Continuing on with the series on the suspicious world of Lt. Governor’s weird ‘position statement on election returns and requests for the election systems database’.
Most counties in Utah State use electronic election machines manufactured by ES&S (Election Systems and Software). On June 16, 2023 there occurred a meeting between the South Dakota Secretary of State and her delegation with ES&S Executives at ES&S headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska. This meeting contains some interesting statements that contradict statements made by Utah’s Lt. Governor in her spring 2022 letter to county clerks1.
Now it happens that there are at least three different brands of voting machines used in Utah but most of the counties, including Box Elder, use ES&S machines like South Dakota.
ES&S Executives stated the following to the South Dakota delegation: 1) YES, their machines produce Cast Vote Records (CVRs). 2) The CVRs do not contain proprietary information. 3) The CVRs do NOT identify voters (no private information in the database). 4) The CVR reports are always 100% available. 5) ES&S has never said to anyone in South Dakota that the CVRs are not available. 6) They assured them that ES&S does not claim to own the election data but reiterated; the data belongs to the counties.
The Utah position paper attempts to make researcher’s data requests bigger than they really were by going ‘out of pasture’, as in: “Disclosure or dissemination of election management system database, raw data, etc. in a manner not consistent with 20A-4-303 could also jeopardize the security and integrity of the election systems and create a security risk to system providers and governmental election offices.”
The Utah LG further stampedes the cattle by saying: “Similarly, providing or allowing access to election system database and data may constitute a breach of election system vendor contracts which expressly limit dissemination of proprietary programming software and documentation.”
We would have been completely satisfied to have the CVRs but were denied, so we asked for the whole CVR database itself about which ES&S says there is no proprietary information (Points #2 and #3 above). The Utah LG should be reminded that the database better not have any private data in it, either from ES&S or Utah State, because voting data has to be disengaged from voter identities or you are processing things contrary to law. Perhaps that is why it is worrisome to the LG.
There have no doubt been GRAMA (information) requests for documentation and programming software back in history but the position paper didn’t need to go beyond addressing the pressing requests for the simple CVRs and the election databases. I’m talking about the CVRs that we all used to see every election night in our precincts, but it was advantageous for the LG, who was and is still scrambling to keep the election data secret, to muddy the water with hypotheticals suitable for pulling wool over the eyes of the populace.
The four page position paper from the Spring of 2022 will go down as a black mark on Utah’s present2 administration documenting the desperate struggles of a duo seeking cover from the accurate arrows of election system sharpshooters. It corroborates the suppositions of researchers to see how the ES&S meeting with South Dakota exposes the deceit of the Utah State administration.
And so, by sleight-of-men and cunning-craftiness they lie in wait to deceive… I have show here by the most dramatic of tests that the Utah Administrative team, by their works, have demonstrated that they are not on the side of the people.
I hope you are all seeing that electronic election systems can take advantage of the looseness in election systems, especially when no election data is shown to the public. The simple truth is that when we count our votes in our precincts then we can allow people to use computer spreadsheets at the county and state levels without fear to add up the data with 100% accuracy. As it is, without precinct counts, the looseness in the election system allows manipulation.
What looseness? The unknowns in the voter registrations, the trafficking of mailed ballots resulting from the imposition of a system of 100% mailed-ballots, possibilities of peeking at early voting results, the ease of faking voter ID at central count stations (compared to home precincts), interception of transmitted results, signature fraud, address fraud, name-syntax fraud, mail-delivery fraud associated with mailed ballots, use of malware, use of proprietary programming to accomplish any unsavory goal, equipment breakdowns, etc. We see the value and utility of a declared emergency to prohibit precinct gatherings to push mailed delivery of ballots and to allow attackers, foreign or domestic, weeks to gather intelligence and generous time to modify the situation on the ground through FirstNet type man-in-the-middle communication attacks.
I was in Sasabe, Arizona evaluating roles for helping on the border in January of 2022. It was there that I realized that despite the urgent need at the border the more important work for America and her upside down justice system was to help with cleaning our election systems. The US election structure is infiltrated by the enemy, and it is not entirely from the outside.
There is a special project in the works that is requiring considerable funding. It is nation-wide but Box Elder as well as the other US counties will be recipients. I will pose a poll to check the interest level and then, pending the interest, let you know next time where you can go to make donations.
Utah is the only state in The Union in which an elected official manages elections instead of an appointed person like a Secretary of State. (This feature endangers fairness of elections relative to other US state election structures).
Utah’s present Administrative Branch is headed by Spencer James Cox (Gov.) and Diedre Marie Henderson (Lt. Gov.).