Posted on 11/09/2020 2:44:54 PM PST by bitt
Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is highlighting the difficulties faced by Gwinnett County elections workers due to short-sighted activist lawsuits. As a result of a lawsuit filed by the Democratic Party of Georgia, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Gwinnett County voters will receive absentee ballots more slowly than voters in the rest of Georgia.
“This is why elections administration 101 is to not change the rules in the middle of the game,” said Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. “Georgia’s elections staff and poll workers have a large enough task ahead of them executing an election during a pandemic without shortsighted and uniformed activist lawsuits burdening them with impractical bureaucratic hurdles. These activists opened Pandora’s Box with their frivolous lawsuits, demanding what they characterize as small changes that in reality have damaging and far-reaching consequences.”
Earlier this year, the Democratic Party of Georgia, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee filed a lawsuit to increase the size of the font on the outside of the envelopes containing absentee ballots in Gwinnett County. The new return envelopes measure 6.5 inches by 11 inches. For comparison, standard size printer paper is 8.5 inches by 11 inches. Note that the only difference is the size of the envelope. The size of the ballot inside remains unchanged.
The bulky and abnormal size of the envelopes has slowed down processing of those ballots beyond what the rest of Georgia voters are experiencing.
Because neither the county nor most elections vendors are capable of processing, printing and stuffing such unusually sized envelopes, Gwinnett County has turned to a vendor in Albany, New York.
Due to the unusual envelope size demanded in the activist lawsuit, Gwinnett County’s vendor has only been able to mail 50% of the 120,000 requested absentee ballots in the county so far. By contrast, the state’s mail vendor has sent over 1 million absentee ballots, and county election officials have already received and accepted 130,000 statewide.
While the Secretary of State’s office was able to cover the cost and coordinate the logistics of processing any absentee ballots requests submitted by Georgia’s other 158 counties before September 8th through the state’s vendor, Runbeck Election Services, the activist lawsuit forced Gwinnett County to organize absentee ballot mailings with its own outside vendor.
More than 100 counties have opted to continue coordinating absentee ballot processing through the Secretary of State’s mail vendor, until a few weeks before the election. Because election rules were changed due to this short-sighted activist lawsuit, Gwinnett cannot participate in the joint effort.
“These activists keep breaking the system with frivolous lawsuits and overwhelming county elections officials who can’t keep up with the never-ending policy churn, then blame those same workers when the system they broke fails,” said Raffensperger.
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Did the State Legislature Authorize this by CHANGING the Law??
Thats what I thought, Impeach the Judge and SIEZE His Assets to pay for HIS Decision.
Sheesh. You can see the Dems had their plans in place and coordinated a long time in advance.
The whole purpose was to turn the election process itself into chaos, which in turn would make their cheating certainly difficult to prevent and hard to identify. And they had the help of the courts in doing it.
If the state legislature did write an obscure, late law that required one county to use such strange dimensions and fonts on absentee-ballot return envelopes, then the Republicans need to quit the self-sabotage now, or else they will lose office forever.
I would still like to know why this sos keeps telling us there was no irregularities or fraud when the GA GOP counters were sent home at 10:30 on election night and the count kept happening in Fulton County.
Trump had an 8+ lead at that point, down to 2.5 the next morning.
It was 100-200k votes!
Also, the problems with Dominion was well known long before the elections and much bigger than the county in Georgia:
Early in 2020, Dems held a hearing with 3 major private election vendors, including DOMINION VOTING SYSTEMS. The Dem. Chair revealed voting components from China, widespread Internet & hacking vulnerability & WORSE. https://twitter.com/kylenabecker/status/1324951251294040064?s=20
Texas tested and shot down Dominion machines three times, twice in 2019 https://www.sos.texas.gov/elections/laws/dominion.shtml
6 pdf reports from the people that tested Dominion machines in most recent try https://www.sos.texas.gov/elections/laws/oct2019-dominion.shtml
One of the complaints was that they could be connected to an external network aka the Internet.
SCYTL owns the servers that Dominion uses; our votes go to a database in Germany https://twitter.com/AndreasSchub/status/1325347577085177857
Analysis of SCYTL here: https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3903686/posts
America’s new voting machines bring new fears of election tampering https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/apr/22/us-voting-machines-paper-ballots-2020-hacking
Alleges voter fraud involving Scytl in 2018 in Texas that the FBI refused to look at. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1325203412716154882.html Expert examination of the computer logs revealed that thousands of error codes for “Time stamp mismatch” and Votes exceed ballots” were overridden by the ES&S technician. ETC.
April 1
Voting Machine Firms Add Lobbyists Amid Election Hacker Concerns
April 1, 2019 12:00 AM By Megan R. Wilson and Michaela
Pelosi’s ex-chief of staff represents No. 2 manufacturer
Voting machine manufacturers are increasing their Capitol Hill presence as lawmakers demand they do more to protect U.S. elections against foreign hackers. Dominion Voting Systems — which commands more than a third of the voting-machine market without having Washington lobbyists — has hired its first, a high-powered firm that includes a longtime aide to Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
https://about.bgov.com/news/voting-machine-firms-add-lobbyists-amid-election-hacker-concerns/
April 16, 2020:
Former White House Cybersecurity Coordinator, Michael Daniel, notes in the film that voting machine companies generally are not known for cybersecurity expertise. Jake Stauffer, a former cyber analyst for the Air Force who has tested ES&S and Dominion voting systems for the state of California observed that:
What I have found, especially in the voting system arena, is that security is not really taken very seriously.
Jake Stauffer, former cyber analyst for the Air Force who tested ES&S and Dominion voting machines.
When Stauffer tested ES&S’s DS200 machine, they found multiple vulnerabilities that would enable an attacker to gain full access to the system, change configurations, and install a modified operating system without election officials knowing. Stauffer states that the vulnerabilities would enable a hacker to gain the highest level of privilege and gain remote access into the system and do whatever they wanted to do, “whether its change an election or shut the system down.”
October 8:
ATLANTA — With the start of early voting less than a week away and a software update being installed to address a glitch in Georgia’s voting machines, a federal judge was still considering a request by voting integrity activists to sideline the new touchscreen voting machines in favor of hand-marked paper ballots for the November general election.
US District Judge Amy Totenberg is presiding over a long-running lawsuit challenging the election system the state bought last year from Dominion Voting Systems for more than $100 million. The activists argue the system places an unconstitutional burden on the right to vote because voters cannot be confident their votes are accurately counted. A bug in the touchscreen machines and a hasty software updates underscore that the machines aren’t ready for use, they say.
https://archive.is/zWa2I
11/5
Cybersecurity expert (Russell Ramsland from Dallas) explains how the vote tabulation software for most states is easily hacked and the counts are easily changed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ficae6x1Q5A&feature=youtu.be&t=185
11/7
Dominion software screenshots from someone able to access the system
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1325129915709104129.html
More Troubling Questions Raised About Election System Used in Contested Races In Swing States
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2020/11/07/276464-n276464
Well, just damn.
Yep.
GA GOP Chairman just now, reiterating his statement last Wednesday
David Shafer
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Let me repeat. Fulton County elections officials told the media and our observers that they were shutting down the tabulation center at State Farm Arena at 10:30 p.m. on election night only to continue counting ballots in secret until 1:00 a.m
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No one disputes that Fulton County elections officials falsely announced that the counting of ballots would stop at 10:30 p.m. No one disputes that Fulton County elected officials unlawfully resumed the counting of ballots after our observers left the center.
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How did the Democrat Party of Georgia get a list of ALL the contested ballots that voted for Democrats and their vote was not cured?
Well, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, lawsuits do not determine electoral policies in a state - the state legislature does according to the U.S. Constitution. Perhaps you should employ a competent attorney.
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