Patrick Colbeck

Dominion Software Installed on 30,000+ BMDs Without EAC Certification; Encryption Keys Stored in Plain Text in Violation of FIPS 140-2 (GA)

Deployment Configuration, Dominion, Electronic Voting System Integrity, Established Fact, Georgia, United States /

Established Fact In the weeks immediately preceding the 2020 election, the Georgia Secretary of State authorized Dominion to install software updates across more than 30,000 BMDs statewide without completing the EAC recertification process that such modifications require. Pre-election installation of software updates on certified systems without re-certification is a categorical violation of federal certification standards

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Recount Server Crash and Complete Database Recreation – Fourth Full Rescan Required (GA)

Deployment Configuration, Dominion, Electronic Voting System Integrity, Established Fact, Fulton County, Georgia, United States /

Established Fact During the court-ordered machine recount of Fulton County’s 2020 general election results, a failure by county staff to comply with approved technological protocols for backing up and uploading tabulation data caused a server crash on November 29, 2020. This catastrophic configuration failure destroyed the active recount tabulation database entirely, requiring Fulton County to

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Uncertified 4GB CompactFlash Memory Cards Deployed in Place of Contracted 8GB Cards; 36 Mid-Election Card Swaps Without EMS Logical Delineation (GA)

Deployment Configuration, Dominion, Electronic Voting System Integrity, Established Fact, Fulton County, Georgia, United States /

Established Fact Georgia’s Master Solution Contract specified 8GB CompactFlash (CF) cards with a 29,000-ballot storage capacity per card. Fulton County instead deployed 4GB CF cards with a stated operational limit of 5,000 ballots – less than one-fifth the contracted capacity. Because these cards reached their informal 3,000-ballot threshold before filling, county personnel swapped memory cards

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Illegal Dual Project Configuration – Two Prior Election Projects Active Simultaneously in EMS During Live Election (CO)

Colorado, Deployment Configuration, Dominion, Electronic Voting System Integrity, Established Fact, Mesa County, United States /

Established Fact Forensic database analysis of the Mesa County Dominion Voting Systems EMS server revealed an unauthorized creation of new election databases during early voting in the 2020 General Election on October 21, 2020, followed by the digital reloading of 20,346 ballot records into the new election databases, making the original voter intent recorded from

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Dominion ICX BMDs Deployed in Unauthorized Tabulator/DRE Mode (GA)

Deployment Configuration, Dominion, Electronic Voting System Integrity, Established Fact, Fulton County, Georgia, United States /

Established Fact The Dominion ImageCast X (ICX) devices deployed in Fulton County were operated in tabulator (DRE – Direct Recording Electronic) mode during the 2020 election, with devices actively displaying “Total Ballots Cast” on their screens during voting operations. This is an unauthorized operational mode. Georgia’s Master Solution Contract and the applicable EAC certification –

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Post-Election Forensic Audit Scope Insufficient to Validate or Refute Hardware Configuration – Internal Inspection Refused (AZ)

Arizona, Deployment Configuration, Dominion, Electronic Voting System Integrity, Established Fact, Maricopa County, United States /

Established Fact Post-election forensic examinations of Maricopa County’s voting systems conducted by certified test laboratories, including Pro V&V and SLI Compliance, were structurally limited to external reviews, removable-media imaging, and software-level analysis. No auditor was permitted to conduct internal hardware inspections of the tabulator units – the “lift the hood” examination that would verify whether

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Defective L&A Testing Using Zero-Voter “NVP” Synthetic Precincts (AZ)

Arizona, Deployment Configuration, Disputed Fact, Electronic Voting System Integrity, Maricopa County, United States /

Disputed Fact Maricopa County publicly represented its 2020 tabulator deployment as consisting of ImageCast Precinct 2 (ICP2) optical scan units. However, multiple independent forensic indicators establish that the devices operated on Election Day were ImageCast Evolution (ICE) units: EMS configuration files consistently identified the tabulators as ICE devices, not ICP2 units; SLOG verification logs and

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Unapproved Hardware Substitution – Tabulators Identified as ICE Devices Despite ICP2 Representation; Procurement Records Corroborate Substitution (AZ)

Arizona, Deployment Configuration, Dominion, Electronic Voting System Integrity, Maricopa County, Reasonable Inference, United States /

Reasonable Inference Maricopa County publicly represented its 2020 tabulator deployment as consisting of ImageCast Precinct 2 (ICP2) optical scan units. However, multiple independent forensic indicators establish that the devices operated on Election Day were ImageCast Evolution (ICE) units: EMS configuration files consistently identified the tabulators as ICE devices, not ICP2 units; SLOG verification logs and

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Surreptitious Software Alteration – Tabulation Components Deviated from Certified Build; L&A Testing Conducted on Only Five Spare Tabulators (AZ)

Arizona, Deployment Configuration, Disputed Fact, Electronic Voting System Integrity, Maricopa County, United States /

Disputed Fact System log files reviewed during post-election forensic analysis indicate that Maricopa County’s tabulation software was surreptitiously altered in components that control how ballots are read – the core functional module of any optical scan tabulator. This alteration rendered the deployed software an uncertified build not matching the EAC-approved Dominion Democracy Suite 5.5B golden

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Unauthorized Dual-Boot Configuration on Adjudication Endpoint (AZ)

Arizona, Deployment Configuration, Electronic Voting System Integrity, Established Fact, Maricopa County, United States /

Established Fact Forensic review of Maricopa County’s election network discovered a dual-boot configuration on the “Adjudication 02” endpoint workstation. The system contained two internal hard drives, both capable of booting to different operating environments. The second drive contained non-county, non-election data whose provenance has not been publicly disclosed. A certified election system is required to

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