Top 10 Smoking Guns of 2020 Election System Compromises

 

Fact:  Votes were often deleted in the 2020 Presidential Election

About 40% of Americans (including 70% of registered Democrats) still believe the lie told by DHS/CISA's Christoper Krebs  that the 2020 U.S. election was the "most secure in American history."  The  majority believe the election was not on the up and up.   Over half of non-affiliated voters and 75% of Republican voters are among those in the latter group.

Kreb's November 12th statement also included this patently false statement:

"There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised."

There is ample evidence to the contrary.

Here are my top ten 10 examples that 2020 election systems did not produce accurate results.  

To date, no one from the state governments or anyone else have provided  legitimate explanations to refute this proof of systemic error(s) in the election systems.   In some instances, state officials and/or their representatives confirmed the errors.

1.  Nearly 4 million votes subtracted from Biden and Trump over the course of the 2020 election.

2.   a.  No (zero) write-in votes in any race in the city of Detroit, Michigan.

      b.  No (zero) absentee write-in votes (out of 2.84 million) in Michigan

3.a.  Vote shifting in Antrim County, Michigan  

   b. Non-adjudication of write-in votes in Antrim County.

4.   9,000 more votes than possible on election night in Maricopa County, AZ.

5.   Double counting of ballots in Fulton County, Georgia.

6.   No write-in or minor party votes in the City of Milwaukee's 168,000 vote dump.

7.    Folded ballots cause miscounts in Windham, NH Congressional races.

8.    Approximately 70,000 missing votes for Green Party Presidential candidate in Pennsylvania.

9.    64,492 absentee votes removed from Trump in Pennsylvania.

10.   No (zero) absentee write-in votes in the battlegrounds Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin.

In the majority of cases, these problems were caused by system issues.  The only exceptions were the 4 million votes subtracted (#1) of which some was allegedly caused by human error and the duplicate ballot scanning in Georgia by unscrupulous election workers (#5).


DETAILS

1.   Nearly four million votes subtracted from Trump and Biden (undetermined)

The graphic at the top of the page shows votes being subtracted from Biden and Trump in Virginia and Pennsylvania.   While Virginia (Fairfax County) admitted that it took several tries to upload its votes correctly, Pennsylvania has never provided an explanation for the subtractions and additions in its vote stream. 

These states were not isolated incidents, as nine (9) mostly battleground states had this problem (see chart at right).  While it is possible that some of the subtractions (e.g., Nevada, Arizona, and Wisconsin) may be due to rounding errors of the Edison Research reporting, the massive numbers in the other states were caused by something else.

Only a forensic audit of the states can resolve the issue.


2.  No Write-In Votes in the City of Detroit, Michigan (Adjudication Failure)

According to the official results, not a single write-in vote was tallied in the 2020 election.  The fact that there was not a single write-in vote for President or any other office on the ballot is undeniable proof that the voting machines in Detroit were not functioning properly.    For the record, over 1,000 write-in votes were counted in the 2016 election presidential contest. 

All write-in votes should be adjudicated to determine for whom the vote was cast, but in Detroit write-in votes apparently were not sent to an adjudication station.  As noted in the affidavit excerpt below. 


It is apparent that the Election Management System (EMS) for the City of Detroit did not utilize the vote adjudication function and the write-in votes didn't get properly reported.  


2. b.   No absentee write-in votes in Michigan 

Based on analysis of the election returns from Edison Research for the state of Michigan, the problem could be more widespread than Detroit.  There were only 1,090 write-in votes for president in the entire and none by absentee ballot.   Michigan voters returned 2.84 million absentee ballots.

That there was not one absentee ballot out of 2.84 million is simply not credible and indicates a massive failure in adjudicating or tabulating absentee ballots.


3. a.  Votes shifted in Antrim County, Michigan (ballot definition file)

According to the official report from the Michigan Secretary of State, Trump votes were shifted to Joe Biden and Jorgenson votes were shifted to Trump -- causing the quickly recognized disparity in results in the politically "red" county.  

The official report was authored by University of Michigan professor, J. Alex Halderman.  Halderman has been a long time critic of automated election systems and has authored several papers on their vulnerabilities.   Halderman represented Jill Stein as a technical expert after the 2016 election, alleging that voting machines in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania improperly counted votes. 

Here is a chart from the official report showing how the shifts occurred in the affected townships.


The the errors were caught and then corrected is irrelevant.  The fact of the matter is that the ballot definition files in a number of townships were not coded correctly.

A forensic audit of the Michigan election could determine if the problem was more widespread.  In addition, it is possible that malware could also corrupt the ballot definition files (see #5, Pennsylvania).

3.b.   No vote adjudication in Antrim County, Michigan

Since Antrim County is discussed above, here is a second barely publicized issue from there.  The official report from the Michigan Secretary of State revealed that the vote adjudication module of the EMS was not functional in Antrim County.    Antrim County's election results reveal that EVERY write-in vote was "Unresolved."  In other words, not adjudicated to determine for whom it was cast.   


4.    9,000 more votes than possible on election night in Maricopa County,  AZ

At shortly after 8 PM MST on November 4th, two large vote dumps occurred that totaled 2,098,618 votes.   The problem with that figure is that it is approximately 9,000 more votes than the grand total for Maricopa County for the entire 2020 election (2,089,563).   The other problem is that Maricopa kept counting votes for ten more days.   

Maricopa was the only county with a population large enough to generate 600K votes
 or more in a single batch.  Source:  Edison Research National Election Data

Based on updates given by the Maricopa County clerk, approximately 433,000 votes rolled in from November 4th until the race was called.  

So what happened to those ballots?   Some may have been transferred to other Arizona counties by the EMS.   The routers will tell the story -- unless all of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors are willing to spend time in jail rather than turn them over.

Other ballots may have ended up in the shredder, according to a column by the Gateway Pundit.

What we do know is Maricopa County turned over around 2.1 million ballots to the Arizona Senate's audit team.   Math tells us that number needed to be 2.533 million.

In most cases, when facts like these come out about the election, the media fact checkers are quick to dispute them.   So far it's been crickets.


5.  Double counting of votes in Fulton County, Georgia.

A forensic audit by VoterGA.org found "at least 36 batches of mail-in ballots with 4,225 extra votes were redundantly added to into Fulton Co. audit results for the November election.  These illicit votes include 3,390 extra votes for Joe Biden, 865 extra votes for Donald Trump, and 43 extra votes for Jo Jorgenson."

The audit of just the Fulton County batches cut Biden's margin over Trump by 2,525 votes in a state won by just under 12,000 votes.  

There is little doubt how this duplication of votes occurred because the perpetrators, who were working in Atlanta's State Farm Arena, were caught on video scanning the ballots multiple times.  

Georgia election officials, Gabriel Sterling and Richard Barron, defended this fraudulent activity, but now that the audit results have been made public Barron and one of the perpetrators, election supervisor Ralph Jones, were asked to resign.   Barron was eventually fired, while Jones resigned.   In addition, two of the State Farm scanning perpetrators, Ruby Freeman and Shae Moss,  have been served subpoenas to appear in court.

This is indisputable evidence of our election system being compromised by unscrupulous election workers.  Jones, Freeman, and Moss didn't double scan these ballots by mistake.


6.   No write-in or minor party votes in the City of Milwaukee's 168,000 vote dump.

There were numerous large vote spikes that favored Joe Biden in the 2020 election, however, the City of Milwaukee's dump stands out as unique because it included ZERO write-in and minor party (WIMP) votes.   In fact, the Edison Research data shows the WIMP votes were subtracted from the minor party and write-in candidates and given to either Biden or Trump.  

Trump gaining  25,163 new votes;
Biden gaining 143,329 new votes; and,
Subtraction (transfer) of 156 WIMP votes to Biden or Trump.

While the subtraction may be an artifact from rounding error (or not), the bottom line is that in a dump of 168,000 votes that Minor Party (Jorgenson) and write-ins should have garnered at least one percent (1,680) to two percent (3,360) of the vote total.   In 2016, a dump of this magnitude would have included close to 10,000 WIMP votes based on the historical results.  

Write-ins garnered 962 votes or 0.39% in the presidential race.   In other city wide races, write-ins fared much better, getting 1-2% of the vote (i.e., between 2,386 and 3,906 votes).   This evidence suggests that adjudication was not functioning properly for absentee votes in the presidential contest and was likely shifting them to Biden.  

Overall, Wisconsin's write-in vote total dropped by 27,429 votes from 2016.  An analysis of the Edison Research voting stream reconstructed and corrected the totals for the state.  It determined that 37,190 write-in votes had been improperly shifted.



 

In a state decided by approximately 20,000 votes, the improper adjudication of these write-in for Biden could have swung the election.


7.    Folded ballots cause miscounts in Windham, NH Congressional races.

Despite the dubious nature of media reports about the Windham, NH audit, election expert Harri Hursti, confirmed that the election system in Windham, New Hampshire undercounted approximately 300 votes per Republican candidate because their scan mark was on the fold of the ballot.

Hursti, who was featured in the movie Kill Chain, has gone on record numerous times over the last decade to bash the security of voting machines and to describe the ease of which they can be manipulated.   However, in 2020 he was among many election system security skeptics (including  Halderman) who signed a November 16, 2020 declaration that there was no credible evidence of computer fraud in the 2020 election.   

Ironically, Hursti and Halderman have now both confirmed problems with the election systems.


8.    70,000 missing votes for Green Party's Howie Hawkins in Pennsylvania.

One of the reasons why Pennsylvania officials are adamantly opposed to a forensic audit is because they know that votes were stolen from Green Party write-in Presidential candidate Howie Hawkins.  The Democratic Party took the Greens to court over a technicality (regarding to faxed paperwork) and the Democrat dominated PA Supreme Court voted 5-2 along party lines to kick Hawkins off the ballot.

In its attempt to place Hawkins on the Keystone State's presidential ballot, the Greens obtained over 8,000 signatures.   That's why Pennsylvania's election results are obviously fraudulent -- Hawkins got just 610 votes.

In order to keep this hidden, the Pennsylvania government did not publish or report the total votes for write-in candidates.    Here is a chart showing how the Greens did in state-wide races with no result showing for Hawkins (President).





To find out Hawkins results, you had to look at the returns from all 67 counties.  As mentioned above, Hawkins got only 610 write-in votes.  

Pennsylvania also scrubbed this graphic from its web-site that shows Greens returned over 2,500 absentee ballots.


However, this statistic of Green Party returns is not really reflective of the situation because Greens have forced to register as non-affiliated voters for several years.   Regardless, it strains credulity that the Greens who mailed in a ballot didn't vote for their Presidential candidate.

Here are the absentee voting results for Greens in statewide contests.


The chart above reveals that Green Party statewide candidates got between 30,491 and 38,034 absentee votes.  Again, did these Greens fill out a ballot and simply decide NOT to write-in Hawkins?

I don't think so.   

If only 1/4 wrote in Hawkins, he would have gotten at least 7,500 votes, but according to Edison Research, there were only 453 absentee write-in votes in the entire state of Pennsylvania.  Pennsylvanians cast nearly 2.7 million absentee votes.

There is little doubt that neither Election Day nor absentee write-in votes were properly counted -- and it highly likely that they were transferred to Joe Biden.   

The transferred Green Party votes likely accounted for almost all of Biden's margin of victory.


9.    64,492 absentee votes removed from Trump in Pennsylvania.

In most elections, the Presidential candidate is the top vote getter for his or her political party.  

In 2020, Donald Trump got the most votes among Republican state-wide candidates in Pennsylvania, however there was a great disparity between Trump votes on Election Day versus Trump votes by mail-in or absentee ballot.   This makes little sense, as Republicans voting on Election Day should behave in the same manner as Republicans by absentee votes.   

In the table below, note that Trump gets tens of thousands of more votes than his Republican colleagues on Election Day, but two down ballot candidates for Auditor General and Treasurer received more absentee votes than Trump by absentee ballot.

Election Day VotesPresidentAttorney GeneralAuditor GeneralTreasurer
Republican2,731,2302,530,2072,626,1112,603,048
Absentee VotesPresidentAttorney GeneralAuditor GeneralTreasurer
Republican595,538574,052660,030636,780
Delta Republican 21,486-64,492-41,242

Interestingly enough, analysis of votes shifts in Pennsylvania determined that 64,492 absentee votes,  were shifted away Trump and to adjudication then eventually moved to Biden.   Note in the table below how the switching picked up after 3AM when vote reporting was paused. 





It is unlikely that these numbers being an exact match is a matter of coincidence.


10.   No (zero) absentee write-in votes in the battlegrounds Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin and only 453 in Pennsylvania.

The November 2020 election was unprecedented in the number of absentee ballots cast.  According to an MIT study, 48% of Americans voted by absentee ballot.  That translates to about 76 million absentee votes cast across the country.   Amazingly, only 13,803 of those absentee ballots were cast for write-in candidates (about .02% or two-tenths of a percent).

As mentioned earlier, adjudication systems in Detroit and Antrim County were not functional and it appears that those systems malfunctioned (or were manipulated) in Pennsylvania and the City of Milwaukee.

However, further investigation revealed that the battleground states of Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin did not record a single write-in vote from an absentee ballot.  Let's look at that in detail.

Arizona:   0 out of 2,471,557 mail-in/early votes.   
Georgia:   0 out of 1,320,154 mail-in ballots.  
Wisconsin:  0 out of 1,275,019 mail-in ballots.  

Note that #2.b. above reported that Michigan also reported zero absentee write-in votes. 

These are simply impossible numbers and indicate a systemic error in the tabulation of absentee write-in votes.   It appears that in many states the tabulators were working for Election Day voters but then turned off or otherwise manipulated when absentee votes were tabulated.

In summary, the 2020 election was fraught with irregularities and/or statistical anomalies.   When the anomalies were investigated, the majority pointed to malfunctions and/or compromised voting systems. 


Ray Blehar, August 16, 2021 at 11:20 AM EDT





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