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Election Systems in Michigan County Appeared to Be Connected to Internet: Sworn Affidavit
Epoch Times ^ | November 9, 2020 | IVAN PENTCHOUKOV

Posted on 11/09/2020 1:13:23 PM PST by gattaca

Voting machines used in Michigan’s Wayne County appeared to have been connected to the internet, according to a sworn affidavit signed by a poll watcher.

At approximately 11 p.m. on Nov. 3, Patrick Colbeck observed an icon identifying an active internet connection on the screens of the computers used to tabulate and adjudicate ballots.

“All it takes to confirm the connectivity status of a Windows computer is to roll the cursor over the LAN connection icon in the bottom right comer of the display,” Colbeck’s sworn affidavit states. “When there is no internet connection, a unique icon showing a cross-hatched globe appears. I proceeded to review the terminal screens for the Tabulator and Adjudicator computers and I observed the icon that indicates internet connection on each terminal. Other poll challengers can attest to this observation as required.”

Colbeck, a poll challenger and former Michigan state senator, said that the area had wireless routers set up with networks called “CPSStaff” and “CPSStaff” broadcast in the area. He added that a security incident that occurred at 10 a.m. on Election Day may have been caused by the voting equipment being connected to the internet.

Colbeck’s affidavit is one of six sworn witness statements cited in a lawsuit (pdf) filed in Michigan on Nov. 9. The lawsuit alleges numerous instances of voter fraud. According to the court documents, after election officials announced that the last batch of absentee ballots had been received, trays of unsealed, unsecured ballots without envelopes arrived at the TCF Center.

michigan ballots Absentee ballots at the Central Counting Board sit on a desk as they wait to be processed in the TCF Center in Detroit, Mich., on Nov. 4, 2020. (Elaine Cromie/Getty Images) “There were tens of thousands of these absentee ballots, and apparently every ballot was counted and attributed only to Democratic candidates,” the lawsuit states. The ballots allegedly arrived in vehicles with out-of-state license plates, a separate sworn affidavit states.

Elections officials instructed poll workers to backdate ballots that arrived past the deadline, ignore signature mismatches, and push through ballots despite questionable validity, the lawsuit alleges.

“I processed absentee ballot packages to be sent to voters while I worked at the election headquarters in September 2020 along with 70-80 other poll workers,” Jessy Jacob, a Michigan poll worker wrote in a sworn affidavit. “I was instructed by my supervisor to adjust the mailing date of these absentee ballot packages to be dated earlier than they were actually sent. The supervisor was making announcements for all workers to engage in this practice.”

Voters who showed up at the polling site but could not be found on the voter files had ballots assigned to them from a random name on the qualified voter files, according to another sworn affidavit.

“The fraud and blatant disregard for chain of custody observed at the Detroit Absentee Voter Counting Board may be responsible for well over the 146,123 votes currently promoted by media outlets as the Biden margin of victory in Michigan, not to mention the margin in favor of Peters in the U.S. Senate Race,” Colbeck wrote in an email to The Epoch Times.

David Fink, the lead counsel for the defendants, called the allegations in the lawsuit baseless.

“Like two previous lawsuits, this case is not based upon actual evidence of any election fraud or misconduct. It is based upon various conspiracy theories, which have already been debunked. We are confident that this case, like the others filed last week, will be dismissed,” Fink said in a statement.

“There were more than 200 Republican challengers in the room at the TCF Center, but only five such people have come forward to support these claims, which actually tells us how well the process was run.”


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1 posted on 11/09/2020 1:13:23 PM PST by gattaca
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To: gattaca

Bttt.

5.56mm


2 posted on 11/09/2020 1:14:31 PM PST by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP! Finish THE WALL!)
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To: gattaca

Fraud or no fraud, infrastructure critical to the collection, tabulation, recording, or storing (at least until certified) ballots SHOULD NEVER be connected directly to the internet.

If this was not done for malicious reasons, it’s gross negligence at the very minimum.


3 posted on 11/09/2020 1:16:37 PM PST by z3n
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To: gattaca

This ties to this previous article:

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3903896/posts

Some 4chan hackers were able to access the Dominion backend and see that sites were connected via the internet across multiple ballot counting sites. I wasn’t able to follow the tech jargon very well, but they seem to indicate some code or setting that was blocking the tallying of Trump votes.


4 posted on 11/09/2020 1:21:35 PM PST by reegs
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To: gattaca

Hmmmmm, now how did that happen?


5 posted on 11/09/2020 1:23:09 PM PST by rdl6989
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To: Lazamataz

Ping.


6 posted on 11/09/2020 1:24:45 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: gattaca

Shouldnt it be fairly easy to check a computer to see if it was ‘online’. Not my area of expertise but seems like there are lots of IP/wifi fingerprints that get created.


7 posted on 11/09/2020 1:25:40 PM PST by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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To: gattaca

bttt


8 posted on 11/09/2020 1:27:51 PM PST by Pajamajan ( PRAY FOR OUR NATION. I will never be a peaceful slave to a Socialist new America.)
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To: z3n

I read today, I believe on this site, about 4 Chan saying this very thing


9 posted on 11/09/2020 1:32:37 PM PST by Osagegirl
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To: gattaca

I swear that it appeared to be.

Appeared? Appeared?

Wow.

Lots of things appear.

I need actualities.


10 posted on 11/09/2020 1:38:53 PM PST by FlipWilson
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To: reegs

God Bless the Autist army!
Dedicated and laser focused


11 posted on 11/09/2020 1:40:55 PM PST by silverleaf (Age Takes a Toll: Please Have Exact Change.)
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To: gattaca

The 4chan guys are saying the same thing and they’ve uncovered more details.


12 posted on 11/09/2020 1:43:26 PM PST by FLT-bird
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To: gattaca
“All it takes to confirm the connectivity status of a Windows computer is to roll the cursor over the LAN connection icon...

They're running the election software on a Windows machine? What could go wrong.

13 posted on 11/09/2020 1:49:39 PM PST by Flick Lives (My work's illegal, but at least it's honest. - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds)
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To: gattaca

The FBI has EVERY 1 and 0 that went to and from those machines. THEY know what was going on.


14 posted on 11/09/2020 2:13:47 PM PST by RobertoinAL
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To: gattaca

I would accept what I believed to be a legitimate loss, but there are DOZENS of reports in battleground states of flagrant cheating. The Rats know it and so does everyone else.


15 posted on 11/09/2020 2:31:30 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (If the meanings in the Constitution can change, why did they bother writing it down?)
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To: Magnum44

Wasn’t someone asking to see if machines were connected and a person in charge said “you’ll have to trust me”... LOL

PERP WALK NOW!!


16 posted on 11/09/2020 2:36:17 PM PST by RebelTXRose (Our Lady of Fatima, Pray for us! PRAY THE ROSARY!)
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To: M Kehoe
Being "modern" going to voting machines and abandoning the ballot box was a guarantee from the beginning that local vote fraud would become national. The ballot box is probably easier to secure. Fraud enough to steal a Presidency would require far more manpower than fraud-by-machine and would thus be harder to accomplish and easier to catch. It has to be done precinct by precinct. As we have seen with this election. National fraud is a matter of using the right software and some hacking.

The only reason the Democrats did not steal the 2016 election was that they really expected a great wave of votes for Mrs bill. They worked harder in 2018 with their Legal Vote Theft called vote harvesting and used the big city ploy in several states. Trump only won the election because the vote manufacturing team in Broward and Palm Beach Counties in Florida were incompetent.

17 posted on 11/09/2020 2:57:40 PM PST by arthurus (covfefe ink)
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To: gattaca

This article actually has a ton of smoking guns in it beyond just what the title implies:

-Unsealed, unsecured ballots without envelopes arrived

-All of these attributed only to Democratic candidates

-They arrived in vehicles with out-of-state license plates

-Elections officials instructed poll workers to backdate ballots that arrived past the deadline, ignore signature mismatches, and push through ballots despite questionable validity

-Voters who showed up at the polling site but could not be found on the voter files had ballots assigned to them from a *random name* on the qualified voter files

Holy %^&*$#! They have sworn affidavits for ALL of this now.


18 posted on 11/10/2020 12:25:22 AM PST by splash73
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