Established Fact
Forensic examination of ESS DS200 tabulator thumb drives from a Michigan county confirmed that each DS200 tabulator had a Verizon 4G cellular wireless communications card installed and active at power-up. Both examined devices were configured to transmit election results to IP address 10.48.51.1 – a private network address that is accessible remotely only through the public internet or a VPN connection – directly contradicting ESS CEO Tom Burt’s public representations that machines were not internet-connected and contradicting ESS’s sworn certifications to state election officials. ESS CEO Tom Burt further testified in a January 2020 Congressional hearing under oath that the programmable logic devices used within ESS tabulators (e.g., the DS200) are manufactured in a factory in China. Taken together, Michigan deployed ESS tabulators that contain (a) Chinese-manufactured programmable logic devices whose firmware cannot be independently verified; and (b) active cellular modems that transmitted election results over public internet infrastructure that is accessible to any party capable of intercepting that transmission. ,
Citations
Bailey v Antrim County Court Exhibit: Penrose #1 [Modems and Dedicated Networks] https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MnRUO4pTtDK2yKtXETjb74_BBOTMef1k/view?usp=drive_link
During January 9, 2020 testimony, ESS CEO Tom Burt said “”Burt said his company had a ‘limited’ number of components that come from China, claiming many amounted to plastic or metals that make up the device, not IT. However, he acknowledged that for at least one of their machines, the DS200, one of its nine programmable logic devices are sourced from a California company that produces the part in China.”; see also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y15D19usS0g