I am have posted my rla audit report from the Walker runoff in 2022. I was there as a member of the public supposedly because Constitution Party and Libertarian Party had no candidates on the ballot. I believe this is a grevious error since all parties and the public have a vested interest in monitoring any handling of ballots. As a member of the public I was restricted to an observation area while party monitors and even a monitor from the Carter Center were able to move closer to the audit for more meaningful observation. The July 6 audit of the primary 2022 included additional ballots to be audited. To the best of my memory the more ballots that were audited the higher the error rate was. Having studied Title 21 for the last four years, I believe the intent of the legislature to be for meaningful observation throughout an election cycle.
The experts even the inventor of Risk Limiting Audits, Philip Stark, advise that RLA’S are not a good evaluation of accuracy. He particularly advises the Fulton count, recount and audits all vary. I have highlighted some of the most pertinent sections but the entire statement in the Curling Case is relative.
Mr. Stark gives some percentages regarding Fulton. The numbers most relevant are that for a bmd to be used in Georgia it must count every vote cast accurately by law which I have attached. If I remember correctly the error per cent allowed by HAVA the federal law is subject to FEC voting standards. “For testing purposes, the acceptable error rate is defined using two parameters: the desired error rate to be achieved, and the maximum error rate that should be accepted by the test process. For each processing function indicated above, the system shall achieve a target error rate of no more than one in 10,000,000 ballot positions, with a maximum acceptable error rate in the test process of one in 500,000 ballot positions.” https://www.fec.gov/resources/updates/agendas/2001/mtgdoc01-62/v1/v1s3.pdf. Clearly by both Georgia law and FEC standards render Dominion a product that does not meet the purpose for which it was purchased. Not only did Dominion sell a system that does not perform they have placed themselves in every election that generates more expense for the duped state. We should not have to keep incurring expense and effort to validate what Dominion fails to properly do.
Given that page 98 of the Georgia Dominion contract required $1.5 million cyber insurance per cyber incident we can determine that the Dominion system was always connected to the internet. An open records request response revealed that though the cyber incidents are supposed to be reported and mitigated by Dominion, the Secretary of State does not keep a record of cyber incidents. It was told me in 2022 that the Secretary of State has the password to Cherokee system. I would imagine this to be statewide. If it was up to me I would change the password and not let them have it. The poll pad info comes from the Secretary of State’s office though the SOS web site says the counties maintain voter data.
But dont sweat all that. I have not been able yet to observe how the tabulated ballots get into the election management system so I do not know if the scanner sends the info by bluetooth or something. I do know that according to the Dominion user manual totals can be entered in what amounts to a spread sheet manually with no requirement for a ballot. That would be subject to human vision and keying errors. One person in a county could throw an election.
Based on the foregoing it seems foolish to me to bypass the first opportunity to curtail the failures of Dominion by not counting the ballots at the first opportunity which would be the precinct as described in 21-2-437 and Rhoden v. Athens Clarke County. Sons of Confederate veterans et. al. states that citizens have the right to expect law to be followed and the right to sue to require it. Moving precinct problems to county location just makes a bigger problem and is the first step in removing the election from the voters. Wisdom would dictate to never make your battle bigger. Documents mentioned are posted.
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