Patrick Colbeck

“Without the adjudication logs, you can’t know who changed the votes. Without the ballot images, you can’t verify the count. Without the EMS database, you can’t trace the chain of custody. Without the drop box videos, you can’t confirm the deliveries. Each record destroyed was a question that can never be answered. That may have

“In Arizona: 263,139 corrupt ballot images and 21,273 missing — tally unverifiable. In Georgia: 17,852 certified votes with no ballot image — confirmed by two professors. In Colorado: mid-election database creation changing adjudication counts by the hundreds. In Michigan: logs deleted, configurations set to 68,000 times the legal error rate. In every state, the digital

“In Georgia: 22,534 more ballots counted than voters credited — in an election decided by 12,670. In Michigan: 499,850 voter participation records removed from the database years after the election. In Arizona: poll book controls disabling double-vote detection mid-Election Day. Voter history is the foundational record that links a ballot to a human being. In

“‘Just look at the ballots’ is a great answer — right up until somebody tries.” The standard reassurance after any contested election is some version of “the paper is the ground truth — just look at the ballots.” The record on Ballot Integrity across Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin describes what happens when someone