More Michigan:
6. Unlawful Ballot Duplication.
77. If a ballot is rejected by a ballot-tabulator machine and cannot be read by the
machine, the ballot must be duplicated onto a new ballot. The Michigan Secretary of State has
instructed, “If the rejection is due to a false read the ballot must be duplicatedby two election
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inspectors who have expressed a preference for different political parties.” Michigan Election
Officials’ Manual, ch. 8, p. 6 (emphasis added). Thus, the ballot-duplicating process must be
performed by bipartisan teams of election officials. It must also be performed where it can be
observed bychallengers.
78. But Wayne County prevented many challengers from observing the ballot
duplicating process. Id. (Miller aff. ¶¶6-8; Steffans aff. ¶¶15-16, 23-24;
Mandelbaumaff.¶6;Shereraff.¶¶16-
17;Burtonaff.¶7;Drzewieckiaff.¶7;Klameraff.¶9;Chopjianaff.¶10;Schmidtaff.¶7;Champagneaff.¶
12;Shinkleaff.,p.1).Challenger John Miller said he was not allowed to observe election workers
duplicating a ballot
becausethe“duplicationprocesswaspersonallikevoting.”Id.(Milleraff.¶8).Challenger Mary Shinkle
stated that she was told by an election worker that she was not allowed to
observeaballotduplicationbecause“ifwemakeamistakethenyouwouldbealloverus.” Id. (Shinkle
aff., p. 1).Anotherchallengerobservedelectionofficialsmakingmistakeswhen duplicating ballots.
Id. (Piontek aff. ¶9).
79. Many challengers testified that ballot duplication was performed only by
Democratic election workers, not bipartisan teams. Exhibit 1 (Pettibone aff. ¶3; Kinney
aff.,p.1;Wasilewskiaff.,p.1;Schornakaff.¶¶18-19;Dixonaff.,p.1;Kolanagireddyaff.,p. 1;
Kordenbrock aff. ¶¶3-4; Seidl aff., p. 1; Kerstein aff. ¶4; Harris aff. ¶3; Sitek aff. ¶4).
MOAR Michigan:
1. Election Workers Fraudulently Added “Tens of Thousands” of New
Ballots and New Voters in the Early Morning and Evening
November 4.
83. The most egregious example of election workers fraudulent and illegal behavior
concerns two batches of new ballots brought to the TCF Center after the 8:00 PM Election Day
deadline. First, at approximately 4:30 AM on November 4, 2020, poll challenger Andrew Sitto
observed “tens of thousands of new ballots” being brought into the counting room, and “[u]nlike
the other ballots, these boxes were brought in from the rear of the room.” Exh. 4, GLJC
Complaint, Exh. C at ¶ 10. Mr. Sitto heard other Republican challengers state that “several
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vehicles with out-of-state license plates pulled up to the TCF Center a little before 4:30 a.m. and
unloaded boxes of ballots.” Id. at ¶ 11. “All ballots sampled that I heard and observed were for
Joe Biden.” Id. at ¶ 12.
84. A second set of new boxes of ballots arrived at the TCF Center around 9:00 PM
on November 4, 2020. According to poll watcher Robert Cushman, contained “several thousand
new ballots.” Exh. 4, GLJC Complaint, Exh. D at ¶ 5. Mr. Cushman noted that “none of the
names on the new ballots were on the QVF or the Supplemental Sheets,” id. at ¶ 7, and he
observed “computer operators at several counting boards manually adding the names and
addresses of these thousands of ballots to the QVF system.” Id. at ¶ 8. Further, “[e]very ballot
was being fraudulently and manually entered into the [QVF], as having been born on January 1,
1990.” Id. at ¶ 15. When Mr. Cushman challenged the validity of the votes and the
impossibility of each ballot having the same birthday, he “was told that this was the instruction
that came down from the Wayne County Clerk’s office.” Id. at ¶ 16.
85. Perhaps the most probative evidence comes from Melissa Carone, who was
“contracted to do IT work at the TCF Center for the November 3, 2020 election.” Exh. 5, ¶1.
On November 4, Ms. Carrone testified that there were “two vans that pulled into the garage of
the counting room, one on day shift and one on night shift.” Id. ¶8. She thought that the vans
were bring food, however, she “never saw any food coming out of these vans,” and noted the
coincidence that “Michigan had discovered over 100,000 more ballots – not even two hours after
the last van left.” Id. Ms. Carrone witnessed this of this illegal vote dump, as well as several
other violations outlined below.
Pure Michigan:
2. Election Workers Forged and Fraudulently Added Voters to the
Qualified Voter List.
86. Many challengers reported that when a voter was not in the poll book, the election
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officials would enter a new record for that voter with a birth date of January 1, 1900. Exhibit 1
(Gaicobazzi aff. ¶10; Piontek aff. ¶10; Cizmer aff. ¶8(F); Wirsing aff., p. 1; Cassin aff. ¶9;
Langer aff. ¶3; Harris aff. ¶3; Brigmon aff. ¶5; Sherer aff. ¶¶10-11; Henderson aff. ¶9; Early ¶16;
Klamer aff. ¶13; Shock aff. ¶8; M. Seely aff. ¶9). See also id. (Gorman aff. ¶¶23-26; Chopjian
aff. ¶12; Ungar aff. ¶15; Valden aff. ¶17). Braden Gaicobazzi reported that a stack of thirty-five
ballots was counted even though there was no voter record. Id. (Giacobazzi aff.¶10).
87. The GLJC Complaint alleges the Detroit Election Commission “systematically
processed and counted ballots from voters whose name failed to appear in either the Qualified
Voter File (QVF) or in the supplemental sheets.” Exh. 3, GLJC Complaintat 3. The GLJC
Complaint provides additional witness affidavits detailing the fraudulent conduct of election
workers, in particular, that of Zachary Larsen, who served as a Michigan Assistant Attorney
General from 2012 through 2020 and was a certified poll challenger at the TCF Center. “Mr.
Larsen reviewed the running list of scanned in ballots in the computer system, where it appeared
that the voter had already been counted as having voted. An official operating the computer then
appeared to assign this ballot to a different voter as he observed a completely different name that
was added to the list of voters at the bottom of a running tab of processed ballots on the right side
of the screen.” Id. at ¶ 16. Mr. Larsen observed this “practice of assigning names and numbers”
to non-eligible voters who did not appear in either the poll book or the supplement poll book. Id.
at ¶ 17. Moreover, this appeared to be the case for the majority of the voters whose ballots he
personally observed being scanned. Id.
Pre-postmarking absentee ballots in Michigan
3. Changing Dates on Absentee Ballots.
88. All absentee ballots that existed were required to be inputted into the QVF system
by 9:00 p.m. on November 3, 2020. This was required to be done in order to have a final list of
absentee voters who returned their ballots prior to 8:00 p.m. on November 3, 2020. In order to
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have enough time to process the absentee ballots, all polling locations were instructed to collect
the absentee ballots from the drop-box once every hour on November 3, 2020.
89. Jessica Connarn is an attorney who was acting as a Republican challenger
attheTCFCenterinWayneCounty.EXHIBIT6.JessicaConnarn’saffidavitdescribeshow
anelectionpollworkertoldJessicaConnarnthatthepollworker“wasbeingtoldtochange the date on
ballots to reflect that the ballots were received on an earlier date.” Id. ¶1. Jessica Connarn also
provided a photograph of a note handed to her by the poll worker in which the poll worker
indicated she (the poll worker) was instructed to change the date ballots were received. See id.
Jessica Connarn’s affidavit demonstrates that poll workers inWayneCountywerepredatingabsentvoterballots,sothatabsentvoterballotsreceived after 8:00 p.m. on Election Day could
be counted.
90. Plaintiffs have learned of a United States Postal Service (“USPS”) worker
Whistleblower, on November 4, 2020 told Project Veritas that a supervisor named Johnathan
Clarke in Traverse City, Michigan potentially issued a directive to collect ballots and stamp them
as received on November 3, 2020, even though there were not received timely, as required by
law: “We were issued a directive this morning to collect any ballots we find in mailboxes,
collection boxes, just outgoing mail in general, separate them at the end of the day so that they
could hand stamp them with the previous day’s date,” the whistleblower stated. “Today is
November 4th for clarification.”4
This is currently under IG Investigation at the U.S. Post
Office. According to the Postal worker whistleblower, the ballots are in “express bags” so they
could be sent to the USPS distribution center. Id.
91. As set forth in the GLJC Complaint and in the Affidavit of Jessy Jacob, an
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employee of the City of Detroit Elections Department, “on November 4, 2020, I was instructed
to improperly pre-date the absentee ballots receive date that were not in the QVF as if they
hadbeen received on or before November 3, 2020. I was told to alter the information in the QVF
to falselyshowthattheabsenteeballotshadbeenreceivedintimetobevalid.Sheestimatesthatthis was
done to thousands of ballots.” Exh. 4, GLJC Complaint, Exh. B at ¶ 17.
Michigan runs votes through the machines multiple times
2. Ineligible Ballots Were Counted – Some Multiple Times.
95. Challengersreportedthatbatchesofballotswererepeatedlyrunthroughthe vote
tabulation machines. Exh. 3 (Helminen aff. ¶4; Waskilewski aff., p. 1; Mandelbaum aff. ¶5; Rose
aff. ¶¶4-14; Sitek aff. ¶3; Posch aff. ¶8; Champagne aff. ¶8). Challenger Patricia Rose stated she
observed a stack of about fifty ballots being fed multiple times into a ballot scanner counting
machine. Id. (Rose aff. ¶¶4-14). ArticiaBomer further stated thatshe witnessed the same group of
ballots being rescanned into the counting machine “at least five times.” Id. ¶12. Dominion
contractor Melissa Carone observed that this was a routine practice at the TCF Center, where she
“witnessed countless workers rescanning the batches without discarding them first” – as required
under Michigan rules and Dominion’s procedures – “which resulted in ballots being counted 4-5
times” by the “countless” number of election workers. Carone aff. ¶3. When she observed that a
computer indicated that it had “a number of over 400 ballots scanned – which means one batch
[of 50] was counted over 8 times,” and complained to her Dominion supervisor, she was
informed that “we are here to do assist with IT work, not to run their election.” Id. at ¶4.