Patrick Colbeck

Iranian Foreign Minister Invited By Maduro to Watch 2020 Elections

“Watch us punish the Americans” Nicolas Maduro President of Venezuela During a November 21, 2025 interview by Lara Logan on her Going Rogue podcast, ex-CIA Station Chief Gary Berntsen noted that the Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif was invited by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to watch the results of the 2020 General Election in […]

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Redistricting Reform Analysis

Current State of the US House of Representatives The Republican Party currently operates under a razor-thin 4-seat majority, a margin that creates a state of legislative paralysis and structural fragility. This narrow gap effectively holds the House leadership hostage to the whims of individual members, preventing the decisive execution of a conservative mandate.  Current House

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Pre-2020 Election Plans to Destroy Livelihoods of Trump Supporters

“We will use our positions of corporate prominence to lock out all Republicans from future corporate jobs, media interviews, etc.” Stuart Karaffa (he/him) Designer During the June 2020 timeframe, a national coalition of subversive organizations conducted what they referred to as “Election Simulations”.  These simulations were conducted via video conferences that were recorded by a

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Antrim County, MI Findings

Executive Summary Between December 2020 and June 2021, multiple cybersecurity and forensic experts conducted technical examinations of voting equipment and systems used in Antrim County, Michigan during the November 3, 2020 general election. These examinations, commissioned as part of litigation (Bailey v. Antrim County, Case No. 20-9238-CZ), produced 15 expert reports documenting cybersecurity vulnerabilities, system

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Venezuela Access to U.S. Election Systems

On August 2007, there were a series of emails between Smartmatic employees based in Venezuela to Sequoia voting systems employees based in the U.S. that provided instructions for the installation of a Remote Access Server (RAS).   This RAS would enable Venezuelan Smartmatic employees to access Sequoia’s U.S. based election systems responsible for reporting election results.

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Smartmatic-Sequoia Trusted Build Deployment Risks

On June 1, 2007, Venezuelan representatives of Smartmatic reached out Sequoia representatives to provide guidance on how to deploy a “certified trusted image” of its election system onto Sequoia systems. It’s one simply email, but it tells a very interesting story if you know what to look for. For starters, please note that Smartmatic acquired

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VICTORY! Why Bost v Illinois SCOTUS Ruling Matters

The Supreme Court has ruled that Congressman Mike Bost and similarly situated candidates do have constitutional standing to challenge Illinois’ practice of counting mail-in ballots received after Election Day, and sent the case back to the lower courts to consider the merits of the challenge. What the Court Decided The Court held that a candidate

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Fulton County, GA Audit Findings

A complaint filed with the Georgia State Elections Board has revealed significant issues regarding Fulton County, GA handling of Dominion ImageCast Precinct (ICP) tabulators, CompactFlash (CF) memory cards, ballot custody and Election Management System (EMS) results tallying.  These issues call into question over 108,000 ballots cast in Fulton County during the 2020 election reportedly decided

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The Security of Electronic Voting Systems in the U.S.

In a December 7, 2025 email to election integrity leaders across the United States, Donald Palmer, Chairman of the Election Assistance Commission (EAC), made the following assertions: “Here are a few facts that should be considered: EAC has reviewed the source code of every registered manufacturer and maintains the source code of every registered manufacturer

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Barry County, MI Sheriff Leaf Election Investigation Posts

The Barry County Sheriff’s Office has maintained an open investigation into “election related crimes” and “election law violations” since at least December 2020. The scope of the inquiry extends beyond local jurisdiction, targeting national and international election vendors, their employees, subcontractors, and associated entities. • Timeline: The investigation has been active since December 2020 and has generated

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