Where do you keep your absentee ballots?
Posted on 03/24/2021 7:22:59 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A veteran Democratic operative intricately involved in Green Bay’s November election was given access to “hidden” identifiers for the internet network at the hotel convention center where ballots were counted, according to emails obtained by Wisconsin Spotlight.
Green Bay city officials insist the presidential election was “administered exclusively by city staff.” But the emails show that Michael Spitzer-Rubenstein, Wisconsin state lead for the National Vote at Home Institute, had a troubling amount of contact with election administration Nov. 4.
“I’ll have my team create two separate SSID’s for you,” Trent Jameson, director of event technology at Green Bay’s Hyatt Regency and KI Convention Center, where the city’s Central Count was located on Election Day, wrote to Spitzer-Rubenstein.
SSID stands for Service Set Identifier. It’s an internet network’s name. Open up the list of Wi-Fi networks on your laptop or phone, and the list of SSIDs will pop up. Wireless router or access points broadcast SSIDs so nearby devices can find and display any available networks.
Hiding the identifier keeps the network name from being publicly broadcast. The identifier won’t immediately pop up in the display, although the network name remains available for use.
“One SSID will be hidden and it’s: 2020vote. There will be no password or splash page for this one and it should only be used for the sensitive machines that need to be connected to the internet,” Jameson wrote in his Oct. 27 email to Spitzer-Rubenstein.
Spitzer-Rubenstein in turn forwarded the email Oct. 30 to Celestine Jeffreys, Green Bay Mayor Eric Genrich’s chief of staff.
Also on the email were Amaad Rivera-Wagner, the mayor’s community liaison; Jaime Fuge, Green Bay’s chief election inspector at the time; Shelby Edlebeck, multimedia communications specialist; and Mike Hronek, the city’s information technology administrator.
“The other SSID will be: gbvote and that one can be seen in the settings app of your phone or laptop under ‘networks’ and should be used for the poll workers who need internet,” Jameson wrote in the email to Spitzer-Rubenstein.
Jameson told Spitzer-Rubenstein there would be a third identifier, which was to be used by media or other guests “not part of your team.”
Why would a guy who has been described as a consultant or adviser to the city need to have hidden SSIDs? Why would the city want him to have knowledge of Service Set Identifers for “sensitive machines”?
Spitzer-Rubenstein was brought in to provide technical support, but why would he receive such sensitive information before the city’s IT director and the clerk’s office did?
Genrich, Green Bay’s mayor, did not return Wisconsin Spotlight’s call seeking comment.
In final official results in Wisconsin, Democrat nominee Joe Biden defeated President Donald Trump by 49.6% to 48.9% of the vote, flipping a state with 10 electoral votes that Trump won in 2016.
As Wisconsin Spotlight first reported, Spitzer-Rubenstein and his National Vote at Home Institute were involved heavily in Green Bay’s election process.
The National Vote at Home Institute is one of several private, left-leaning groups funded largely by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
Spitzer-Rubenstein, with an impressive political resume of working for Democratic politicians and campaigns, had significant influence over the administration of the presidential election in Green Bay and, it appears, in Milwaukee as well.
The Chicago-based Center for Tech and Civic Life received hundreds of millions of dollars in funding from Zuckerberg and his wife, money they pumped out in big grants to cities in the name of “safe elections.”
Spitzer-Rubenstein appears to have played point man for the coordinated effort among the “Wisconsin 5” cities: Milwaukee, Madison, Green Bay, Kenosha, and Racine—which received a combined $6.3 million in Zuckerberg money.
Emails show Spitzer-Rubenstein offered to correct or “cure” ballots in Green Bay, and he told the city clerk that he had come up with a similar process for Milwaukee.
And despite the city’s assertions that Spitzer-Rubenstein did not have the keys to the KI Center where absentee ballots were, a hotel contract obtained by Wisconsin Spotlight shows the keys were to be delivered to the Democratic operative.
“Michael Spitzer-Rubenstein will be the onsite contact for the group,” the hotel’s instructions state.
Emails show him inside the KI Center asking city officials about where ballots would be located.
“Are the ballots going to be in trays/boxes within the bin? I’m at KI now, trying to figure out whether we’ll need to move the bins throughout the day or if we can just stick them along the wall and use trays or something similar to move the ballots between stations,” Spitzer-Rubenstein wrote to city officials two days before the election.
There’s more.
Sandy Juno, former Brown County clerk who has accused Green Bay of going “rogue” in its handling of the election, said she found use of the secretive internet access points “unusual.”
Spitzer-Rubenstein is shown in photos working on a laptop by a printer at Central Count on election night.
“I’m not sure what the need was for all of those different [Service Set] IDs, but the one that bothered me most was for the ‘sensitive machines,’” Juno said.
Sorry, forgot to provide the link. This article is from THE DAILY SIGNAL. LINK TO ARTICLE HERE:
I sure hope this situation keeps getting daylight! Absolutely illegal, disgusting and flat out CHEATING!
Where do you keep your absentee ballots?
But but but, there’s no evidence of fraud. The FBI told me so!
They also told me that nice Syrian boy in Boulder was no threat to anyone.
This report needs to go out to every newspaper in Wisconsin.
Find list here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspapers_in_Wisconsin
Well, isn't that special?
This is like watching Eliot Ness and The Untouchables! These scum stole the nation on November 3rd, 4th and beyond. They did this just like the mob in the days of old back in the ‘30s. They all have names and addresses. They all received the prize together - President Harris and Joke Biden her mentor. They committed FELONIES and should be sent to prison for a long time after a fair trial. Wisconsin, Arizona, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Georgia all need a 100% audit of the machines/ballots. This is war against the socialists.
So they put their “sensitive machines” on an open, unsecure wireless connection that anyone with a free wireless sniffer could find. Great election security.
I believe that this email is sufficient evidence for an arrest warrant on grounds of conspiracy to commit fraud (election fraud).
I also believe that nothing will come of it. No conviction, no warrant, no charges, no arrest, not even an investigation in to election fraud.
How reliable is the Daily Signal? More or less than Sidney Powell or Lin Wood?
SCOTUS Set To Rule If States Can Protect The Integrity Of Their Votes: Efforts of state legislatures to enact new voting protections are in jeopardy if SCOTUS fails to overturn the latest 9th Circuit decision.
The Federalist | 03/24/2021 | Michael J. O’Neill
Posted on 3/24/2021, 11:06:24 AM by SeekAndFind
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3944801/posts
“One SSID will be hidden and it’s: 2020vote. There will be no password or splash page for this one and it should only be used for the sensitive machines that need to be connected to the internet,” Jameson wrote in his Oct. 27 email to Spitzer-Rubenstein.
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But but voting machines, we were assured after the election, do not connect to the interweb ...
Ping
And how easy it is to tether to cell phone internet.
I agree. It ain’t over ‘til it’s over!
The ‘hidden’ SSIDs can be found, as well as devices connected to them, but it requires more than just an ordinary phone setup. Not usually available unless you are hunting for them, or trying to compromise them.
Even hiding it, it should have a password to be secured. This just protects against the most casual of intruders.
A government organization, even a local one, should never operate this way with ‘sensitive machines’ on the network. This is more like an open guest network with reserved bandwidth to reduce competition for that bandwidth.
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