Video: 88-Page Report Details Voting Machine Corruption
Table of Contents
Executive Summary............................................................................................... 3
Introduction.............................................................................................................5
Definition of Terms................................................................................................. 7
Introduction.............................................................................................................5
Definition of Terms................................................................................................. 7
Analysis.................................................................................................................. 9
Discussion............................................................................................................ 26
Conclusions.......................................................................................................... 28
Discussion............................................................................................................ 26
Conclusions.......................................................................................................... 28
Appendix A - Batches in Original Adjudication Database.................................... 31
Appendix B - Batches in New Adjudication Database......................................... 38
Appendix C - EMS User Log Events in November 2020...................................... 59
Appendix D - EMS User Log Events in March 2021.............................................68
Reference A - Databases and Tables.................................................................. 73
Reference A - Databases and Tables.................................................................. 73
Reference B - Scanner Speed............................................................................. 75
Reference C - Scanners Used by Mesa County.................................................. 76
Reference D - Data Movement from Batches to Votes........................................ 77
Reference D - Data Movement from Batches to Votes........................................ 77
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
This report documents the findings of an examination of tabulated vote databases based on forensic analysis of the drive image of Mesa County, Colorado’s Dominion Voting Systems (DVS) Election Management System (EMS) server. The findings in this report were prepared by the authors as consultants to the legal team representing Tina Peters, the Mesa County Clerk and Recorder, pursuant to her statutory duties as Mesa County’s Chief Election Official. The findings provide evidence of unauthorized and illegal manipulation of tabulated vote data during the 2020 General Election and 2021 Grand Junction Municipal Election. Because of this evidence, which led to the vote totals for those elections being impossible to verify, the results and integrity of Mesa County’s 2020 General Election and the 2021 Grand Junction Municipal Election are in question. This analysis was performed using the forensic image of the EMS server, which was backed up before Colorado Secretary of State and DVS overwrote the hard drive with D-Suite version 5.13.
Findings and Implications:
Findings and Implications:
- There was an unauthorized creation of new election databases during early voting in the 2020 General Election on October 21, 2020, followed by the digital reloading of 20,346 ballot records into the new election databases, making the original voter intent recorded from the ballots unknown. In addition, 5,567 ballots in 58 batches did not have their digital records copied to the new database, although the votes from the ballots in those batches were recorded in the Main election database.
- The same unauthorized creation of new election databases occurred during the 2021 Grand Junction Municipal Election on March 30, 2021, followed by the digital reloading of 2,974 ballot records, making the original voter intent recorded on those ballots unknown. In addition, 4,458 ballots in 46 batches did not have their digital records copied to the new database, although the votes from the ballots in those batches were recorded in the Main election database.
- The absence of secure hash algorithm (.sha) files for each digital ballot image makes the authenticity of each digital ballot image, and the ballot level record for those ballots, impossible to verify.
- The true total vote count in Mesa County, Colorado cannot be accurately calculated for the 2020 General Election or the 2021 Grand Junction Municipal Election from records in the databases of the county’s voting system.
- There is no function or feature on the EMS server that could be executed inadvertently or deliberately by a local election official that would cause this combination of events to occur, especially within the time frame that these events occurred. Given the complex sequence of data manipulations and deletions necessary to produce the digital evidence described in this report, this combination of events could not have been the result of either deliberate or inadvertent actions by those officials.
- Dominion’s installation of the Trusted Build update on the EMS in May of 2021, as ordered by the Colorado Secretary of State, destroyed all data on the EMS hard drive, including the batch and ballot records that evidenced the creation of new databases and reprocessing of ballot records described in Findings 1 and 2 above. This destruction of all data by the trusted build is described in the “Mesa County, Colorado Voting Systems Forensic Examination and Analysis Report”.
- The fact that such ballot record manipulation has been shown demonstrates a critical security failure with the DVS EMS wherever it is used. The manipulation would not be identifiable to an election official using the voting systems, nor to an observer or judge overseeing the election conduct, much less to citizens with no access to the voting systems; without both cyber and database management system expertise, and unfettered access to database records and computer log files (many of which were destroyed by the actions of the Secretary of State) from the EMS server, the manipulation would be undetectable.
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