Democrat Calls for Investigation of Donald Trump's 'Vote Counting Computers' Remark

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95. Fingerprints?

You said "very good @ hiding their fingerprints of the crime."

I don't think so. I can't speak to every possible election system out there, but I know something about the election system used in my county. I have worked 10 elections with the same machinery and procedures. In my case, the tabulator at the voting location spits out a memory card, after we have hand-counted ballots to make sure the tabulator scanned the exact number of ballots we issued. In a normal election, that's the last time the ballots or tabulator machine are used.

From that point forward, it is all about the memory card. Given enough resources (or some inside help, any memory card can be decoded. And if you can decode it, you can flip votes and then re-encode it so that the cross tabs still add up, but with different vote distribution. If you know in advance the format -- and that is exactly why Tina Peters let the Trump team in to her machines in 2020 -- you can write a program that can change the vote contents on these memory cards in just a few seconds. If you do it properly, adhering to any encoding protections (which you would have reverse engineered years in advance -- that's why they wanted the copied of the voting machine memory) one wouldn't expect any "fingerprints."

This type of manipulation, if done well, would only be discovered if a full end-to-end recount was ordered. In that case, you would take the original paper ballots and run them through a known healthy tabulator, and see if the memory card ends up with the same numbers that were on the card turned in on election night. But there were no recounts.

In my county, they use ES&S systems, and several executives of that company are known Republican partisans. It is reasonable to assume that Musk could "persuade" somebody at ES&S to reveal the format of the memory cards. In Pennsylvania, many counties use ES&S. Some use Dominion. Some use ClearBallot. In Michigan, they use ES&S, Dominion and Hart systems. In Wisconsin they use Dominion, ES&S, Clear Ballot, and Sequoia. In Nevada, they use DVS and ES&S. In NC, they use ES&S, Hart and ClearBallot.

In other words, ES&S is used widely in EVERY swing state. It would not be necessary to learn how to manipulate tabulations for every vendor. If you learn how to do it for ES&S, then you simply have to select counties that use ES&S equipment. That would be easy.

And my point is that each component of the ES&S system could be tested extensively and work perfectly. You don't have to hack the machines. You just have to manipulate the data on the memory card, as long as there is no recount. Given the statement that Trump has made, the Governors of PA, WI, NC, and WI (all Democrats) should order audits of counties that use ES&S equipment. I don't know how long they are required to retain the paper ballots, but all you would need to do is find one memory card that differs significantly from the paper ballots and that is the smoking gun.

Some additional information on ES&S that helps give a more complete picture: https://www.dcreport.org/2020/12/31/ess-voting-systems-a-friend-to-republicans/