Voting on Thin Ice

• 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.