cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/40597
In the fall of 2020, prior to the election, Elections Supervisor Misty Hampton, demonstrated on a YouTube video that she could manipulate ballots any way she would like through adjudication, as long as you had the credentials. You could change a vote in the race that was originally the reason for adjudication , or change a vote on a race that didn’t require adjudication on that same ballot.
On election night, Hampton had problems with the machines consistently running batches of ballots without the machine “choking” on a batch. She became frustrated when the suggested “cleanings” did not solve the problem. Lenberg noted that she said this occurred more frequently on Trump ballots. He later explains the significance of this. One of the election board members called Dominion and said they would give them a half hour to get this machine working or they would call in the news media. The Dominion staff on-site came back inside and asked them to try it one more time. Lenberg notes that, according to Hampton, the Dominion staff were not allowed to touch the equipment. When Hampton tried again and the machine worked “perfectly” from then on, one has to wonder how the machine mysteriously began functioning properly when the Dominion techs returned from their phone call.
The machines in Georgia are not allowed to be networked, however, Lenberg later discovered that, according to the machine’s model number, the motherboard has Bluetooth and wi-fi capabilities built into it. Additionally, it has the ability to “wake up” periodically and “look for a Bluetooth signal.” This is evidenced by the Dominion staff being able to somehow reconfigure that machine so it worked properly without ever touching it.
On the high speed scanners, it was a little more shocking: Lenberg explains that the user interface allows you to change many different scanning parameters like gamma, contrast, sensitivity etc. Lenberg explained: “Well, that’s nuts on its surface. If you have a certified piece of equipment that is counting votes, you don’t want to let an administrator go in and adjust how its going to scan votes. You would never do that!” Yet, one could, even after certification.
Before they began playing with the parameters, Lenberg claims they could run ballots through perfectly with no issues. Thousands of ballots. But when they got to the tenth parameter, that all changed. This parameter allowed the user to “ignore red, blue, green or none”. It was defaulted to “ignore red”. There was no red on any of the ballots they were running. However, when they set that parameter to “none”, the machine would not run Trump ballots properly. They couldn’t run 20 Trump ballots before rejecting a ballot. It would run Biden ballots through no problem, though.