Hi all,
I've been keeping an eye on Colorado ever since I caught Jena Griswold scrubbing her website of Dominion documentation. The AP also put out a hit piece trying to perpetuate a false cover story for Griswold.
Some local news outlets still picked up my research and may have gotten visibility with Adams County GOP mentioned here who have decided to NOT certify.
While Dominion Voting Systems has become a hot topic around the country, the Colorado Secretary of State's Office has had little to say about the company, whether in response to national accusations or the removal of a Dominion document from its own website.
On November 20, Secretary of State Jena Griswold’s office temporarily removed a Dominion document from sos.state.co.us; it was uploaded again on November 21, with the names and contact information of Dominion personnel redacted. An office spokesperson referred all questions regarding this action to a statement that Griswold gave the Associated Press: “My team decided to pull it down to redact personal biographic information of Dominion employees because we are under the understanding that they are getting pretty aggressive threats."
Looks like Jefferson County is planning to NOT certify as well.
Not sure what's happening, but Colorado was supposed to certify today Nov. 30th and it seems they haven't. Not sure if anything changes but it seems like GOP is starting to question the results.
Links to my previous posts to for some background and historical context:
Link to article: https://coloradosun.com/2020/11/23/dominion-voting-systems-colorado/
Fact check: Removal of Dominion Voting Systems document from Colorado website was temporary
Dominion Voting Systems, which is based in Denver, has faced a slew of false fraud claims in recent weeks, many of which the AP has debunked.
By Ali Swenson, The Associated Press
CLAIM: “The Colorado Secretary of State is DELETING DOMINION DOCUMENTS from the official Colorado Secretary of State website.”
AP’S ASSESSMENT: Missing context. A 2015 request-for-proposal document from the election technology firm Dominion Voting Systems was temporarily removed from the Colorado secretary of state’s website on Friday. However, it was only taken down for a day, to redact personal information of Dominion employees, Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold told The Associated Press. The redacted version was restored to the document’s original web address on Saturday.
THE FACTS: The temporary removal of a five-year-old Dominion document from the Colorado secretary of state’s website became the catalyst for baseless theories over the weekend as internet sleuths presumed it was a sign of nefarious activity.
MY ORIGINAL POST
https://thedonald.win/p/11QRoqX6UV/urgent--colorados-secretary-of-s/
MY FOLLOW-UP
https://thedonald.win/p/11QRtaZt9W/update-post-very-urgent--pedes-g/
Link to Ron's Tweet (aka CodeMonkeyZ)
MY ORIGINAL POST
https://thedonald.win/p/11QRoqX6UV/urgent--colorados-secretary-of-s/
MY FOLLOW-UP
https://thedonald.win/p/11QRtaZt9W/update-post-very-urgent--pedes-g/
Link to Ron's Tweet (aka CodeMonkeyZ)
https://twitter.com/CodeMonkeyZ/status/1330364932370690054
What happened yesterday 11/22?
Just to be clear, yesterday, Colorado's Secretary of State Jena Griswold has re-uploaded a redacted version of Dominion's document to https://www.sos.state.co.us/ that we caught her deleting only days ago!
The Original Copy of the Document:
Dominion documentation that was originally removed has now been re-uploaded, but is now redacted and reformatted!:
https://www.sos.state.co.us/pubs/elections/VotingSystems/files/2015/projectPlans/Dominion.pdf
Archived redacted version (option 1): https://archive.is/f85H0
Archived redacted version (option 2): https://web.archive.org/web/20201122230508/https://www.sos.state.co.us/pubs/elections/VotingSystems/files/2015/projectPlans/Dominion.pdf
What has been redacted?
- from what I can tell, definitely references to Steven Bennett, Regional Manager Dominion
- all references to Dominion employees staffed to Colorado including Eric Coomer and Ronald Morales
MAJOR CHANGE TO REDACTED VERSION
The Dominion employee profile descriptions ARE NO LONGER TEXT READABLE. Some of the text from the original document has been modified so it can't be searched for. Certain words that exist in the document WILL NO LONGER BE SEARCHABLE including but not limited to:
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'VENEZUELA'
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'ERIC COOMER'
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'RONALD MORALES'
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'SMARTMATIC'
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'SEQUOIA'
Consensus from those reviewing documents has determined that no information has been outright removed, though the above major change still stands. Thank you to all Pedes who helped manually compare the documents.
Need Your Help to Share Across Social
Can Pedes with Twitter please send to Ron Watkins (@https://twitter.com/CodeMonkeyZ)? I'm sending to Flynn, Sidney, and GatewayPundit now.
UPDATE: I sent a message to Ron and tweeted it out, but my account got restricted within minutes. Pedes with Twitter, please reach out to him!!
Links to my previous posts to maximize visibility
MY ORIGINAL POST
https://thedonald.win/p/11QRoqX6UV/urgent--colorados-secretary-of-s/
Link to Ron's Tweet (aka CodeMonkeyZ)
https://twitter.com/CodeMonkeyZ/status/1330364932370690054
What happened today 11/22?
Just to be clear, today, Colorado's Secretary of State Jena Griswold has re-uploaded a redacted version of Dominion's document to https://www.sos.state.co.us/ that we caught her deleting only days ago!
The Original Copy of the Document:
Dominion documentation that was originally removed has now been re-uploaded, but is now redacted and reformatted!:
https://www.sos.state.co.us/pubs/elections/VotingSystems/files/2015/projectPlans/Dominion.pdf
Archived redacted version (option 1): https://archive.is/f85H0
Archived redacted version (option 2): https://web.archive.org/web/20201122230508/https://www.sos.state.co.us/pubs/elections/VotingSystems/files/2015/projectPlans/Dominion.pdf
What has been redacted?
- from what I can tell, definitely references to Steven Bennett, Regional Manager Dominion
- all references to Dominion employees staffed to Colorado including Eric Coomer and Ronald Morales
MAJOR CHANGE TO REDACTED VERSION
The Dominion employee profile descriptions ARE NO LONGER TEXT READABLE. Some of the text from the original document has been modified so it can't be searched for. Certain words that exist in the document WILL NO LONGER BE SEARCHABLE including but not limited to:
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'VENEZUELA'
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'ERIC COOMER'
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'RONALD MORALES'
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'SMARTMATIC'
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'SEQUOIA'
Have not determined if anything has been out right removed. May need some Pedes to help me with this manually. Compare text tools will not be able to compare the original PDF to the redacted version.
Need Your Help to Share Across Social
Can Pedes with Twitter please send to Ron Watkins (@https://twitter.com/CodeMonkeyZ)? I'm sending to Flynn, Sidney, and GatewayPundit now.
UPDATE: I sent a message to Ron and tweeted it out, but my account got restricted within minutes. Pedes with Twitter, please reach out to him!!
Links to my previous posts to maximize visibility
Start researching OpTech now!
Dubious OpTech software is contained in many Washington State voting machines. On Jul. 23, 2018, Petitioner was told by Stuart Holmes, Voting Information Systems Manager, Office of the Secretary of State that "Smartmatic voting systems are not certified or used in the State of Washington." Exh. B. However, the software engine inside Smartmatic is OpTech. OpTech software is also used in similar systems that are used in Washington, including ES&S (6 out of 39), Sequoia and Hart InterCivic (20 out of 39). Exhibit E
See also Angela Gunn. (Nov. 1, 2006). E-voting and voter registration: The vendors - Who's building the gear that's running the show? Computerworld. Exhibit F (―Smartmatic Corp., is privately owned, with a controlling interest held by founder and CEO Antonio Mugica. Mugica holds dual Spanish and Venezuelan citizenship. Sequoia offers AVC Edge and AVC Advantage DRE units, an AVC Edge DRE/VVPAT unit, and sells a Sequoia-branded Optech Insight optical scanner‖ and "Election Systems & Software also offers an Optech line").
Proof of foreign interference in Washington State elections. Hart InterCivic used in the State of Washington licenses Sequoia‘s / Smartmatic‘s Optech Insight software originally developed in Venezuela.
See the National Institute of Standards (NIST) analysis which shows the real risk of foreign influence in our vote.3
Hart InterCivic licensee, Smartmatic is foreign-owned by SGO Corporation Limited (UK) / Smartmatic that is owned by British Privy Counselor associated with Lord Mark MallochBrown. Malloch-Brown is a close colleague of globalist George Soros who openly works to destabilize American elections. Malloch-Brown was a founding chairman of Soros‘ Open Society Foundation, vice President of Soros' Quantum Fund, and Vice Chairman of Soros' 'Soros Fund Management'. While Malloch-Brown was Deputy Secretary of the United Nations, he rented a Soros estate in upstate New York. The involvement of Malloch-Brown and Soros in the OpTech licensing (inside ES&S and Hart InterCivic) shows an obvious threat of foreign interference in Washington State‘s elections.
See Lord Mark Malloch-Brown Biography and Timeline. Exhibit G. In Petitioner's FOIA questions, the state sidestepped the issue of the common OpTech software. This discrepancy begs the question as to how OpTech can be certified in ES&S and Hart InterCivic and not certified in Smartmatic. This ambiguity is deeply troubling, especially considering that ES&S's blatantly lied to Senator Wyden about their PCAnywhere backdoors.
Electronic Corruption Mapped: https://thedonald.win/p/11QRtZSad5/from-sequoia-and-smartmatic-to-d/c/
Executive Order: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-imposing-certain-sanctions-event-foreign-interference-united-states-election/
Tracked down original Sequoia Voting Systems website. No longer exists and currently is a scam malaysia gambling site.
The following content was deleted from their website between 2004 and 2005:
Our success with touch screen voting also reflects the intense focus on product accuracy and security that we share with our parent company, UK-based De La Rue. De La Rue is the world's leading provider of tamperproof products and automated systems designed to ensure the highest levels of accuracy and security in our everyday transactions with businesses and government agencies, from ATM and electronic voting transactions to the production of national currencies, travelers checks and government identification cards.
In addition to printing 125 national currencies as well as the omnipresent American Express travelers checks, De La Rue invented the highly accurate and secure cash-counting mechanisms used in automated teller machines. More than 1,200 financial institutions in 60 counties currently use De La Rue's cash-counting mechanisms to secure their customers' transactions, much like Sequoia's touch screen voting machines accurately and securely count people's votes.
De La Rue is also the world's largest provider of tamperproof national identity cards, passports and driver's licenses. Its passport and national identification programs are used by more than 50 countries, including Mexico and Chile, which have the largest national identification card programs in Latin America. De La Rue's contract to produce tamperproof driver's licenses for the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles is also one of the largest in North America and is considered by Office of Homeland Security officials to be among the most secure identification card programs in the world, providing a much needed template for other states that are seeking to enhance their driver's license document security.
Working in collaboration with the world's premier law enforcement agencies, including Interpol, Scotland Yard and the FBI, De La Rue has also developed highly sophisticated security systems designed to foil identity theft and fraud. De La Rue is also working with Sequoia to develop a new generation of high security products that use smart card technology and signature verification biometrics. And while we can't yet share the specifics of the new products we have under development, we can assure you that De La Rue and Sequoia will continue to set the highest industry standards for accuracy and security in every application we introduce to government agencies, businesses and consumers around the world.
Ironically, they retained the following Winston Churchill quote:
Nobody pretends that democracy is perfect or at all wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
- Winston Churchill, November 11, 1947
Have begun digging into Ronald Morales and have gone done down multiple avenues on the web. Much of his online presence has been scrubbed. Will be updating this thread with what I find:
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Believe Ronald Morales also goes by Ronald Morales Ortiz.
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Ronald Morales is the primary link between Smartmatic, Sequoia, Dominion Voting, and Venezuela. See original post
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Was Quality Assurance Senior Integration Lead at Sequoia Voting Systems (Source)
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Possible twitter account @romoor. Now seems to have been deleted and replaced with an entirely different account (Source)
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Possible instagram account. Now private/removed @romoor
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Ronald Morales attacking a Freddy Guevera who proposed to fight against electoral fraud, a new system electoral process, reviewing unity as a political organization, and a new route to a new reality, referring to the 18 governorships won by the political faction of the government, the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV).(Source)
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Ronald Morales criticizing Actress Elba Escobar for participating in an event for President Maduro (Source)
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Ronald's connection to Hugo Chavez. Recorded twitter conversation he had with Hugo Chavez's former wife Marisabel Chavez: (Source)
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Referenced in Dominion documentation in Mesa County, CO that proves Colorado election officials knew about Scytl (Source)
Original Post with Source Information: https://thedonald.win/p/11QRoqX6UV/urgent--colorados-secretary-of-s/
Senior Product Manager - Ronald Morales
Ronald Morales is a Systems Engineer with more than 15 years of experience, providing technological expertise and solutions to ensure quality implementation and integration of Dominion Voting System products. Ronald began his career in elections when he joined Smartmatic in 2004 where he managed the EMS Quality Assurance process for elections in Venezuela. After the acquisition of Sequoia by Smartmatic, Ronald was responsible for the integration of Smartmatic’s newly-developed equipment with Sequoia’s EMS and for the EAC certification of the integrated solution. When Dominion Voting Systems acquired Sequoia and assets of Premier Election Solutions in 2010, Ronald began working with modifications and new solutions in software and hardware for the Premier product line, along with the EAC certification process of the updated products.
In his current role, Ronald is engaged in the research and implementation of new technologies with a focus on reliability, performance and efficiency, for both existing legacy systems (Sequoia and Premier) and systems currently in development by Dominion. His most noticeable achievement is the design and implementation of fully redundant Dominion Democracy Suite EMS server infrastructure for the elections in Mongolia during 2012 and 2013.
Just finished watching OAN's Dominionizing the vote. Ron has not brought this up yet. I have a letter of Eric Coomer referencing an exploit in Dominion Voting Systems that may explain a lot of issues. I believe this letter(also copied below) written by Eric Coomer in March of last year and sent to Douglas Kellner, Co-Chair of NYS Board of Elections could be crucial in explaining the anomalies we've been hearing about in Georgia and across some other states. Can't overstate enough that this is just a hypothesis, and I would ask that https://twitter.com/CodeMonkeyZ validate the following:
Hypothesis
Dominion and local county officials are exploiting the ADA capabilities of the ImageCast Evolution (ICE) tabulator. Within the ICE, there is a ballot marking printer. The ballot marking printer within the system can only mark a ballot during an “accessible” voting session. The printer is located in a completely separate area from the main ballot path that leads to the ballot box. Once a voter with disabilities has marked his/her ballot with the included printer, the ballot is scanned, and a review of the choices selected by the voter with disabilities is provided in both visual and audio formats. Once this review is complete, there is no way for the ballot marking device to make additional marks on the ballot.
Eric Coomer specifically states in his letter below that "Post-election audits can identify statistical anomalies such as excessive over-votes, which is the only likely outcome of the hypothetical exploit presented on the internet.".
Have we seen excessive over-votes?
Yes, all over the place and the explanation provided to us are mail-in ballots (red wave). But with this scenario being exploited, it's possible that these excessive over-votes are also due to "accessible" voter sessions. Could it be possible that in some states, officials are attributing over-votes to mail-in ballots when in fact they are coming from blank ballots within these facilities?
How it would be done?
You would need to have someone enable the "accessible" voting session and have enough time to run stacks of blank ballots through the machine. I would imagine this scenario if it were to result in a recount or audit would pass because each ballot is blank/unique/anonymous. Not sure there is any way of knowing whether a ballot was triggered via an "accessible" voting session or not. If you were able to tell, a high number of of these would indicate an abnormal quantity of voters hearing or visually impaired.
This exploit possibly explains the following
- ballots with no creases
- ballots with printer perfect selections only for Biden
- ballots with printer perfect selections (selections made by printer, not by pen)
- explanations of having to pause/stop counts for significant amounts of time
What would this require?
- blank ballots
- ton of time
- election officials claiming they are counting previously cast ballots when in reality they are "casting" ballots in bulk via "accessible" voting sessions
Source: https://bradblog.com/Docs/Letter-Dominion-ICE-Response-030819.pdf
March 8, 2019 Mr. Douglas A. Kellner Co-Chair New York State Board of Elections 40 N. Pearl St., Ste. 5 Albany, NY 12207-2109 Dear Commissioner Kellner:
Thank you for your memo dated March 7th. Dominion is taking all cyber security threats very seriously in the current environment and appreciates the chance to respond.
Before addressing the various safeguards for the ImageCast Evolution (ICE), I would like to comment on a fundamental viewpoint of the IT researcher upon whom you are relying. He states that combining ballot marking capabilities with ballot tabulators into a single system is a “really bad idea.” However, security maximalists often overlook the fact that voting systems are designed to meet a critical balance between security and accessibility.
The ImageCast Evolution (ICE) tabulator was designed as an inclusive response to the needs of States that are both committed to hand-marked paper ballots and to private, accessible ballot-casting for voters of all abilities. One of the traditional challenges with the State of New York’s legacy accessible system is that while all ballots look the same, some voters who require ballot marking accessibility also require external help in transporting a marked ballot to a tabulator. This “separate but equal” stance is not acceptable in today’s technology marketplace. A key tenant of accessible solutions is to allow all voters to vote privately and independently, regardless of ability.
As you may know, in the federal 2005 Voluntary Voting Systems Guidelines (VVSG) that were issued after the State’s acquisition of the Plan B machines, a requirement was added to specifically include the case of a voter who had both severe visual and physical limitations. The ICE is the first – and to our knowledge the only – certified solution that meets this requirement within a hand-marked paper system. Notably, the ICE tabulator was designed to be compatible with the current ImageCast tabulator system used in New York. The Plan-B Ballot Marking Device (BMD) tabulator has been end of life for quite some time, and some counties are looking to replace their ten year-old BMDs as needed, while leveraging another ten years of useful life from the rest of the tabulation system.
Following the ICE’s 2018 certification in New York, several counties are in the process of upgrading their ADA capabilities, making them among the most accessible counties in the country.
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To be clear, the current speculation of a critical flaw in the ImageCast Evolution tabulator is not based on any technical examination of the device or the firmware and software on the machine. It is based solely on the fact that a printer exists somewhere in the tabulator.
The ImageCast Evolution has gone through multiple federal and state certification campaigns. In addition, this system has been subjected to red team security vulnerability testing campaigns in individual states. No code review, or penetration testing effort, has ever identified the existence of a printer in the Image Cast Evolution as even a low-probability threat vector.
The ICE provides the only truly independent voting experience for voters with disabilities. The ballot marking printer within the system can only mark a ballot during an “accessible” voting session. The printer is located in a completely separate area from the main ballot path that leads to the ballot box. Once a voter with disabilities has marked his/her ballot with the included printer, the ballot is scanned, and a review of the choices selected by the voter with disabilities is provided in both visual and audio formats. Once this review is complete, there is no way for the ballot marking device to make additional marks on the ballot. The ballot does not travel along the path with the printer once the review is complete.
A wholesale replacement of the official, certified firmware would be required to completely change how the device functions. A myriad of physical and procedural processes exist to ensure the integrity of the election. Post-election audits can identify statistical anomalies such as excessive over-votes, which is the only likely outcome of the hypothetical exploit presented on the internet. All ICE machines can also be audited to verify that the official certified firmware is unaltered.
Since its introduction in 2013, the ICE system has been used by election administrators across the U.S. to tabulate hundreds of official elections successfully, as well as to complete required post-election audits. The ICE has never been noted as being deficient or compromised in any state. It is worthy to note that the acquisition of ICE tabulators is adding excess capacity to the ImageCast Precinct tabulators that are already in the polling places across New York state, adding a barrier against theoretical threat vectors.
Dominion Voting takes all cyber threats very seriously and routinely subjects its products to third-party, independent security reviews. It is our position that the exercise of reasonable diligence by the New York State Board of Elections should not give weighted authority to opinions posted to the Internet without the benefit of any actual testing over documented testing reports performed by accredited third-party agencies, which can overwhelmingly demonstrate the company’s conformance to state and federal law.
If you have any additional questions, please feel free to contact me at [email protected].
Sincerely, Eric D. Coomer Eric Coomer, Director of Product Strategy Dominion Voting Systems, Inc. cc: Peter S. Kosinski Andrew J. Spano Gregory P. Peterson
Sharing my other recent finds for maximum visibility:
Direct connection between Smartmatic, Sequoia and Dominion Confirmed! Connection to Venezuela also Confirmed!
Link to explanation: https://thedonald.win/p/11QRoqX6UV/urgent--colorados-secretary-of-s/
Sctyl and Dominion Voting Connection Confirmed!! Colorado Election officials knew about Sctyl!!
Link to explanation: https://thedonald.win/p/11QRoqXNfs/urgent--sctyl-and-dominion-votin/
This is still live on the Colorado Secretary of State official website: https://www.sos.state.co.us/pubs/elections/VotingSystems/files/2015/countyEvaluationForms/Mesa.pdf
Archived version is here: https://web.archive.org/web/20201019155914/https://www.sos.state.co.us/pubs/elections/VotingSystems/files/2015/countyEvaluationForms/Mesa.pdf
If someone can archive this elsewhere as well that would be great!! (archive.org will not update timestamp to most recent date).
FALSE CLAIMS(https://www.dominionvoting.com/)
- DOMINION IS A NONPARTISAN U.S. COMPANY. Dominion has no company ownership relationships with the Pelosi family, Feinstein family, Clinton Global Initiative, Smartmatic, Scytl, or any ties to Venezuela. Dominion works with all U.S. political parties; our customer base and our government outreach practices reflect this nonpartisan approach.
As reported by the Associated Press, "Dominion made a one-time philanthropic commitment at a Clinton Global Initiative meeting in 2014, but the Clinton Foundation has no stake or involvement in Dominion's operations, the nonprofit confirmed." The meeting included bipartisan attendees focused on international democracy-building.
PROOF DOMINION'S CLAIMS ARE FALSE BELOW
There might be a lot more information in here than just Scytl. Please comment below with any other findings you might see!
46. Grade the ease of exporting data from the voting system for the Scytl election night reporting system:
Comments (optional): The export process was very easy. After the initial configuration it only took the push of 1 button. The initial configuration took less than 2 minutes. We did have to run the data through a macro to upload it to Scytl. Even that did not take longer than 30 seconds. The whole process was shorter than w/ our legacy system.
47. Grade the compatibility of the data exported from the voting system for the Scytl election night reporting system:
Comments (optional): See note for 46
Sharing the links to my other recent posts here to maximize visibility:
Direct connection between Smartmatic, Sequoia and Dominion Confirmed! Connection to Venezuela also Confirmed!
Link to explanation: https://thedonald.win/p/11QRoqX6UV/urgent--colorados-secretary-of-s/
Possible exploit in Dominion Voting Systems that may explain some of the anomalies we are seeing in Georgia and other states.
Link to explanation: https://thedonald.win/p/11QRoqWYnA/attn-possible-exploit-of-accessi/
Colorado's Secretary of State Jena Griswold has been caught deleting Colorado's Dominion Voting System Proposal from her OFFICIAL website (www.sos.state.co.us). It originally was located here. Looks like it was deleted yesterday 11/20. Luckily, we have the archive and this page was live as recent as 11/19. See archived history here.
This document currently nullifies the following claim made on the Dominion Voting website:
FALSE CLAIMS (https://www.dominionvoting.com/)
- DOMINION IS NOT, AND HAS NEVER BEEN, OWNED BY SMARTMATIC. Dominion is an entirely separate company and a fierce competitor to Smartmatic.
Dominion and Smartmatic do not collaborate in any way and have no affiliate relationships or financial ties. Dominion does not use Smartmatic software. The only associations the companies have ever had were:
- In 2009, Smartmatic licensed Dominion machines for use in the Philippines. The contract ended in a lawsuit.
- In 2010, Dominion purchased certain assets from Sequoia, a private U.S. Company. Smartmatic, a previous owner of Sequoia, pursued legal actions against Dominion.
PROOF DOMINION'S CLAIMS ARE FALSE BELOW (https://web.archive.org/web/20201119180016/https://www.sos.state.co.us/pubs/elections/VotingSystems/files/2015/projectPlans/Dominion.pdf)
Read Ronald Morales' description below in addition to the other Dominion employees staffed to Colorado. Many are either repurposed from Sequoia, have a conflict of interest having worked for the Colorado county election offices, or have worked directly with the Colorado Secretary of State. Specifically Ronald Morales who "began his career in elections when he joined Smartmatic in 2004 where he managed the EMS Quality Assurance process for elections in Venezuela." I'll leave the rest for you all to read below.
Executive Sponsor - Mike Frontera
As Executive Vice-President of Operations, Mike brings over 22 years of election experience to Dominion’s operations team, which manages voting system implementations, customer relations, election support, training and sales support. Mike was the Executive Sponsor for a number of large Dominion implementations including the country of Mongolia and States of New York and Louisiana. Prior to joining Dominion, Mike was the Vice President of Operations for Sequoia Voting Systems for over seven years. Mike began his career working in the public sector, including serving as the Election Director for the City and County of Denver. Mike is licensed to practice law in the State of Colorado and holds a Juris Doctor from the University of Arizona College of Law, as well as a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology.
Product Specialist - Lisa Flanagan-Crane
Lisa is based out of Colorado and has worked in Elections Administration for 16 years. During that time, Lisa has been Project Manager of Voting System installations for multiple Colorado counties, provided software/hardware training and election judge training for customers, produced and printed Op-Tech ballots, provided support for Logic and Accuracy Testing, Public Tests, hardware preventative maintenance and supported customers in voter registration. Previous to Dominion/Sequoia, Lisa worked for the Colorado Department of State and Arapahoe County. While working in the Colorado Secretary of State Office, Lisa helped with upgrading 19 counties to a Windows based Voter Registration System, trained staff from each county, and ran the help desk. Lisa has visited over 25 election offices around the state, understands Colorado Election Law, and has worked hard to build an outstanding reputation for customer service. Lisa has provided election support to jurisdictions in Arizona, California, Colorado, Illinois, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, and Pennsylvania.
Senior Product Manager - Ronald Morales
Ronald Morales is a Systems Engineer with more than 15 years of experience, providing technological expertise and solutions to ensure quality implementation and integration of Dominion Voting System products. Ronald began his career in elections when he joined Smartmatic in 2004 where he managed the EMS Quality Assurance process for elections in Venezuela. After the acquisition of Sequoia by Smartmatic, Ronald was responsible for the integration of Smartmatic’s newly-developed equipment with Sequoia’s EMS and for the EAC certification of the integrated solution. When Dominion Voting Systems acquired Sequoia and assets of Premier Election Solutions in 2010, Ronald began working with modifications and new solutions in software and hardware for the Premier product line, along with the EAC certification process of the updated products.
In his current role, Ronald is engaged in the research and implementation of new technologies with a focus on reliability, performance and efficiency, for both existing legacy systems (Sequoia and Premier) and systems currently in development by Dominion. His most noticeable achievement is the design and implementation of fully redundant Dominion Democracy Suite EMS server infrastructure for the elections in Mongolia during 2012 and 2013.
Director, Product Strategy - Eric Coomer
Eric Coomer graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1997 with a Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics. After working in IT consulting for several years, Eric entered the elections industry in 2005 with Sequoia Voting Systems as Chief Software Architect. After three years with the company, Eric took over all development operations as Vice President of Engineering. When Sequoia was acquired by Dominion Voting Systems in 2010, Eric joined the DVS team as Vice President of US Engineering overseeing development in the Denver, Colorado office. Recently, Eric has taken over as the Director of Product Strategy driving the creation of next generation products through close collaboration with customers, combined with a deep understanding of technology and the needs of Elections departments throughout the United States and abroad. Eric has been an active participant in the development of the IEEE common data format for Elections systems, as well as the working group for developing standards for Risk-Limiting Audits for elections results. When not designing new products, Eric supports large and small scale customers during Election season.
Product Specialist - Alyssa Prohaska
Alyssa Prohaska has over 11 years of elections experience ranging from county elections administration to technical support, training, and quality assurance testing of election management, voter registration, and other web-based applications. Alyssa began working in elections as an Election and Campaign Finance Specialist with the Adams County Elections Division of the Clerk & Recorder Office in 2004. She has recently worked with the Colorado Secretary of State’s office where she served in a technical and business support capacity - testing, training, and providing tier 2 support of the voter registration and election management systems, and online voter registration applications. Alyssa holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication from the University of Denver, as well as a Master’s of Science in Information Technology Management and Graduate Certificates in Oracle Database Administration, and Executive Information Technology from Regis University.
Senior Software Developer - Benjamin Rice
Benjamin Rice has over six years of experience in architecting, developing, and managing elections software solutions. He is a certified ScrumMaster and evangelist for Agile practices and technologies in software development. He has close to twenty years’ experience in the Web development and client-service solutions world. Before joining Dominion, Ben was a senior software developer at Sequoia and Slice of Lime and director of technology with FOCI. Ben graduated from Northwestern University with Bachelor of Arts degrees in both Psychology and English Literature.
Sharing my other recent finds here for maximum visibility:
Possible exploit in Dominion Voting Systems that may explain some of the anomalies we are seeing in Georgia and other states.
Link to explanation: https://thedonald.win/p/11QRoqWYnA/attn-possible-exploit-of-accessi/
Sctyl and Dominion Voting Connection Confirmed!! Colorado Election officials knew about Sctyl!!
Link to explanation: https://thedonald.win/p/11QRoqXNfs/urgent--sctyl-and-dominion-votin/
I believe this letter(also copied below) written by Eric Coomer in March of last year and sent to Douglas Kellner, Co-Chair of NYS Board of Elections could be crucial in explaining the anomalies we've been hearing about in Georgia and across some other states. Can't overstate enough that this is just a hypothesis, and I would ask that https://twitter.com/CodeMonkeyZ validate the following:
Hypothesis
Dominion and local county officials are exploiting the ADA capabilities of the ImageCast Evolution (ICE) tabulator. Within the ICE, there is a ballot marking printer. The ballot marking printer within the system can only mark a ballot during an “accessible” voting session. The printer is located in a completely separate area from the main ballot path that leads to the ballot box. Once a voter with disabilities has marked his/her ballot with the included printer, the ballot is scanned, and a review of the choices selected by the voter with disabilities is provided in both visual and audio formats. Once this review is complete, there is no way for the ballot marking device to make additional marks on the ballot.
Eric Coomer specifically states in his letter below that "Post-election audits can identify statistical anomalies such as excessive over-votes, which is the only likely outcome of the hypothetical exploit presented on the internet.".
Have we seen excessive over-votes?
Yes, all over the place and the explanation provided to us are mail-in ballots (red wave). But with this scenario being exploited, it's possible that these excessive over-votes are also due to "accessible" voter sessions. Could it be possible that in some states, officials are attributing over-votes to mail-in ballots when in fact they are coming from blank ballots within these facilities?
How it would be done?
You would need to have someone enable the "accessible" voting session and have enough time to run stacks of blank ballots through the machine. I would imagine this scenario if it were to result in a recount or audit would pass because each ballot is blank/unique/anonymous. Not sure there is any way of knowing whether a ballot was triggered via an "accessible" voting session or not. If you were able to tell, a high number of of these would indicate an abnormal quantity of voters hearing or visually impaired.
This exploit possibly explains the following
- ballots with no creases
- ballots with printer perfect selections only for Biden
- ballots with printer perfect selections (selections made by printer, not by pen)
- explanations of having to pause/stop counts for significant amounts of time
What would this require?
- blank ballots
- ton of time
- election officials claiming they are counting previously cast ballots when in reality they are "casting" ballots in bulk via "accessible" voting sessions
Source: https://bradblog.com/Docs/Letter-Dominion-ICE-Response-030819.pdf
March 8, 2019 Mr. Douglas A. Kellner Co-Chair New York State Board of Elections 40 N. Pearl St., Ste. 5 Albany, NY 12207-2109 Dear Commissioner Kellner:
Thank you for your memo dated March 7th. Dominion is taking all cyber security threats very seriously in the current environment and appreciates the chance to respond.
Before addressing the various safeguards for the ImageCast Evolution (ICE), I would like to comment on a fundamental viewpoint of the IT researcher upon whom you are relying. He states that combining ballot marking capabilities with ballot tabulators into a single system is a “really bad idea.” However, security maximalists often overlook the fact that voting systems are designed to meet a critical balance between security and accessibility.
The ImageCast Evolution (ICE) tabulator was designed as an inclusive response to the needs of States that are both committed to hand-marked paper ballots and to private, accessible ballot-casting for voters of all abilities. One of the traditional challenges with the State of New York’s legacy accessible system is that while all ballots look the same, some voters who require ballot marking accessibility also require external help in transporting a marked ballot to a tabulator. This “separate but equal” stance is not acceptable in today’s technology marketplace. A key tenant of accessible solutions is to allow all voters to vote privately and independently, regardless of ability.
As you may know, in the federal 2005 Voluntary Voting Systems Guidelines (VVSG) that were issued after the State’s acquisition of the Plan B machines, a requirement was added to specifically include the case of a voter who had both severe visual and physical limitations. The ICE is the first – and to our knowledge the only – certified solution that meets this requirement within a hand-marked paper system. Notably, the ICE tabulator was designed to be compatible with the current ImageCast tabulator system used in New York. The Plan-B Ballot Marking Device (BMD) tabulator has been end of life for quite some time, and some counties are looking to replace their ten year-old BMDs as needed, while leveraging another ten years of useful life from the rest of the tabulation system.
Following the ICE’s 2018 certification in New York, several counties are in the process of upgrading their ADA capabilities, making them among the most accessible counties in the country.
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To be clear, the current speculation of a critical flaw in the ImageCast Evolution tabulator is not based on any technical examination of the device or the firmware and software on the machine. It is based solely on the fact that a printer exists somewhere in the tabulator.
The ImageCast Evolution has gone through multiple federal and state certification campaigns. In addition, this system has been subjected to red team security vulnerability testing campaigns in individual states. No code review, or penetration testing effort, has ever identified the existence of a printer in the Image Cast Evolution as even a low-probability threat vector.
The ICE provides the only truly independent voting experience for voters with disabilities. The ballot marking printer within the system can only mark a ballot during an “accessible” voting session. The printer is located in a completely separate area from the main ballot path that leads to the ballot box. Once a voter with disabilities has marked his/her ballot with the included printer, the ballot is scanned, and a review of the choices selected by the voter with disabilities is provided in both visual and audio formats. Once this review is complete, there is no way for the ballot marking device to make additional marks on the ballot. The ballot does not travel along the path with the printer once the review is complete.
A wholesale replacement of the official, certified firmware would be required to completely change how the device functions. A myriad of physical and procedural processes exist to ensure the integrity of the election. Post-election audits can identify statistical anomalies such as excessive over-votes, which is the only likely outcome of the hypothetical exploit presented on the internet. All ICE machines can also be audited to verify that the official certified firmware is unaltered.
Since its introduction in 2013, the ICE system has been used by election administrators across the U.S. to tabulate hundreds of official elections successfully, as well as to complete required post-election audits. The ICE has never been noted as being deficient or compromised in any state. It is worthy to note that the acquisition of ICE tabulators is adding excess capacity to the ImageCast Precinct tabulators that are already in the polling places across New York state, adding a barrier against theoretical threat vectors.
Dominion Voting takes all cyber threats very seriously and routinely subjects its products to third-party, independent security reviews. It is our position that the exercise of reasonable diligence by the New York State Board of Elections should not give weighted authority to opinions posted to the Internet without the benefit of any actual testing over documented testing reports performed by accredited third-party agencies, which can overwhelmingly demonstrate the company’s conformance to state and federal law.
If you have any additional questions, please feel free to contact me at [email protected].
Sincerely, Eric D. Coomer Eric Coomer, Director of Product Strategy Dominion Voting Systems, Inc. cc: Peter S. Kosinski Andrew J. Spano Gregory P. Peterson
Sharing my other recent finds for maximum visibility:
Direct connection between Smartmatic, Sequoia and Dominion Confirmed! Connection to Venezuela also Confirmed!
Link to explanation: https://thedonald.win/p/11QRoqX6UV/urgent--colorados-secretary-of-s/
Sctyl and Dominion Voting Connection Confirmed!! Colorado Election officials knew about Sctyl!!
Link to explanation: https://thedonald.win/p/11QRoqXNfs/urgent--sctyl-and-dominion-votin/