sloppy fake set of names. 3:1 ratio of first-names to last names in Fulton as opposed to the average of 33:1.

04:38:30 - Sarah McLaughlin (with 2 others) - Data Integrity Group analyzing the election results.

• Used three sources:
• Used Edison data feed time series of vote releases to media
• Scytl data source sends to Edison and to Secretary of State
• Secretary of State data
• Have fraud provable with data and State ought not the certify based on their analysis
  
• Identified 40 data points where there were negative vote increments or outright vote switching, totaling a >200,000 vote difference, more than enough to overturn the election. There was no opportunity for human error to cause these issues.
  
• Also ran machine-learning anomaly detection which flagged over 500 precincts with over 1,000,000 votes which exhibited suspicious activity. Applied rigorous financial services style procedures that are generally accepted to flag fraudulent activity.
• Played a pre-produced video outlining the problem
• Receiving more than 75% of the votes for one candidate in a preccint is considered abnormal. Receiving over 90% is a marker for fraud.
• Out of 400 precints in Fulton County, over 150 had over 90% for Biden.

 

• Showed evidence of how within multiple counties the votes for Trump were decremented. This was not necessarily seen on the feed out of Edison to the news outlets as those were batched with and offset by votes from other counties.

• Showed an example of a clear vote switch of 12,173 votes from Trump to Biden at 9:11 in Bibb County Georgia. Seen when analyzing County Level data, but obscured when looking at only State totals.
• Described voting process in Fulton County
  
• Check in on a PollPad (iPad)
• Go to an ImageCast terminal to electronically record your vote. A ballot image is saved on the machine.
• After all the polls close an SD card containing all the ballot images are removed from the machine and transported to a central location by car to collecting stations, and then by police to one cnetral location
• There the electronic images are run through Dominion Software Democracy Suite.
• It counts the votes and inputs them to a SQL Server database on a Dominion Server
• From there incremental counts are transmitted to the Scytl system for distribution to the Secretary of State and data aggregators like Edison that transmit to the media.

• Focusing on the box in the middle, these options are available to anybody with access to the software: create new batches, reject batches, validate batches, validate and publish. Anybody at all with access, supervised or not, can modify the vote counts at this point in the process before the data is even uploaded to the Dominion Server.
• Violations: 2 observers not present for the transmission of the SD card, 2 observers not present in the car, no public log of the drop offs.
• No opportunity for human entry error. The images of the ballots were machine generated and should be completely machine readable without error.
• Conclusion is that humans accessed the systems and altered the vote totals when they should not have. It is also the only possible way a vote total could decrement.