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New Testimony Confirms Ballot Tampering in Maricopa’s 2022 Election
Uncover D.C. ^ | April 3, 2023 | By Wendi Strauch Mahoney

Posted on 04/03/2023 9:36:05 AM PDT by Red Badger

New testimony from Bob Hughes confirms ballot tampering in Maricopa County’s 2022 election. Hughes states in his affidavit that “an intentional change was made to the printers affecting the DAY OF Election ballots” in the 2022 Maricopa County midterm election. Hughes’ affidavit in Exhibit K of a newly filed Motion to Reconsider in Mark Finchem’s dismissed 2022 election lawsuit confirms previous testimony from Clay Parikh. Parikh was one of several expert witnesses in the Kari Lake lawsuit.

Parikh testified there are “only two ways the printing of a 19-inch image on a 20-inch paper happened, and they are both intentional. He explained, “One way is by changing the printer adjustments. That would make the printer adjustments, and settings override the image file that was set. The other is from the application side or the operating system side.”

Hughes has 50 years of experience in the printing industry—16 of which have been in “printing ballots for Maricopa County Elections,” according to his affidavit. He also helped “establish the auditing criteria for the printing and paper portion of the 2020 Maricopa County ballot audit and helped select and set up the equipment used during the audit to do the ballot counting.”

On Mar. 6, 2023, he and his team reviewed the Logic and Accuracy reports (L&A) for the 2022 Maricopa County Election. Hughes and his team “physically inspected the ballots at MCTEC that were used in the testing of the election tabulators.” They also reviewed each of the Maricopa County Voting Center certification reports and the Tabulator reports that were “printed during their testing.” His affidavit clarifies explicitly that “[t]he most important and notable finding is that every machine and every voting center report show that every test was passed without any failures.”

Personalized ballots were required in the Maricopa County election because of various local elections, such as school district races. Therefore “ballot styles” are created for each precinct and “are prepared for each election at MCTEC,” not at the Voting Centers. When a voter arrives at a Voting Center, his identity is verified by the poll worker. The poll worker then uses the County’s e-poll book system to “verify they have not returned a mail-in ballot.” However, on election day, mail-in ballots were also turned in to the Voting Centers, and thus, the e-poll book may not be up-to-date on the status of a given voter’s mail-in ballot.

Contrary to what many want us to believe, Hughes testified that the equipment to carry out the voter verification process and the printing of ballots “need to be networked and online at the same time.”

Bob Hughes Declaration/03-29-2023

Additionally, and very importantly, is that “ballot STYLES” are “stored PDFs.” They are “locked style formats that cannot be revised on the fly,” according to Hughes. They are “built ahead of each election and stored.” As such, Hughes confidently asserts that the 19-inch format seen in the 2022 Maricopa County election “was incorrectly used by mistake.” Furthermore, Hughes “was told” during his team’s review at MCTEC that “only 20-inch formats were created and no 19-inch formats were created for the 2022 election.” The use of the 19-inch ballot was NOT accidental, according to Hughes. He posits the 19-inch ballots either represent “interference…from someone at MCTEC” or “someone hacking into the MCTEC system.”

Bob Hughes Affidavit/Exhibit K/Finchem Motion to Reconsider

Logically, Hughes concludes that the shenanigans must have been introduced after testing because the “L&A tests showed no errors.” And, since poll workers have no access to the printer command module, the “interference had to come through the online E-poll book and then to the printers.” Many printers at multiple locations—with a “high correlation of those within Republican precincts,” leaving Hughes with the impression it was “not happenstance but an orchestrated attack on the election.”

Hughes speculates there are a number of ways ballots came to be unreadable because of the “larger margin at the top and the bottom of the page,” as captured in the screenshot below,

Bob Hughes/Exhibit K/Finchem Motion to Reconsider/ Why the margins?

L & A testing is performed before election day with a test set of ballots. The tests are required to “perform at 100% accuracy rate,” according to Hughes. Hughes was told the Oct. 11 test decks were printed at MCTEC. However, Hughes concludes that “DAY OF Election test decks were printed at each voting center” because of several “clear factors.”

Bob Hughes Affidavit/Finchem Motion to Reconsider

This assumption led Hughes to conclude that an “intentional change was made to the printers” for Election Day ballots leading to what he believed was “a perfect opportunity for interference in the election.”

Bob Hughes/Affidavit/Exhibit K/Finchem Motion to Reconsider


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Conspiracy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: arizona; az; electionfraud; voterfraud

1 posted on 04/03/2023 9:36:05 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Shortcut this for me. What actual votes were changed or not counted?


2 posted on 04/03/2023 9:43:22 AM PDT by Fido969 (45 is Superman! )
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To: Red Badger

When is Bob Hughes going to “unexpectedly commit suicide,” I wonder?


3 posted on 04/03/2023 9:44:30 AM PDT by fwdude (Society has been fully polarized now, and you have to decide on which pole you want to be found.)
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To: Fido969

Whatever, nothing will change anything.


4 posted on 04/03/2023 9:45:18 AM PDT by bgill
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To: Red Badger

There was a picture of the counting center with Hobbs, a candidate, leading the election workers after removing the GOP observers, that bothered me at the time. Then I seem to remember a video where she states she is staying behind to do something and everyone else left her alone for the nite. Pretty sure the GBI has cleaned that up since then.


5 posted on 04/03/2023 10:00:13 AM PDT by RideForever (Damn, another dangling par .....)
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To: Fido969

Someone messed with the printers after pre-election testing. Ballots were printed the wrong size (19”) for the scanning machines to count. This happened almost exclusively in republican counties.


6 posted on 04/03/2023 10:06:06 AM PDT by shoff (Vote Democrat it beats thinking!)
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To: Red Badger

The fraud is much worse in New York, New Jersey. Pennsylvania, Michigan, Illinois, Nevada, and California.Georgia and Wisconsin bad as well with Democratic control of Milwaukee and Atlanta. This fraud is a massive violation of the nation’s civil rights and is rotting the American nation. If decent, rational people ever manage to reassert control of the Department of Justice and law enforcement, this systemic fraud must be stopped to save the American nation.


7 posted on 04/03/2023 10:08:16 AM PDT by allendale
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To: Fido969
Shortcut this for me. What actual votes were changed or not counted?

Indeterminable, which fails the election audit test, and should render the election unlawful for violating state election law. How do you capture a 'lost' vote from a discouraged voter who didn't bother to see if their ballot in 'Drawer 3' was ever counted due to the actions mentioned in the article.

8 posted on 04/03/2023 10:10:29 AM PDT by RideForever (Damn, another dangling par .....)
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To: Red Badger

Too complicated and too much speculation. Nothing here will change the outcome.


9 posted on 04/03/2023 10:15:19 AM PDT by newzjunkey (We need a better Trump than Trump in 2024)
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To: Red Badger

Katie Hobbs-”I won”.


10 posted on 04/03/2023 10:26:35 AM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: allendale

After the thieves steal the vehicle they torch it. We are in the disposition of the charred wreck stage at this point.


11 posted on 04/03/2023 10:29:53 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Rufus T Firefly lives on. )
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To: fwdude
Naw, don't need to do that no more.

"Died unexpectedly is one of the effects of the vaxx.

So many "features", it just keeps getting better. (Oh, I almost forgot.../sarc)

12 posted on 04/03/2023 1:11:54 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: RideForever
Pretty sure the GBI has cleaned that up since then.

The GBI? In Arizona?

13 posted on 04/03/2023 1:16:34 PM PDT by semimojo
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To: semimojo
The GBI? In Arizona?

Getting to be a perpetual peeve of mine ... AZ, GA, PA among 5 states caught cheating in election, + 7 decades old mind trying to keep track.

14 posted on 04/03/2023 8:45:19 PM PDT by RideForever (Damn, another dangling par .....)
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