Intentional Media Dismissive of Election Integrity Concerns in Reporting on Election Results (PA)

Election Results Certification Integrity, Pennsylvania, Reasonable Inference, United States, Unofficial Reporting / Patrick Colbeck

Reasonable Inference Beginning on Election Day and continuing through certification, major national and Pennsylvania news outlets adopted a consistent framing that characterized election integrity claims raised by Republican legislators and the Trump campaign as “baseless,” “debunked,” or “without evidence” — often in headlines and opening paragraphs, and before any independent investigation of the underlying factual

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Media Amplification of False Ballot Count Data Without Correction – Philadelphia County Vote Dump (PA)

Election Results Certification Integrity, Established Fact, Pennsylvania, United States, Unofficial Reporting / Patrick Colbeck

Established Fact On November 4, 2020, Pennsylvania Republican legislators — including State Rep. Frank Ryan, a certified public accountant — reported in sworn testimony before the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee that Pennsylvania’s Department of State vote-reporting portal showed an updated Philadelphia County mail-in ballot count of 508,112 at 11:30 AM, despite

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Media Dismissal of Sworn Affidavits to Protect Unofficial Results – TCF Center (MI)

Detroit, Election Results Certification Integrity, Michigan, Reasonable Inference, United States, Unofficial Reporting, Wayne County / Patrick Colbeck

Reasonable Inference Media outlets across Michigan and nationally used unofficial election-night results to establish an expectation of decisive victory, then systematically characterized hundreds of sworn, notarized affidavits from TCF Center poll workers and observers as “baseless,” “unsubstantiated,” or already “debunked.” These affidavits detailed election administration chaos including the boarding of windows to prevent lawful observation,

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AP Arizona Early Call on Election Night – Pressure on Canvassing Board (AZ)

Arizona, Election Results Certification Integrity, Reasonable Inference, United States, Unofficial Reporting / Patrick Colbeck

Reasonable Inference [Reasonable Inference – Causal link to shortened review window] The Associated Press called Arizona for Joe Biden on election night of November 3, 2020, before multiple other major outlets and before official canvass was complete. Fox News also called Arizona early. This premature media call established an unofficial “result” that was treated by

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AP Arizona Early Call on Election Night (AZ)

Arizona, Disputed Fact, Election Results Certification Integrity, United States, Unofficial Reporting / Patrick Colbeck

Disputed Fact [Disputed Fact – Premature call] The Associated Press called Arizona for Joe Biden on election night of November 3, 2020, before multiple other major outlets and before official canvass was complete. Fox News also called Arizona early. This premature media call established an unofficial “result” that was treated by state officials and the

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Pre-Meditated FOIA Obstruction Intended to Prevent Access to Machine Audit Detailed Technical Report (MI)

Audit, Election Results Certification Integrity, Macomb Countty, Michigan, Reasonable Inference, United States / Patrick Colbeck

Reasonable Inference The office of Macomb County Clerk Anthony Forlini engaged in pre-meditated FOIA obstruction when they reached out to the office of MI Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson and ES&S representatives for guidance on how to prevent disclosure of the audit records. Macomb County subsequently denied FOIA requests for such records using the rationale

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Fake Forensic Audit of ES&S System (MI)

Audit, Disputed Fact, Election Results Certification Integrity, Macomb Countty, Michigan, United States / Patrick Colbeck

Disputed Fact In the wake of the 2020 election, incoming Macomb County Clerk Anthony Forlini contracted with Pro V&V to conduct what he referred to as a “forensic” audit of the ES&S. Cybersecurity expert Ben Cotton of CyFir was invited to observe the conduct of the audit but was not allowed to examine the equipment

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Coordinated Evasion of Special Counsel Subpoenas (WI)

Audit, Election Results Certification Integrity, Established Fact, United States, Wisconsin / Patrick Colbeck

Established Fact During the Wisconsin Legislature’s investigation led by Special Counsel Michael Gableman, the Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC), the State Attorney General, and voting-machine vendors (Dominion and ES&S) refused to comply with legislative subpoenas seeking voting system data and logs. Local clerks asserted that providing secure copies of machine data to the legislature would “compromise

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Retaliatory Decertification of Machines to Obstruct Legislative Audits (PA)

Audit, Election Results Certification Integrity, Established Fact, Pennsylvania, United States / Patrick Colbeck

Established Fact After Fulton County permitted an independent forensic examination of its Dominion equipment at the request of the Pennsylvania Senate, the Secretary of the Commonwealth decertified the county’s voting machines on that basis. At the same time, the Governor, Attorney General, and Dominion Voting Systems engaged in coordinated litigation to block the Senate’s contractor

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RLA Invalidated by Statutory Loopholes and Non-Compliance (MI)

Audit, Detroit, Election Results Certification Integrity, Established Fact, Michigan, United States, Wayne County / Patrick Colbeck

Established Fact Michigan’s statewide Risk Limiting Audit was structurally compromised: under MCL 168.871, “out-of-balance” precincts are legally ineligible for hand recounts, and this rule was used to exclude roughly 71% of Detroit absentee counting boards from meaningful post-election scrutiny. Additionally, 21 county clerks simply failed to complete the required RLA, rendering the statutory “risk limit”

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