By Jim Hoft
TheGatewayPundit.com

The heart of Maricopa County’s elections is a system called VRAS, the Voter Registration Access System. It provides critical election functions, like real-time access to voter registration data, ballot and voting info, polling maps, candidate financial reports, ballot preparation, and polling location management, agreements, and so on. It includes a database to generate reports like the bilingual pollworker report. Or create lists of early voter information, or military voter information. It supplies the data needed by Runbeck Election Services to print the hundreds of different ballots for precincts. Runbeck also packs, distributes, and tracks all the ballots while updating VRAS.

VRAS was built internally, not by the Maricopa Board or it’s Office of Enterprise Technology (OET). It was created years ago by skilled software developers in the smallish IT Department of the County Recorder’s Office. Other than its SQL database, they used very little “off the shelf parts”. Not much is known about VRAS because of this approach. In May 2019 a working group hired by MCBOS released their findings about election structure and technology. It recommended the VRAS software be updated “just in case there’s an audit”.

By Tom Ozimek
TheEpochTimes.com

Conservative talk radio and EpochTV host Larry Elder has filed a lawsuit challenging a decision by California’s Secretary of State to block him from running in the state’s special recall election in September, alleging he’s the target of political “shenanigans” that are “dangerous and unconstitutional.”

Elder, a Republican who on July 12 entered the gubernatorial race to oust incumbent Gov. Gavin Newsom, said in a video posted on Twitter on Tuesday that he has filed a lawsuit against California Secretary of State Shirley Weber for failing to put him on the ballot despite his campaign’s insistence he has filed “every piece of paper required.”

“We’ve complied with everything the secretary of state has required of us,” Elder said in a statement. “The politicians in Sacramento know I’m the only candidate who can beat Gavin Newsom. They are afraid, and they are using whatever shenanigans they can to try to trip me up. It won’t work.”

By Joe Hoft
TheGatewayPundit.com

Much of what is presented below comes from the good work of Kevin Moncla

The Georgia audit held in November 2020 after the election that provided the corrupt Secretary of State support that the election in his state was fine was not fine itself.  Some damaging information provided through a FOIA request confirms this.

In January we determined that the firms selected by Maricopa County in Arizona to perform audits of the 2020 Election were not certified when they were selected by the county as had been claimed.

One of these firms selected by the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors to perform the audit there for the country was also used by corrupt Brad Raffensperger in Georgia in performing an audit there in November 2020 after the early November election.  We noted therefore that the audit there was not performed by a certified auditor since Pro V&V was not certified at that time.  This clean audit opinion was given after looking at no ballots from the election.

By Jim Hoft
TheGatewayPundit.com

German officials defended the security of their elections at a meeting this week. Dr. Theil stressed the fact that Germany does not have voting machines like in the US and therefore their elections are more secure.

Even Europe knows the US elections are a fraudfest.

Via Deutsche Welle

At a press conference on Wednesday flanked by the heads of Germany’s election authority, domestic intelligence agency, the BfV, and cybersecurity agency, the BSI, Seehofer laid out the security threats to Germany’s election and how the authorities are planning to fend them off…

…Thiel was also keen to underline the fact that Germany does not use voting machines, like in the US. “We don’t have a situation with voting machines that we may know from the US. The actual voting procedure at the polling station is old school,” said Thiel. “When I explained to a senior official from the Interior Ministry recently that it works with paper and pencil, he said, ‘that reassures me’.”

We have no voting machines — at the end of the day, it’s the ballot paper that gets counted,” he said. Thiel also went on to stress that any citizen has the right to walk in and watch the votes being counted.

Voting systems in both countries have been subject to similar accusations, but are structured differently.

By Jim Hoft
TheGatewayPundit.com

In recent closed meetings the government’s Election Assistance Commission (EAC) eliminated the requirement that banned voting machines from connecting to the Internet.

The AP reported (emphasis added):

Key elements of the first federal technology standards for voting equipment in 15 years should be scrapped because language that would have banned the devices from connecting to the internet was dropped after private meetings held with manufacturers, according to a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday.

The lawsuit against the U.S. Election Assistance Commission [EAC], filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., claims those meetings should have been open and that changes to the draft standards should have been shared with the commission’s advisory and standards boards. The lawsuit seeks to have those changes set aside.

The standards, approved in February, did not include draft language that would have banned wireless technology from voting equipment under federal certification guidelines. Voting security experts say the machines will be vulnerable to hacking without such a ban.

While the commission’s certification guidelines are voluntary, multiple states use them to set mandatory requirements for voting equipment.

Editor's Note:  Bill Barr is one of the most skilled back-stabbing traiters every to walk the halls of our gubermint.  Absolute criminal!  The DOJ is nothing but a protection racket for members of Congress and all the criminals they work for.

By Joe Hoft
TheGatewayPundit.com

President Trump mentioned yesterday at the CPAC event in Texas that the US Attorney in Pennsylvania sent the President a letter recently where he claimed former AG Bill Barr told him not to investigate the crimes and corruption that occurred in the 2020 Election in that state.  Tonight the President released the letter.

Yesterday President Trump told the CPAC crowd in Texas that recently a former US Attorney in Pennsylvania sent the President a letter stating that he was told by AG Barr not to investigate election crimes in Pennsylvania.

President Trump tonight released the letter he received from the former US Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, William McSwain.   In the letter McSwain shared the following:

By Jim Hoft
TheGatewayPundit.com

On Monday night Garland Favorito, the founder of the election integrity group VoterGA, announced he will hold a press conference on Tuesday morning.

VoterGA will review highlights of its amended ballot inspection complaint and provide proof that election fraud occurred in the November 2020 election.

The press conference will start at 10:30 AM Eastern.

Garland told The Gateway Pundit on Monday that he expects the news will be on the Bannon War Room on Tuesday morning.

On Tuesday morning VoterGA sent out a statement of their findings before the press conference.

The voter integrity group found that the Fulton County Georgia recount included a 60% error reporting rate.

Editor's Note:  Such horse crap.  These totally corrupt people literally handed over the entire election process to third parties (Dominion Voting Systems for one), hired their own third party people to conduct their SHAME audits, and now claim nobody else is allowed to do it, not even those most legally empowered to do so.
 

By Jim Hoft
TheGatewayPundit.com

The Pennsylvania Department of State issued a directive prohibiting county election boards from cooperating with the Senate’s election audit.
According to the directive from the Secretary of State’s office:

• Elections officials may not turn over election material to third parties.
• Any equipment turned over to a third party cannot be used again in an election.

The state will not reimburse counties for the cost of replacement equipment.

The directive states:

The Supreme Court has just issued a ruling in an Arizona voting rights case, where they upheld the state’s ban on “ballot harvesting” and the policy of throwing out a ballot cast in the wrong precinct:

BREAKING NEWS: In 6-3 ruling, SCOTUS upholds two Arizona voting provisions: a ban on so-called "ballot harvesting," and a policy that throws out an entire ballot if it was cast in the wrong precinct. Challengers argued that both provisions discriminate against minority voters.

— SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) July 1, 2021

Justice Alito writes the majority opinion joined by Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Thomas, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett.

Justice Kagan dissents joined by Breyer and Sotomayor.

— SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) July 1, 2021

Justice Alito for the court, "[W]e think it prudent to make clear at the beginning that we decline in these cases to announce a test to govern all VRA §2 claims involving rules, like those at issue here, that specify the time, place, or manner for casting ballots."

— SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) July 1, 2021

This is a really big deal, because the elimination of ballot harvesting is one of the major elements in new election laws being passed around the country, like the Georgia law that gained so much negative attention earlier this year.