How The Cabal Is Hacking Our Elections
- ericpbeyer
- Mar 1
- 24 min read
From the Americans United Hub run by Mark Cook. https://hub.amunited.org/s/global/wiki/169/how-the-cabal-is-hacking-our-elections
Psychological Operations
Misinforming the public with information dominance
will not understand the battlefield
will fight each other
will not listen to each other
Distracting the public
will waste their resources
will drain them emotionally
will dilute their efforts
Demoralizing citizens
causes loss of hope
causes loss of courage
causes loss of confidence
Fake Groups
Claim to be on our side
Suck up money
Suck up attention
Redirect the citizens away from real solutions
Infiltrators
These will inject themselves into existing groups
They will make themselves sound great
They may even provide some help to gain people’s confidence
Then they start playing people against each other
They cause disruptions
They cause distractions
They may get the group to do something that can then be used to discredit the group
Sometimes they do this work through another unsuspecting person in the group so nobody expects it.
Fear/Discredit Tactics
Compromise some people by getting them to commit election crimes
Target/attack/discredit everyone that reports or discusses election crimes to make them an example and scare others from reporting election crimes
Target/attack/discredit any attorneys/election officials/legislators/judges/etc to dissuade them and any others from getting involved
Public Meetings
They get rescheduled to cause conflicts
People are assigned to run out the clock to eliminate or reduce our time
Public speaking time is continually reduced
Microphones are shut off
Livestreams/recordings sometimes have audio ‘issues’ that result in the public not being able to hear
Date/Time games
They advertise incorrect dates/times for events in order to cause people to miss events (one example: publishing LAT at 9a, but starting at 8a so poll watchers miss the first hour).
Electronic Date/Time Manipulation
There are many instances of date/time not being accurate on various parts of the voting systems.
Population
Population numbers are increased by every available means, in order to have headroom to increase registered voters.
Prior to 2010, the Census Form had a citizenship question on it. In 2010, the form was replaced with a different form that had no citizenship question on it. California even sued to keep the citizenship question OFF the census form. (see http://hub.amunited.org/content/perma?id=58498)
Open-borders substantiate higher population numbers that include illegal aliens with no way to verify them.
There are cases of census ‘miscounting’ the population as well. (https://www.npr.org/2022/05/19/1099810793/census-undercount-by-state-arkansas-florida-illinois-mississippi-tennessee-texas)
Demographic manipulation - Move people into cities to run for offices in order to start shifting political demographics at county/state levels
Infiltration of Grass Root Orgs
Cabal may co-op the Leader of grassroots election org and pass / receive info thus monitoring and controlling efforts. The leader/org may have no idea they are being used.
Cabal may bait honest citizens into frivolous lawsuit to discredit and demoralize group.
Campaign Consultants - There is a group of consultants coordinating to covertly subvert the candidates they represent
Suck money
Subtly sabotage campaigns
Share information with cabal
Control information flow
Block opportunities
Infiltration of Offices
We have seen many of the following individuals be put into positions over a period of time, operating in lock-step inhibiting transparency and verifiability in elections:
Governor
Secretaries of State
County Attorneys
County Sheriffs
County IT Staff
County Judges
Influence Operations
Create another media system, ‘social media’
Incentivize people to become influencers
Use influences to manipulate public opinion
Law Enforcement
Sheriffs are being sequestered into the service of the county (corporation) and state through interlocal agreements and county policies.
Training for sheriffs is provided by the county attorney’s office. This is an usurpation of the People’s protection against government officials acting unlawfully.
Push out good officers to make room for bad officers that will not uphold the constitution.
Media attack on law enforcement
Turn citizens against police, police against citizens
Force retirement of law enforcement by making it miserable to be a good officer
Lack of education of Sherriff’s rights/duties
Compromised and blackmailed judges/prosecutors
Media
Push the narrative of ‘security’ and ‘accuracy’ until people start believing it.
Discredit any entity that questions security or accuracy of election, so the people ignore or discount the presented facts.
Political Parties
Fuel further division rather than unity on fair elections.
Make non-partisan positions, partisan.
AZ Clerk and Recorder
DASS - Democratic Secretaries of State
etc
Do not adhere to (or don’t know) their duties to provide Election Judges, Poll Watchers, and Audit and Canvass Board members
Don’t exert their authority over election operations as representatives of the electors, which is greater than that of the clerks and SOS who are “elected”
Don’t hold the election officials accountable for providing honest elections
Fail their constituents by not demanding honest elections
Are likely gaining power or monetary benefits by their complicity in election manipulation
There are no teeth (consequences) in many of the laws, therefore nothing to prohibit people breaking the laws.
Accessibility Slight of Hand
Felon Voting Rights - This isn't really for felons to actually vote. It is to pave the way for the cabal to inject more phantom ballots into the system. It merely provides justification for the value to be there. This creates yet another huge abuse vector.
Minor Voting Rights - This allows children who are easily manipulated and persuaded, who’s brains aren’t even fully developed yet and aren’t even mature enough to sign a legal contract, serve on a jury, file a lawsuit, open a bank account, buy a stock, rent an apartment, consent to their own medical care, register to give blood, get a tattoo, buy a car, etc, to change laws, choose judges, local/state/federal officials, and even the President of the US.
Recalls
Fake recall booths are set up, then sigs are thrown out.
Fake recall groups/orgs are set up, then conveniently miss deadlines or make mistakes that invalidate the recall.
Technology / Cyber-Security
Instead of handling security locally, many counties and states are outsourcing those services, which puts that at risk and displaces the responsibility
Creates a much more attractive attack surface
Bad actors can then exploit to cause a much larger blast radius
Decentralization is defeated when certain components are centralized
Install wireless cards, modems, additional connectivity (even covert) so the citizens and election officials aren’t aware
Take advantage of the fact that election officials are not cyber-security experts and they don’t know what they don’t know, in order to manipulate the system right under their noses
Registration
Illegal or ‘gray-area’ voter registration drives
NGO’s going performing voter registration
They target vulnerable parts of our communities
It gives them direct access to people’s information (violation of privacy)
In at least Maricopa County, the county provided registration NGO’s URL/API access directly to their county voter registration system (to be confirmed with @Shelby Busch)
If the elected county officials are not in full control of all registrations, it leaves a huge attack surface open
Youth Pre-registration - In some states, children are allowed to be ‘pre-registered’ to vote.
Allows plausible excuses for procedural ‘mistakes’ that allow indirect manipulation of elections -- Send out ballots to the youth. If caught, just claim it was a mistake. If not, free uninformed voters!
As soon as those pre-registrations hit the 18 yr old mark, they are automatically changed to active status which allows them to be used an excuse for injection of phantom ballots.
They are changing people from their designated party to PND status (party not designated) in order to vote for use their record to inject votes. (http://hub.amunited.org/content/perma?id=77718)
Voter registration records will be changed to inactive without the voter knowing, causing the not to be able to vote. In many states, this can happen even on election day prior to voting. If you vote by mail, you won’t know until it is too late. If you vote in person, you’ll find out right then and you can make them fix it right then.
No responsible party / accountability for keeping the voter rolls accurate
Voter registration databases do not mandate or even include the SOURCE of the registration record (the individual that caused the registration, and the full path it took to arrive in the database in the first place)
People go to graveyards and find names off of tombstones
Candidate Engineering
Candidates changing parties to give themselves a competitive advantage while deceiving the citizens.
Sleeper Candidates - They have their people already embedded in opposite party, positioned to be placed in a race to split votes.
Bad Candidates - They purposely support candidates on our side that:
Are controllable through compromise
Don’t have what it takes to pull through, sucking up donor dollars and wasting resources.
Will cause chaos
They find a candidate B with a similar name to run against candidate A to confuse the voters to bleed votes (See Phil Lyman’s run in Utah - x.com/phil_lyman/status/1831692054155637204)
Campaigns
Many campaign managers are controlled opposition and attempt to control and spy on citizen candidates
Campaign financial manager may waste funds or violate laws in order to compromise the candidate they pretend to support
Legislation
They inundate legislators with so many lengthy bills, nobody has a chance to read them.
They get naïve legislators to carry ‘election integrity’ bills as a good ‘compromise’
They disguise bills building in trojan horses
They create legislation, then later change the definition of the terms used in the previous legislation. Bait and switch.
They create a sacrificial bill to put on the ballot that gets a certain group riled up in order to increase biased voter participation.
They sneak legislation changes into the state budget (including legislation that moves representation away from the governed)
Passing bills to eliminate hand counted ballots (e.g., AB969 in CA).
Laws are created to give people the sense of security, which turns false because they then don’t follow the laws.
Laws are created to restrict access by the citizens, blocking us from being able to see or verify our own election system. This is done SUBTLY, and/or hidden in other legislation. They SNEAK THESE LAWS IN!
There is no reasonable penalty attached to breaking election laws.
Requiring municipalities to use county election systems in order to centralize and control downstream elections.
Lawfare
Out-lawyer the citizens so they cannot afford representation to fight with equal force
Attack the citizen attorneys (personal attacks, lawsuits, go after their license, etc.)
Refuse to hear case and evidence due to ‘lack of standing’
Blocking evidence:
Play word games and feign confusion with the information requests (they play stupid on purpose)
Push citizens to the point of lawsuit, then claim they cannot release the records due to lawsuit
Delay information release until suddenly the information is gone for some reason (hard drive crash, backup failure, etc.)
Cases are moved to jury trials to induce additional costs to pursue.
Delay tactics are frequently used to kick the can down, then leave no time to get anything fixed.
Harrasing and countersuing the plaintiffs and asking judges for motions to reconsider to drain our finances and harass plaintiffs
County Clerks Association
NGO paid by counties and unaccountable to county’s electors
Instruct clerks they serve as “Agents of the Secretary of State”
Instruct clerks to trust machines and vendors
Convince clerks that electors are dangerous and to be feared
Instruct clerks to “forget” to notify (Republican) party chairmen to appoint Canvass Board members, so clerks can appoint them on behalf of party
Intimidate Canvass Board members who don’t certify elections
Work closely with Secretary of State to pass rules, statutes, and laws centralizing elections under government control
Districting/Gerrymandering
Primaries - Cheat every way possible to control the endorsed candidates
Bribe others to run to split the vote
Hire people to Bad-mouth opponents
Open-Primaries - These can be used to cheat! They allow the opposing party to control who is on the ticket. Open-Primaries are a trojan horse.
Cheat using the voting system
Allow ‘delegate’ votes, then control the delegates
Add ‘anonymous’ votes during voting process (see CA GOP)
Pre-make slides to show pre-determined outcomes, and show those instead of the real-time votes (citizens don’t know the difference)
Ballot Harvesting - Harvest signatures from elderly citizens
Retirement communities
Nursing homes
Low-Propensity Voter Record Harvesting - Records that have a low propensity to vote are used to attach ballots to.
Hospitals
Mental health institutions
College dorms/fraternities
Election Code
Actions that facilitate indirect manipulation of our election system have been put into code.
Polling Places
Enact laws that make it prohibitive to qualify many locations as polling places to force the centralization of polling centers.
Nothing wrong with reasonable ADA requirements for our disabled citizens, but we do need to take these into account: 2016-06 US DOJ Civil Rights ACA Checklist for Polling Places (votingchecklist).pdf
Illegal Immigration
Mass immigration combined with a census that now counts them allows justification for higher population, and creates more headroom of justifiable registered voters.
Allows creation of voter registration records that don't actually need to be tied to a real citizen
The voter registration records allow ballots to be created, mailed, cast, and tabulated.
There are not adequate protections in place to protect elections from this (by design, most-likely)
Overall Manipulation Methodology
Injection of phantom voters and corresponding votes (votes not correlated to real citizens)
Combat at voter registration and validation legs
Injection of votes for existing voters (stealing their identity)
Combat at validation leg
Vote-flipping
Combat at validation, tabulation, and reporting legs
Result-shifting/flipping
Combat at result leg. Set up parallel reporting at precinct levels (or county level if precinct not available)
Distribute the manipulation across states, counties, precincts to keep below margin of error
Distribute the manipulation across states, counties, precincts to keep below margin of recounts
Usurpation of Election Officials
The systems are too complex and vulnerable for election officials to understand
Election officials must completely rely on assigned ‘cybersecurity’ experts who are in effect actually controlling our elections (see http://hub.amunited.org/content/perma?id=77400)
They have election security/information dominance, controlling exactly what our representative officials know
Election Officials that resign prior to the end of their term could be replaced by an ‘appointed’ individual not beholden to the citizens
Voter Rolls
Their goal is to increase the registered voters by as much as possible, especially with low-to-no-propensity voters, because they need those database entries to attach votes to.
Motor-Voter system is a gateway for illegitimate voter registrations. They utilize weaknesses in obtaining driver’s licenses in order to create a voter registration record.
Voter Reg Entries are also being created for those too young to vote, but old enough to drive.
Loose or no ID requirement to register to vote in many cases
Proof of residence not being required or confirmed.
Mass change of party affiliation to unaffiliated in order to manipulate - Look for affiliation changes before and after primaries
Change of party affiliation prior to becoming poll-workers in order to pose as different party.
Leaving bad records in (not purging them - why are they not purging? by who’s instruction?)
Injection of bad records
Loose security in access controls
Loose access logging
No change-tracking
Duplicate entries of individuals with name changes (maiden/married names)
Addresses modified (street names) to send ballots to know bad addresses
Outsourcing the responsibility of maintaining voter rolls to entities that fail to maintain them properly (through incompetence or maliciousness), also allowing the rolls to be indirectly manipulated by a fourth-party.
Adjustments to voter rolls are made in real-time, even during the election
No data consistency
No change-tracking
No referential integrity
Same-day voter registration paves the way for last-second ballot injections.
Chain of Custody slight of hand allows opportunities to distract or avoid detection while manipulating ballots/records.
Water main breaks
Power outages
Bomb threats (https://joehoft.com/breaking-exclusive-orange-county-makes-things-worse-in-response-to-huge-2024-election-discrepancies/)
Mail ballots - Injection of ballots with broken chain of custody
Declare an emergency to force the use and relax/ignore other election laws
Real-time tracking systems allow bad actors to track ballots to gain realtime information to abuse.
Postal carriers instructed to NOT deliver ballots to the address in which no residents with that name reside so that the ballot can be routed elsewhere, thus avoiding alerting of multiple ballots registered to that address.
Addresses copied from one locality to another, but changing the street name, generating returned ballots
Mail ballots create many chain-of-custody vulnerabilities, which make it easy for error and manipulation to occur.
They claim drop-boxes have 100% surveillance, when they do not!
Many states have permanent mail in ballot registration causing a perpetual flood of ballots in the mail.
No poll watchers at the post offices, where millions of ballots are flowing through.
Missing Postmarks
Fake Postmarks (postmarks can be dated whatever the person operating the machine wants to date them)
Mail-in ballots severely cripples the ability to perform exit polling (This is KEY for those that would want to manipulate elections, because it destroys this additional verification component)
Signature Verification
The Gatekeeper of fraudulent ballots entering the system
Initiate “updated” signature drives for all registered “voters” and inject fake “updated” signatures.
Designed to be defective in order to manipulate. Many citizens are not trained at all. Citizens that are trained are not properly trained. Proper training takes 2 years of certified document examiner schooling. There is not testing prior to allowing a citizen to verify signatures. Citizens are fired if they reject too many signatures
Drop-Boxes - Injection of ballots with broken chain of custody, avoiding any tracking by USPS.
Public/Private money funding setting these up all over
Many boxes that require surveillance cameras don’t have them
Public has limited/no access to surveillance footage
No control of what gets put in or by who
Provides an open path to easily inject ballots into the system without even USPS tracking of mail-in ballots.
USPS
When the USPS classifies a ballot as ‘undeliverable’, they gather them in one or more facilities.
Several USPS workers have told @Mark Cook that those stacks of undeliverable ballots mysteriously decrease toward the election.
The USPS is billing the counties for undelivered ballots (typically by weighing them instead of counting them - total loss of chain of custody).
The USPS then delivers far less undelivered ballots to the county, and the county typically reflects that amount in their reports.
The people in the county don’t notice, seem to know why, or care that they received less undelivered ballots than they were billed for.
Mail ballots are BIG BUSINESS for the USPS (yet another private organization)
Examples:
Polls
They prohibit anyone wearing political attire at the polls to protect the Election Illusion.
Election Workers
They make it seem like anyone can apply, but they choose who becomes election workers. The election workers are their people.
Poll Watchers
They make it seem like anyone can apply, but they choose who becomes poll watchers. The poll watchers are their people.
They mis-train poll watchers so they don’t know what to look for.
They keep watchers and observers from access to polls, testing so that they can’t view anything that matters
Data Breaches
Beyond the original breach are usually hidden higher-order breaches as a results that can be leveraged by bad-actors.
UOCAVA - Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act
This system makes it easier for our military and overseas voters to vote, at the expense of making the entire system much more vulnerable to manipulation.
Nobody seems to be asking the question “How could a bad guy manipulate this?” in every new part of UOCAVA that is brought forward.
For example, look what this organization is doing: VoteFromAbroad.org
More vulnerabilities listed at www.verityvote.us/overseas-voting-vulnerabilities/.
Early Voting
They collect data and build a model of the election results prior to tabulation:
Mail-in Ballot-Tracking - They tell the citizens that the ballot tracking is so citizens can track their ballots. However, the ballot tracking allows the cabal to know who has voted. Combined with databases of party affiliation and other online profiling, the vote of each returned ballot can be estimated without even needing to look at the ballot.
Electronic Poll Books - When someone checks in to vote, this data is put into a central database. Combined with databases of party affiliation and other online profiling, the vote of each returned ballot can be estimated without even needing to look at the ballot.
They can calculate how much of an adjustment to the votes needs to be made, then take advantage of voter registration database manipulation to utilize phantom records or records of low-propensity voters to inject ballots into the system to shift the results organically before anything goes to tabulation.
Early voting makes it more challenging and costly to perform exit polling.
GOP’s “Bank Your Vote” https://bankyourvote.com/
Election ‘Day’
Allowing voting before Election Day allows bad actors to gain necessary information to more accurately estimate the results to manipulate the results by injecting ballots.
Allowing voting after Election Day allows bad actors to make final adjustments to the results by injecting ballots.
All of this turns the election into a feedback control system that bad actors can use the control the results of elections with high precision.
Deprive voting centers of enough ballots or ballot paper to service the voters. (eg Harris County TX)
Software
Lack of downstream verification
Officials that are conducting elections using black-box systems that:
They blindly trust (voluntarily and involuntarily)
Don’t look ‘under the hood’ to ensure their security
They aren’t allowed to look ‘under the hood’ to ensure
The software that is running on their systems is what was originally tested
Doesn’t have any malicious programming embedded in it
Update Scam
Vulnerabilities are found or ‘found’ in order to spur states and counties to buy NEW equipment/software to ‘fix’ the problems. The new stuff can have even more sophisticated methods to manipulate elections built in to them. Then vulnerabilities are ‘found’ on those, and counties are pressured to buy NEW equipment again. Continual income for the vendors, and manipulation becomes continually more sophisticated. This applies to the entire ecosystem from voter reg, ‘sig ver’, poll books, tabulation, and reporting.
Electronic Poll Books
These are typically connected to each other over insecure wireless connections, then all connected to a central database outside of the polling location, and sometimes outside of the state they are operating in. Unknown parties have control of these databases, therefore can view/add/change/delete records at their will, without the knowledge of the poll workers, county officials, or state officials.
These can be abused wirelessly from the parking lot, wired from within the polling location, on the cellular network or internet anywhere in the world. The counties and states do not have control of these regardless of what they claim.
Data from poll books can be read by others and used to know how to manipulate the election by adding phantom ballots, then injecting phantom electronic check-ins.
Electronic Poll Books usually consist of common Android tablets or Windows laptops (all easily abused by people that know how), hidden in a custom frame.
Electronic Voting Machines
For D.R.E. (Direct-Recording Equipment - touch-screen voting) - also see https://hub.amunited.org/s/electronic-voting-systems-general/wiki/D.R.E.+touch-screen+fun)
Change the touch-screen calibration so when someone selects their candidate, the other candidate is selected. Many won’t notice.
Program the system to select whichever candidate you like regardless of which candidate name is touched. Set up a counter in the software so after X number of tries, the correct candidate is selected. This can be easily explained away as ‘calibration error’. Most will fall for this explanation. It’s been going on for over a decade.
Show one thing on the screen and the printout, but record the votes any way you like in the database.
Record the votes properly in the database initially, then change them later.
Show one thing on the printout, but put different results in the QR-code, then encrypt the QR-code so humans can’t see what’s been done.
Put the software you want them to see in escrow. They won’t know that it isn’t the same as on the voting machines.
Use QR-codes to covertly make adjustments to the votes/feed algorithms. Then put them in the mail or drop-boxes. The election staff will be delivering the payload themselves without having a clue.
If they figure out the QR code con, then use what appears as random dots on the page, but watch for them in the programming and make adjustments with those instructions.
If they figure out the ‘random’ dot approach, then use very light color like yellow that the scanner can pick up, but the human eye will not without a magnifying glass.
Ballots
‘Mistakes’ on ballots (names spelled wrong, names missing, geographical differences)
Wrong ballot styles being given to people to affect who they can vote for. Then they claim ‘mistakes’.
Markers are used so they don’t leave kinematic artifacts (indentations) that could be used to discern a copied ballot vs a real ballot (a photocopied ballot may look like a pen filled it out, but it won’t have indentations in the paper). Pen indentations are a critical secondary artifact against fraud.
Mix any questionable ballots in with the rest to make it impossible to find them again should they be ruled ineligible, making any argument moot.
Ranked-choice voting (See @Ranked Choice Voting (RCV))
There are many reasons this is a bad idea. One of them is that it is so complicated that it REQUIRES a computer tabulate and LOCKS us into using computerized tabulation. That ALONE is reason to boot it.
Allows covert election manipulation hidden in the complexity of the calculations
RCV information: https://hub.amunited.org/s/voting-methods/
Behind RCV:
Open Society - 'Fair Vote'
Tides Foundation - 'Unite America'
GEHL - 'Action Now'
Beware of RCV implemented under a different name.
Feedback Loop
Inject phantom voter registrations
Use plausible deniability in duplicating existing records (make sure every duplicate can be explained away as a mistake)
Change spellings of names slightly. Examples: Bob Smith, Bob Smyth, Bobby Smith, Bobby Smth
Slightly change addresses. Examples: 123 Jones St, 123 Jones, 123 Jones Street, 123 Jones Ave, 213 Jones St, 123 Jons St
Duplicate records will have their own voter ID number, allowing a vote to be associated with it. If someone catches the ‘duplicate’, it can be explained as a typo.
Encourage everyone to register to vote to put in as many registrations possible
Design a system to monitor who has voted
Mail in ballots - Design a mail-in-ballot tracking system to give the public a warm fuzzy false sense of security for using mail in ballots. Tell them that they can ‘track their ballot’. The tracking isn’t really for the citizens, it’s used to know when each one of them votes (and to track which ballot belongs to which individual so they can be ‘handled appropriately)
In person - Design digital poll book system to track who comes in in person to vote
Knowing who has voted, use their party affiliation and voting history fortified with social media profiles to determine how they will vote
Build a model of the election results (without even needing to look at a single ballot)
Determine how many votes are needed to shift the results
Choose which voter reg records to associate with phantom votes
Use the existing voter registration metrics combined with the realtime tracking from mail-in-ballot tracking system and electronic poll books
Record preference priority
Phantom records - these are best to use first because nobody will ever show up to vote and be told they already voted
Low-propensity voters - these are more risky because these voters may actually show up
High-propensity voters - these are very risky and should only be used as a last resort as they are likely to result in voters catching their use
Don’t choose records in the same precinct. Use a distribution of records in different precincts where you think there is room. Remember, STAY UNDER 100% VOTER PARTICIPATION so the injections don’t stick out.
Record distribution
Don’t choose records in the same precinct. Use a distribution of records in different precincts where you think there is room. Remember, STAY UNDER 100% VOTER PARTICIPATION so the injections don’t stick out.
Inject ballots into the system
Mail them in
Scatter them in drop-boxes
If done properly, manipulating the system using the feedback loop will be hidden from the county officials.
Tabulation
Change definitions of ‘tabulation’ to legally allow early machine tabulation so long as it isn’t ‘human readable’; this still fuels their feedback loop
Logic and accuracy testing: tabulator test ballots are only vendor supplied with TEST in red ink which is not displayed on the digital ballot image during adjudication testing. This is a great way for the software to branch to a test-only code path (operate differently) during L&A testing vs normal tabulation during an election.
Pre-load votes during early voting in order to establish a 50/50 ratio from the start to be able to stay under the radar as adjustments are made to counter real votes coming in from that point forward. (Colorado, Washington, etc.)
Use different thickness ballot paper for different areas/voters
Use the thickness as excuse to determine which tabulators are used (Sacramento CA does this - they claim the ‘thin’ paper gets jammed in the Hi-Pro scanners, so they scan all the ‘thin’ ballots through the smaller desktop scanners - Mark Cook was told this first-hand)
Paper that is too thick used in BMD (Ballot Marking Devices) and tabulators may jam, allowing another path to segregate those ballots. This may have happened in AZ
Print the ballot image slightly shrunk so citizens don’t notice it, but the tabulators would be unable to scan, causing them to be segregated and an excuse to ‘re-create’ them. (This happened in AZ)
Print the ballot image lighter than normal so citizens don’t notice it, but the tabulators would be unable to scan, causing them to be segregated and an excuse to ‘re-create’ them. (This happened in AZ)
Randomize the order of the ballots inside the batches, destroying the time-series recording of the order of ballots as they were scanned (manipulating evidence), making it impossible to determine patterns of manipulation. They also then increase the batch size to launder more ballots per batch. (Montgomery County TX)
Someone could easily fill in undervotes in ballots to manipulate those races.
Someone could easily fill in an overvote to cancel a vote (overvotes invalidate the entire race).
Induce error into the system to obfuscate manipulation (ballot programming mistakes, printing mistakes, mis-spellings, etc. - these aren’t all accidents)
Change database outside of voting system software
Incomplete tracking
Incomplete logging
Self-deleting logs
Back doors
Ability to be connected to alternate networks (including the internet)
Wireless devices installed in hardware
No visibility to the public
Secret source code
Incomplete verifiability
No way to guarantee they will always operate without error/abuse
Block all access to ballot images and paper ballots
Wipe hard drives to ensure no evidence of manipulation is left
No supply-chain control or controllable chain of custody
Manipulate programming on thumb/flash drives
Pre-load votes on thumb/flash drives
Manipulate votes on thumb/flash drives
Disable and/or manipulate ballot images on thumb/flash drives
Broken physical seals destroying chain of custody of the physical ballots
Mix up thumb/flash drives to cause confusion to inhibit proper audit
Thumb/flash drives can be modified by bad actors in-transit. Some may claim that can’t happen because they are ‘encrypted’. But those that have the encryption key can get away with it without anyone knowing, and if they are encrypted, nobody may be able to detect modification.
Disable digital images of ballots to be able to thwart their use that evidence in an audit
Manipulate digital images of the ballots in cases where digital images are made
THERE IS NO WAY TO SECURE THESE SYSTEMS IN ANY WAY
Dominion claimed that the existing systems cannot handle a future sized ballot and therefore, the county needed to ‘upgrade’ (Rio Grande County, CO)
Reporting
Election officials don’t even know what really happens to their totals when they leave
Totals can be changed and hidden inside aggregation without the public able to detect
No guarantee to the public that the shown state/fed totals are actually accurate
No public place that all totals are transparently and additionally posted
Centralization of results makes it difficult if not impossible to detect fraud. For insurance, Michigan no longer denotes the difference between
Certification
Forcing certification to be procedurally automatic instead of only happening if evidence supports doing so. This is how they SEAL THE FRAUD!
Auditing
‘Risk Limiting Audits’ or ‘Partial Manual Counts’ are used to justify auditing only a small portion to convince the public the rest of the tabulation is accurate.
Some states redefine what their ‘audit’ is to cripple and make it worthless.
WA - The election officials said only the UNDERVOTE BALLOT IMAGES (voters who did NOT cast a vote in the State House Position 1 election) were being reviewed and were subject to a “Recount.” The actual paper ballots that were cast in the election would NOT be re-counted or included in the “Mandatory Machine Recount.” I wrote about this in a Substack: https://billbruch.substack.com/p/washington-state-election-fake-recountshttps://billbruch.substack.com/p/washington-state-election-fake-recounts
UT - <details to come, @Mark Cook working on it>
Records
Purposely misinterpret the 22-month minimum federal retention period to restrict access to election records for 22 months. That is not the purpose of the minimum retention period. The purpose of the retention period is to make sure the data is RETAINED for the time period so that people can look at it. I believe there is a legal case in some stage regarding setting the record straight on that.
Blocked, or complicated, access to cast vote records (CVRs) which can be used to identify many patterns of manipulation.
Push citizens to the point they have to file lawsuit to get access to records, then claim they can’t provide access to records due to pending lawsuit.
Even some republican states (e.g., South Dakota, South Carolina) have not provided CVRs.
They randomize CVR data claiming that they must do so in order to protect voter privacy. The randomization destroys the time-series aspect of the CVR and therefore cripples their effectiveness at detecting manipulation. Not to mention, this is TAMPERING WITH EVIDENCE at the best, and DESTRUCTION OF EVIDENCE and ELECTION RECORDS at the worst.
No access to security logs, has testing, pentration testing, ballot review files
Canvassing
They attempt to claim that citizen canvassing efforts cause voter intimidation (example: colorado-voter-fraud-complaint.pdf)
Intimidation: reference is The Virginia Project Intimidation Tactics and You: Beating the Zerg Rush
It generally starts with hate spam - messages delivered to you in some fashion, whether by phone, email, over social media or some other form of communication. People you don't know, who don't know anyone who knows you, and who don't appear to have any particular connection to anything you are involved in, suddenly decide they hate you in particular and they want you to know it, repeatedly, in volume. It is phony, contrived and organized. It is called inorganic intimidation because it is not natural.
The main characteristic of inorganic intimidation and interference operations is that the point is to stop you from doing whatever you were doing - the attacks sustain over time rather than waning. You were successful at something they didn't like, therefore they will shut you down.
To bring this home, almost every Republican campaign and organization gets hit by mailing list stuffing attacks, the purpose of which is to load you up with spam flags so that your emails no longer reach inboxes, effectively silencing you in that medium. This was discussed at length in a pair of Virginia Project newsletters last year (Losing the War in Cyberspace | Alice in Cyberspace). These are swarm-intimidation events.
The ranks of conservatives and Republicans who have been targeted by this means are already considerable - they include, among others, the current Virginia Lieutenant Governor - as is the material damage done to GOP electioneering operations. It will only increase over time - unless we put our foot down and end the proliferation of these unlawful practices with robust application of the law.
We now how to handle brute-force intimidation through multiple communication vectors: do not react fearfully; never respond; do not read threatening communications, just record everything; and when the evidence you collect crosses the threshold of probable cause, bring in law enforcement and/or call in a lawyer to collect damages from perpetrators. This intimidation is unlawful interference against our campaigns and activism.
We know that Virginia Democrats will, in fact, conspire amongst themselves to raise money to hire criminal hackers to attack your online assets. This likely happens across the country.
To combat the above: Re-code websites from the ground up with an integrated software firewall with enhanced traffic analysis and reporting capabilities, and a component what I suppose marketing agencies might these days call a "network application security AI." Develop an entire security layer of an application that can execute in less than 50 milliseconds, distinguishing real "customers" from both the ongoing hostile background noise of the Internet as well as targeted and sustained cyberattacks from abroad.
Social media companies are avenues by these gangs to hijack their content moderation processes. Never rely on a social media platform alone, but if it happens exchange with that company’s litigation team to expose unfair tactics against GOPers and candidates.
As a Republican, you need this system to protect yourself from the illegal things that Democrats, as well as other enemies of the American people, will do to your communications. So say goodbye to "my county GOP committee doesn't have a website" and all the votes left on the table.
The Virginia Project believes they have gotten the mission of helping Twitter fix its account exploitation bugs. If you have been the victim of an unexplained account lock out on that platform, please email a description of your experience and the username of the account.
The Biden Administration is using, among other things yet to be explained, the EU ‘Digital Services Act’ to censor domestic opposition on social media. Reference: http://hub.amunited.org/content/perma?id=61271
Public Information Requests
Election Database Backups - Vendors and some Counties use a myriad of excuses to deny access to these databases as well as charge exorbitant fees:
Intellectual property - They claim that there is IP in the database backups. There shouldn’t be any, of course. If there is, then the company is incompetent in putting their intellectual property inside a file meant to serve as an archive of election data. There is no need to put any IP in that, so if they are doing so on purpose, they are doing so in order to use this as an excuse to block citizens from accessing it.
Critical Infrastructure - They claim there is information in the database backups that would compromise the security of their ‘critical infrastructure’ election systems. Then I suppose their ‘critical infrastructure’ election systems are for some reason storing information that could compromise the security of their systems in files that should never have this kind of information. This would violate critical infrastructure best practices. So, which is it? Are they critical infrastructure and they incompetently or maliciously violated those best practices, or are they not and they’re just using this lie to restrict access to information?
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