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EXCLUSIVE: The Cause of Arizona’s Machine Tabulator Failure Identified – Ballots Larger than Printer Parameters – Willful Incompetence?
Gateway Pundit ^ | 11/13/2022 | Joe Hoft

Posted on 11/13/2022 7:13:13 PM PST by SeekAndFind

The cause of Arizona’s massive 30% machine tabulator failure is identified. This action disproportionately affected Republicans and assured delays in counting.

Technical expert, Dan Sundin, has homed in on the likely cause of why 30% of the tabulators in Arizona could not process the majority of Republican ballots on Election Day.

During the 2022 General Election, the election programming was set up to process 20” long ballots. This was a change from the 2020 General and the 2022 Primary ballots, which were 19” long – an inch shorter.

So when Arizona election officials say they don’t know what happened on November 8th because everything was the same as Arizona’s primary – this isn’t true.

The ballot size wasn’t the same.

Why does that matter?

The sample ballot pdfs published by Maricopa County and the Runbeck-printed ballots used for mail-in voting were correctly made to 20” length in the 2022 General. So there have been no problems processing Democrat-leaning, mail-in ballots.

However, the ballot-on-demand printers used for in-person voting only have 19″ trays that contain 19” ballot paper.

This means, that for in-person voting, the official ballot image had to be compressed to fit on smaller paper than it was built for.

Compression causes the ink to be a little lighter than it should be and thus affects how the tabulators read the ballot.

Maricopa County directed some voting centers to increase how dark the printing was, and this helped the problem somewhat.

The bigger problem, however, is that compressing the image skews where the ovals end up on the paper. The tabulators use a digital map to know where to look for votes. If the ovals aren’t where they belong, the tabulator won’t be able to find them or will misread them. This problem will cause the tabulators to improperly read ovals, or not be able to read the ballot at all.

This is what most likely caused the high rejection rate and why so many ballots ended up having to be set aside in Drawer 3 – which led to another set of problems, and a lot of delays.

We all know delay favors fraud.

The equipment tabulating ballots at the MCTEC center is different than the Dominion ICP tabulators used for in-person, Election Day voting. Those scanners are more forgiving for shrunk/skewed ballots and are able to be manually adjudicated by election workers. That’s likely why we’re not seeing the same problems in the processing of ballots which were cast by mail or early in person.

It’s clear that whatever logic and accuracy testing was done in Arizona to get ready for Election Day wasn’t a real-world test.

The logic and accuracy test used pristine, pre-printed ballots that were professionally printed offsite and fed into the Dominion ICP tabulators to make sure they were working.

A real logic and accuracy test, however, would have used ballots printed on-site by the ballot-on-demand printers. That would have been a genuine end-to-end test, and it would have caught what ended up being a massive problem.

Since Republicans are more likely to vote in person on Election Day, they were disproportionately affected and disenfranchised by the incompetence of the election officials. Failing to correctly test the system to understand the effect of changing the ballot size was a fatal error. This amounted to a massive violation of voters’ constitutional rights, which requires equal protection under the law.

This issue didn’t affect the Democrat-leaning, mail-in ballots. The Democrat-leaning, early in-person ballots are processed at the MCTEC Center on equipment more able to process the skewed images and manually adjudicate problem ballots.

We don’t know if all this was intentional or not. But the poorly designed process and failure to properly test equipment under real-world conditions have led to yet another third-world election in Arizona.

It’s worth noting that hand counting would not be affected in the slightest by a skewed ballot. Get rid of the machines.

Hat tip Attorney David Clements and Erin Clements.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: arizona; ballots; bloggers; gaywaygunner; gaywaypundit; humblehomotard; sodomizedgunner; sodomyblog; sodomygunner; tabulators; voterfraud
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To: SeekAndFind

What difference does it make.
There will be no remedy or punishments.


21 posted on 11/13/2022 7:57:59 PM PST by tennmountainman ( Less Lindell CONS, More AZ Style Audits)
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To: virgil

yeah ... we’ll get that governor right on it ...


22 posted on 11/13/2022 7:59:29 PM PST by bankwalker (Repeal the 19th ...)
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To: tennmountainman

True that, the Elite Marxist Oligarchs own your country.

You have no say in it, and you never will.


23 posted on 11/13/2022 8:01:10 PM PST by Scott from the Left Coast (Make Orwell Fiction Again)
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To: SeekAndFind

Is there a single citation to any reputable news source on this? Or any reason why we should believe whoever this so-called expert is?


24 posted on 11/13/2022 8:08:49 PM PST by CraigEsq
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To: SeekAndFind

It should also be mentioned that the delays in the voting centers caused huge lines. My son and his wife took 2.5 hours to vote. The next closest voting center was six miles away. But it’s wait was also over an hour.

My wife and I drove 12 miles to find a voting center with a reasonable wait time. It was in Cave Creek. I had to feed my ballot 5 times before the tabulator would read it. My Wife’s first ballot would not read. She elected to fill out a second ballot.

It would be hard to determine how many people were unwilling to put up with the long waits.

This is what disenfranchisement looks like!


25 posted on 11/13/2022 8:11:41 PM PST by the_Watchman
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To: SeekAndFind

Haven’t heard a word from Doug Ducey!
No good Republican who could fire people.


26 posted on 11/13/2022 8:17:40 PM PST by arizonarick
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To: SeekAndFind

Hoft is writing about details and coming off stupid because he doesn’t know what he’s talking about.

Whatever. These little details don’t matter much unless there’s an investigation into ALL of AZ’s failures.

Bottom line: Hobbs owns this failure because she refused to recuse herself from her SOS responsibilities.


27 posted on 11/13/2022 8:18:30 PM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: SeekAndFind; Chode; SkyDancer; Salamander; Carriage Hill; Lockbox; MtnClimber; Squantos; ...

OK, enough of this bullshit !!!

Revote the entire Election.

When one gets to the Poll they fill out a paper ballot using a finger dipped into either RED or BLUE INK. If voting strait Party then Mark at the Top Left with a BLUE Fingerprint for Demonratcommieblmantifaterrorscumfeminazipedophilegoatrapers.

Mark at Top Right with a RED Fingerprint for Republicans.

If Voting Race by Race then Top Center gets A BLUE Fingerprint JUST LEFT of TOP CENTER and A RED Fingerprint JUST RIGHT of TOP CENTER.

Then on EACH Race if Voting demonratcommieblmantifaterrorscumfeminazipedophilegoatraper then A BLUE FINGERPRINT BY That Name.

Then on EACH Race if Voting Republican then a RED FINGERPRINT BY That Name.

Assign other Colors for Independent, Liberatarian, Green or Write in.

On the way out of Voting Location Completed Ballots are placed in the Matching Color(s) Collection Box.

All Ballots WILL BE COUNTED WITHIN 24 HOURS OF POLL CLOSINGS !!! NO EXCEPTIONS OR EXCUSES !!!

Any Audit or Questionable Ballot(s) can be Verified by Fingerprint Scan.

I’m pretty sure that most if not All States have Fingerprint Records of everyone wether or not ever arrested.


28 posted on 11/13/2022 8:47:15 PM PST by mabarker1 ( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress !7)
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To: mabarker1

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29 posted on 11/13/2022 8:55:58 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Freee-dame

>I don’t trust these counts in Az at all.

or the country for that matter.

Beyond words.


30 posted on 11/13/2022 9:39:16 PM PST by fretzer
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To: SeekAndFind

I don’t expect anyone who actually pretends to work for a county election office to even know how to make copies using a copy machine. Let alone setup a scanning/printing/counting operation. If you looks at the 2020 Wake TSI Fulton county, PA assessment. The manufacturer of the machines setup up the domains and did most of the design/implementation.


31 posted on 11/13/2022 9:39:17 PM PST by kvanbrunt2
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To: SeekAndFind

Not sure how this new explanation fits what we experienced...
My wife’s ballot was printed out between mine and my daughter’s and both of our ballots scanned first try into the machine... By the poll workers surprised reaction to mine, I assumed that had not happened many times that morning. She told me the two counters had been rejecting one of every three or four ballots all morning, said there were zero problems the day before in testing. Then my wife finished and scanned hers and it was rejected. They first blamed the blue ink she used and I said mine had no problems with it and my wife pointed to the printed instructions on the ballot that say use a blue or black pen. They scanned my wife’s ballot multiple times turning it over and around etc... Then my daughter finished hers and came up, a 3rd ballot with blue ink and again, went through first try. In hindsight she should have filled out a second one and tried again, but the poll worker said all these would be hand counted at the end of the night, which apparently was a lie.


32 posted on 11/13/2022 9:42:42 PM PST by AzNASCARfan
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To: virgil

According to some election judges (I posted this earlier), the door 3 ballots were “accidentally” mixed in with already-counted ballots in such a way that it was impossible to tell which were which.


33 posted on 11/13/2022 9:43:33 PM PST by grey_whiskers ( (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.))
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To: SeekAndFind

You can bet Kati the Hogg ordered that paper.


34 posted on 11/13/2022 9:43:34 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (You can vote your way into socialism but you have to shoot your way out. Remember that Snowflakes!)
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To: Pollard

Official tally of votes remaining to be counted in AZ:

https://apps.arizona.vote/info/bps/2022-general-election/33/0

160,021 estimated uncounted ballots with Lake down by 26k votes. She will need to win at least 58% of remaining vote independent of more funny business.


35 posted on 11/13/2022 10:24:07 PM PST by Swirl
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To: SeekAndFind

Charlie Kirk and his group say the Dems are slow walking Lari Lakes Votes, from the Precincts that are red. They have been dropping small results from Democ rat areas, 30,0000 at a time. They want MSM Talk shows Sunday to say she is losing, then when they finally drop the real red vote and she wins, they will say it is all cheating. That is the plan—trying to blame Republicans for Democrats tactics. But it will not work!!!!! Because they are being watched carefully and they have yet sent any big Republican districts votes in yet.


36 posted on 11/13/2022 10:25:42 PM PST by jonrick46 (Leftnicks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Interesting....

Bill Mitchell
@mitchellvii
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40m

This is incredible. In Maricopa County, Democrats had only 17% turnout on election day. This means that 100% of independent voters had to vote for Hobbs to get the results we have gotten.


37 posted on 11/13/2022 10:27:08 PM PST by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12)
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To: jonrick46

Excuse the slip: Lari Lake = Kari Lake.


38 posted on 11/13/2022 10:30:10 PM PST by jonrick46 (Leftnicks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: mabarker1

If I’m voting for the LBGTQ+++ ticket do I get to use the rainbow ink?


39 posted on 11/14/2022 12:46:46 AM PST by .44 Special (Taimid Buacharch)
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To: .44 Special

Yeah, I guess so. But You have to smear it all over like a Kiddo fingerpainting. No pattern, Random strokes only and no right angles.

And it must be signed: “Let’s go brandon.” In 2” Block letters.


40 posted on 11/14/2022 12:57:49 AM PST by mabarker1 ( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress !7)
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