Voting on Thin Ice

Shelby Advocates for Valid Elections (SAVE) (2017-09-01) MikeKernell, CarolChumney, JosephWeinberg

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• Voting-on-Thin-Ice-121917.pdf: Research on election issues in Shelby County TN

• Voting on thin ice (Mike Kernell)
• Aug 2, 2012 elections, thousands of voters in Memphis and Shelby County over 3,000 voters were given the wrong ballot.
  • The Shelby County Chancellor ordered a new election, but it was later overturned on appeal.
  • Met with FBI agents to request an investigation.
• In 2010 an e-pollbook loaded wrong information that indicated thousands of individuals had already cast a ballot when they had not.
  • Susan: used the data from the May election.
  • News item said that people were being arrested for voting twice, thus discouraging people from voting.
• SCEC Admin Holden was suspended briefly
• There were actually 5794 misassignments, a 9.3% error rate, and then after "fixing" them still a 4.6% error rate.
• All poll tapes were not printed out on election night.
  • Susan and Bev Harris found poll tapes in the dumpster.
  • Susan was there and witness wiped clean computers on video.
• SCEC said it was confined to only 2 precincts.
• in 2012: 20 extra memory cards uploaded for precinct COR 09 before the polls closed.
  • Carol noticed numbers going up and down.
  • called the FBI.
  • Guy who uploaded the cards right after that drowned, went fishing with two other guys and drowned.
  • Investigator also drowned?
• Election results database was downloaded with "no results" and then it was sent to Canada for correction.
• GEMS second database in two elections with complications
• Voting machines were connected to county network and not air-gapped.
• Passwords not appropriately handled.
• Unauthorized software installed on Shelby County system would allow editing of election results.
• Improper controls to ensure no unauthorized memory cards are used.
• Calibration problems.
• Candidates were not allowed to inspect the system, no independent audits.
• Election data and poll tapes destroyed or discarded.
• Did not perform a complete audit of poll tapes with voter sign-in sheets, voter ballot apps, and printed tabulator results.
• Requests for investigations ignored.
• Susan says: got chased on the interstate. Car was tailgating, they would not go around. Pulled off on exit. Followed in u turn.
  • Witnessed people in warehouse waiting for them to leave, and then started removing voting machines from warehouse.