In the 2020 Presidential Election, some states are taking too much time to process and tabulate ballots after universal and/or no reason ballots are allowed in most states due to the fear of COVID. According to an article by the Washington Post, 27 states will allow early processing of ballots in 2020. That number has since become 43 states in total.
A WaPo article titled “Pennsylvania presidential election results may take days to count” This highlights the Keystone state’s refusal to adopt legislation that would allow mail-in ballot processing. The Democratic-led House passed a bill to allow early counting, but it did not come to a vote in the Republican-led State Senate:
“Despite many calls for change, Pennsylvania will need a few more days to announce this year’s winner, alarming state election officials who worry the delay will cause confusion, undermine confidence in the process and make election workers targets for harassment.”
An ABC News article from October 2020 describes the processing of ballots in Arizona, a key swing state in 2020 and this year in 2024:
“Once the signature verification is done, officials can separate the ballots from the envelopes and prepare them for tabulation. Tabulation can begin 14 days before the electionafter completion of logic and accuracy tests for appropriate equipment.
While tabulation can begin two weeks before November 3, no results may be released until one hour after polls close on Nov. 3, and all ballots, including those sent by mail, must be completed by now.
Last week during Badlands Media’s Why We Vote podcast, Elbert County CO commissioner Dallas Schroeder revealed a shocking feature of the Dominion ImageCast Central (ICC) tabulation equipment: ICC, which is mainly used to tabulate ballots in a centralized center. location, can display and/or print race results previous Election Day.
And no one will know because it doesn’t show up in the system log file.
The “Hidden” feature in Dominion Voting Systems ImageCast Central allows anyone with administrative access, including remote access, to count and report the results of scanned ballots prior to Election Day.
Worse, this feature is not visible in the system log… pic.twitter.com/ykZtNvkh5Z
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According to Why We Vote interviews and letters to CO Senators Stephen Fenberg and Rod Pelton, and Rep. Rod Bockenfeld in 2023, Schroeder and the current county clerk, Rhonda Braun, were opening the ballots through tabulation equipment with Dominion representatives. After completing the test ballot, Braun, the election manager at the time, began to go to the EMS server to verify that the results were counted accurately.
The Dominion Rep told him that they could do it right there in the ICC. Schroeder said he and Braun looked at each other, confused, thinking “Ok…that’s news to us.”
“Show them how it works,” Schroeder said. They are then shown that with administrative access, you can press a button to stop tabulation.
“When that happens (tabulation stops), there’s another little button that says ‘show results.’ And so you can press the ‘show results’ button and if it’s enough, it shows the results of what has been opened, not the actual number of ballots…From there, Rhonda asked if you could print it. She said ‘sure! ‘ He pressed a button and it printed.
We were like blown away to have that report….So Rhonda then asked ‘how does it show in the log, the slog file?’ He said, ‘I don’t know…I’ve never seen it.’
Let’s see, just for fun. They go in there and press that button and it’ll always show up there ‘Voice 1 is being scanned…Voice 2 is being scanned…Voice 3 is being scanned…’ it’s going to go through everything that’s happening in that sequence of work. Then we get to where we log ‘Stop Tabulation’ and then go back to ‘Start Tabulation’ because we have opened another ballot after that. So where is the part of the file that says ‘Show Results’? And where is the part of the file that says we print the report? It doesn’t exist.
This ‘feature’ can provide a dangerous opportunity for bad actors to get the results of their ballots before Election Day voters take them to the polls. Furthermore, there is the potential for someone to access the cancel system and run this report without proof of the total disclosed in the log file.
Colorado is one of the 47 States, as mentioned earlier, which not only allows, but mandate preliminary tabulation of ballot papers under the guise that these results are not published until Election Day. But this is a facade because this report can be done without anyone being able to ensure that the results were not published earlier because there is no evidence in the system log files. Therefore, after the 2020 election, Schroeder did not begin tabulating ballots until Election Day. They don’t want to put their employees in a position where they can be accused of checking the results early with no way to defend against the accusation.
According to Schroeder, Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold did not respect this and in 2023, the Colorado legislature passed what Schroeder called “Elbert’s Rule,” which mandate the scanning of ballots to begin four days before Election Day.
Access is not restricted to private personnel. In a “Week in Brief” bulletin sent out by the Colorado Secretary of State’s office on June 24, 2022, a “Security Best Practices Reminder” was posted that stated, “Instructions on how to check for Wi-Fi being disabled on Dominion Democracy Suite System components are attached to this bulletin .
It’s not just Colorado. During the 2020 Senate runoff election in Georgia’s Coffee County, Dominion tabulators had difficulty processing ballots without jamming multiple times per batch. According to a sworn affidavit from Cathy Latham, Chairwoman of the Rural Republican Party, the current Dominion representative was given an ultimatum by Eric Chaney, Chairman of the Board of Elections (BOE), to fix the machine within thirty minutes. or the media will be alerted.
According to the affidavit, Dominion rep called his boss, Scott Tucker, and went out in private to talk to him. When the rep came back, he told him to wipe the lens of the machine again, and it will work. He had never touched the machine but suddenly it was working perfectly.
BOE Chairman Chaney asked, “Are we all just witnessing what I feel?” Latham replied, “Did something download to the scanner from your phone or from the Internet? There is no way that wiping the machine with a cloth stops reading the QR Code Failure. Hampton agreed. So did Democratic Party Rep. Ernestine Thomas-Clark who, again, said “This is not true.”
During the 2020 Presidential Election, Schroeder was the county clerk responsible for conducting the election. He was also one of two clerks in Colorado who created forensic images of Dominion’s software before “Building Trust.” Another Mesa County officer is Tina Peters, who will be in court next week on felony charges related to her decision to describe the machine before “Building Trust.”
For the full interview with Dallas Schroeder, check out the podcast below or check it out in the Rumble app to watch it ad-free.
