Required L&A Testing Not Conducted – Forensic Exam Found Pre-Election EMS Changes Three Weeks Before Election (PA)

The Speckin Forensics examination of Fulton County’s Dominion voting machines – conducted in 2022 as part of Fulton County v. Dominion Voting Systems – documented that required Logic and Accuracy inspections had not been conducted and that changes were made to the EMS three weeks before the 2020 election. A system that has been modified after its last documented L&A test has, by definition, not been tested in its deployed configuration. L&A testing had been designed specifically to catch this class of pre-election modification. Its omission meant that a materially modified EMS configuration was deployed without any independent verification of accurate tabulation. The Pennsylvania Department of State’s response to this finding – decertifying Fulton County’s machines not for the substantive violations but for the act of hiring an independent expert – structurally discouraged any other county from conducting independent verification.