Patrick Colbeck

DNI Ratcliffe Memorandum: CIA Analysts Suppressed Chinese Election Interference Assessments on Explicit Political Grounds – Violation of IRTPA Analytic Standard B (China)

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Established Fact On January 7, 2021, Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe issued a formal memorandum documenting a significant intelligence failure: career CIA analysts had suppressed evidence of Chinese interference in the 2020 election on explicit political grounds. Ratcliffe’s memorandum stated that “China analysts were hesitant to assess Chinese actions as ‘undue influence’ or ‘interference.’

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Smartmatic Owned by Venezuelan Government (Venezuela)

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Disputed Fact The Smartmatic foreign interference nexus is documented through four independent evidentiary layers. Layer 1 – Government Origin: Smartmatic was funded by a $140 million Venezuelan government contract, developed its core election software in Venezuela, and was acquired by Venezuelan government-linked entities. A 2006 U.S. Embassy cable from Caracas assessed that Smartmatic’s “real ownership

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Smartmatic Executives Indicted for FCPA Violations and Money Laundering – Pattern of Corporate Corruption in Foreign Election Contracts (Venezuela)

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Established Fact On August 9, 2024, federal prosecutors in the Southern District of Florida filed a superseding indictment against Smartmatic executives Roger Pinate Martinez (President/COO) and Jorge Vasquez for: (1) conspiracy to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (18 U.S.C. § 371); and (2) money laundering in connection with bribes paid to Philippine government officials

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Konnech Inc. – U.S. Election Logistics Data Exfiltrated to Chinese Government Servers (China)

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Established Fact Konnech Inc., an East Lansing, Michigan-based election software company, provided poll worker management, election logistics, and scheduling software to election offices across the United States – including multiple Michigan jurisdictions. Forensic investigation revealed that Konnech transferred sensitive U.S. election data – including poll worker personally identifiable information (PII), building schematics, and operational logistics

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Spain had ability to manipulate election results (Spain)

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Reasonable Inference Scytl Election Technologies S.L.U. is a Spanish electronic voting and election‑technology company headquartered in Barcelona. A U.S. subsidiary, Scytl USA LLC, is described in an Alaska procurement decision as “a wholly‑owned subsidiary of a Spanish entity, Scytl Secure Electronic Voting, S.A. (Scytl Spain),” and is itself the parent of SOE Software in Florida,

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Dominion employees and contractors in Serbia had ability to manipulate U.S. election results (Serbia)

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Reasonable Inference Because Dominion acknowledges that some software development and maintenance is performed by its own employees in Serbia, and contemporaneous reporting describes this as ongoing, it is a reasonable inference that Serbia-based developers had the technical capability and internal permissions to interact with code and systems ultimately deployed in U.S. elections (Electronic Voting System

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Discovery of Fake IDs from China Enabling Illegals to Vote (China)

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Established Fact In 2025, FBI Director Kash Patel declassified a 2020 Intelligence Information Report alleging the Chinese government planned to mass-produce fraudulent U.S. driver’s licenses and ship them to Chinese nationals/sympathizers in the U.S. to facilitate tens of thousands of fraudulent mail-in ballots for Joe Biden. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) did seize 19,888

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Bureau of Elections Brater Memorandum – Vendor Access Preserved While Clerk-Initiated Audits Blocked (MI)

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Established Fact The Michigan Department of State, under Secretary Jocelyn Benson, established API contracts granting Rock the Vote and approximately 25,000 partner organizations direct remote access to Michigan’s Qualified Voter File (QVF), which contains voters’ Personally Identifiable Information (PII), including partial Social Security Numbers and driver’s license numbers. These access agreements were executed without NIST-compliant

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Rock the Vote API Access to Qualified Voter File – 25,000 Unvetted Third-Party Partners (MI)

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Established Fact The Michigan Department of State, under Secretary Jocelyn Benson, established API contracts granting Rock the Vote and approximately 25,000 partner organizations direct remote access to Michigan’s Qualified Voter File (QVF), which contains voters’ Personally Identifiable Information (PII), including partial Social Security Numbers and driver’s license numbers. These access agreements were executed without NIST-compliant

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CIS Albert Sensor MOA – Private NGO Access to Decrypted Election Network Traffic (MI)

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Established Fact Wayne County executed a Memorandum of Agreement granting the Center for Internet Security (CIS) – operating as MS-ISAC/EI-ISAC – the right to inspect network traffic in a decrypted state via Albert Sensor endpoint access to county election infrastructure. This gave a federally-affiliated private NGO – not subject to direct democratic accountability and not

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