Equipment Chain of Custody Discrepancy With the Poll Tape Metadata (MI)

“The Antrim Paradox,” highlights an irreconcilable discrepancy between the documented chain of custody for voting equipment and the metadata printed on the physical poll tapes. While the Halderman report attributes massive vote mis-mapping to a “one-row shift” caused by an outdated election definition on a CompactFlash (CF) card, the actual poll tapes produced by that card contain revised contest headings and write-in structures that should not exist if the card had not been reprogrammed. This finding challenges the internal logic of the report’s explanation for the Antrim County voting discrepancies.