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Bailey v. Antrim County, No. 2020-9238-CZ (Antrim Co. Cir. Ct.) – Only Case with Forensic Discovery; Dismissed When Remedies Satisfied, Not for Lack of Merit (MI)

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Established Fact Bailey v. Antrim County is the most analytically significant Michigan case for this investigation. Judge Kevin Elsenheimer granted a preliminary injunction authorizing forensic examination of Antrim County’s tabulating machines, thumb drives, and memory cards – the only such order in Michigan. The case was ultimately dismissed when the court found all requested remedies

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CISA “Most Secure Election” Declaration – Classified Vulnerabilities Concealed from Media and Congress (US)

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Established Fact CISA Director Christopher Krebs issued a joint statement on November 13, 2020, declaring the 2020 election “the most secure in American history.” This statement was treated by every major media outlet as definitive government confirmation of election security. However, CISA’s own classified TLP-AMBER Election Infrastructure Cyber Risk Assessment for the 12 months preceding

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Michigan SOS “Fact-Check” Page – Valid Election Fraud Claims Labeled as Misinformation (MI)

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Disputed Fact [Disputed Fact – Legal characterization] The Michigan Secretary of State’s office established and maintained a public-facing “SOS Fact-Check” web page during and after the 2020 election, which was used to label specific citizen affidavits, audit claims, and investigative findings as “misinformation” or “debunked.” The page utilized state government resources and the official authority

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Michigan SOS “Fact-Check” Page – Media Coordination (MI)

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Disputed Fact [Disputed Fact – Coordination with media] The Michigan Secretary of State’s office established and maintained a public-facing “SOS Fact-Check” web page during and after the 2020 election, which was used to label specific citizen affidavits, audit claims, and investigative findings as “misinformation” or “debunked.” The page utilized state government resources and the official

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Michigan SOS “Fact-Check” Page (MI)

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Established Fact [Established Fact – Page existed] The Michigan Secretary of State’s office established and maintained a public-facing “SOS Fact-Check” web page during and after the 2020 election, which was used to label specific citizen affidavits, audit claims, and investigative findings as “misinformation” or “debunked.” The page utilized state government resources and the official authority

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Temporal Contradiction Between “No Fraud” Media Narrative and Simultaneous Active Investigations (GA)

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Established Fact On December 22, 2020, the Georgia Secretary of State’s office issued a press release announcing that Secretary Raffensperger was “coordinating a whole of government effort to combat illegal voting in Georgia” in conjunction with the Governor’s office and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, and that the office had “already launched over 250 investigations

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Media Enforcement of the “Baseless Claims” Narrative to Suppress Audit Findings (AZ)

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Established Fact The Arizona State Senate exercised its legislative constitutional authority when it issued subpoenas to the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors in December 2020 and March 2021, compelling production of ballots, tabulation equipment, voter rolls, and election data for independent review. A Maricopa County Superior Court judge subsequently confirmed in July 2021 that “the

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Targeting of Sitting Georgia Legislators’ Core Political Speech (GA)

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Established Fact The Election Integrity Partnership (EIP), operating at CISA’s request, tracked and categorized core political speech from Georgia Rep. Jody Hice and then-candidate Marjorie Taylor Greene about Georgia’s 2020 election administration as “delegitimization” and actionable “disinformation.” These tickets were routed through the EIP pipeline to platforms, with the practical effect of suppressing or downgrading

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Suppression of Citizen Dissent via State-Federal Influence Network (AZ)

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Established Fact The Arizona Secretary of State’s Office under Katie Hobbs submitted a private citizen’s Facebook post, which stated that the incumbent president had already won Arizona, to the CISA/EIP tipline, resulting in coordinated removal of the domestic political speech by platforms. EIP and government partners also classified allegations regarding Sharpie use in Maricopa County

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Global Engagement Center Statutory Overreach into Domestic Speech Control (US)

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Established Fact The State Department’s Global Engagement Center (GEC) – an entity statutorily constrained to countering foreign propaganda and disinformation – submitted Jira tickets to the EIP infrastructure targeting domestic American speech. This integration of a foreign-intelligence apparatus into domestic speech control represents a violation of the GEC’s statutory mandate and potentially the Smith-Mundt Modernization

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