(Kyle Becker) Georgia’s elections controversy is being taken to new levels with the revelation that a 25,000-word “secret report” on its voting systems vulnerabilities may soon be released.
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by Kyle Becker, January 28th, 2022
The security flaws in Georgia’s election system was uncovered by a professor who specializes in election integrity. A judge may soon make the findings public.
“The vulnerability was first alleged in sealed court documents in July by Alex Halderman, a computer science professor at the University of Michigan,” the Atlanta Journal Constitution reported. “As an expert for plaintiffs in the election security lawsuit, Halderman gained access to Georgia voting equipment for 12 weeks and produced a 25,000-word secret report.”
“Halderman found that malicious software could be installed on voting touchscreens so that votes are changed in QR codes printed on paper ballots, which are then scanned to record votes, according to court documents,” the report continued. “QR codes aren’t readable by the human eye, and voters have no way to know whether they match the printed text of their choices.”
“It is important to recognize the possibility that nefarious actors already have discovered the same problems I detail in my report and are preparing to exploit them in future elections,” Halderman wrote in a September declaration. Halderman added that he found no concrete evidence that Dominion voting machines changed votes in the 2020 election.
Raffensperger claimed that Professor Halderman is nothing more than a partisan critic of Georgia’s voting systems. The Secretary of State repeated his refrain that voting in Georgia ‘is more secure than ever because of audits, voter ID requirements and a ban on collecting and returning multiple absentee ballots.’
A judge is now mulling whether or not to release a redacted version of the 25,000-word “secret report” to the public as part of an election integrity lawsuit.
“Halderman was given full access to Georgia’s election system by the judge, the equivalent of having the keys and alarm codes to a home then claiming he found a way to break in,” Raffensperger said. “The public deserves to know the context of J. Alex Halderman’s claims and his testimony regarding the 2020 election. We are taking on these claims in court, and we will win. Sensationalized media articles and misleading reports from paid activists notwithstanding, Georgia’s election system is safe and secure.”
“The ‘secret report’ referenced by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution today is not an objective, academic study by a non-biased actor,” his office added. “It is assertions by an individual who is paid to espouse opinions supporting the elimination of electronic voting systems to help a lawsuit brought by liberal activists, including one funded by Stacey Abrams’ Fair Fight Action.”
In case you’ve lost count, there are at least eight lawsuits that argue parts of Georgia’s new law are ‘discriminatory and unconstitutional,’ according to PBS:
The 35-page New Georgia Project v. Raffensperger was filed shortly after Gov. Brian Kemp signed the bill Thursday (later amended to 66 pages), followed shortly thereafter by the 56-page Georgia NAACP v. Raffensperger and the 91-page AME Church v. Kemp. On Thursday, April 1, the 29-page Asian Americans Advancing Justice — Atlanta v. Kemp was filed as well. On April 7 VoteAmerica v. Raffensperger was filed, and April 27 saw Concerned Black Clergy v. Raffensperger on the docket. Not to be outdone, Coalition for Good Governance v. Raffensperger was entered May 17 with 157 pages of complaints. Most recently, the U.S. Justice Department filed a 46-page complaint challenging parts of SB 202.
“All the cases are assigned to Trump-appointed Judge J.P. Boulee, and almost all of them argue that many of the sweeping changes made to Georgia’s election administration disproportionately negatively affect nonwhite voters,” NPR noted.
There is currently a lawsuit in Georgia to force the state to jettison its $138 million voting system to go to an election system that uses paper ballots filled out by hand, which is potentially a bipartisan position. Raffensperger has consistently argued that Georgia’s elections are accurate, secure, and beyond reproach. Election integrity advocates pressed Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who is running again for office in 2022, to take the issue seriously.
“It’s really concerning that the Georgia secretary of state and Dominion are kind of putting their head in the sand,” said Susan Greenhalgh, an election security consultant for the plaintiffs suing Georgia over its election system. “Common sense would say you would want to be able to evaluate the claims and then take appropriate action, and they’re not doing any of that.”
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Unless I am wrong, Georgia does not have unique serial numbers on Georgia Ballots, making it virtually impossible to know when loading a ballot into the Georgia Election System, if the ballot had already been loaded and counted before or not.
This problem is made worse because Georgia uses thousands of isolated Dominion Tabulator Machines at local polling locations to read each ballot, count the votes on each ballot, and then upload the vote tally from the Tabulator Machine to the Georgia Election Computer, where the votes from each Tabulator Machine’ are added to the State of Georgia Election totals.
Since Georgia Ballots do not have unique serial identifiers, it would be easy to load a box of ballots multiple times into an isolated Georgia Tabulator Machine, because no way would exist to determine if a ballot had been loaded and counted before, or not.
Even if Georgia had unique serial numbers on each ballot, an isolated Dominion Tabulator Machine at a remote polling location would have no way to know what ballots had been loaded or counted at other locations.
Connecting local Dominion Tabulator machines directly to the internet to provide this information, would introduce internet security problems, which would defeat the reason the tabulator machines are isolated from the internet at thousands of remote polling locations.
Unless Georgia has a way to reject ballots that had been previously been loaded and counted, it would be easy for anyone to rig a Georgia Election by simply loading boxes of ballots repeatedly into an isolated Dominion Tabulator.
This problem was demonstrated on a video of a Georgia Poll Worker loading 4 boxes of ballots, (3,000 ballots per box) “twice” into an Election Tabulator at midnight in an evacuated building. on election night in November, 2020.
Regardless of whether the ballots loaded are valid or not, the second load of these ballot boxes was identical to the first load of these ballot boxes, causing 12,000 ballots to be read and counted twice.
It should be possible to verify these two loads in the logs on the Georgia Election Computer where the ballot loads were received..
In Georgia, the Certified Election results reported that Biden defeated Trump by 11,820 votes, slightly less than the 12,000 votes counted by her second load of the 4 boxes of ballots.
You can watch the video, and decide for yourself, if the 4 boxes of ballots were loaded twice.
Here is the video:
https://nationalfile.com/video-georgia-poll-worker-ruby-freeman-runs-same-ballots-through-tabulation-machine-multiple-times/?fbclid=IwAR2KZBPhhxasjTM0NSerMGCzpHi6iwNaJseuPm49o9cg_AgKhVDX0s3v_zw
A Dominion Contractor Whistleblower testified under Oath in a Michigan House Oversight Committee of witnessing boxes of ballots being loaded multiple times into Michigan Dominion Tabulator Machines:
https://factcheck.thedispatch.com/p/melissa-carone-michigan-dominion-debunked
If this problem exists in Georgia, and if this problem is not fixed, then it would be easy for a poll worker to load multiple boxes of ballots into any number of isolated Dominion Tabulator Machines, with thousands of ballots in each box, multiple times, over and over
This problem needs to be investigated, and if the problem exists, then the problem needs to be fixed, otherwise, Georgia Elections could easily be rigged.
This same issue exists for mail-in ballots and absentee ballots. To protect the identify of a voter, a voter’s ballots is separate from the voter’s identification information, so there is no way to associate a ballot with a voter. With no unique serial numbers on the absentee or mail-in ballot, there is no way to determine if a ballot had been previously loaded and counted, or not.
As long as a list of the ballot serial number sent to a voter is not created and saved, then the secrecy of the voter’s ballot is preserved.
The goal is for ballots to be counted only once, and not more than once. The ballot serial numbers does not matter, as long as the ballot serial numbers are unique..
Election integrity is not possible without unique serial numbers on Georgia Ballots.
It should be possible to keep the secrecy of each voter’s ballot, and at the same time preserve election integrity by preventing ballots from being loaded and counted multiple times.
The secrecy of a voter’s ballots should not be used as an excuse to create a major opportunity for election fraud.
A unique serial number on each mail-in and absentee ballot would prevent the intentional, or the accidental loading of mail-in ballots and absentee ballots multiple times.
The issue is not the security before the ballots are accepted. The issue is when the poll workers are loading ballots, already accepted, into the tabulator machines to guarantee that each ballot is only counted once, and no more than once.
After downloading the new 2021 Georgia Election Law, I see nothing in Georgia’s new Election Law that addresses this problem.
There is no requirement in Georgia’s new Election Law to require unique serial numbers on each Georgia Ballot, and there are no documented procedures on how ballot serial numbers would be checked to prevent election fraud in Georgia Elections.
The current Georgia Election law, without unique serial numbers on each ballot, at each polling location, makes it easy for a poll worker to intentionally load a large number of ballots multiple times to rig an election.
I am not seeing any requirement for unique serial number identifiers on mail-in ballots or absentee ballots in this pdf.
If a unique ballot serial numbers does exist on Georgia Ballots,, and I don’t think they do, then the new Election Law does describe any procedure to check on how or where a unique serial number on each ballot would be checked to prevent ballots from being loaded and counted multiple times.
Placing unique serial numbers on each ballots does no good, if a well defined clear procedure does not exist on how and where to check those serial numbers to prevent election fraud by loading and counting ballots multiple times.
Georgia’s new election law can easily be downloaded to check if my conclusion is correct or not regarding unique serial numbers on ballots.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20527915-sb-202-as-passed
In my opinion, without unique serial numbers on each ballot there is not a reliable way to determine if a ballot had already been loaded and counted, to prevent massive election fraud.