Which state do you think will bring forth the “bumper crop” of fraudulent ballots this harvest season? The Keystone State, Pennsylvania, would have to make the list of top contenders.
Or will it be “Fani and friends” from Georgia, the empire state of the south, riding high on the broad shoulders of Fulton County to the “bumper crop” win? Wouldn’t that be “peachy?”
Or maybe the “hammer” and “scorecard” operatives in Wisconsin or Michigan will be most impressive when all is said and done?
Or do you think it will be Arizona with Maricopa County leading the charge?
It has been reported that only 1 ballot paper type was approved for use in Maricopa County, but 10 different paper types were discovered.
In one of our recent posts, we covered the topic of ballot paper watermarking or utilizing Quantum Blockchain to track ballot paper.
Should you be one to quickly and casually dismiss QFS blockchain ballot tracking as “conspiracy theory” or special paper types being used for ballots, you might find yourself quite interested in the other layer of this discussion involving cast vote records, the electronic copy of each ballot. Here is the definition of cast vote records for dummies.
Simply put, a cast vote record (CVR) is an electronic record of a voter's ballot selections, and its primary purpose is to provide a record of voter selections that can be counted in an efficient manner to produce election results.
Ironically, this exact same “dummy” definition appears in this official report from November 2019, entitled Cast Vote Records Common Data Format Specification (11/19)
2.1 Overview of Cast Vote Records and their Generation
Simply put, a cast vote record (CVR) is an electronic record of a voter’s ballot selections, and its primary purpose is to provide a record of voter selections that can be counted in an efficient manner to produce election results. A CVR is created by equipment such as a voter facing scanner in a polling place into which a voter inserts a paper ballot. CVRs also get created by batch fed scanners used to scan absentee or other types of ballots that are collected before the election or that cannot be scanned by polling place scanners for various reasons. After the polls are closed, the CVRs are collected by election officials on memory devices and subsequently copied to an election management system that aggregates and tabulates the votes.
So why are cast vote records basically off limits to the public?
Why have several county officials in multiple states completely ignored, stonewalled, or denied FOIA requests for cast vote record copies? Why would county officials and/or Secretaries of State and/or ES&S personnel engage in nefarious activity by not answering an FOIA request at all or by answering an FOIA request on this topic with a response that is not true?
As a matter of law, all FOIA requests do require an answer.
We can confirm with certainty that FOIA requests for CVRs have been stonewalled or deflected by every county in the states of South Dakota and Nebraska. There are 66 counties in South Dakota and 93 counties in Nebraska - all deflecting FOIA requests involving CVRs. Some county auditors have even gone so far as to state that CVRs do not exist, which is blatantly false per ES&S representatives.
Lincoln County, SD Auditor - “The Cast Vote Record Does Not Exist” (5/23/2023)
ES&S, a subsidiary of McCarthy Capital, is the sole provider of election voting machines, software, and services in both South Dakota and Nebraska.
Multiple representatives from South Dakota recently toured the ES&S offices located in Omaha, NE.
They, and many others, are in search of answers to these questions.
Why is there a certain “demarcation line in the sand” when it comes to auditing electronic voting machines? Why is no one allowed to see cast vote records?
Yes, even the fine people of South Dakota are starting to wake up to the fact that “all roads do truly lead to Omaha.”
The content of this meeting between South Dakota representatives and ES&S representatives was recently discussed on Lindell TV/FrankSpeech in mid September 2023.
Refuting Three Years Of Lies From Election Officials And Voting Machine Companies (9/13/23)
Based on the 93-page transcript entitled “ES&S Task Force Meeting June 16, 2023” cited in this interview, this meeting involved at least 6 representatives from South Dakota, including the South Dakota Secretary of State, Monae Johnson and at least 7 representatives from ES&S. Here is a sample excerpt taken from page 32 of the transcript where Ms. Leah Anderson, Minnehaha County Auditor is speaking about CVRs and Mr. Chris Wlaschin, Senior VP of Security at ES&S is responding.
The 93-page transcript clearly confirms that cast vote records are produced by the electronic voting machines, CVRs are always available, and each county owns the data.
Would those records (cast vote records)-- Since there's nothing proprietary and it doesn't identify a voter, and the NIST standards specifically state what cast vote records are for, which is for election officials to do an audit. It's for manufacturers to make sure the machines are running properly, and it's also-- It lists for public record. So that's pretty clear in my mind, but then now we have lawsuits in our state (South Dakota) where they are-- And even my own state's attorney is telling me I can't release any of that because it's not public record, but it specifically states that they are public record.
Source: Ms. Leah Anderson, page 33
The 93-page transcript has ES&S representatives confirming that cast vote records are not considered proprietary information and do NOT identify a voter. Simply put, CVRs are public records.
I’m an elected official. Monae's an elected official. My attorney-- My state's attorney can give me their advice or their opinion, but if it's--if it's determined to be public record and there is nothing proprietary and it does not identify a voter, because they're telling me it does and they've never looked at them, then there's some miscommunication there.
Source: Ms. Leah Anderson, pages 35-36
So again, why are cast vote records considered “off limits to the public” per most state attorney’s offices and several county auditors? Why MUST these image files be kept “private?”
We find ourselves peering out the window of the main street “wild west” saloon, watching a western standoff between county election officials and ES&S.
Who will reach for their gun fastest to kill the other? Who exactly is withholding public information (CVRs) from the public and why is this information off limits?
Robert J. Borer, primary candidate for NE Secretary of State and write-in candidate for NE Governor in 2022 has personally submitted FOIA requests for cast vote records. Every living person in Nebraska would be wise to follow his substack “We The People” as he is a stalwart for election transparency. All requests that Mr. Borer has made to the 93 counties in Nebraska have resulted in little or no information. Here are Mr. Borer’s comments when asked about the 93-page transcript.
Ballot tabulation takes place at the county level so that is why I made FOIA requests to all county officials. The report from the South Dakota election officials visiting the ES&S offices in Omaha is startling. ES&S representatives are on record stating that cast vote records are public records and do not infringe on voter privacy in any way, nor are they proprietary. Why are these public records continuing to be withheld from the public?”
The Fruited Plain can certainly suggest one reason CVRs are being withheld - the level of fraud to be discovered in the CVRs must be super, scintillating, sensational. Of course, we would be stealing the signature descriptive phrase of famous college basketball announcer Dick Vitale when color commentating “March Madness” basketball games if we described it exactly this way. How would you describe it?
We are talking about election results that make no logical sense.
We are talking about the scandal of the century.
Even Amazon Alexa claims that the US 2020 election was stolen.
Last time we checked, withholding public records from the public would be a direct violation of a person’s constitutional rights. So what can happen to a county that illegally withholds election records from the public?
And did you know that the USAF FOIA Compliance Division handles disputes involving unanswered FOIA requests? We were not aware until now that a military branch oversees compliance with FOIA requests.
The basic purpose of the FOIA is to ensure an informed citizenry, vital to the functioning of a democratic society, needed to check against corruption and to hold the governors accountable to the governed.
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All roads lead to Omaha, my friends!