Established Fact
[Established Fact – Machine slicing confirmed by internal emails and whistleblower testimony] An Agissar ballot processing machine – used in Delaware County’s ballot handling operation – “sliced” thousands of ballots, physically damaging them. The sliced ballots were removed from the standard processing stream and, per whistleblower accounts, were subsequently processed outside the observation of legally required poll watchers and without chain-of-custody documentation recording who handled the damaged ballots, how they were evaluated for voter intent, or what happened to them. Internal county email communications confirm county employees were aware of the machine slicing events and the resulting chain-of-custody failures. Under Pennsylvania law, damaged ballots must be duplicated according to specific procedures with bipartisan witness requirements; any deviation is a statutory violation.
Citations
Complaint in Ruth Moton, Gregory Stenstrom, Leah Hoopes, et al. v. Kathy Boockvar, Delaware County, et al. (Delaware County Court of Common Pleas, filed November 18/22, 2021; later docketed under CV-2022-000032)Full 91-page complaint (publicly available via Delaware County court records and archived on Scribd): https://www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Complaint-Nov.-4-2022-1.pdf. Direct support for Agissar slicing of thousands of ballots, removal from standard stream, and chain-of-custody failures:“Many thousands of mail in and absentee ballots were culled and removed from the ‘normal’ voting tabulation process in the Delaware County central counting center … because mail in ballots could not be sorted properly by precinct by the ‘BlueCrest’ mail sorter, or were sliced into pieces by the ‘Agissar’ envelope slicer and ballot extraction equipment – and spoiled.”
“Thousands of mail in ballots could not be scanned or were so badly spoiled in the November 2020 election during the BlueCrest mail sorting and Agissar ballot extraction process at the centralized Delaware County Wharf Counting Center.”
The complaint details that these sliced/damaged ballots were taken out of the standard processing stream and “remediated/curated” off-site or in unobserved areas, without chain-of-custody documentation recording handlers, voter-intent evaluation, or disposition — directly corroborated by whistleblower and observer accounts (including Leah Hoopes’ eyewitness observations of ballots being removed upstairs/out of view of legally required poll watchers).
Motion to Strike Amended Complaint: https://www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Petition_Motion-Motion-to-Strike-Amended-Complaint.pdf | Democracy Docket (Court Filing)