Patrick Colbeck

DOJ Letter to Arizona Senate Threatening to Halt State Legislative Audit (AZ)

Established Fact The DOJ’s Deputy Assistant Attorney General sent a letter to Arizona Senate Majority Leader Karen Fann attempting to prohibit the state Senate’s forensic audit of Maricopa County election systems – characterizing state legislative oversight of a state election as a potential federal concern, and threatening federal intervention if the audit proceeded. Citations Letter

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Operation Arctic Frost – Grand Jury Subpoenas and Gag Orders Targeting Congressional Investigators (US)

Established Fact The FBI and Special Counsel Jack Smith, through Operation Arctic Frost, issued 197 grand jury subpoenas under “Prohibited Access” file designations targeting over 430 Republican individuals such as Mike Lindell and entities – including sitting U.S. Senators and lawmakers who were conducting their own investigations of the 2020 election. Non-disclosure orders lasting up

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Bureau of Elections Directive Prohibiting Independent Forensic Review of Voting Equipment (MI)

Established Fact Michigan Bureau of Elections Director Jonathan Brater issued a memorandum on August 4, 2021, threatening clerks with decertification of election equipment if they permitted any independent technical experts – including those retained by duly elected boards of canvassers – to examine voting systems. Simultaneously, the same vendor (ElectionSource) implicated in directing battery-removal from

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Erie USPS Whistleblower Richard Hopkins – Federal Agent Coercion to Recant (PA)

Disputed Fact Following the election, Richard Hopkins, an Erie, Pennsylvania, U.S. Postal Service carrier who had signed a sworn affidavit alleging that supervisors directed him to collect and backdate late-arriving mail-in ballots to November 3, 2020, was aggressively interrogated by federal postal inspectors until he recanted his affidavit. The interrogation and recantation were captured in

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Secretary of State Decertification of County Equipment Following Independent Audit – Retaliatory Denial of Access (PA)

Established Fact Following Fulton County’s independent forensic examination of its Dominion Democracy Suite 5.5 server – which revealed uncertified database tools, EMS changes three weeks before the election, and missed Logic and Accuracy inspections – the Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth decertified Fulton County’s Dominion machines. The stated basis was not the substantive irregularities found,

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Fulton County Decertification as Retaliation for Independent Audit (PA)

Established Fact After Fulton County, PA commissioned an independent forensic review of its Dominion election systems – an act expressly authorized by state law – the Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth decertified Fulton County’s voting machines. The stated basis was not any finding of fraud, but that the county had “permitted an independent inspection.” Fulton

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Shared Single Password Across All EMS, EMS Client, ICC, HiPro, and Adjudication Systems (AZ)

Established Fact The Cyber Ninjas audit documented that a single, identical password was used for all user accounts on all EMS, EMS client, adjudication, HiPro scanner, and ICC workstations – credentials installed by Dominion during the August 6, 2019 system installation and never changed through the date of the audit, a period exceeding two years

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Prosecutorial Threats Against Media (“Detroit Leaks”)(MI)

Established Fact Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel issued cease-and-desist threats to media outlets hosting the “Detroit Leaks” poll-worker training video, threatening potential criminal prosecution to force removal of content showing controversial instructions given to Detroit election workers regarding how to use COVID six foot rule to obstruct Republican poll challengers. The “six foot rule” was

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Coordinated Use of Standing Dismissals, Rule 11 Sanctions Threats, and Attorney Discipline to Deter Election Integrity Litigation (MI)

Disputed Fact Multiple attorneys who filed election integrity challenges in Michigan faced concurrent financial and professional consequences initiated or recommended by federal and state officials. In August 2021, U.S. District Judge Linda V. Parker sanctioned Sidney Powell, Lin Wood, Stefanie Lambert, and six other attorneys for the King v. Whitmer challenge, ordering monetary payment of

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Prolific Use of Standing Dismissals, Rule 11 Sanctions Threats, and Attorney Discipline to Deter Election Integrity Litigation (MI)

Established Fact [Established Fact – As to procedural dismissal rates, Clare Locke letters, anti-analysis clause, and Bailey dismissal basis] The Michigan source record, corroborated by the national elections litigation analysis in the project files, establishes that the characterization of all Michigan post-2020 election cases as having been dismissed “for lack of evidence” is factually inaccurate.

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