While Often Late, Vindication Is Oh So Sweet
Lake & Finchem v. Fontes et al is headed to SCOTUS, to ban black box elections
Prescott, AZ March 18, 2024… The use of “black box” ballot tabulation is pervasive, and they are in use in nearly every state in the union. Their use has been a focal point of election malfeasance for over a decade. Republicans and Democrats alike have from, time to time, called out the systems as vulnerable and insecure, in some cases even untrustworthy. Historically, the election-industrial complex has refused to acknowledge their defects, even vilifying individuals who called out those defects to make the body politic aware of them. In fact, the machine lobby has convinced election personnel that theirs is the flawless solution.
On November 30, 2020, within days of the now infamous election that was fraught with so many inconsistencies and outright fraud that the elections appeared to be more selections than elections, Arizona legislators held an ad hoc hearing on the integrity of the Maricopa County component of the General Election. Lawsuits were filed, expert testimony was taken, and still, no action was taken to stop the madness, until July 2022.
The 9th Circus Court of Appeals affirmed the lower court, and now we head to visit the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS). The Writ of Certiorari was filed last week and should be docketed today or tomorrow. Once the filing is docketed, we will submit a Motion of Expedited Review that will include in detail the evidence we have of sovereign fraud.
Lake & Finchem v. Adrian Fontes et al was filed in July 2022
A quick review will help set the context. Kari & I filed for a preliminary injunction in the U.S. District Court, Arizona in July 2022. The subject of the hearing was simple, if we can’t inspect the software driving the “tabulation” machines, then they should not be used. We knew we were over the target when immediately the Uniparty wolf-pack headed up by none other than Marc Elias was all over us for daring to question the “highly reliable” vote counting machines. We had already seen ballot tabulation problems in Georgia, where testimony was taken in the case Curling v. Raffensperger, 403 F. Supp. 3d 1311. One problem, the testimony was sealed.
The case was dismissed a month later, and the judge, John J. Tuchi dismissed the case in August on the old favorite reason, “standing.” His reason for lack of standing? The allegations were “speculative” in nature. The point of the argument was that the court was relying on government officials in Maricopa County to be truthful in their assertions that the machines and the machine computer code were certified by the Election Assistance Commission (EAC).
In a twist of irony and intrigue fit for a best-selling novel, the November 2022 Election debacle in Maricopa County occurred with massive machine failures; over 7000 ballot rejections every 30 minutes from 6:30 am to 7 pm. Maricopa County election officials and the Board of Supervisors blew off the matter as a “hiccup.” At the same time, judge Tuchi announced sanctions against our attorneys, saying the case against the machines was frivolous. Wait, what? Tuchi himself, while an Obama appointee to the court, is a Maricopa County resident. He had personal knowledge that the machines failed miserably. One would think the fix was in.
Sovereign Fraud discovered…
Sovereign Fraud is that which is perpetrated by agents of the government itself, and of course, covered up for as long as possible by that same government. It is a good thing that we have open public records laws, and they should be even more robust than they are now.
Scott Jarrett, one of the Maricopa County Elections directors in the election contest case brought by Kari Lake, contradicted himself at trial about the 19” ballot images being printed to 20” paper. This is significant because it alters machine recognition of the voter’s intent due to a change in the placement of timing marks on the paper that orients the optical reader. Machines do what they are told to do, and the Ballot on Demand (BOD) printers did just that. The allegedly certified printers were programmed to print 19” ballot images, it was not a glitch, and it was not an internet intrusion to reprogram the printers from some far-off nefarious actor.
Then there is the discovery of computer log files showing Maricopa County knew the election would fail before November. The computer log files have time and date stamps showing programming activity, and those are protected records. Forensic evaluation of the BOD machine code revealed that malware was the only possible explanation for the wrong-sized 19” ballots.
But wait, there’s more…
During the course of discovery in the Lake trial, cyber-security experts made the discovery that Maricopa used altered “Frankenstein” software while claiming in court and stating on their website the software is EAC approved. Once certified and “locked down” it is a crime to alter the code. The same code was in use for the 2020 General Election that Maricopa County used for the 2022 Mid-term Election.
Even with the altered software, there was still a gap.
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