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Without e-pollpads, harder to cheat w/ mail-in ballots
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Without e-pollpads, harder to cheat w/ mail-in ballots

Texas decertifies ES&S electronic poll pad in Dec 2024

Learn more about YOUR efforts… https://projectminnesota.com/local


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Hey, everyone.

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It's Friday, January 31st, 1 12 p.m.

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And I just heard from my friend in Texas that the Secretary of State back in

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December quietly decertified the ES&S branded poll pads.

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So there's a few different brands of these iPads.

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In Minnesota, we have to check in voters the No Ink, which is No Ink and B Pro version.

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Of course, as we know from

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The documentary on the total electronic system called Let My People Go,

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there's a segment in there talking about how these are real-time monitoring and modification.

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There's also a great post out there.

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It's on either joehoft.com or Gateway Pundit.

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It's by Aaron Clements and Jessica Palmea from South Dakota.

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Aaron Clements from New Mexico talking about all the issues that we have with these poll pads.

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They're not really just the check-in voters.

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They have Microsoft Cloud Azure.

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They have connectivity throughout the day, internet connectivity.

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And if we looked just specifically at Minnesota statutes,

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you can see that there are provisions made for absentee data to flow.

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So there's data transfers happening of election data on election day.

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And so when you put all that together,

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basically what you have is real-time monitoring and modification.

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that someone at a central command,

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speaking of central command,

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there's a command central feature set on these no ink software.

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On these no ink pull pads, there's another aspect of it called total vote.

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There's even a feature where ballots can be printed,

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which was,

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I think,

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piloted in Hennepin County in 2024,

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although I'm not being given information on that besides the contracts over the

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last month.

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But you can imagine that

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If there was so much attention on the electronic tabulators themselves,

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which are quite vulnerable to programming,

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you can make a tabulator behave one day during the public accuracy test and then

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behave a different way during the actual election and then not share any of the

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logs or cast vote records or ballot images and just do a really basic hand count,

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you know,

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days and days after the election.

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that's not a great audit, especially if you're not auditing down-ballot.

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Well,

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you can imagine with all the attention that came on the electronic tabulators of

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ES&S and Dominion and Hart that

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the cheat would have shifted over to something else,

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and that cheat has shifted over to the electronic pull pads.

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So these seem rather innocuous at first glance.

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They're iPads.

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My cashier at Kowalski is one of the election judges.

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He's 17 years old.

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She's like, oh yeah, they work great.

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It's like,

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yeah,

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the user experience is fine on them,

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but think about what's under the hood and how they connect to everything.

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That's where the danger is.

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So with all of the mail-in that we have,

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46 days in Minnesota.

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This information is monitored.

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You have ballots being put through the tabulators,

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which are modem connected in a lot of cases,

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internet connected,

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cell phone,

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two-way towers,

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about 15 days before the election.

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And then on election day,

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you have the real-time monitoring from the poll pads of people checking in.

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When Eric votes, they pretty much know historically how I vote, so they can calculate that.

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Now all that needs to be done is to find a voter who doesn't vote very often or one

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of these slush fund kind of voters on the voter rolls,

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which we don't have access to as citizens during that election day.

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It's kind of blocked off for us.

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And have ballots delivered to wherever they need to be delivered up through 8 p.m.

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on election night in Minnesota.

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So basically all the pieces are in place.

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When you think about the poll pads, plus the mail-in, plus the late delivery,

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And there were cases in Minnesota on the 2024 election where it took until 2, 3 a.m.

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in the morning after results were posted, they were taken down, then posted again.

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And this is because absentee ballots are coming in late.

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If I was a bad actor, I would absolutely exploit this system.

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This way, Rick Weibel showed how you can actually buy ballots from C-Change.

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And then he went one step further and printed out real,

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with that ballot stock printed out real ballots.

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Those can easily be entered into C-Change.

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the tabulators by someone,

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a bad actor,

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or slipped into mail-in envelopes,

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which can also be acquired pretty easily.

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So it doesn't take much to rig an election.

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And this is why there's so much focus on bringing us back towards simplicity.

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There's a tremendous amount of beauty in simplicity.

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It costs a lot less just on the front end, but also think about the back end.

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Think about all of the headaches that all of us are having right now.

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From my perspective, it's really not so much of a headache as it's just...

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a gradual learning process.

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We fail to persuade someone so the next time we can persuade a little bit better.

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So for me,

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it's the poll pads plus the mail-in equals a rigged election almost every time if

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you want that to happen,

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if you want to pull those levers.

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And therefore,

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we're in a weird situation where we don't really know if any of our elected

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officials were properly elected,

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if there was a close race.

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And even if it wasn't close,

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then it's still in question.

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Because just to cap this off, think about how the AG, how he was able to tweet at 3.57 p.m.

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on election day in 2020 that they don't have all the votes they need quite yet.

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Think about how he was able to say that.

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What information did he have that you and I didn't have?

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What information did the Secretary of State have that we didn't have?

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Or did any bad actor that had access to these systems?

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Well, it might have come through the poll pad plus the mail-in data that they had

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acquired up to that point.

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And then, you know, in that presidential election, Biden in Minnesota won by 7.2 points.

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It was a huge, you know, it was a blowout for Biden in Minnesota.

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So why did he say we don't have the votes quite yet?

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And then how was there a blowout?

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So there, in my opinion, was like a pretty big

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Pretty big effort on multiple lenses here.

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And it's just about peeling back some of these layers.

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And when we fail to persuade someone, that's okay.

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We learn how to improve what we bring to the table.

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But in Texas, the Secretary of State has decertified the ES&S brand pull pads.

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And, you know, ES&S is our biggest electronic tabulator vendor here in Minnesota.

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So maybe we should consider whether we should use those tabulators.

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However,

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our legislature in 2023 said they're now mandated for those precincts that used

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them before,

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which was pretty much all of them.

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And these poll pads, though, are not.

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although the sos and various county attorneys have made noises that they are even

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though half the about half of the counties are not using them so they're using

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paper poll books to check in voters which i think is great so just a quick update

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there that texas has i think made a pretty nice move to protect their voters there

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and i think minnesota

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Should citizens should consider whether they want to alert their local city

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councils or towns and counties to reconsider whether you need these poll books at all.

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Just checking the voters as you did prior to 2018 or 2016 on paper.

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And you completely take out the option of cheating with mail-in based on that

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real-time monitoring.

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Like you could just completely take that off the table.

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And I think that's a pretty good option.

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All right, that's it for now.

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