Posted on 12/21/2022 5:27:12 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer sought to dismiss a subpoena requiring his testimony at the trial, but the judge denied the motion.
Acybersecurity expert in the civil trial of Kari Lake's lawsuit testified Wednesday that the issues experienced with ballot printers at Maricopa County vote centers on Election Day had to have been intentionally caused by changing the printer settings.
The trial began Wednesday with the testimonies of Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer, Maricopa County Director of Elections Scott Jarrett, cybersecurity expert Clay Parikh, and Heather Honey, who does open source research with regard to elections.
Parikh, who has previously worked with election systems, testified that the settings on either the printers or the laptops at the vote centers that sent the ballot print jobs to the printers had to have been intentionally changed to cause the printer errors that were experienced on Election Day.
Honey testified that there were no chain of custody documents provided by Maricopa County for Early Voting ballots dropped off in drop boxes on Election Day, despite documents being made available for ballots from the Early Voting period prior to Election Day.
Jarrett explained under direct examination that the vote center wait times were based on prior elections, and calculated that voters would wait in line for about 30 minutes on average. He said that wait times included how long it would take voters to check in at the vote centers. The election director said under cross-examination by defendants' counsel that the average wait time for all voters was less than few minutes on Election Day.
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Any guesses on how this is going to go?? PRAYING for Kari Lake!
If this guy is believed, Lake just made her case. If the problem was intentional then this is a major crime. The Hobbs team better shoot this down (I hope they can’t)
Next step is who committed the crime and who was in charge.
When are Republicans in control of the states gonna get their butts in gear and realize that the rats cheat like hell and set up major surveillance of election?
Should have started 20+ years ago.
(Heck. Grew up in Chicago. By the time I was in the 3rd grade in the early 60s, I knew dead people could vote.)
HOBBS IS THE ULTIMATE TOP OF THE CHAIN OF COMMAND...
SHE HAS TO FACE CHARGES
Well. We already know who was in charge. She won the election if my memory serves me correctly. That alone should be enough to raise eyebrows, but even that isn't happening.
Thing about all this is, there is more than enough evidence all over to show massive fraud. And the methods to crush that fraud are well known and public.
Yet, it will not be stopped by either side in this. There is a lesson in this many do not want to learn, including me, but...it will be shoved down our throats. There will never be enough evidence of any kind to put this particular genie back in the bottle.
Never.
Bottom line... Hobbs was in charge... Queston... Who ordered paper that was too small for the printers oto print the ballots (or ordered it ordered)
Right, and if they can prove someone did this they can be prosecuted, because that’s what present laws provide for. That won’t change the outcome one bit, Hobbs will still be governor.
None of our existing laws allow for invalidating and re-doing an election when some standard of fraud is proven. Democrats know this so they cheat with impunity. Republicans don’t seem interested in doing anything about it.
It was a great day for Kari Lake in court. Robert Barnes summed it up with something like “It would have gone better for Hobbs had none of her lawyers showed up.”
Time to lock up the Hogg.
The forensic analysis done in Antrim County in Michigan after the 2020 election showed that in various precincts in the county, 68% of scanned ballots failed to be read (with a failure rate of 90% in at least one county) and the failed scanned ballot images had to be shunted to an adjudication queue, where humans had to manually view them and assign them to various candidates.
If my memory serves me correctly, the critical log files showing the adjudication process (what logged in user adjudicated what votes, for whom, and at what date and time) on the Dominion servers were...gone. Missing. Deleted.
But they did not delete the log file that showed the optical scanning errors. (They probably didn't know it was there, or thought it was unimportant)
And in the log file on the scanning process, they could see the results clearly for successful and unsuccessful scan attempts, resulting in the failed scanned ballots being shunted into the adjudication queue. That gave them the 68% failure rate.
The Federal Election Commission allows a maximum error rate of just 0.0008 percent for computerized voting systems.
Furthermore, the cause was found to be anything ranging from gunk on the lens of the optical scanner (which as anyone knows who has to work with a lot of document scanners as I have...can happen) to the lens of the scanner being out of adjustment.
I found that "out of adjustment" reason to be interesting. Hardware adjustment, or software adjustment? They did not specify. But suspicious minds would wonder about that. If there is a calibration file for a printer (especially very expensive, purpose-built, high end document scanners such as these) then someone could manually edit that calibration file. Even edit it remotely.
Obviously, a hardware setting such as a manual adjustment screw which would require manipulation and then verification via testing that the optics were back within specifications would be harder to do, but...not impossible.
That would render the optics unable to correctly read the scanned document, resulting in a failure.
I meant a calibration file for a document scanner, not a printer.
Maricopa Cty
“If this guy is believed, Lake just made her case.”
She can make her case 100X over, but that doesn’t mean she’ll win her case. It all depends on what the judge says. I figure that he’ll be finding a horse head in his bed in the next few days, or be slipped a big fat envelope full of unmarked bills.
The database of various ballots in use at various precincts is a collection of PDF files contained in a laptop connected to each ballot-on-demand printer. Presumably the scripts for setting up the printers were on the same laptop.
The problem on election day was some of the ballot-on-demand printers at the polling locations were printing a reduced size image, namely 19".
The slightly smaller image size shifted the registration marks on the ballots sufficiently to make it hit-or-miss for a given ballot to be recognized by the tabulator scanners.
One theory for why is that somehow the "shrink to fit" setting was invoked in some printers, rather than the option for "no scaling".
According to the IT expert who testified, the printer settings were supposed to be locked into a script programmed in by the county. But I did not hear anything further about the script or if it has been examined.
To me the most damming testimony so far has been about the absence of chain-of-custody compliance, especially on election day. It appears there were one or more opportunities for ballots to be added or removed with no paper trail.
Well, the Judge may just ignore it. He also seems to be deliberately delaying any decision until Hobbs is sworn in on Jan 3rd.
And therein is the problem we face. Anyone who watched the last Supreme Court confirmation knows for certain that Judges need not be smart, just dedicated to the cause.
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