Election Integrity Fact Sheet

• Sixty percent of voters in the state live in counties using these kinds of machines…
• The problem with these machines is that you can’t audit the vote. There are no paper ballots that can becounted as a check against the numbers that show up on the voting machine printouts.
• Voting machines with no paper backups are being used in three of the four most populous counties in the state: Lake County (Hammond, Gary), Hamilton County (Carmel, Fishers, Noblesville) and Allen County (Fort Wayne).
• This is interesting because Lake County…was identified by former intel guy Seth Keshel as having the highest number of what appear to be “excess votes”—votes that are over and above what can be expected from looking at voter registration numbers and population trends.
• Hamilton County needs to be heavily scrutinized…As of November 3, 2020, there were 260,082 registered voters…but only about 256,430 people age 18 and older living in the county…The number of names on the county’s voter registration roll exceeded the number of eligible voters in the county by 113%…Joe Biden got 88,390 votes in Hamilton County in 2020, which is 54 percent more votes that Hillary Clinton got in 2016, and 101 percent more than Barack Obama got in 2012!!!! To put it another way, Biden got almost exactly twice as many votes as Obama did in 2021.

In his article, IN Has Mediocre Performance For Election Integrity And Security, Brandon Smith writes in 2019:

• • Two recent studies—one by Pew Research, the other from Harvard—put Indiana in the bottom half of states for election integrity. Butler Professor Greg Shufeldt says those studies considered, for instance, voter turnout, waiting times at the polls, mail-in ballots rejected, and campaign finance systems.
  • “Indiana doesn’t have a grade right now that they would want on their academic transcript,” Shufeldt says.
  • One troubling part is election security. Shufeldt says the type of election voting macines in a majority of Indiana counties—direct record machines, or DREs—poses a threat to voter confidence…”They’re sus- ceptible to the introduction of malware…,” says (Indianapolis attorney Bill) Goth.
  • From the referenced Harvard study, Electoral Integrity in the 2018 American Elections, Indiana ranked 49 out of 51 (including District of Columbia) for electoral integrity in the 2018 election. (An impressive “gold standard.”)

The electronic manipulation of voting machines is not a new topic. Here is a two-minute compilation of Democrats expressing their concerns in 2018, click here.

On December 6, 2019, two high-profile U.S. Senators, Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar, wrote a letter to three manufacturers of U.S. voting machines. They write, “We are particularly concerned that secretive and ‘troubled plagued companies,’ owned by private equity firms and responsible for manufacturing and maintaining voting machines and other election administration equipment, ‘have long skimped on security in favor of convenience,’ leaving voting systems across the country ‘prone to security problems.’” They noted three companies“ collectively provide voting machines and software that facilitate voting for over 90% of all eligible voters in the United States.” Of concern was the complexity of the electronic voting machines and how local and state governments rely heavily on the vendors for purchasing recommendations, lease agreements, and repairs and maintenance of the equipment.

These concerns have found their way to Indiana. Finding out one person in each county has the password and access codes to change the security feature of their county’s voting machines, Indiana Election Commission Vice Chairman Anthony Long said, in the February 2021 commission meeting, “I just think having one person having access to be able to make some changes at the county level is an unacceptable level of security for my mind” (page 39, lines 6-12). Earlier, Long commented on the complexity of these systems. Referring to re- ports he received on the voting systems, he said, “I probably won’t do that again. They’re tremendously lengthy and well beyond my capabilities to understand” (page 12, lines 21-24). Toward the end of the meeting, Long suggested the Indiana legislature should be involved in developing more sophisticated laws on these systems. He said, “…the law says they’re the ones that make the decisions. It’s not us. Our job is to enforce, and…I would be asking them give us some direction in how you want the form of the ballot printout, things that have advanced beyond where the legislation and the laws have changed” (page 60, lines 4-16).

Questions: What does the average county clerk really know about voting system technology? They depend on the Indiana Secretary of State. What does the SOS really know about voting system technology?

Indiana Cyber Symposium – Indiana P@triot$ Alliance

“DEF CON…is one of the world’s largest and most notable hacker conventions, held annually in Las Vegas, Nevada.”3 At their 2017 conference, hackers were challenged with 25 voting machines. One of the organizers said, “The stakeholders for voting machines are everyone in the country. So it’s important the problems get fixed.”4 At the 2018 conference, children were challenged to hack voting machines. Thirty-five out of 39 children succeeded. The winner was an 11-year-old who hacked a machine in under 10 minutes. 5 At their 2019 conference, over 100 voting machines were evaluated in their “Voting Village.” One of their conclusions, in the report found here, is that “There is an Urgent Need for Paper Ballots and Risk-Limiting Audits.”6

 

If there is a need to fix Indiana’s electronic voting system, Indiana has not. Less than 12 months ago, SOS Holli Sullivan said Indiana simply needed to maintain our systems. Last year’s plan, the one she called the gold standard, required all Indiana machines to have a paper ballot trail by 2029. Now, in February of 2022, it is“her idea” we require a paper trail by 2024. 7 Apparently, there is a pressing need to change our voting system, but not for 2022.

Making this subject urgent is Mike Lindell’s claim he has the security password for the 2020 Indiana Secretary of State’s Office and the “electronic fingerprints” for nearly 125,000 votes electronically flipping from Trump to Biden in our 2020 Indiana General Election. How did he obtain this security code? Who else had it? Why has this claim not been investigated? Lindell claims every state was electronically hacked and votes changed so Biden would win not only the Electoral College vote but also the Popular Vote. A true forensic audit in Indiana would look at the authenticity of votes, not simply recounting votes and verifying numbers. Indiana has chosen not to have a forensic audit. Simply recounting numbers does not create voter confidence.

We can speed up this process by simply asking Lindell to show his evidence. If he does have the 2020 password and the electronic fingerprints, the Indiana Attorney General may be interested in taking action. Meanwhile, the Statehouse should treat our election security as the highest priority and pass legislation for paper ballots for the November 2022 election and for 2024, allowing enough time to fix our problems. We urge Amendment 3, HB 1116. With weeks remaining in the IN 2022 legislative session, we can get the 2022 election right.

Footnote 1, not hyperlinked: 1) Reported by two attendees of the Lake County GOP Fundraiser on July 27, 2021, held in Crown Point, Indiana.

Action steps:

1. Call AG Rokita’s office, ask him to sign Mike Lindell’s Supreme Court Compliant: 317-232-6201.
2. Call your State Senator and Representative, ask for paper ballots until 2025.Senate: 800-382-9467House: 800-382-9842 Find your legislator.

Additional Resources:

• HB 1116
• Amendment #3 to HB 1116
  • Would require Indiana to use ALL paper ballots until 2025
  • Ballots would be printed on security paper
  • Ballots would be counted by hand after the polls have shut down
  • Limit the eligibility for mail-in ballots
  • Speed the use of audit trails for electronic voting machines
• Indiana secretary of state talks election integrity, support for businesses, September 17, 2021.
  

  Cyber Symposium – Indiana P@triot$ Alliance

• Direct-recording electronic (DRE) voting systems
• Hamilton: If Indiana wants more secure elections, we need a voter verifiable audit trail, February 27, 2020
• Why Critics Say Indiana Isn’t Doing Enough To Beef Up Election Security, November 15, 2019
• Groups accuse Secretary of State’s office of ‘flagrant’ violation of public records laws, January 11, 2019
• ISP superintendent blasts claims that voter fraud investigation is politically motivated, October 19, 2016
• The Voting News: Indiana 
• We watched hackers break into voting machines, YouTube
  

  Cyber Symposium – Indiana P@triot$ Alliance

• DEF Con 26: Voting Machines Hacked by Kids! YouTube (minute 3:30)
• Election hacking DEF Con 2019, Fox News
• Kill Chain: The Cyber War on America’s Elections (2020), Official Trailer

The Indiana P@triot$ Alliance exists to convene Liberty-minded groups in collaboration to address the injustices of executive overreach (exercising legislative powers) in our state through legislative channels and grassroots mobilization. In 2022, we are implementing #OperationPinkSlip and plan to rock GOP primaries on Tuesday, May 3rd.

 

 

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