Patrick Colbeck

ESS Tabulators with 4G Modems – Certified Machines Bypassing Isolation Requirements (WI)

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Established Fact The Gableman Special Counsel Report documented that ESS voting tabulators deployed throughout Wisconsin, despite holding federal and state certification, were manufactured and deployed with embedded 4G wireless modems enabling internet connectivity. In Green Bay, these certified machines connected to a hidden Wi-Fi access point at the Grand Hyatt hotel – the central count

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Dominion EMS Configured with 68.05% Error Rate – Forcing Mass Adjudication – System Suppressed Critical Error Messages During Vote Shifting (MI)

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Disputed Fact Forensic analysis by the Allied Security Operations Group (ASOG), conducted pursuant to a court-authorized inspection in Bailey v. Antrim County, documented that the Dominion EMS was intentionally configured to generate a tabulation error rate of 68.05% – meaning more than two-thirds of all ballots processed were flagged for manual adjudication. The VVSG Section

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68.05% Ballot Error Rate – Dominion EMS Configuration Altered Pre-Election to Force Mass Adjudication (MI)

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Established Fact The ASOG forensic report further documented that the Antrim County Dominion EMS was erroneously configured to produce a 68.05% ballot error rate – meaning more than two-thirds of all ballots were rejected by the machine and routed to human adjudication. The national standard for acceptable ballot error rates is less than 0.0008%. A

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Secretary of Commonwealth Decertified Fulton County Voting Machines in Retaliation for Commissioning Independent Forensic Audit (PA)

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Established Fact After Fulton County, Pennsylvania commissioned an independent forensic examination of its Dominion voting equipment – an audit it was authorized to conduct under Pennsylvania law – the Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth decertified Fulton County’s voting machines on the stated basis that the county had permitted an independent inspector to access them. Fulton

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EAC Certification Does Not Require Disclosure of Foreign Ownership, Supply Chain Provenance, or Remote Access Capabilities (US)

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Established Fact The EAC’s certification program, as documented by the Brennan Center’s November 2019 report, certifies voting systems against technical performance standards but does not require vendors to disclose: foreign connections or ownership structures; supply chain provenance of components; or embedded remote-access capabilities. This structural gap enabled ESS and Dominion to pass through the federal

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EAC’s Own Investigation Found Tabulation Discrepancies in 7 of 18 Dominion ICP Tabulators (TN)

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Established Fact The EAC’s own investigation of Dominion Democracy Suite 5.5-B deployment in Williamson County, Tennessee documented anomalies in which close poll reports from 7 of 18 ICP tabulators did not match the number of ballots scanned – requiring correction through central count scanner re-tabulation. This is not a finding by election integrity advocates; it

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Retaliatory Decertification – State Punishes County for Exercising Audit Rights (PA)

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Disputed Fact The Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth’s decertification of Fulton County’s Dominion machines, triggered solely by Fulton County’s exercise of its audit rights, effectively inverted the relationship between state oversight and local accountability. Under Pennsylvania election law, counties retain statutory authority to verify the integrity of election equipment under their custody. If the state

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Electronic voting systems lack the transparency needed to promote public trust in election outcomes (US)

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Disputed Fact Together, illusory contracts, FOIA obstruction, and denials of access create a structural environment in which grave technical weaknesses can persist indefinitely without detection or remediation. Mesa County’s case demonstrates that unauthorized software (SSMS), global SQL exposure, disabled logging, and mass deletion of audit trails can coexist with EAC/VSTL “certification” and state assurances precisely

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EAC governance system is an insulated “circle of trust” that lacks independent oversight needed for the security of critical infrastructure (US)

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Disputed Fact CISA’s Cyber Risk Assessment depicts U.S. election infrastructure as a highly networked, variably secured critical infrastructure ecosystem with persistent, exploitable weaknesses, while the EAC’s election system oversight is narrowly product centric, episodic, and largely detached from those systemic cyber risk realities. Unlike other critical infrastructure systems, there are no failure modes and effects

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EAC lacks analysis rigor sufficient for critical infrastructure (US)

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Disputed Fact CISA’s Cyber Risk Assessment depicts U.S. election infrastructure as a highly networked, variably secured critical infrastructure ecosystem with persistent, exploitable weaknesses, while the EAC’s election system oversight is narrowly product centric, episodic, and largely detached from those systemic cyber risk realities. Unlike other critical infrastructure systems, there are no failure modes and effects

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