Ballot Integrity

Established Fact Digital forensic microscopy conducted as part of the post-election audit detected the use of up to 10 different forms of unauthorized, non-compliant ballot paper stock in Maricopa County’s 2020 election. Official Maricopa County ballots have a specific, certified paper specification, calibration marks, and Machine Identification Codes (steganographic hexagonal dots) that identify them as […]

Established Fact Forensic examination of the Maricopa County Election Management System (EMS) revealed that 263,139 ballot images were corrupt and unreadable, and an additional 21,273 ballot images were entirely missing. Ballot images are the digital photographs taken by tabulators at the moment of scanning; they are the primary instrument for correlating electronic cast vote records