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Sept. 13, 2024 - The Lindell Report - Mike Lindell
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The Lindell Report | 13 September 2024
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The pillow guy, Mike Lindell.
He is the greatest.
The Mike pillow guy, Mike Lindell.
And he's been with us right from the beginning.
Hi, I'm Rick Weibel joined by cat lady, Jill Kaufman.
And we're going to have a little bit of fun here.
And of course, we're here to protect the elections.
I mean, cats.
This is a different series than what we are used to doing.
And what's amazing, what's happening right now is the memes are just cat-tastic out there.
And we can see that even the Democrats, poor Swalwell is sitting there Testifying in front of Congress and committee and he's breaking down over the cat memes.
And so this is one of the benefits of the Trump debate with Kamala Harris and we see just a plethora of memes out there just giving us complete joy and so as we But on a more serious Note, we have to be careful and do not separate a man and his cat as you can see behind us so We are here live.
This is an unusual opening, but we are in unusual times regarding our elections.
And so we're kind of continuing off of the past series, where we actually talked about some of the things that we want to make sure that we're protecting before the election.
And as part of that list, that we have here.
We want to make sure that we're registering people to vote.
We want to make sure that we're validating the voter rolls.
We're going to look at that a little bit more tonight.
Review the daily absentee data.
Keep the bounce back mailers, because that's evidence.
And then in Minnesota, they're going to be doing guard ballots
from a candidate perspective.
Absentee ballot oversight.
We want to make sure that the processing and counting of the ballots are done by the activists and also party balance.
We want to make sure that drop boxes are removed and eliminated because in reality your own mailbox should be closer than any drop box that's sitting on county property or city property.
And then we also want to make sure that our processes and systems are secure in the elections, and we also want to make sure that the test decks are correct, and especially that logic and accuracy test.
And as we kind of go through some of the other items during the election, we really want to encourage people to get out and vote.
We want to make sure that you are participating as an election judge or poll challenger or poll watchers and document any incidents that you see there during the election process and then after the election.
Make sure that you're aware of the Kamenstein boards, the post-election audits, and any election challenges that are potential that could be had.
Now, what's interesting out of South Dakota, we have some breaking news broken by S.D.
Kamenstein.
They got a tip that they have published over at their Substack, and what is incredible is part of our series looking at the voter rolls and validating that, South Dakota is very unique in that they have these mail forwarding companies and they will register people to quote-unquote live there and then what's interesting is that they will literally have people where when you drive into some of these small towns where it's only listed 465 people that live there but yet there's 1,400 people at a house so even the U.S.
Census doesn't recognize them and what's interesting is that S.D.
Kamenstein is talking about how They have a tip that they are no longer going to be providing them insurance because they have failed to provide a verifiable South Dakota residence.
And so this is where we knew this when we were out there canvassing that a lot of these folks that are using these mailboxes, they don't have a physical address within South Dakota.
And so It's kind of funny, but it's we've been talking about this for years and South Dakota canvassing it confirmed with State Farm of South Dakota that they are cracking down on the people that don't live here.
And it is basically hurting their bottom line as the insurance vendor.
And so this is where the Mailbox forwarding companies are allowing people to take advantage of South Dakota's lower income taxes because we don't have one, and then also the registration rates that are driving their vehicles that are at a higher risk than driving in rural South Dakota.
And so, for example, this is affecting South Dakota's insurance rates when there are accidents with these large RVs in Phoenix versus, say, in Brandon, South Dakota.
Then, on top of it, we see that Some of these RVs are getting impacted by hurricanes in Florida, Texas, and Alabama, where hurricanes don't exist in South Dakota.
And so that is basically kind of creating all sorts of issues.
And it's interesting what's happening in South Dakota, in that recently the Secretary of State has issued guidance to all of the county auditors that they're supposed to accept all of the voter registrations at face value, even if they know that they're If they haven't even been in the state for 30 days, the Secretary of State's interpretation is that basically that 30 days could be in the future.
And so this is really ridiculous.
We are looking to see if there's going to be future litigation possibly coming out of South Dakota that will look at this.
The other thing with my background in computer security, but we've been kind of looking at some of the security here within the state of Wyoming.
And, uh, we have identified that your election equipment was actually one of the few pieces of election equipment by any vendor that was actually updated recently.
And what I mean by recently, that was June of 2022.
Yeah.
And then what's interesting is that we find out that many of your, those updates didn't happen until 2023.
Exactly.
They didn't, uh, although they issued the order back in six, I think it was 6-8 of 2022.
They didn't update it until a year, almost a little more than a year later.
So we're getting an older version updated, and it's outdated already.
So it's quite mind-boggling that they think that that's an update.
In our BBSG, in 7.4.2, it says that they must be kept current, all these election machines.
So that, to me, is quite a red flag aspect.
That's absolutely right.
And so what Jill's talking about, that BVSG, is this is a document that came from the United States Election Assistance Commission after they were created in 2002 with the Help America Vote Act.
And so this bipartisan commission was supposed to create standards in which we would test all of the equipment.
And so these standards, a lot of states adopt them in different ways.
Either A, just flat out ignore it and do their own thing for their state.
Two, the other option, like what Wyoming does and South Dakota, is that we rely on that voluntary voting system guidelines and we adopted into our state statute and then that basically requires that these systems pass those standards in order to be able to be used within our state's jurisdictions for elections.
And as part of that she was outlining that under chapter 7.4.2 is a requirement that basically says The vendor shall, that's an important word, shall, make sure that they are giving the documentation of the procedures to the clients in being able to make sure that their systems are kept up in a current status and protected from antivirus, malware, all sorts of viruses, logic bombs, all that kind of stuff.
And I don't know about you, but even though your state is one of the best, being over two years old now, with the change order that was submitted.
I don't know about you, but I don't really want to drink two-year-old milk.
That's kind of what they're asking us at this point.
No way.
And so that's pretty sad.
Now what's interesting, kind of dovetailing into that, just this week alone on September 12th, we get an interesting alert from the FBI and CISA.
And what's stunning here is that they are concerned that there are false claims Well, that's true.
But what's interesting is that voter rolls in some states are actually free to download right from their state agency websites.
Others you can purchase like $46 in Minnesota, $2,500 in South Dakota and $15,000 in Wisconsin.
in South Dakota and $15,000 in Wisconsin. And so there are a lot of voter rolls that are out there
and they are correct in this particular piece that just because somebody has your
or...
Voter information doesn't necessarily mean that the system was hacked because candidates actually will purchase that as part of their campaign process, as well as parties and other ballot initiatives that you may have on your ballot.
But some of the interesting things that they want, they have recommendations out here, is making sure that we don't just uniformly accept claims of intrusion at face value.
They're correct about that.
And so, if you ever have questions about the elections and kind of the security of it, and if you feel that somebody is talking about how they may have interfered in an election, or they may have hacked an election, you want to make sure that you're reporting that to your local authorities, and that would be your local election official.
if you don't have a good relationship with them, report it to the Secretary of State's office,
and at any time you can also report it to the FBI as well.
But typically you can go to the Secretary of State's website and they will have information
there and also guidance on information on how they protect the elections and the steps
that they are taking.
Now granted, not all of them are quite accurate in my point of view, because when we look at
the actual antivirus of so many of these systems, we can clearly see at uscase.org,
where I've done the research since January 1st, 2022, all the way through the beginning of July
of this year, we can see that the vendors have really failed us as voters to really protect
Now, they will say that these systems are air-gapped and not connected to the internet.
Well, there are some steps and processes that need to be cleaned up and we've been making these recommendations in multiple states where we recommend that if the vendor is the one programming the elections, they should mail those out to the election officials rather than have the election officials log on to another computer.
Go on to the website and then download those off the internet and then put them into the election equipment.
We think that the vendor should be 100% responsible for that security vector and we should be looking at more secure ways to do that to where nothing is connected to the internet within the county offices and then programming directly into those machines.
Now, some of your election officials out there will actually program those ballot layouts themselves and then do that work inside as well.
And so that is also a more secure way.
Some of the states are out there transmitting election results via modems.
I disagree with that, and I actually agree with a former Democrat, Mark Ritchie.
Actually, he's still a Democrat.
He was the former Secretary of State of Minnesota, and he actually writes a letter to the EAC with a bunch of other folks basically saying there should be no modems in any of these machines from inception to destruction.
And with that, it is so important to maintain that security because there We don't know what's happening behind the scenes, and especially ever since the Supermicro case where their server motherboards were basically infiltrated by Chinese with these small little circuit boards to spy on the Fortune 500 and all of the other customers that were using these hosted servers.
That's something to be aware of, and that's something that we should be making sure that we just don't create those connections at all, 100%.
So the other thing I kind of want to Kind of discuss here as well is, um,
They are kind of correct in a couple ways that we secure our elections, in that many states rely on paper ballots.
If your state doesn't rely on paper ballots, I'm sorry, and you need to get back to that at some point, because those paper ballots are so essential when we look at building our disaster recovery plan, but also instilling confidence in the voters.
Many states also require you to show ID or be pre-registered, and then many states have poll workers from both parties, and then many states have poll watchers from both parties.
As a matter of fact, there's probably quite a few parties out there that are looking for help.
So go visit their website and see what you can do to sign up so that you can be part of the process.
And this is so important because when you understand these vectors of the security that are inherent in the system, this is where you start establishing trust and you want to encourage people to get out and vote.
Because that paper ballot is so important that even if the machines fail, We have the paper ballot.
If candidates feel that there are questionable election results, they can always ask for a recount.
Now, it's not easy, but they may have to file a court case.
And so the paper ballots are the master record of our elections.
They are.
And so that is part of that security that we need.
Now, I think another thing that we've learned here in Wyoming is that we should be making sure about that disaster recovery plan.
And it's okay to ask, if the election official is sick, who is the actual person that would run it?
Who's the backup?
Asking now literally helps them get ready so that they kind of recycle that information within their brain from COVID, from 9-11, from all of the other incidents that have happened in U.S.
history to kind of dust off that manual and just kind of reread it.
The other simple things, too, because we have these alerts from the FBI, from CISA, basically saying that our elections may be under attack.
I get what they're saying there, but I'm from the northern climates.
And I remember the 1991 Halloween storm in Minnesota, where it literally shut down our cities, Minneapolis and St.
Paul, and even some of the rural areas didn't have power of when the election started.
And so those are real things that do happen.
And so That's easier to point to during an election in these northern climates of the United States that we're kind of built for that and used to it.
And so that's why we rely on the paper ballots, but also the paper voter rolls so that we can still check people in.
And if the tabulators are not working, we can still hand count those elections.
And that's where that is so important.
And so we wanted to make sure that we stepped up.
And so over at uscase.org, we actually have videos.
available that you can watch on how to do hand counting and you can actually download some of our instructions and tally sheets under the training kit there is a Dodge County with 126 bouts there and then you can actually see the instructions you can see the tally sheets and those are all editable in Excel so that you can edit those and use them for your elections there and be ready.
And that's, you know, be prepared.
I mean, that is the Boy Scout motto.
And so when we look at what's happening in Wyoming, we still have an interesting situation happening in Wyoming right now, where we have logic and accuracy tests that we're reviewing from the 2022 primary, and there were quite a few issues going on there.
Yes, there was.
We've had multiple issues that we're finding out is number one is some of them aren't testing enough express boats, which is the HAVA required for the handicapped.
And I would expect that to be one of their high priorities is to make sure that that is tested correctly.
The other thing we're finding is that they're not doing it according to our statute.
So we're finding that they are Um, not qualifying, and these test decks that we're finding, because we've asked for public requests, and they're coming back, that all of these test decks have failed except maybe one or two.
And we've also been asking for Uh the time frame our secretary of state knew of the challenges that we were having and that our qualifications weren't happening with our test deck so he sent out a memo to our clerks and specified the statutes and so on so forth that they should retest
And that has happened as well and we've had most of them that we've received with public requests on have now also shown that they failed in that as well.
So this kind of alert us to doing quite a few things.
So we've been asking a little bit more with the public requests.
We've asked for 2022 and we've asked for 2020.
And what we're finding is a historic, systemic aspect of not passing these systems.
These systems are failing.
The clerks are failing to follow the statutes.
And it is quite crazy.
We've had, I believe, five or six of the 2022 that have turned in their requests, and they have not passed.
And then we've had two from 2020, and they have not passed as well.
So it's quite scary.
Yeah, it's absolutely stunning, and so many of the test decks that I've reviewed with you.
It is interesting to see, even if we didn't look at the statutes themselves, if we just looked at from an accountability standpoint.
There are some tips that we want to offer to everybody, is that right out of the gate, you have two ballot styles in most jurisdictions.
And so those two ballot styles, as Jill is referring to, the first one is the standard ballot, which is with the ovals that you and I typically fill out.
And then the other one is the express vote, which is typically for the disability community, but more and more states are forcing all voters to that express vote.
Like in South Carolina, in-person voting typically uses these ballot cards.
They put that in with the barcode and then it loads their election.
And then they use the touchscreen to basically select which candidates that they want for each of the races.
So there are differences between those two types of ballots.
So number one, the first one, the standard ballot, has the ovals in it.
And so it's a coordinate system where it has to basically choose where those candidates are.
Now, what people don't understand is that during a primary election where you have partisan races, you may right out of the gate, start out with three different ballots, especially if you have a local race at the same time.
So you would have the Democrat ballot with all of their partisan choices.
And then down the bottom, you may have the nonpartisan races as part of that ballot.
Then you'll have the Republican ballot.
And it will have different numbers of candidates contesting each of the different races so they may not be equal and so it'll throw off the coordinate system.
And so that's a different ballot style.
And again, it'll have its partisans and down at the bottom, it'll have the nonpartisan pieces.
And then for the people who are not part of either party, there may be a nonpartisan race going on, whether it's a county commissioner race, whether it's a city race, or whether there's a ballot initiative or referendum or school board race on that ballot.
And then that would create a third ballot within that jurisdiction.
But we're not done yet, because then the ExpressVote Disability Ballot is a ballot that basically has barcodes at the top.
Now, again, it doesn't have three different ballots, but it'll have one ballot, and then the barcodes are read by the tabulator to inject for each of the races.
So in Wyoming, that would give them a minimum of four ballots in most jurisdictions.
And so when we look at that logically, and we look at the non-partisan area, that's where we have to make sure that the lowest number of votes would be four.
So if you see a zero, a one, A two or a three.
That's an invalid test because that means that that candidate was not thoroughly tested and vetted for the ballot.
Now, when you get into the partisan side of it again, you want to see a minimum of two.
Because you would have the partisan ballot, and then you would also have the express vote ballot.
And so if you see a zero or a one, that tells you that was not properly tested.
Then we get into other weird situations.
So when you have a plethora of candidates, but you can only select one or two, and you vote for three, that's called an overvote.
And that needs to be tested, and that's only tested on the standard ballot.
What's interesting is that the express vote machines automatically prevent that.
So you have to have at least one overvote tested within that matrix, and you should actually be testing all of the combinations of overvotes to make sure that none of the candidates' votes are bleeding through as accepted, and that's prevented by the programming.
And so that's where When we see just one overvote but there are six candidates and you can select two, they're not actually testing all the combinations of overvotes.
Correct.
And so even though most state laws don't actually understand that and they don't communicate that and so it's not illegal for them not to test it but the reality is we need to build trust and so we encourage all election officials to look at all the possibilities and be testing for that because simple programming mistakes are a reality and we want to avoid those as much as possible and so being able to have that transparency and testing It's so important.
It is very important, yes.
And we've been looking at these test decks sometimes until we turn our eyes get crossed, but it's quite interesting that we're finding the more and more that we're pulling these public requests that we're finding more errors.
Now, I am grateful for Rick coming in and helping us and analyze this and We've been working pretty good and quite a few hours to get this out to the public so that they understand that we have some challenges here in Wyoming and some pretty bad challenges.
Yeah, we do.
And it's really unfortunate.
And so just as a quick highlight for everybody out there, here's kind of a relook at the different ballot types that are out there for you.
And so we see on the left side, that's an express vote ballot, and you see the barcodes up there at the top.
And then you see the candidates that they voted for down below.
What's interesting is that if they don't vote for a candidate position, it doesn't create a blank barcode.
And so You will have a different number of barcodes up there based upon how many races that they selected.
So it's not always consistent.
Then on the right hand side, we see the standard ballot there where the ovals are filled in.
And this is what most elections look like throughout the United States.
And so as common practice that we want to be looking for is we also want to make sure that we're testing absentee ballots for any type of folds that may occur because what's interesting is that when these ballots are inserted into the tabulators it is no different than a 1990s fax machine.
It's no different than a copier and even just a regular desktop scanner.
It takes a picture of that ballot and then It uses that picture to interpret it.
Now what's interesting is that you and I, when we see folds on a piece of paper, we'll just see the fold.
but a copier or scanner where it's having that high intensity light hit that paper,
it will create a shadowing effect that will create a line and potentially cause overvotes,
especially if that line or fold goes over an oval.
And so that's what we wanna make sure that we're properly vetting.
And we wanna make sure that that is also part of the testing process.
And so since a lot of jurisdictions aren't doing that, this is where we are asking candidates and activists
to go ahead and order an absentee ballot, And if your ballot is folded to you, you should actually look at that.
And if you see a fold going over that, try to contact your election official and see if they've properly tested it.
And if they haven't, that's okay.
See if they can retest it just to restore the confidence.
But they should be open to that because, you know, we're all learning together Yes.
to work with our election officials because my hope is that your election official is good and
that they do want to make sure that the confidence of the elections are at a high standard. And so
you should never be afraid to ask questions, but make sure you're not peppering them with like
10, 20, 30 questions. That's overwhelming. If you're at that level, you may have to send them
an email or try to set up a time where you can have that dedicated time or potentially ask your
party leadership within your county.
For those questions, they should be able to answer some of those because a lot of your county leadership should be active in the elections where they're attending the public accuracy.
They should have seen when the machines have come into your county.
They should understand a lot more of that and if they don't, you should try to help them get that knowledge base because I think coming up, especially after September, I think there's going to be a lot more questions About our elections.
And I think as partisans, we have to make sure that we can answer those questions and we have a responsibility to dispel as many of those rumors and myths as possible.
And as activists, we want to make sure that we're helping to protect the elections and that we're available to the clerk so that if something goes wrong, We want to be in a supportive role to help them accomplish the elections.
We don't want any election interference.
We don't want to delay the elections.
We want to be there that if something goes wrong, we'll have that disaster recovery plan.
We want to make sure that we're inputted into it, that if they need help carrying boxes, they need help picking up stuff, or if somebody gets sick, another election judge that we can step in and make sure that we help our party accomplish those goals.
Absolutely, and that is one thing that a lot of people are doing is we're letting our clerks know that we are available for them to help.
And I encourage everyone to do that because sometimes the clerk thinks that they may be overwhelmed with work and I know they have a lot of work as everyone does in their own jobs.
I get that.
But this is our vote and our vote must count and it must be counted correctly.
So just so that they know we're out there willing to help them in any avenue that's available.
Yeah, exactly.
And so that's what we want to make sure that we're doing from the Lindell Channel and Cause of America and so many of the activist groups out there that are joined in to make sure that our elections are above board and that the public understands it because we want to make sure that the public has oversight of our elections as well as our government.
And those are good inoculations to make sure that we have a good secure election.
And so even with some of the threats that have been levied by the FBI and even Garland, I think those are really inappropriate.
And I think he should have approached that a little differently.
And I would hope that at some point, we'll see more candidates talk about this directly,
but also the parties themselves talk about how you can help and be plugged into the system.
So over the next few weeks, start looking for your state and county parties
to start having updates to their websites on how you can engage.
And even some of the candidates like Royce White that we talked with yesterday's campaign,
where they're gonna have a guard the ballot type of a campaign.
So don't be surprised if candidates are also on the search for poll watchers to help them oversee the elections as
well as part of the normal process.
But let's take a deeper look at what happened in South Carolina.
This is one that I received recently, and there's a couple things here to highlight.
And so this is a shout out to one of my friends out there in South Carolina.
And when we look at this, we can see that the blank sheets cast up at the top there is at zero.
So this is inappropriate.
We should actually see blank ballots actually put into the tabulator that have no votes selected whatsoever.
So we can see what the machine will do.
And I would even take a few of those blank sheets and fold them and see what they would do and see if make sure that they're counted as blank versus casting votes.
The second thing that's really stunning here is that this is a jurisdiction that votes with the express vote but they also have absentee ballots and those absentee ballots are actually The standard oval ballots.
So that's two ballot styles right out of the gate.
And so when we look at this, we can see quite a few problems here.
Number one, all of the candidates have the same number of votes.
And so that means that these votes could be flipped with a simple programming error, not intentional, and we wouldn't have been able to catch it.
Then the other thing that we're looking at here is we can't ascertain out of here because of the lack of sufficiency if both ballot styles were actually tested.
You know, because it's just one.
So in each one of those cases where there's one vote, one or the other ballot style was tested.
Right.
It's quite interesting to see that, as you see on the bottom part of it, it says we're a Representative State House of Representation, or excuse me, Republican.
It has one one-on-one.
We saw a lot of that in Wyoming, and I know you have said that you've seen this also, not only just in South Carolina, but in South Dakota, Michigan, Minnesota, and so on and so forth.
We're finding it all across the nation, or at least the Midwest states that we're checking.
Yeah, and the other thing that we see here that's a complete miss is overvotes.
That was not tested here, but also undervotes.
That one is kind of surprising because we see here that there's three, but yet we see that the total sheets process is 31.
So it means that they're testing multiple Styles and districts.
And so for this particular House of Representatives race, they only had three votes that were here because there's no blank sheets that were tested as well.
And so this is one of those things that's just absolutely stunning.
Now, the other thing that we have to remember is that express vote systems prevent over votes.
So it would be the paper ballot, standard ballot, that would actually cause an overvote during their absentee process in South Carolina.
The next slide is really interesting too, as well, is that now all of a sudden one of the candidates has zero votes.
And so that candidate, when we see that every candidate or option must have a vote, zero is not a vote.
And so that was not properly tested and we see here this time that there is an undervote.
So those three ballots, one of them wasn't used for one of the candidates and now they have an undervote.
And so that's just absolutely stunning to see this.
And when we go look at Wisconsin, this is from a DS-200, we can see here on all three of those tapes that a bunch of candidates have two votes for them.
And what's really serious here is that you'll notice that the middle one and the one on the right, those are yes, no votes for questions on the ballot.
And so having both of those at two, For each of those questions, you wouldn't know if those votes were flipped at all.
So this is an improper test completely.
And so when we look at this kind of stuff, it is just absolutely mind-blowing.
And then here in your state, when we looked at the votes, we could see that for one of the state senators, three candidates had one vote and three ballot positions, two candidates in write-in, all had zero votes.
So that's just not tested at all.
And so when you see stuff like this for your state, how does that make you feel?
Oh, I guess it really first angers me, to be honest with you.
And then when we get to looking deeper, it seems to be systemic on the testing.
And to actually understand why that all these votes, all the correct amounts weren't tried, even after the second testing, We're still at a loss of why this hasn't been done, but yeah, it angers me and when we share it with other people, they're just kind of like at a loss of words and why would they allow this to happen and to pass?
It's crazy.
Right, and so it's really such a dystopian world where we're at in looking at these and one of the things that was interesting too is that we were looking at a retest out of Weston County that you had forwarded me and this was from August 13th.
And so your election was the 20th, correct?
And so you have a state requirement that says two weeks before the election, the testing must be done.
And so obviously this is not that.
So the deadline would have been the 6th.
So this is obviously a retest.
And what's funny is all these red arrows are statutory violations, which is just absolutely stunning.
And so this is just basically one race in multiple precincts that we see statutory violations where number and it's more concerning because obviously where the one is sitting there for John Barrasso that tells us that one of the Correct, it wasn't tested.
And that all needs to, that's one of our main races, so it needs to be tested and tried.
And the other stunning thing is that Wyoming is very different in that in your certificate that the clerks are signing, there's actually listed three ballot styles.
So not only do you have the standard ballot style, But then you also have the express vote and then your state recognizes that there's a difference in the standard ballot style and it separates them into two groups and the two groups are
Make sure I get my fingers right here.
The two groups are for a standard ballot are the ones that are pre-printed by a vendor that are pre-ordered and then the second one is what's called a ballot on demand printed ballot where that's printed in-house at the county where if they were short ballots they could actually print out those ballots and then hand those to the voter.
Correct.
And so with your state recognizing that there could be a different paper thickness, there could also be a different measurement in the way that it printed and zoomed and stretched on the paper, that your state requires the clerk to attest that they certified that and tested it appropriately.
Yes, I think that's very important to try all the samples of all the ballots that we'll be going through, and especially in all the precincts and all the races, and we're not finding this happening.
It needs further investigation, but we found a lot of breaking the law, so we're moving on from there.
And so when we look at this page again, we can see that every single candidate position in here, none of them have three.
None of them have a 3, so that means none of them.
If they used a ballot-on-demand printer, that means they clearly violated that certificate that was sent to the Secretary of State's office.
Right.
And with what we're finding with all of this stuff, Especially the error after error after error.
I don't believe our vote is being counted correctly because we have nothing to go on that it was.
We have everything to go on that it wasn't counted correctly because of the errors.
We want our vote to be cast as we truly vote it, not as it's selected by something else or someone else.
So this is why we're investigating this, and it's just truly enlightening.
And here we are in the Midwest, little old Wyoming.
Who'd have thought that anything like this would have happened?
But the more we dive into it, the more it's revealing that we have a lot of problems in our elections.
And we're trying to bring information to our elected officials, and especially the Republican Party has been really helping, like we chatted with a little bit last night.
They're really stepping forward.
And if some of you hadn't attended last night, they actually had us, Rick, come in and present this information to them directly.
And also he gave a hand counting demonstration and I don't have, I've searched and I can't find any Republican or Democratic party that has ever done that and invited someone in to help with the information.
So my hat's off to our local state Republican committee Frank Ethorn is the head of that and and the awesome attorney Brian Chuck as well So they're they're they're heading out this really strong and are doing some things about it.
So I'm grateful for them I'm impressed with the depth of knowledge it within your state party Frank the attorneys the activist it has been really refreshing for me to see and how plugged in they are
and how they really do care about the elections and how they really wanna make sure
that their candidates have a fair shot within the elections.
And I really wanna relay a couple of other kind of points here.
And so I wanna make sure that the viewers and especially the voters,
you need to get out there and vote because there are activists like Jill here
and also the Wyoming GOP that are out there stepping up to the plate
to make sure that your vote is going to count.
They are doing everything they can to protect the vote, and I'm going to help them the best way that I can, and Jill is certainly going to be doing that as well, and so many of the great activists here in Wyoming.
Now, statement number one, it is not our responsibility to prove that there's something wrong with the elections.
It is their responsibility, the clerks, the election officials throughout the United States, it is their responsibility to prove to you that the machines are accurately counting the votes.
So part of one of the ways that they do this is the public accuracy test.
The Public Accuracy Test is not the first time that they've tested this.
The Public Accuracy Test is supposed to be a coming together in bragging rights where we are proud of our election official for doing everything correctly in showing us reports and evidence that this thing is on the up and up.
And so when we see these previous reports that we just showed you, They're not doing that sufficiently enough.
And I am sick and tired of people only running to the bottom of what's required in state statutes.
And we need to lift them up to make sure that they're doing everything within their power to make sure that they are making the public rest assured that everything is properly tested.
So when we see a county clerk only put one express vote ballot in for a precinct and not test all of the contests within the races, that is a slap in the face to the disability community in my view.
When they also do it to the standard ballot and not do enough sufficiently.
When they're not doing folds to test absentee ballots to make sure that those votes are going to be properly calculated.
It is so important that they take these steps because Are we building our elections on solid foundation or just quicksand of just errors, omissions, and fraud?
Well, we're finding a lot of errors, omissions, and possible fraud as well.
And that is not acceptable at all.
And that is why we are diving to the truth on this.
And we encourage everyone to Ask for information from their clerks on their test decks and everything across the nation.
Because we don't know what's going on.
It's a big black box and nobody can see in there.
And that is just not how our elections are supposed to be.
In our state, we have a constitutional A statute that says to guard and protect against fraud.
And so that, I believe in that wholeheartedly.
So I want to guard and protect.
That doesn't mean after the fact and go to lawsuit after lawsuit.
It means to guard and protect before these things happen.
And one of the avenues that we can do is to encourage our clerks to do correct test decks.
That would at least give one aspect of their testing and that our vote might be counted correctly.
But right now we don't have that.
We don't have that assurance in Wyoming and it saddens me.
It saddens a lot of people and they're very concerned with the avenue that we're taking here in Wyoming.
Yeah, and so if you have any questions about this, we're going to start putting more information out over the next couple of weeks over at uscase.org on some of the test sets that we reviewed in South Carolina, Wisconsin, Minnesota, South Dakota, and Wyoming.
I may even be able to get a couple other states, so if you want to send them my way, I'll take a look at them.
You can send them at tips at midwestwampwatch.com and I will take a look at them again.
That email address is tips at midwestwampwatch.com.
If you have pictures of logic inaccuracy tests with prevention from your elected official, we'll go ahead and take a look at those DS200 tapes.
ICX tapes from Dominion.
any other vendor and as well as the overall reports will want to see a detail report that is available by precinct so that we can determine and go ahead and ask your election official how many ballot styles are there that we deal with and let's let them create that definition so that we can understand if they understand that a disability ballot with barcodes is different than a standard ballot that is filled in with ovals.
No, you may be in a state where you just have one and you're relegated to express vote, but we will have to ask further questions such as How do absentee voters actually vote?
Do they use a standard ballot and then is there an absentee ballot board that then translates that into a touchscreen and then voids out the original ballot?
That's going to be important to know as well from a ballot security standpoint.
So asking those questions and understanding those elections is your right and you also have the ability to kind of learn that and no election official should be offended by that.
No, shouldn't be.
And so let's review your kind of your DS-200 tape here.
And so I kind of created a quick little training guide for your state where we kind of said, okay, let's look at this tape and let's see where the red flags pop up and let's see where the good things actually happen.
And so we can see that this was part of a retest and we see that your state has a requirement that these tests be the public accuracy is to be done 14 days before the election and we see the date here on this one is that it oh the polls opened at on August 15th And so that is five days before the election and so that is past the deadline and so that's where it gets a red flag.
Then we look further down and we want to make sure that we see accuracy for all measures.
We're not evaluating that yet here.
And then we want to see at least two styles confirmed that were tested, and we see that it is.
And we see the two threes there, and we can see there on the DS200 tape that it shows us the standard ballot, and the count of those is 137, and then we see the express vote cards at 123.
So this looks like we're heading in the right direction, that we actually see that both ballot styles are actually tested.
Then we look further down and we want to see, okay, are there valid votes here?
It looks like there are because we see there that there's no zeros.
A zero would be an invalid vote.
Then we look down further and we want to see if the overvotes were tested.
So now that we've confirmed up above that the standard ballots are being tested, but we see that there's no overvotes.
So that's a failure.
That's a red flag on the play.
So that's a false start.
We need to basically do this.
redo it and look at it again. So then we look further into the testing here and on the next
race we see here for the representative house district two that there's valid votes there
because we see the 11th, the 12th and the 4th but again we have a red flag.
They didn't do the overvotes.
Yeah, we're seeing that multiple times throughout of all our test tapes that we're getting is the overvotes aren't even they have a zero in there and they're not even tested.
It's scary.
Right, and so in these we We have that little seven star there that basically says, look, an error.
This is an error status and this is not certifiable.
And so we have the warning there, do not certify.
So they should not sign the certificate that would go to the secretary of state because that would be a false document when they sign that.
Now we take a look at a couple more races here and we see in this particular one it actually shows us only one style was tested within this race because of just the one vote sitting there.
So in order to really flesh it out you'd have to have a minimum of two votes.
They could have hidden it from us by having a two there and we wouldn't have probably known just by looking at the tape and this is why it's important to be there in person to actually review those test decks to make sure that each of those are being tested and in most jurisdictions they actually have a team go through and count by hand with a tally sheet the test decks to ensure that every race was covered.
Your election officials should also have a cheat sheet available to them that they pre-filled out that would actually show for each of the ballot styles how many votes each ballot position would be getting.
And so by looking at that to see if they actually set it up correctly would have done the preventative action before they fed all the ballots in.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
have had a nice conversation between the election official to basically say, okay, based upon this
and this worksheet that you have, we could just fill out maybe one or two more, maybe just 10
more ballots to basically get us in compliance with common sense at this point. Absolutely.
Absolutely. It'd be nice. And to be able to validate. And that's where it's so important.
And when we look at, um, I did create this meme, which was kind of, uh, um, it, it was over the top, but the reality is in your state, when the clerks are forced to use ES and SN essence, or they choose to use it right out of the gate, they basically put themselves into a position of.
At risk of committing six felonies right out of the gate in Wyoming.
Yes.
If they don't do things correctly.
And that's within one statute.
And whereas hand counting doesn't put them at risk of any of this.
Nope, it does not.
And we encourage our clerks to take a serious look at that because we like hand counting because number one, it's more personable.
It's more in the people that we know in our own communities.
And we have shown our clerk, we actually showed some hand counting aspects.
He was not quite receptive of that.
But I think across the board, if we can continue to share with them and help them understand that it is cheaper to run a hand counting situation and if you have more and more ballots all you have to do is bring more teams.
Rick has put together a wonderful program where you take a team of four people and two people which are a Republican and a Democrat and on the other side of the table are two people That are Republican and Democrat and you double check along the way and long while you're counting these ballots.
So I don't want to get into too much detail, but it is a really, really efficient and thorough way to do it.
And we've done it multiple times and have been teaching it across the state.
And it is just being so overwhelmingly accepted by the people of Wyoming that we are just ecstatic and we're going to continue to do this.
We're also offering it to the clerks to say, you know, hey, we're at the ready for you.
We'll be glad to, you know, take your hand, show you what we can do to protect our vote.
Because we have all these election warnings coming out from every direction.
Who knows what's going to happen?
But the one thing I want people to understand is we are ready.
We want to make sure our vote counts, your vote counts, and that it's counted correctly.
So that's what we're working on.
We want to make sure that we guard and protect against fraud.
And I also want to kind of provide a little breaking news.
There's apparently one of the clerks that is kind of opening the door to one of the county groups to actually learn about our hand count process and is willing to kind of start the negotiation of creating some test ballots for us to basically go through and actually count those and so Warren talks with the good clerk to basically see what we can negotiate.
At one point she wanted us to do 31 precincts across the board with just you know two or three tables but we're like that won't quite work.
We want to actually Replicate what happened in 2020 for the number of ballots within a precinct and just kind of go through that whole process.
It sounds like in this particular one, they have 16 races there and typically in our training manual, we have 250 ballots with 11 races on there.
And so that's where we would drop the number down to 200 ballots per table because of the 16 races.
You know, and so by understanding kind of that threshold to make sure that we can meet that three hour timeline, that's what we're going to recommend and kind of put up front for her as kind of a baseline.
And she had also asked, you know, relayed, you know, that we count them twice.
And I'm like, I don't think we need to.
And so I wanted to turn the tables on her to say, well, how about this?
What if you program your machines to create a fake precinct?
And we'll fill out the ballots, and then we'll hand count them, and then why don't you run them through the tabulator?
So then we can actually compare the results side by side and I think she should even take some of those and fold them as absentee ballots and let's see what the differences are.
What really happens, yeah.
And I think if she's really open to this I'd like to try and actually get the evidence for the clerks as well as the people and actually test some of the blue pen theories because we've seen this in Minnehaha where sometimes filling out with a blue pen if it's not completely Circled in it will misread it and not particularly pick up Some of that and so this is where we've been recommending that you use black ballpoint pens Don't use sharpies.
Don't use any of this other stuff.
So Alrighty, it's all good.
So this is absolutely incredible.
And so I really want to thank the Wyoming GOP all the great activists and also for the building of the whole hand counting process.
We have an election gold standard available at uscase.org and also the electiongoldstandard.com, I believe it is.
And so Laura Schwarr out of South Carolina, Hava out of Ohio.
So we're Hava compliant.
Kidding.
We are fishy approved.
And then also Beth Beasle out of Texas.
And then I represented kind of South Dakota, Minnesota.
And then the great support from activists in Wisconsin, Minnesota, SD Cam and team, and then also the Wyoming team that has also added additional elements to it and stylistically the process is there.
And so we made it flexible enough that everybody can download the Excel spreadsheet and they can, if they have help, they can use that with and even clerks they can download it and get ready for their elections.
And so In essence, this is a great hand count system starter kit, but also a great disaster recovery plan starter kit if you don't have one already.
And so I want to thank you guys again, and especially you viewers out there with all the great comments and suggestions of things for us to look into here at the Lindale Report, but also the tips at midwestwampwatch.com, and even just your kind words out there supporting us and encouraging us Just remember, there are a lot of us around the country that are out there trying to make sure that these elections are going to be held at the highest standard.
And so, when you look at Cause of America and also the LyndellPlan.com.
So again, I'm not Mike Lyndell, but thank you, Mike Lyndell, for this opportunity to reach all of the voters and activists.
And stay awesome, everyone.
I'm Rick Weill.
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