The Constitution enshrines the right to vote and grants Congress the authority to legislate to protect that right. Despite hard-fought victories to protect and expand voting rights, today many Americans—especially those in minority communities—face significant barriers to registering to vote and casting a ballot. The Committee has been investigating barriers to voting for the last year. In March 2019, the Committee launched investigations of allegations of voter suppression in Georgia, Texas, and Kansas. On May 1, 2019, the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties led by Chairman Jamie Raskin held a hearing on “Protecting the Right to Vote: Best and Worst Practices.”
From 2017 to 2019, the Committee held hearings, conducted interviews, andreviewed intelligence related to Russian attempts in 2016 to access election infrastructure. TheCommittee sought to determine the extent of Russian activities, identify the response of the U.S.Government at the state, local, and federal level to the threat, and make recommendations onhow to better prepare for such threats in the future. 1 he Committee received testimony fromstate election officials, Obama administration officials, and those in the Intelligence Communityand elsewhere in the U.S. Government responsible for evaluating threats to elections.
The following is just one example of election interference.
U) Chaos on Election Day: Three Scenarios Mr. Daniel said that in the early fall of 2016, a policy working group was looking at three scenarios:One was, could the Russians do something to the voter registration databases that could cause problems on Election Day?
An example of that would be, could you go in and flip the digits in everybody's address, so that when they show up with their photoID it doesn 't match what's in the poll book? It doesn 't actually prevent people from voting. In most cases you 'II still get a provisional ballot, but if this is happening in a whole bunch of precincts for just about everybody showing up, it gives the impression that there's chaos.
A second one was to do a variant of the penetrating voting machines, except this time what you do is you do a nice video of somebody conducting a hack on a voting machine and showing how you could do that hack and showing them changing a voting outcome, and then you post that on YouTube and you claim you've done this 100,000times across the United States, even though you haven't actually done it at all.Then the third scenario that we looked at was conducting a denial of service attack onthe Associated Press on Election Day, because pretty much everybody, all those nice maps that everybody puts up on all the different news services, is in fact actually based on Associated Press stringers at all the different precincts and locations. ... It doesn't actually change anything, but it gives the impression that there's chaos.V(U) SSCI Transcript of the Interview with Lisa Monaco, Former Homeland Security Advisor, August 10,2017,p. 28.267(U) SSCI Transcript of the Interview with Michael Daniel, Former Assistant to the President and Cybersecurity•Coordinator, National Security Council, August 31,2017, p. 33.(U) Ibid., pp. 34-35.2^°(U)/dW.,p.35.37COMMITTEE SENSITIVE - RUSSIA INVESTIGATION ONLY, P.37
In the Michigan 2016 Primaries, the NGP VAN systems put out the wrong addresses for the polling precincts.
I documented my journey on Twitter.
I will not comment on the absentee voting ballot schemes because I want to watch people like Cory Booker continue to lie in the public record.
The following is all the information as of this post on the Wayne County Board of Canvassers and Michigan Board of Canvassers on the certification and recording of the vote.
Michigan law details the timeline for a county to certify the vote, and, in the event the vote is not certified by the county, the process of delivery for the state board of canvassers to certify.
(1) The board of county canvassers shall then proceed without delay to canvass the returns of votes cast for all candidates for offices voted for and all questions voted on at the election, according to the precinct returns filed with the probate judge or presiding probate judge by the several city and township clerks, or in case of local elections according to the precinct returns filed with the county clerk, and shall conclude the canvass at the earliest possible time and in every case within 14 days.
(2) If the board of county canvassers fails to certify the results of any election for any officer or proposition within the 14 days as provided, the board of county canvassers shall immediately deliver to the secretary of the board of state canvassers all records and other information pertaining to the election. The board of state canvassers shall meet immediately and make the necessary determinations and certify the results within the 10 days immediately following the receipt of the records from the board of county canvassers. The cost of the canvass shall be borne by the county involved.
History: 1954, Act 116, Eff. June 1, 1955 ;-- Am. 1958, Act 192, Eff. Sept. 13, 1958 ;-- Am. 1963, 2nd Ex. Sess., Act 38, Imd. Eff. Dec. 27, 1963 ;-- Am. 1968, Act 65, Eff. July 1, 1968 ;-- Am. 2013, Act 51, Imd. Eff. June 11, 2013 Compiler's Notes: Section 3 of Act 65 of 1968 provides: “This act shall take effect on July 1, 1968, except in any county with a population of 400,000 or more it shall take effect on July 1, 1970.” Popular Name: Election Code
Since the public notice was sent out 48 hours, per the Open Meetings Act, that would set the clock as Wayne County delivering the uncertified vote within the 14 day period to the state, on or about August 21, 2018.
A 10 day clock was set for the state to take up the duty to certify the vote, on or about August 31, 2018.
So, what happens if the Michigan 2018 Primary Election is not certified by August 31, 2018?
Well, since there is no law on the books directly addressing this issue, I am going out there on a limb, with this crazy, off the wall idea, that there is going to be some form of legal interdiction, but hey, what do I know?
I know that Perkins Coie Sucks and anything can happen in the next few days, which is why I strongly encourage everyone to stock up on cocktails & popcorn.
"Hold on, we got your international election nullification case precedent for your Sweetie."
Zimbabwe is expected to rule Friday on certification of its elections.
The question at hand by the opposition is asking how can a fraudulent election of one race be acknowledged without nullifying the entire election?
For example, tomorrow, the Michigan Secretary of State Board of Canvassers is to meet to address, well, let us say at this time, "voting irregularities" in the 13th District House of Representatives, the 2nd District State Senate,and the 68th District State Representative election results.
So, if these three Michigan elections are found to have "voting irregularities", then how can the rest of the state races be acknowledged, as all elections are symbiotic, whether through political party association, campaign finance, endorsements or even certification of the vote?
Better than that, can an election be nullified if there is found to have been more than just violations in "election integrity"?
WASHINGTON – It turns out that a suspected hack of the Democratic National Committee’s voter file this week may have really just been volunteers for the Michigan Democratic Party testing the system.
The Free Press confirmed Thursday morning that the DNC was backtracking on an initial report Tuesday to the FBI that someone had apparently set up a fake online portal to try to lure DNC staff into giving up log-in information as a way to gain access to the party’s VoteBuilder database.
DNC Chief Security Officer Bob Lord said in a statement Thursday that officials now believe the portal “was built by a third party as part of a simulated phishing test.”
A person familiar with the incident but who would not speak on the record told the Free Press that the test was done by volunteer hackers recruited by the Michigan Democratic Party to test security, though the state party didn’t notify the DNC or its account vendors beforehand or get authorization for the test.
The Washington Post first reported Thursday that the DNC had learned that the suspected hack was really a security test conducted by volunteers recruited by the Michigan party. Michigan Democratic officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment by the Free Press.
Lord said the test "mimicked several attributes of actual attacks on the Democratic Party's voter file."
"The party took the necessary precautions to ensure that sensitive data critical to candidates and state parties across the country was not compromised," he said. "There are constant attempts to hack the DNC and our Democratic infrastructure, and while we are extremely relieved that this wasn't an attempted intrusion by a foreign adversary, this incident is further proof that we need to continue to be vigilant in light of potential attacks."
CNN first reported the attempted back on Tuesday after the DNC told the FBI someone was trying to hack its voter database two years after successful Russian efforts to infiltrate its computer systems and release thousands of emails online, embarrassing the party during the 2016 presidential campaign.
Well, you know what I always say, "What the heck do I know?"
All I know, as a verified factual finding, supported by companion federal and international law, is that Perkins Coie Sucks.
A secret memo marked “URGENT” detailed how the House Democratic Caucus’s server went “missing” soon after it became evidence in a cybersecurity probe. The secret memo also said more than “40 House offices may have been victims of IT security violations.”
In the memo, Congress’s top law enforcement official, Sergeant-at-Arms Paul Irving, along with Chief Administrative Officer Phil Kiko, wrote, “We have concluded that the employees [Democratic systems administrator Imran Awan and his family] are an ongoing and serious risk to the House of Representatives, possibly threatening the integrity of our information systems and thereby members’ capacity to serve constituents.”
The memo, addressed to the Committee on House Administration (CHA) and dated Feb. 3, 2017, was recently reviewed and transcribed by The Daily Caller News Foundation. The letter bolsters TheDCNF’s previous reporting about the missingserver and evidence of fraudon Capitol Hill.
It details how the caucus server, run by then-caucus Chairman Rep. Xavier Becerra, was secretly copied by authorities after the House Inspector General (IG) identified suspicious activity on it, but the Awans’ physical access was not blocked.
But after, the report reads, the server appears to have been secretly replaced with one that looked similar.
The memo called for firing the Pakistani-born aides, revoking all their computer accounts, and changing the locks on any door they had access to.
Rep. Louie Gohmert — a Texas Republican on the House Committee on the Judiciary who has done oversight work on the case — said the missing server contained copies of Congress members’ emails.
“They put 40 members of Congress’s data on one server … That server, with that serial number, has disappeared,” he said.
Multiple sources connected to the investigation told TheDCNF that shortly after an IG report came out identifying the House Democratic Caucus server as key evidence in a criminal probe, the evidence was stolen.
“They [the Awans] deliberately turned over a fake server” to falsify evidence, one official close to the CHA alleged. “It was a breach. The data was completely out of [members’] possession.”
The six-page letter says:
• In September of 2016 … the CHA and [IG] briefed the former Chairman of the Democratic Caucus about suspicious activity related to their server that the [IG] identified. As a result, the former Chairman of the Democratic Caucus directed the CAO to copy the data from their server and two computers.
• The CHA directed the IG to refer the matter to the US Capitol Police. The USCP initiated an investigation that continues to this day.
• In late 2016, the former Chairman of the Democratic Caucus announced his intention to resign from Congress to assume a new position. The CAO and [sergeant-at-arms] worked with the Chairman to account for his inventory, including the one server.
• While reviewing the inventory, the CAO discovered that the serial number of the server did not match that of the one imaged in September. [Investigators] also discovered that the server in question [the replacement server] was still operating under the employee’s control, contrary to the explicit instructions of the former chairman to turn over all equipment and fully cooperate with the inquiry and investigation. [A House source said the “employee” was Abid Awan.]
• The USCP interviewed relevant staff regarding the missing server.
• On January 24, 2017, the CAO acquired the [replacement] server from the control of the employees and transferred that server to the USCP.
President Donald Trump referenced the Democratic Caucus’ missing server in a tweet. But because the letter to the CHA was kept secret, many news outlets have not grasped that the House’s top cop documented a “missing server” connected to the Democratic Caucus.
The timeline laid out in the letter also shows that Becerra — now California’s Democratic attorney general — failed to ensure that the Awans didn’t have access to House computer systems during the 2016 election, which was wrought with cybersecurity scandals.
“The Caucus Chief of Staff requested one of the shared employees to not provide IT services or access their computers,” it read. “This shared employee continued.” It’s unclear why that request was not granted or why it was a request rather than an order.
A House official close to the probe said the employee was Abid, who was not on Becerra or the Caucus’s payroll. The official said Becerra Chief of Staff Sean McCluskie apparently knew Abid was accessing Caucus servers. According to payroll records, Abid’s sister-in-law, Hina Alvi, was the Caucus’ systems administrator.
The Awans’ continued physical access to Becerra’s equipment after red flags emerged enabled the server to disappear after it became evidence, House officials close to the investigation told TheDCNF.
Becerra has refused to comment, citing an ongoing criminal investigation.
The February 2017 memo itemizes “numerous and egregious violations of House IT security” by members of the Awan family, including using Congress members’ usernames and “the unauthorized storage of sensitive House information outside the House.”
“These employees accessed user accounts and computers for offices that did not employ them, without the knowledge and permission of the impacted Member’s office,” it said, adding, “4 of the employees accessed the Democratic Caucus computers 5,735 times.” More than 100 office computers were open to access from people not on the office’s staff, it said.
Chris Gowen — a former aide to Hillary Clinton who is now serving as Imran’s attorney — told TheDCNF, “There is no missing server and never was.”
He didn’t provide any support for his claim, which is contrary to evidence Kiko and Irving presented to Congress.
The memo said the CHA possesses voluminous evidence, including, “Interview notes with House Members’ Chiefs of Staff,” and “Logon activity and computer access logs.” Prosecutors have not brought charges.
The Awans were banned from Congress’s computer network the day the letter was sent, and Kiko held a briefing to convey the message to chiefs of staff for members who employed them.
But Democrats claim they were never told about any of the cybersecurity issues itemized in the urgent memo. Rep. Jackie Speier — a California Democrat on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence who employed Imran and his wife, Hina Alvi — said she never heard of any missing server.
Joaquin Castro of Texas — another Democratic intelligence committee member who employed one of the Awans — told TheDCNF that Kiko never told him of any cybersecurity issues whatsoever and that the Awan probe was instead described as a theft issue.
Indeed, the CHA issued only one public statement on the case and titled it the “House Theft Investigation” — wording that avoids cybersecurity words while political news coverage raged about other cybersecurity issues in the 2016 election.
Yet even the alleged theft has not resulted in criminal charges — even though the letter also says House authorities have “purchase orders and vouchers” that allegedly show procurement fraud, as well as testimony from a Democratic chief of staff to Rep. Yvette Clarke, who warned of procurement fraud.
The FBI arrested Imran at the airport in July 2017 for alleged bank fraud that occurred six months prior, and Democrats have since claimed that the case is about nothing but bank fraud. Bank fraud does not explain why the Awans were kicked off the House network concurrent with the urgent memo, which did not cite bank fraud.
A Democratic IT aide who alleged that Imran solicited a bribe from him told TheDCNF he believes members of Congress are playing dumb and covering the matter up. Wendy Anderson, a former chief of staff to New York Rep. Yvette Clarke, told House investigators that she suspected that her predecessor, Shelley Davis, was working with Abid on a theft scheme, but Clarke refused to fire Abid until outside investigators got involved, TheDCNF reported.
Eighteen months after the evidence was recounted in the urgent memo, prosecution appears to have stalled for reasons not publicly explained. Imran is in court July 3 for a possible plea deal in the bank fraud case. Gohmert said the FBI has refused to accept evidence demonstrating alleged House misconduct, and some witnesses with first-hand knowledge say the bureau has not interviewed them.
Fun Fact! Did you know Wayne County, Michigan is the largest court system in the U.S., if not the world, and it purchased the cheapest package of the Oddessy System of Tyler Technologies for its case management system?
Did you know that the Third Circuit Court of Wayne County is privately managed out of Arizona, which does not even reflect the same legal filing terms as are in Michigan?
I truly hope everyone understands that I have already done a deep dive in their operations, right?
These land bank people are actually knocking on doors offering pennies on these historic homes because it is in the center of there city, surrounded by the rich people, you know, economically contained environments, where the city was modeled to stick all "The Poors" (always said with clinched teeth) .
Once these homes go into tax foreclosure or these land bank people seize the properties aqnd assests of veterans who have recently died, where all the proper forms have been submitted.
Then the Kent County Land Bank will set aside all the best cherry picks for themselves, not for public auction, you know, like how the Detroit Land Bank Authority handed out all the cherry picked homes in the historic district of Boston-Edison-Chicago.
That is how you artificially manipulate voting districts with bogus GINIs.
A Wayne County judge has thrown out a lawsuit against Detroit city clerk Janice Winfrey, saying there’s “no evidence” her office mishandled absentee ballots or violated state law in last week’s general election.
The lawsuit was brought by election challengers who said Winfrey’s office used copies of absentee vote envelopes, rather than original envelopes with ballots, to verify voter information for about 1200 absentee votes dropped off at the clerk’s office on Election Day.
The plaintiffs said that violated the state manual for elections officials, as well as state law.
They worried that conducting the verification process for absentee votes—which involves matching signatures on returned ballots with ballot applications, and checking the voter’s name against precinct records and the state’s Qualified Voter File—entirely behind closed doors opened the process up to potential fraud.
The plaintiffs asked the court to disqualify all absentee ballots from the vote count, claiming it’s now impossible to determine which ballots were verified using copies and which weren’t.
But in arguments before Judge Robert Colombo on Friday, city of Detroit lawyer James Noseda, arguing on Winfrey’s behalf, called suggestions of fraud “outrageous.”
“There’s just no basis for this challenge, nothing of substance to address,” he said. Noseda told the court that Winfrey’s office verified absentee voter information themselves before sending ballots onto Cobo Center for counting.
Daniel Baxter, Detroit’s director of elections, said the clerk’s office followed the same procedure in this year’s primary election and found it sped up the vote-counting process. That helped “to ensure what happened in 2016 [Detroit general election] never occurs again, in terms of the delayed result reporting from the absentee voting counting boards,” he said.
Colombo ruled that was appropriate. He said that state election law gives clerks leeway to create “processing steps tailored to administrative needs,” and the plaintiffs provided “no evidence” that fraud had actually occurred.
Given that lack of evidence, Colombo balked at the idea at throwing out up to 30,000 absentee votes, possibly changing the results of several races. That would amount to voter disenfranchisement and “harm to the public,” Colombo said.
But Sherry Wells, an attorney for the plaintiffs, said Friday’s hearing raised as many questions as it answered. Wells said it's still not clear to her how using copies sped up the counting process, and how that didn’t violate state guidelines.
“The [Michigan] Secretary of State’s instructions are not clear,” Wells said. “When [the judge] says this is optional for absentee ballot counting boards, and the whole thing goes into what the process is supposed to be… how can it be optional? It’s strange.”
Wells also reiterated concerns about how much of the absentee ballot process takes place out of sight of election challengers. “How can you get evidence [of fraud] if you’re not allowed to get evidence?” she said.
Winfrey narrowly won re-election as clerk over challenger Garlin Gilchrist II by about 1400 votes. Gilchrist led the returns for most of election night, but Winfrey pulled ahead with a late surge by claiming almost two-thirds of the absentee.
Gilchrist has publicly mulled requesting a recount based on anecdotal evidence of absentee vote irregularities. As of Friday, his campaign said it was still considering the issue.
The Wayne County Board of Canvassers has yet to certify Detroit’s election returns. The board is scheduled to meet Tuesday, the state deadline for certification. Gilchrist then has a week to petition for a recount, which he must pay for.
Judicial Watch, Freedom watch and the chain of evidence from Capitol Hill to Lorton Virginia to the Capitol Police to the FBI vault in Clarksburg Virginia
Yet Another Chain of Evidence Through Lorton, VA. AutoTrain
Weighing Awan Brothers Risk Versus Error Correction
Comey Can't Quite Say Crowdstrike, Alperovitch, and Umbrage, No Code From Julian, Just Plain Text
Comey Is Right - It Was the Russians - It Was Dmitri Alperovitch and His Crowdstrike That Was On-Site at DNC From May 4th, 2016 to June
William Crosley Interview Confirm Four Hour Theft Window at NGP VAN
What's So Special About the Bellwether VAN Files in the Nov 15th Lawsuit vs the DNC For Secret Meetings in the Boston Suburbs and Backdoor Entrances to the Whitehouse By Seth Rich?
Dan V., Come Forward and Tell Your Story About the Thumbdrives You Prepared For Seth Rich
Podesta In White House During Seth Rich Visit, Wikileaks Second DNC Drop and the Chelsea Explosion, Egyptian GID
How a Thumbdrive Links Seth Rich, Panda Dan V, Podesta at the White House
