Election integrity flaws nationwide

In the last week before Election Day, obvious lapses in election integrity are becoming apparent in multiple States. These states are all under Democratic control, and that alone raises the question of conspiracy. But if that’s true, then the conspiracy has made at least one, possibly several, unforced errors of appalling significance. This should provide all the evidence necessary to mandate the obvious reform. Call it the French Reform.

Election integrity strike one: Michigan

Evidence of an election integrity violation first surfaced in Michigan, one of the three Rust Belt Swing States, last February. Patty McMurray at The Gateway Pundit reported that hundreds of voters voted twice or more under the same ID number. An organization called Check My Vote found the evidence. Typically a dishonest voter might vote absentee – then show up and vote in person. Michigan is a member of the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC), which Michigan’s Elections Bureau chief leads. None of the vaunted safeguards stopped this activity.

In your editor’s Virginia jurisdiction, no voter, having been issued an absentee ballot, could vote a regular ballot unless he surrendered that absentee ballot unopened. He might vote a provisional ballot, in which case his unit Board of Elections would sort it out. (Virginia recognizes two kinds of “units”: counties and independent cities.) Obviously those safeguards are either not in place or are subject to manipulation.

Ms. McMurray reported again, on October 4, that the voters identified as voting twice, might not be at actual fault. Rather, someone manipulated voting histories to hide fraudulent ballots. That someone would have to have access, and only one person could have the required access: Jocelyn Benson, Michigan’s Secretary of State.

Does the Trump campaign know?

It gets worse. Yesterday McMurray reported an analysis showing that 82,674 voters are listed as casting 208,075 ballots. That’s 125,428 duplicate votes cast. Did those voters vote twice – or three times? Answer: no. The Secretary of State manipulated the data. That, from Jim Hoft, TGP editor-in-chief.

Rasmussen Reports shared a screencap. In their example, one person – from Detroit – has already voted twenty-nine times, each from a different address. Why is one person even registered at more than one address?

Apparently Lara Trump believes this was a mere “glitch” and that no one will count so many duplicate votes.

Jim Hoft is not so sure, and says so in his article.

Election integrity strike two: Colorado – who leaked the passwords?

Colorado has a worse problem. The scanner-tabulator passwords from 63 of 64 counties are now compromised. Brian Lupo of TGP reported that yesterday. Colorado is also where former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters is sentenced to nine years in prison for making a copy of voting-machine code before a “Trusted Build” could be completed. Now comes word that the Basic Input-Output System (BIOS) passwords for the machines are compromised. Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold shared these passwords to her website in a publicly accessible file.

And the name of the voting-machine vendor? Dominion Voting Systems. Lupo reported, back in July, that Dominion’s ImageCast scanner-tabulator has Wi-Fi capability. Precinct chiefs are supposed to ensure that WiFi is disabled during an election. This begs the obvious question: why build a scanner-tabulator with WiFi capability?

Ironically this information came out at Tina Peters’ trial.

Details also come from the Colorado Republican Party, who alleged that Secretary Griswold exposed those passwords back in August.

Secretary Griswold appeared on a local television station, where the anchor came just shy of demanding her resignation over this. The anchor, Kyle Clark, reported today that Griswold knew for months that the passwords were exposed. She took steps only after the Colorado Republican Party publicized the security breach.

Jim Hoft shared that detail, and a review.

Dominion Ballot Marking Devices insist on straight tickets

The independent newsletter National Pulse reported on another problem this cycle with Dominion machines. The information also came out of Michigan – and Secretary of State Benson admitted it. Dominion’s Ballot Marking Device for handicapped voters (the ICX Voter Assist Terminal) “has an issue” with producing a ballot for a split ticket. A voter might indicate a vote for the Harris-Walz ticket but a Republican running for Congress – and the ICX apparently “insists” that the voter vote straight Republican or straight Democrat – not split. Benson asserted that this problem does not limit itself to Michigan. Other senior election officials across the country, who use Dominion machines, report the same problem.

Secretary Benson made this statement:

Yeah, this is a nationwide issue with Dominion voter access terminals in, in the counties that use them in the voter access terminals. Of course, not all the machines, just the ones that are [handicap] accessible, have an issue. With the straight-party voting and a programming issue, that’s again affected the machines nationwide. Jocelyn Benson, Michigan Secretary of State

Robby Starbuck carried her interview with Station WLNS-TV (Channel 6, Lansing, Mich.):

Benson also confessed that they cannot repair those machines in time. So any disabled voter who wants to vote a split ticket must do so manually.

Election Systems and Software’s ExpressVote BMD never has this issue. In your editor’s jurisdiction, only handicapped voters use the ExpressVote machine. Other voters mark an Australian-style ballot by darkening ovals. Voting a split ticket never presents a problem.

Election integrity strike three: Washington State

In the final election integrity strike, a voter in King County, Washington (seated in Seattle) received sixteen ballots, addressed to persons other than herself, at her new apartment. Jim Hoft reported this, and based it on reports from television stations KING-TV (Channel 5) and KIRO-TV (Channel 7). Jami Visaya, moving into her new apartment, first received nine ballots in the mail, and tried to return them to the post office for forwarding. Several days later, seven more ballots arrived. The addressees had (Asian) Indian or Middle Eastern-sounding names.

At first, Kendall Hodson, Chief of Staff of the King County Elections Office, suggested each ballot had gone to a previous tenant at the address. Wrong! The building managers confirmed that no one had lived in that apartment for months before Jami Visaya took the keys. Tellingly, those ballots are the only mailpieces that could possibly have been intended for any previous tenants. In other words, Visaya never received utility bills, private correspondence, or “junk mail” addressed to these addressees.

Washington is one of three States where someone recently threw firebombs into ballot drop boxes. (The other two are Arizona and Oregon.) Police in Phoenix, Arizona, arrested a homeless man whom they seem to regard as a simple “firebug.” But a YouTube influencer reported that incendiary devices, recovered from at least one drop box, bore legends like “Free Gaza.” That suggests a political motive connected to the Fourth Arab-Israeli War.

Summary

The Election of 2020 demonstrated the importance of election integrity as no election has done before or since. CNAV has no doubt that the Democratic Party – or rather, their Deep State and Institutional Investor Axis masters – used every possible means to defraud Donald J. Trump of victory. These means likely included hidden functions on electronic voting machines – or reprogramming them with intent to defraud. But by far the most powerful means involved mail-in absentee ballots and unattended – and unwatched – drop boxes.

The past few weeks has seen evidence that Democratic Party-controlled State and local election officials don’t care about election integrity. They permit voters to vote twice – thrice – up to twenty-nine times, each from a different address. When fraudsters register sixteen people at one address, no one checks to find that. Only when an apartment ceases to be vacant does anyone know what is happening. Other officials expose passwords for electronic voting machines, allowing unauthorized reprogramming.

The misprogramming of potentially every Dominion handicap-accessible BMD in the country to mandate straight tickets is a minor mystery. What any conspirator could hope to gain by that, is unclear. One would expect a conspirator to program a BMD to accept Democratic straight tickets only.

Recommendations

To recommend using any vendor other than Dominion would be too easy. ES&S’s ExpressVote is also subject to misprogramming – as famously happened in Northampton County, Pennsylvania last year. That problem traced to Northampton County election officials reversing the names for a judicial retention election. Robby Starbuck, who shared the interview with Michigan Secretary Benson, recommended avoiding electronic voting machines altogether.

That, of course, is not the only problem. Mail-in ballots make voting fraud ridiculously easy. The examples of this month reveal two kinds: one voter using multiple addresses, and multiple voters using the same address.

France abolished mail-in ballots in 1975, perhaps for that precise reason. In France, if one can’t make it to the polls on Election Day, one designates a proxy. France also uses paper ballots – individual ballots, making ballot counting fast and efficient. They can have results within twenty-four hours – and probably save a lot of francs by not having to store, secure, or maintain electronic voting machines.

So the French system – with modifications to allow for write-in ballots – would be the best election integrity solution for America. Incidents like these, illustrate the need for it. If even one State would allow its local units to install such a system, it could then become a model for all others to follow. Election integrity would improve, and voters could regain confidence in the fairness of elections.