Patrick Colbeck

Unpatched EMS Operating System and Plaintext FIPS Decryption Keys (AZ)

Arizona, Dominion, Electronic Voting System Integrity, Established Fact, Maricopa County, Security Negligence, United States /

Established Fact The Dominion EMS server’s operating system and antivirus software were not patched or updated after August 6, 2019 – the date of initial installation – leaving the system exposed to all known exploits disclosed during the subsequent 14 months before the November 2020 election, including the entire pre-election deployment period. More critically, Dominion

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Exploitation of Dominion Democracy Suite 5.5 Deployed with Open SQL Server Port 1433 – Direct Database Modification Possible from Any Internet-Connected Device (PA)

Disputed Fact, Dominion, Electronic Voting System Integrity, Pennsylvania, Security Negligence, United States /

Disputed Fact [Disputed Fact – As to whether vulnerability was exploited] Forensic analysis of Dominion’s Democracy Suite in multiple jurisdictions established that SQL Server port 1433 was configured to accept connections from any IP address worldwide. Port 1433 is the standard network port for Microsoft SQL Server – the database engine underlying the Democracy Suite.

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Dominion Democracy Suite 5.5 Deployed with Open SQL Server Port 1433 – Direct Database Modification Possible from Any Internet-Connected Device (PA)

Dominion, Electronic Voting System Integrity, Established Fact, Pennsylvania, Security Negligence, United States /

Established Fact [Established Fact – As to SQL port configuration and demonstrated vulnerability] Forensic analysis of Dominion’s Democracy Suite in multiple jurisdictions established that SQL Server port 1433 was configured to accept connections from any IP address worldwide. Port 1433 is the standard network port for Microsoft SQL Server – the database engine underlying the

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Halderman Expert Findings – QR Code Manipulation and Remote Malware Installation Possible on Certified BMDs (GA)

Dominion, Electronic Voting System Integrity, Established Fact, Georgia, Security Negligence, United States /

Established Fact Prof. J. Alex Halderman (Univ. of Michigan), serving as plaintiff’s expert in Curling v. Raffensperger, documented through hands-on forensic testing of the EAC-certified ICX BMD system that: (1) attackers can alter ballot QR codes (the operative data the tabulation system counts, not the human-readable text); (2) malicious software can be installed remotely from

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Encryption Keys Stored in Plaintext Within Election Database – FIPS 140-2 Violation (GA)

Dominion, Electronic Voting System Integrity, Established Fact, Georgia, Security Negligence, United States /

Established Fact The EOG Report and independent forensic analysis confirmed that Dominion stored master cryptographic encryption keys unprotected and in plain text within the same database used to store election data and produce contest results – in direct violation of FIPS 140-2, which requires cryptographic keys to be protected within a cryptographic module from unauthorized

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iButton Authentication Hardware Retained by Vendor – County Had No Independent System Access (AZ)

Arizona, Dominion, Electronic Voting System Integrity, Established Fact, Maricopa County, Security Negligence, United States /

Established Fact The Cyber Ninjas audit confirmed as an established fact that Maricopa County did not possess the administrative iButtons required to independently access, configure, or validate its Dominion tabulation systems. Only Dominion Voting Systems held these tokens. The Senate cover letter stated: “No private company should be trusted with the keys to our democracy.

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Democrat lawmakers targeted DOGE staff with investigation requests (US)

Established Fact, Intimidation, United States, Weaponization of Government /

Established Fact Democratic lawmakers sent coordinated criminal‑exposure warnings, staff‑list demands, and investigation requests to ethics offices, DOJ, and OPM that uniquely targeted DOGE‑linked employees across multiple agencies in 2025. This constitutes an established pattern of unusually intense oversight aimed at one cohort of federal workers. Senators Blackburn, Cruz, Hawley, and Scott separately called on AG

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CISA Integration Into Election Integrity Partnership to Flag and Suppress Domestic Election-Related Speech (US)

Established Fact, Intimidation, United States, Weaponization of Government /

Established Fact CISA coordinated with the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP) – a consortium including Stanford Internet Observatory, the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public, and affiliated entities – to identify and flag social media content about alleged election irregularities for platform removal. The EIP’s own published data indicated prominent conservatives’ speech was targeted.

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DHS Terrorism Advisory Bulletin Classifying Election-Integrity Concerns as Terrorism Threat Driver (US)

Established Fact, Intimidation, United States, Weaponization of Government /

Established Fact On February 7, 2022, the Department of Homeland Security issued a Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin explicitly classifying “false or misleading narratives regarding unsubstantiated widespread election fraud” as a terrorism threat driver. This bulletin placed citizens raising election-integrity concerns in proximity to the category of national security threats, producing a significant chilling effect on

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Ethics Complaints, Private Investigators and OSC Staff (WI)

Established Fact, Intimidation, United States, Weaponization of Government, Wisconsin /

Established Fact [Established Fact – As to acts] The OSC documented that its investigative staff were subjected to frivolous ethics complaints, voluminous open-records requests designed to strain OSC resources, private investigators surveilling OSC staff’s personal lives, and alleged hacks of OSC devices. The use of private investigators against legislative investigators conducting a constitutionally authorized election

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