Deployment Configuration

EMS OS and Antivirus Unpatched Since August 2019 – Contradictory CISA Guidance (AZ)

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Established Fact The Cyber Ninjas audit documented as an established fact that neither the EMS operating system nor its antivirus software had been patched or updated since August 2019 – the date of Dominion’s software installation – meaning Maricopa ran a presidential election on a system with 15+ months of unaddressed CVEs. Maricopa County contended […]

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Post-Certification Software Alterations – 45 EXEs and 1,053 DLLs Modified (AZ)

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Disputed Fact Forensic cybersecurity analyst Ben Cotton (CyFIR), retained by the Arizona Senate audit, documented that after the Dominion software installation 45 .exe packages and 1,053 .dll files were modified, and 4 .exe files and 377 .dll files were newly created on the EMS system. Cotton stated: “The machine behavior settings (MBS) and the database

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Ballot Paper Authentication Disabled Across the State of Georgia (GA)

Deployment Configuration, Dominion, Electronic Voting System Integrity, Established Fact, Fulton County, Georgia, United States /

Established Fact Georgia purchased the Dominion Democracy Suite 5.5A voting system that included tabulators with the capacity to authenticate specialized ballot paper. The Georgia Master Solutions Agreement requires counties to use the specialized paper which must be purchased from Dominion Voting Systems. The feature has been disabled on all tabulators across the state since the

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Voting Systems Failure and Reprogramming of Election Systems Immediately Before The 2020 General Election (GA)

Deployment Configuration, Dominion, Electronic Voting System Integrity, Established Fact, Fulton County, Georgia, United States /

Established Fact On September 30, 2020, the Secretary of State directed county officials to install untested and uncertified software (version 5.5.10.32) written the week before on 34,000 Ballot Marking Devices across the state before it was tested or submitted to the Election Assistance Commission (“EAC”) as required. To be clear- this was not a patch,

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Mid-Election EMS Database Recreation – Tabulation and Adjudication Databases Recreated on October 21, 2020; Selective Ballot Record Reprocessing (CO)

Colorado, Deployment Configuration, Dominion, Electronic Voting System Integrity, Established Fact, Mesa County, United States /

Established Fact Forensic analysis of the Mesa County, Colorado EMS server – utilizing the same Dominion Democracy Suite platform deployed in multiple 2020 battleground states – revealed the unauthorized, mid-election creation of entirely new Tabulation and Adjudication databases on October 21, 2020, during the active early voting period. The original pre-election databases were deleted and

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Concurrent Conflicting Election Project Files – Dominion CEO Admits Under Oath Two Versions Active Simultaneously (MI)

Antrim County, Deployment Configuration, Dominion, Electronic Voting System Integrity, Established Fact, Michigan, United States /

Established Fact Dominion Voting Systems CEO John Poulos testified under oath that the Antrim County EMS concurrently housed two different versions of the 2020 election project: one from September 25, 2020, and a later version from October 23, 2020. The coexistence of two versions of the same election’s project file on a single EMS is

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Installation of Uncertified Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio on Dominion EMS – Direct Database Manipulation Capability Without Application-Level Audit Trail (MI)

Antrim County, Deployment Configuration, Disputed Fact, Dominion, Electronic Voting System Integrity, Michigan, United States /

Disputed Fact The Dominion Election Management Server (EMS) in Antrim County, Michigan was found to contain an installation of Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio – a database administration tool that is not part of the certified Dominion Democracy Suite configuration and has not been approved by the EAC for use on election systems. This installation

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Dominion Software Installed on 30,000+ BMDs Without EAC Certification; Encryption Keys Stored in Plain Text in Violation of FIPS 140-2 (GA)

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Established Fact In the weeks immediately preceding the 2020 election, the Georgia Secretary of State authorized Dominion to install software updates across more than 30,000 BMDs statewide without completing the EAC recertification process that such modifications require. Pre-election installation of software updates on certified systems without re-certification is a categorical violation of federal certification standards

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Recount Server Crash and Complete Database Recreation – Fourth Full Rescan Required (GA)

Deployment Configuration, Dominion, Electronic Voting System Integrity, Established Fact, Fulton County, Georgia, United States /

Established Fact During the court-ordered machine recount of Fulton County’s 2020 general election results, a failure by county staff to comply with approved technological protocols for backing up and uploading tabulation data caused a server crash on November 29, 2020. This catastrophic configuration failure destroyed the active recount tabulation database entirely, requiring Fulton County to

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Uncertified 4GB CompactFlash Memory Cards Deployed in Place of Contracted 8GB Cards; 36 Mid-Election Card Swaps Without EMS Logical Delineation (GA)

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Established Fact Georgia’s Master Solution Contract specified 8GB CompactFlash (CF) cards with a 29,000-ballot storage capacity per card. Fulton County instead deployed 4GB CF cards with a stated operational limit of 5,000 ballots – less than one-fifth the contracted capacity. Because these cards reached their informal 3,000-ballot threshold before filling, county personnel swapped memory cards

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