Table of Contents

• Preface
• Introduction: "Dominion-izing the Vote"
• Part 1: "Dominion-izing the Vote"
• Part 2: "Dominion-izing the Vote"
• Part 3: "Dominion-izing the Vote"
• Part 4: "Dominion-izing the Vote"
• Court Cases Related to the 2020 Election
• The "Secret Suitcase with Magic Ballots" Video
• Mike Lindell's "Absolute Proof"
• Mike Lindell's "Cyber Symposium"
• "The Navarro Report" by Peter Navarro
• The Arizona Maricopa County 2020 Election Audit
• The Michigan 2020 Election Audit
• Donald Trump's Letter to the Editor of the Wall Street Journal
• Research by John Lott
• Research by Garland Favorito and VoterGA
• Report by Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich
• Reuters Investigation into Illegal GOP Voting Machine Access
• '2000 Mules' Documentary by True The Vote and Dinesh D'Souza
• Donald Trump's 12-page Response to the House Select Committee Hearings
• Mike Lindell's "The Moment of Truth Summit" and "[S]election Code"
• Added Votes and Anomalies in Pima County, Arizona
• Donald Trump's 14-page Response to the 9th House Select Committee Hearing
• January 6 House Select Committee Hearings
• Berkeley Research Group "Project 2020" Report
• Simpatico Software Systems Investigation
• Konnech Election Management Software Company
• Mike Lindell's Election Crime Bureau Summit (August, 2023)

Preface

In early November, 2020 the One America News Network released a 30-minute investigative report entitled "Dominion-izing the Vote". (Note that I was unable to find a link to the entire 30-minute video on the OANN website, which is why this article is sourced via YouTube.)

Taken by itself at face value, the report is pretty convincing. I strongly suggest you watch the entire video first, before reading my analysis of the report below. Imagine you're a Trump-supporter watching the video right after the 2020 election, after being brain-washed for several months prior to the election that the only way Trump could lose the election was by fraud.

On November 12, 2020, Trump tweeted the following from the OANN report:

"REPORT: DOMINION DELETED 2.7 MILLION TRUMP VOTES NATIONWIDE. DATA ANALYSIS FINDS 221,000 PENNSYLVANIA VOTES SWITCHED FROM PRESIDENT TRUMP TO BIDEN. 941,000 TRUMP VOTES DELETED. STATES USING DOMINION VOTING SYSTEMS SWITCHED 435,000 VOTES FROM TRUMP TO BIDEN."@ChanelRion@OANN [tagged with "This claim about election fraud is disputed"]

Source:

Binder, Matt. (November 19, 2020). "Trump adds fuel to infamous QAnon promoter's debunked election fraud conspiracy". Mashable. Retrieved 2020-12-24.

Note: My research and commentary appears indented, in black, in italics, and at the end of this post in the "Commentary" section. All other information is from the report.

Introduction: "Dominion-izing the Vote"

As part of the report introduction, OANN Chief White House Correspondent Chanel Rion declares "glitches", "errors" and "money trails to powerful Democrats", then says:

But Dominion captured headlines when it was discovered it had "glitched" 6,000 votes, giving Biden a fraudulent win. This was not an isolated event.

Dominion Voting Systems is one of three major companies providing 90% of voting systems in U.S. The other two companies are Election Systems & Software and Hart InterCivic.

Dominion is a Canadian firm. It serves 28 U.S. states including Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and all of Georgia.

Part 1: "Dominion-izing the Vote"

Rion states that in 2016, Antrim county in Michigan voted 62% for Trump, beating Clinton by 4,000 votes, but in 2020, Biden appeared to have won by 3,000 votes, and that a manual recount discovered that 6,000 votes accidentally went to Biden.

In a press conference, Ronna McDaniel (Chair of the Republican National Committee) said she was told that the problem in Antrim was a "software issue." McDaniel also stated that 47 other counties in Michigan use the same software as Antrim.

Rion says that Michigan Secretary of State Joceyln Benson was "quick to denounce such concerns as 'ridiculous'."

Rion goes on to say:

See? No need to investigate. After all it's 2020 and software errors are impossible, right?

The report then shows a video clip of "some professor out of Michigan back in 2018 in The New York Times" where the professor says how bad electronic voting machines are because people like him can hack them.

The report notes the statement released by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) saying the 2020 election was "the most secure in American history".

Nine months prior to the November 3 general election, Georgia went "all-in" and installed 30,000 machines throughout the state. During the June Georgia primary there were problems with the Dominion machines, which was reported by PBS.

During the general election in November, 60,000 ballots were "in limbo" due to a software issue in Fulton and Gwinnett counties in Georgia.

Part 2: "Dominion-izing the Vote"

The report shows short clips of the top executives from the three major U.S. voting systems providers (mentioned earlier), all agreeing that no voting machines are 100% secure.

Then, the report highlights excerpts of a letter of concern written by four Democrats - U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (Massachusetts), Amy Klobuchar (Minnesota), Ron Wyden (Oregon), and U.S. House Representative Mark Pocan (Wisconsin) - in December of 2019:

Election security experts have noted for years that our nation's voting systems and election infrastructure are under serious threat

Election Systems & Software, Dominion Voting Systems, and Hart InterCivic..."have long skimped on security in favor of convenience," leaving voting systems across the country "prone to security problems."

The report asks the rhetorical question, "Where are these Democrats now?"

The report claims that over the past two years, Dominion "aggressively" marketed its voting systems to all U.S. states. It states that Georgia went "all in and lived to regret it", but that one state gave it a "Texas-size thumbs down" after a 2019 evaluation concluding that Dominion systems are too "fragile and error-prone."

The report then introduces Ron Watkins (a "large systems data analyst") who thoroughly examined Dominion user guides.

With the Dominion system you need to be most concerned about activist/IT people. The operators of the system, in my opinion, have way too much power to control the internal features and settings of the system.

Watkins describes in detail how to manipulate the Dominion system, where you can alter vote counts across an entire precinct, and how the way data is transferred to county officials leaves room for wrong-doing. According to Rion, Watkins said there is no way to track users/administrators when they have a need to delete and/or add ballots (no audit trail).

Watkins goes on to say that computer folders with vote counts are dragged to a flash drive, which is handed to a county official. He questions whether workers can be trusted to do this with integrity, and whether country officials can be trusted as well (the contents of the flash drive might be altered after creation).

Rion states that during a Georgia recount (two weeks after November 3), flash drives were found with uncounted ballots (over 2,700 votes, 1,500 of which were for Trump, 1,100 for Biden).

Watkins goes on, talking about voting machine digital device keys. If you lose the device you lose the security of the entire precinct. He says that in Philadelphia keys were being stored in a warehouse, and some were stolen along with a laptop computer. He goes on to say that because of this, the entire election should be considered "illegitimate." Regarding the stolen digital device keys, Watkins goes on to say that any "random thief" would have Admin access and could have duplicated any stolen keys.

The report then plays a news video clip describing a theft which occurred one month before the November 3 election, corroborating Watkin's claim of a laptop computer and USB drive theft from an elections machine warehouse in Philadelphia.

Rion then says that on election night (November 3), sometime "in the dead of night" Biden received a "bump" of 60,000 votes in Pennsylvania, giving him a lead over Trump. She says that the 60,000 votes came from the same county where the USB drive and laptop had been stolen.

Rion says that Watkin's list of concerns include why algorithms for "under vote" ballots were so complicated and how these ballots were processed (computer may or may not throw out the votes).

Rion mentions that in 2018, Pennsylvania requested that Dominion change their systems to read a straight Democrat or Republican ballot, but to "...oddly, read an individual candidate separately from the rest of the straight ticket choices below." Watkins picks up on this, describing a theoretical scenario where, because of the choice of the Arial font for the ballots, a capital "I" (9th letter of the alphabet) and a lower-case "l" (22nd letter of the alphabet), both shown here using the Arial font, are "nearly indistinguishable" on a piece of paper. He says that theoretically, if a person were to vote straight ticket, it's possible that Trump could be shown as being in the "Repubiican" party and not the "Republican" party, and in that case Trump would not receive those votes. Watkins then says that he had been hearing of Trump doing poorly in heavily Republican areas.

Rion states that Watkins says the voting machines are not supposed to connect to the internet, but that there are no safeguards to prevent it. Watkins puts forth another theoretical scenario where one election worker uses a voting machine to access the internet during a break, claiming that would compromise the entire precinct.

Next, Rion mentions Watkins biggest concern about the way the machines algorithms handle anomalies (like stray marks and possible bleed-through from a Sharpie). Watkins says the the algorithm does not count ballots with anomalies.

Part 3: "Dominion-izing the Vote"

Rion states that Watkins' analysis is through the single lens of an "infiltration hacker" (i.e., Watkins), and that through that lens the machines (Dominion voting machines) are "disastrously vulnerable."

Rion then picks up on where she left off at the end of Part 2, saying that the biggest "red flag" (according to Watkins, who she refers to as a "systems analyst") is how ballots with anomalies are set aside and not counted. According to Watkins, ballot anomalies are scanned, set aside, not counted, and put into a folder, allowing a small group of 2-6 Dominion-trained workers to review and either "delete" or "verify" them later in a process called ballot "adjudication." He says that workers can "theoretically" see which candidates have been selected on these ballots before they are verified and officially cast, and that "in theory" they could "hand pick a certain party's vote" to be verified while deleting the others.

But, according to Rion, it's Watkins' next point that "stuns" him the most. Watkins says that the "gamma settings" on the scanners used to scan ballots can be set to make every ballot scan with an anomaly. Watkins theorizes that if the settings were set to allow this, it would give the small group of Dominion-trained workers the opportunity to review all ballots (creating an opportunity for fraud). Watkins further states that this theoretical scenario explains to him how one candidate could get a large chunk of votes "at once", while the other candidate gets zero votes. He also says that it explains to him why "certain voters" in Arizona might have been given Sharpies, so that they could put marks on ballots and force them to be scanned as anomalies.

Watkins concludes by saying he recommends that "federal data forensic teams" seize or subpoena the "Imagecast Central" scanning system employed on Dominion machines to see how many anomaly ballots were actually processed. Watkins describes the scanning system as a "feature" of the Dominion machines, to which Rion says:

...which would allow batches by the hundreds of thousands to be decided upon by a few unmonitored workers.

Watkins then says:

If I was Trump I would investigate those 2-6 people per county first.

Rion then poses the question:

To what extent was this actually designed, from the top, on purpose?

The report then shows Rion interviewing FEC United founder Joe Oltmann. Oltmann "infiltrated" an Antifa conference call in September of 2020, during which Oltmann became aware of a man named Eric Coomer, a top Dominion executive. Rion asks Oltmann to describe the call, during which Oltmann says someone asked the question "What are we going to do if f'ing Trump wins?" Oltmann, paraphrasing, says that Coommer said "Don't worry about the election, Trump is not going to win, I made f'ing sure of that."

Rion states that Coomer was a vice president of engineering for Dominion, and that he holds several patents for Dominion "assuring users can adjudicate ballots" for the machines, which is the same feature that Watkins is so concerned about.

After the 2020 election, Oltmann was sent an article about Coomer. Oltmann did some research and discovered that Coomer was the director of strategy and security at Dominion and a shareholder in the company. When Oltmann went to Coomer's Facebook page, that's when he says he realized that Coomer was more than just a member of Antifa. Oltmann says that Coomer was "responsible for putting his finger on the scales of our election."

Oltmann claims that Coomer made sure that Dominion machines were in [used in] all of the 2020 election battleground states.

Oltmann then shares a "rant" from Coomer's Facebook page (24:25 in the video report) dated July 21, 2016 where Coomer, in no uncertain terms, lays into Trump and people who support him with vulgar language.

Oltmann continues, saying Coomer's "rant" became "unhinged", saying that "He [Coomer] talks about how his [Coomer's] work has the same mentality that he [Cooomer] has towards being anti-Trump."

Rion says Oltmann shared over 80 pages of Coomer Facebook posts, some of which contain "Antifa Manifesto" content.

Oltmann says that after this, Coomer "scraped" the internet of all of his Facebook posts, and the Dominion removed Coomer from their website and their Board.

Rion states that as the report was being put together, public listings of Dominion employees decreased. Rion also says her report team came across a friend of Coomer's named Penelope Chester, a communications director at Dominion. Rion states that Chester is a Democrat and anti-Trump. Rion then says:

These are just two Dominion anti-Trump employees of dozens more with clear anti-Trump allegiances. In Coomer's case, he was in a position of power to actually act upon his rage against Trump and Trump voters. What does he mean when he says, "I made 'fing sure of that," nothing?

Next, Rion makes two further points to end Part 3. First, she notes that Christopher Krebbs, former head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, said "this was our most secure election in history." And second, that Krebbs' "now infamous, most secure in election history memo" (Rion's words) was co-written with the endorsement of the election commission, and that Dominion is on that commission.

Part 4: "Dominion-izing the Vote"

The report plays a video clip of Sidney Powell saying that there should never be another U.S. election using Dominion voting machines and Smartmatic software. She says we need an American company that uses paper ballots so all votes can be verified.

Then, Rion says that today, Dominion and two other competitors dominate the voting technology market in America. She goes on to say:

This is a problem, especially if their Antifa-drenched engineers are hell-bent on deleting half of America's voice. If they're saying this in the open, what are they saying behind closed doors?

Rion says that in 2014 Dominion partnered with The Clinton Foundation (Delian Project), which Dominion "admits", and that Dominion says that partnership has nothing to do with how it tabulates votes across America.

Then, Rion concludes by saying:

Go ahead, believe them. Big Media, Big Tech, and Big Government demand that you do. Meanwhile, citizens like Joe Oltmann, analysts like Ron Watkins, news outlets like OAN, and lawyers like Sidney Powell will keep asking the questions the FBI refuses to, and the Left demands you ignore.

Court Cases Related to the 2020 Election

It's widely known that over 60 court cases brought by Trump, other people, or other organizations challenging the results of the 2020 presidential election resulted in dismissal. The dismissals were due to insufficient evidence, lack of standing, a jurisdictional issue, a procedural issue, or in some instances a dismissal by the plaintiff.

Several different websites track and monitor not only court cases related to post 2020 presidential election litigation, but other cases related to elections in general.

According to the Democracy Docket website, as of early November, 2022 80 lawsuits have been filed by Trump, other people, or other organizations challenging the results of the 2020 presidential election. In addition to showing a brief description of the case and it's status, Democracy Docket also has links to all of the official court documents related to each case.

Another good source of 2020 election lawsuit information is the COVID-Related Election Litigation Tracker website.

The American Bar Association website also tracks 2020 election lawsuit information on a page entitled Litigation in the 2020 Election.

Two other sources are Ballotpedia and Wikipedia.

Trump's judicial campaign to upend the 2020 election: A failure, but not a wipe-out | Brookings

The "Secret Suitcase with Magic Ballots" Video

In early December, 2020, surveillance footage captured at the State Farm Arena ballot processing center in Atlanta, Georgia surfaced. The footage shows election workers pulling containers containing ballots from under a table, dragging them a short distance to another area of the room, and then proceeding with their work. This happened after observers had left the building. The footage became another piece of "evidence" of fraud with some claiming it shows workers processing ballots without the presence of observers.

Several days afterwards, Georgia Election System Implementation Manager Gabriel Sterling addressed the video, stating it showed nothing nefarious. Basically, he said what the video shows is a worker shift change, where the "cutters" (those who open the ballot envelopes) were told to go home and the "scanners" were to begin their work. Sterling also said that observers were allowed to be present at any hour, and the fact that they left prior to what is seen in the video is not part of some coordinated effort to keep them from being there to observe.

Source:

Brown, Matthew. (December 14, 2020). "Fact check: Georgia 'suitcase' video is missing context". USA Today. Retrieved 2021-06-26.

McCord, Susan. (December 7, 2020). "Georgia officials debunk 'secret ballot suitcase' claim; to re-certify results for Biden". USA Today. Retrieved 2021-06-26.

Swenson, Ali. (December 4, 2020). "Surveillance tape breeds false fraud claims in Georgia". Associated Press. Retrieved 2021-06-26.

Duke, Alan. (December 3, 2020). "Fact Check: Video From Georgia Does NOT Show Suitcases Filled With Ballots Suspiciously Pulled From Under A Table; Poll Watchers Were NOT Told To Leave". Lead Stories. Retrieved 2021-06-26.

On June 20, 2023, The State Election Board in Georgia officially dismissed a case into alleged 2020 election fraud brought by Georgia State Senator Kay Kirkpatrick. A report issued by the Investigations Divison of the Georgia Secretary of State's office dated March 7, 2023 states that an investigation into allegations of fraud committed by two Fulton County poll workers (Ruby Freeman and her daughter Wandrea "Shaye") were "false and unsubstantiated."

In early May, 2022, OAN aired a segment acknowledging that Freeman and Ross "did not engage in ballot fraud or criminal misconduct while working at State Farm Arena on election night."

As of June 20, 2023, a defamation lawsuit brought by Freeman and Moss against Rudy Giuliani is still pending in court.

Source:

Mastrangelo, Dominick. (May 10, 2022). "OAN acknowledges 'no widespread voter fraud' by Georgia election workers". The Hill. Retrieved 2023-06-25.

Fortinsky, Sarah. (June 20, 2023). "Georgia election board dismisses 'unsubstantiated' 2020 fraud claim". The Hill. Retrieved 2023-06-25.

On July 25, 2023 Rudy Giuliani filed a legal statement admitting that statements he previosly made about Freeman and Moss are false.

Source:

Sforza, Lauren. (July 26, 2023). "Giuliani concedes he made 'false' statements about two Georgia election workers". The Hill. Retrieved 2023-07-27.

On August 30, 2023 U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell ruled in favor of Freeman and Moss, ordering Giuliani to pay sanctions.

Source:

Schonfeld, Zach. (August 30, 2023). "Giuliani loses Georgia election worker defamation suit by default, judge rules ". The Hill. Retrieved 2023-12-15.

On December 15, 2023 a jury ordered Giuliani to pay $148 million to Freeman and Moss.

Source:

Lee, Ella; Schonfeld, Zach. (December 15, 2023). "Giuliani ordered to pay $148M in election workers’ defamation lawsuit". The Hill. Retrieved 2023-12-15.

Mike Lindell's "Absolute Proof"

On February 5-8, 2021, OANN aired a two-hour video documentary entitled "Absolute Proof" released by staunch Trump advocate and MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell.

The video, which had also been posted on YouTube and Vimeo, was removed from both platforms on February 5 due to platform policies prohibiting false claims about the 2020 election.

The video begins with a long, detailed disclaimer, part of which states:

This program is not the product of OAN's reporting.

The views, opinions and claims expressed in this program by Mr. Lindell and other guests, presenters, producers or advertisers are theirs, and theirs alone and are not adopted or endorsed by OAN or its owners.

Further, the statements and claims expressed in this program are presented at this time as opinions only and are not intended to be taken or interpreted by the viewer as established facts.

Source:

Gertz, Matthew. (February 5, 2021). "Matthew Gertz | Tweet". Twitter. Retrieved 2021-02-10.

The video is currently nowhere to be found on the internet, but you can watch a seven-minute video of Lindell discussing his documentary on the OANN website here.

Read what factcheck.org has to say about the video here.

Read more about this on the Vox website in an article entitled "OAN prefaced Mike Lindell's election 'documentary' with a hilariously massive disclaimer".

Read about Dominion's $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit against Mike Lindell here.

Read what factcheck.org has to say about the conspiracy theory involving a supercomputer called "Hammer" and software called "Scorecard" (which was supposedly used to switch votes from Donald Trump to Joe Biden) here.

Here's what Lindell said about Trump at the Conservative Political Action Conference on February 28, 2019:

As I stand before you today, I see the greatest president in history. Of course he is. He was chosen by God.

God answered our prayers, our millions of prayers, and gave us grace, and a miracle happened on Nov. 8, 2016. We were given a second chance and time granted to get our country back on track with our conservative values and getting people saved in Jesus's name.

I now bring you back in time to the summer of 2015. I see Donald Trump coming down an escalator and announcing he is running for president. For me it was a divine and miraculous moment — I felt something miraculous was about to unfold.

Source:

Bowden, John. (March 1, 2019). "MyPillow CEO says Trump was 'chosen by God' to run for president". The Hill. Retrieved 2022-05-14.

Here's what Lindell said in an interview with the online media company Insider (originally called Business Insider):

I want to take Dominion, the company, melt down the machines, and use the metal for prison bars and the plastic for the little trays they served breakfast on in prison for all the Dominion people that were involved in this, and all the other criminals like Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, the CCP [Chinese Communist Party], everyone that was part of the biggest crime in the history of the world.

Source:

Shamsian, Jacob. (November 3, 2021). "Will Dominion end up owning MyPillow if it wins a $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit against Mike Lindell? Here are 2 ways it could take control.". Insider. Retrieved 2022-05-14.

Mr. Pillow: Wyoming Voting Machines Are Fraudulent And If You Don't Agree, You're A Traitor | Cowboy State Daily

Cheney shoots down MyPillow CEO claims of voter fraud in Wyoming | The Hill

Mike Lindell's "Cyber Symposium"

On August 10-12, 2021, Mike Lindell held a 72-hour "Cyber Symposium" in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

Speakers at the event included Steve Bannon (chief strategist to then President Donald Trump), Ron Watkins (who was interviewed by Chanel Rion in the "Dominion-izing the Vote" documentary), and Eduardo Bolsonaro (son of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro).

The overall objective of the Symposium was to present information, collected by Lindell, showing that China helped Joe Biden "steal" the 2020 presidential election from Donald Trump.

In late July, 2021, an ad on Lindell's website stated that at the Symposium "Mike will reveal the cyber data and the packet captures from the November 2020 election.", and "A $5,000,000 prize will be offered to any attendee who can prove that this cyber data is not valid data from the November 2020 election."

Source:

Dean, Grace. (August 15, 2021). "Here's what happened at Mike Lindell's cyber symposium, from him storming offstage to Bolsonaro's son giving him a MAGA hat signed by Trump". Business Insider. Retrieved 2021-10-13.

Dean, Grace: Towey, Hannah. (July 22, 2021). "Mike Lindell is offering $5 million to anyone who can disprove his allegations of voter fraud — if they show up to his cyber symposium". Business Insider. Retrieved 2021-10-13.

EXCLUSIVE: Cyber expert says his team can't prove Mike Lindell's claims that China hacked election | The Washington Times

GOP legislators spread debunked claims at Lindell's 'Cyber Symposium' | AZ Mirror

MyPillow magnate Mike Lindell's latest election conspiracy theory is his most bizarre yet | CNN

Mike Lindell Falsely Claims Trump Got 80 Million Votes, Was on Course to Win All Swing States | Newsweek

"The Navarro Report" by Peter Navarro

Peter Navarro is an economics professor who served as assistant to the president, director of trade and manufacturing policy, and the national Defense Production Act policy coordinator in the Trump administration.

After the 2020 election, Navarro released a three-volume 86-page analysis of the election results. Read and/or download the report here.

At the beginning of the report (in the "A Note from the Author" section), Navarro states that the report was "explicitly designed as a useful evidentiary handbook and reference guide for the upcoming Senate impeachment trial." The trial Navarro refers to is the second impeachment trial of Trump which took place in January, 2021. The charge against Trump was inciting the violence that occurred on January 6 at the U.S. Capitol.

The first volume is entitled "The Immaculate Deception" and is summarized by Navarro as follows:

Volume One finds significant election irregularities across six key battleground states – Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. These irregularities range from outright voter fraud, ballot mishandling, and contestable process fouls to Equal Protection Clause violations, voting machine irregularities, and significant statistical anomalies.

The second volume is entitled "The Art of the Steal" and is summarized by Navarro as follows:

Volume Two examines a two-pronged Grand "Stuff the Ballot Box" Strategy used by the Democrat Party and its political operatives to flood the battleground states with enough illegal absentee and mail-in ballots to turn a decisive Trump victory into a narrow, and arguably illegitimate, Biden "win." To strategically game the Presidential election, the Democrats and their operatives were found to have at times bent or broken both election rules and laws.

The third volume is entitled "Yes, President Trump Won" and is summarized by Navarro as follows:

Volume Three provides the most up-to-date statistical "receipts" with respect to the potential number of illegal votes cast in each battleground state. Volume III thereby provides investigators with a well-documented tally of potentially illegal votes on a state-by-state and category-by-category basis. A key finding is that the number of potentially illegal votes dwarfs the very thin alleged Biden "victory" margins across all six battleground states.

The Arizona Maricopa County 2020 Election Audit

On September 24, 2021 the Arizona Maricopa County 2020 election audit team presented its results to the Arizona Senate.

The team consisted of lead auditor Doug Logan (head of Florida-based Cyber Ninjas), former Arizona Republican Party Chairman Randy Pullen, CyFir CEO Ben Cotton, former Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett, and Shiva Ayyadurai (an MIT-trained engineer and entrepreneur, also known as "Dr. Shiva").

One of the major tasks and objectives of the audit was to conduct a hand recount of the roughly 2,089,000 ballots cast in Maricopa County in 2020. The official certified count showed that Joe Biden won by approximately 45,000 votes. The results of the audit showed that Biden received an additional 360 votes. According to the auditors:

[T]here were no substantial differences between the hand count of the ballots provided and the official canvass results for the County. This is an important finding because the paper ballots are the best evidence of voter intent and there is no reliable evidence that the paper ballots were altered to any material degree.

Watch the entire presentation and read a transcript on C-Span here.

Source:

Wilson, Reid. (September 24, 2021). "Five takeaways from Arizona's audit results". The Hill. Retrieved 2021-10-13.

Duda, Jeremy. (September 24, 2021). "Arizona 'audit': A multitude of unsubstantiated claims and no proof of fraud". AZ Mirror. Retrieved 2021-10-13.

Who are the groups who paid to 'audit' the Arizona election? | AZMirror

The conspiracy theory film made at the Arizona audit | AZMirror

Arizona Senate hires a 'Stop the Steal' advocate to lead 2020 election audit | AZMirror

'Audit' expert Shiva Ayyadurai didn't understand election procedures. He made a number of false signature claims. | AZMirror

Jovan Pulitzer's fraud claims are 'utter rubbish,' fellow 'audit' researcher told the Arizona Senate | AZMirror

GOP Election Truthers Tap a Failed Politician and Conspiracy Theorist for Sham Audit | The Daily Beast

On October 7, 2021 the U.S. House of Representatives Oversight and Reform Committee held a hearing (in Washington, D.C.) with Arizona election officials and election experts to examine the Cyber Ninjas audit of Arizona's 2020 election results. Watch the entire hearing and read a transcript on C-Span here.

On December 17, 2021 Arizona Senate President Karen Fann sat for an interview with Arizona's Family (KTVK 3TV & KPHO CBS 5) in which she discussed the 2020 Arizona Election Audit. Watch the interview here.

On December 21, 2021 Chairman of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Jack Sellers released a statement addressing some of what he calls "tired and false claims" made by Fann during the interview.

On January 5, 2022 the Maricopa County Elections Department released an in-depth, 93-page analysis of the 2020 election audit conducted by Arizona Senate contractors Cyber Ninjas, CyFir, and EchoMail. The analysis states:

After an in-depth analysis and review of the reports and presentations issued by the Senate's contractors, we determined that nearly every finding included faulty analysis, inaccurate claims, misleading conclusions, and a lack of understanding of federal and state election laws.

In addition, the analysis found that of the claims made by the contractors, 22 were misleading, 41 were inaccurate, and 13 were false.

Source:

(January 5, 2022). "CORRECTING THE RECORD - Maricopa County's In-Depth Analysis of the Senate Inquiry". Maricopa County Elections Department. Retrieved 2022-01-11.

Maricopa County rebuts 'audit' findings, GOPs bogus election claims | AZMirror

On January 6, 2022 Maricopa County Superior Court Judge John Hannah said he would impose a $50,000 daily fine on Cyber Ninjas if the company doesn't immediately turn over public records previously requested by The Arizona Republic.

Source:

Garcia, Nicole; J. Cooper, Jonathan. (January 7, 2022). "Cyber Ninjas faces daily $50K fine over Arizona election audit records". Fox 10 Phoenix. Retrieved 2023-07-05.

Judge to Order Cyber Ninjas CEO to Turn Over Records from Discredited Arizona Election Review | American Oversight

The Michigan 2020 Election Audit

On March 4, 2022 Michigan's Office of the Auditor General (led by Doug Ringler, appointed by the Republican-controlled Legislature) released a 67-page report examining the post-election audit conducted previously.

The report includes information relating to a theory that a significant number of fraudulent votes were cast on behalf of dead people in Michigan in the 2020 presidential election. It shows that 1,616 votes, or 0.03% of total ballots cast, were attributed to people who were deceased as of Election Day (most of which were cast by a voter who died in the final days before the election).

The report also shows that 99.99% of the voters examined were within acceptable age parameters, and that 99.99% of the votes cast were not identified as a duplicate vote.

Biden won the state of Michigan by 154,000 votes or about 3%.

Source:

Mauger, Craig. (March 4, 2022). "New Michigan audit debunks dead voter theory in 2020 election". The Detroit News. Retrieved 2022-11-05.

View the entire 67-page report here.

Lawsuit that aimed to toss out election results in 3 Michigan counties has been withdrawn | Detroit Free Press

On April 22, 2021 Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson announced the release of the official report regarding the 2020 election audit.

The audits are concrete evidence that November's election was fair, secure and accurate, and that the results reflect the will of Michigan voters. Legislators should be working to build on this success, rather than seeking to undo the policies that made it possible. [Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson]

Over 250 audits were conducted.

In Antrim Country, all ballots cast for president were audited. Dominion voting machines were found to have counted all ballots accurately.

Audits of absentee ballot-counting boards found that significantly more were in balance or explained than had been at the close of the county canvass.

Source:

(April 22, 2021). "Post-election audit report confirms accuracy and integrity of Michigan's election". michigan.gov/sos. Retrieved 2022-11-05.

View the entire 41-page report here.

Donald Trump's Letter to the Editor of the Wall Street Journal

On October 27, 2021 the Wall Street Journal published a letter to the editor written by Donald Trump in an opinion piece entitled "President Trump Responds on Pennsylvania's 2020 Election."

Trump begins the letter by saying:

Well actually, the election was rigged, which you [the Wall Street Journal editor], unfortunately, still haven’t figured out.

Trump then presents a 20-point bullet list of specific, supposed instances of fraud in the state of Pennsylvania, which he says are "....just a few examples of how determinative the voter fraud in Pennsylvania was."

At the end of the list, Trump adds:

And so much more! This is why Democrats and the Fake News Media do not want a full forensic audit in Pennsylvania. In reality, 80,555 ballots are nothing when there is this much corruption or voter irregularities.

In the letter, Trump mentions a website called "Audit the Vote PA", referring to it as "highly respected." The Petition Letter page of the website details the concerns and grievances of 120,000+ people (80,000+ of which are Pennsylvanians), all of whom have signed a petition requesting a "full investigative audit of the 2020 General Election." The Data and Interviews page has 12 links to other sites which Audit the Vote PA presents as "evidence."

Source:

Trump, Donald. (October 27, 2021). "President Trump Responds on Pennsylvania's 2020 Election". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2021-10-27.

On October 28, 2021 the Wall Street Journal published a response to Trump's letter written by the WSJ editorial board in an opinion piece entitled "The Facts on Trump's Fraud Letter."

Research by John Lott

New report: 255,000 'excess votes' for Biden in six key 2020 states | Washington Examiner

New Peer-Reviewed Research Finds Evidence of 2020 Voter Fraud | Real Clear Politics

Study: 255,000 'Excess Votes' for Biden in 6 Key 2020 States | Newsmax

Research by Garland Favorito and VoterGA

How Georgia 2020 Election Results Were Electronically Manipulated | Garland Favorito | VoterGA

Georgia election board dismisses claims of 'ballot harvesting' in 2020 election | Georgia Public Broadcasting

VoterGA Provides Conclusive Evidence Showing Fulton 2020 Election Results Were Electronically Manipulated | VoterGA

102 Georgia Counties Can’t Produce Drop Box Videos VoterGA Issues Demand Letter to State Election Board | VoterGA

Press Releases | VoterGA

Report by Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich

On February 22, 2023 Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes released previously unreleased documents which show that the investgation of alleged election fraud conducted by the office of former Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich concluded there was no widespread fraud in the 2020 election.

One of the documents is an 8-page memorandum sent from Reginald Grigsby (OFFICE OF ATTORNEY GENERAL, Criminal Division, Special Investigations Section) to John Johnson (Chief Division Counsel). Excerpts from that memoradum state:

Our section received 638 complaints, which led to 430 investigations. It must be clarified that those complaints that were not investigated still required an initial review and assessment; and in many instances, staff had to commit manpower and resources to determine whether or not a complaint/allegation had merit.

Of the 430 investigations, 22 cases were submitted for prosecution.

Agents and support staff have spent more than 10,000 hours investigating allegations of voting irregularities and reviewing alleged instances of illegal voting submitted to our office by private parties.

Some of the more high-profile matters involved Cyber Ninjas Incorporated, True the Vote, Verity Vote, and elected officials. In each instance and in each matter, the aforementioned parties did not provide any evidence to support their allegations. The information that was provided was speculative in many instances and when investigated by our agents and support staff, was found to be inaccurate. With regards to the elected officials we spoke with, they had made public statements asserting voting fraud had occurred and that fraud was a factor in the outcome of the election. When speaking with our agents – and under circumstances where ARS 13.2907.01 (False Reporting to Law Enforcement Agencies; Classification) could be applicable, the elected officials did not repeat or make such assertions when questioned by our agents.

Our comprehensive review of CNI's [Cyber Ninjas Incorporated] audit showed they did not provide any evidence to support their allegations of widespread fraud or ballot manipulation. Based upon our review of CNI's audit, we identified 1 instance of deceased voting, which was not prosecuted as it was accidental. There were 2 instances of double voting that were submitted for prosecution.

TTV [True the Vote ] did not provide any evidence of ballot stuffing, to include videos showing ballot stuffing; they did not provide any evidence or confirmation there were ballot boxes at the locations said to be drop boxes, and they did not provide any information that would identify the owners/holders of the mobile devices. Agents asked Ms. Engelbrecht and Mr. Phillips for the information to support their assertions and allow us to review it. They provided agents with a 3 page hypothesis of what they believe could have been election fraud, but there was no supporting documentation or evidence to support their hypothesis. TTV also alleged they had identified 243 individuals who were committing ballot stuffing in Arizona. TTV also stated they had identified the location of "stash houses" were ballots were being stored/collected. They promised they would provide the information to us, but to this point, they have not done so despite repeated requests to do so from our office.

Source:

Grigsby, Reginald. (September 19, 2022). "MEMORANDUM from Reginald Grigsby | OFFICE OF ATTORNEY GENERAL | Criminal Division | Special Investigations Section". mcusercontent.com. Retrieved 2023-02-25.

Mark Brnovich's office debunked election fraud claims. He kept those conclusions secret. | AZ Mirror

Arizona AG Mayes accuses Brnovich of not sharing report that shows no fraud in 2020 election | Arizona's Family

Former Arizona AG sat on records refuting 2020 election fraud | Associated Press

Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Chairman Clint Hickman released a statement, some of which states:

I would like our Maricopa County residents to know that I am absolutely disgusted by the revelations that former Attorney General Mark Brnovich failed to do his job as a public servant representing the highest law enforcement elected position in the state. He and his leadership team concealed a report that proved the November 2020 election was conducted fairly, lawfully, and accurately. Not only did he ignore his own investigators in issuing a different, "interim report", he falsely suggested wrongdoing by Maricopa County, never correcting the record and blatantly never sharing the team's final report with the public. This was a gross misuse of his elected office and an appalling waste of taxpayer dollars, as well as a waste of the time and effort of professional investigators.

I applaud the current Attorney General, Kris Mayes, for doing what the former Attorney General would not do. I implore everyone who cares about our elections to read what the investigators really found, not a political candidate's cherry-picked story line.

This report should have been released months before last August's Primary Election, but it is nonetheless proof of what my colleagues and I have been saying all along.

Source:

Hickman, Cliff. (February 22, 2023). "Statement on Final AG Report on 2020 Election". content.govdelivery.com. Retrieved 2023-02-27.

On February 25, 2023 media reports stated that Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs is asking the State Bar to investigate former Attorney General Mark Brnovich for potential "unethical conduct." The State Bar also confirmed that there are currently eight complaints filed against Brnovich.

Regarding Hobb's request for an investigation Brnovich said:

Katie Hobbs is wrong. This is another misguided attempt by her to defame and cancel a political opponent instead of addressing the serious issues facing our state.

Source:

AZFamily Digital News Staff. (February 25, 2023). "Gov. Hobbs calls for investigation into former Attorney General Mark Brnovich". Arizona's Family. Retrieved 2023-02-26.

Brnovich: Senate 'audit' dead wrong it its claims that deceased voters cast 2020 ballots | AZ Mirror

Arizona official refutes review that counted 282 dead voters | Associated Press

Report: Arizona Attorney General Discovered 'Vulnerabilities' in 2020 Election | Newsmax

Interim Report - Maricopa County November 3, 2020 General Election | azag.gov

Response to Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer's Emails | azag.gov

Brnovich Interim Report Raises Questions about 2020 Election Conduct | War Room

Arizona attorney general finds 'vulnerabilities,' but says no mass fraud in 2020 election | The Hill

Joint Statement From Chairman Bill Gates and Recorder Stephen Richer | Maricopa County

Brnovich discloses 'interim' findings of civil election probe, angering some Republicans | AZ Mirror

Arizona AG letter offers no proof of 2020 election fraud | Associated Press

Reuters Investigation into Illegal GOP Voting Machine Access

Trump allies breach U.S. voting systems in search of 2020 fraud 'evidence | Reuters

Georgia county under scrutiny after claim of post-election breach | The Washington Post

'2000 Mules' Documentary by True The Vote and Dinesh D'Souza

On May 4, 2022, Donald Trump hosted a party at his florida Mar-a-Lago resort where attendees watched a screening of the "2000 Mules" documentary. The documentary claims that substantial ballot harvesting occured during the 2020 U.S. presidential election in the swing states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin - a claim backed up by cell-phone gps coordinate data and dropbox video. The documentary claims that approximately 400,000 fraudulent ballots were "stuffed" (put into dropboxes) by paid "mules" (the people picking up the fraudulent ballots and "stuffing" them into dropboxes).

Attending the screening were Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse, and former national security adviser during the Trump administration Michael Flynn.

D'Souza told Newsweek that he isn't trying to convince people that the 2020 presidential election was stolen - only that there were major irregularities in the election.

Catherine Engelbrecht, founder of True The Vote said the following:

There is no way to know who the votes were cast for. But what we do know is the claim that 2020 was 'the most secure election ever' is false.

Source:

Palmer, Ewan. (May 5, 2022). "Donald Trump Holds Screening Of '2,000 Mules' Documentary At Mar-a-Lago". Newsweek. Retrieved 2022-05-25.

Bond, Paul. (March 2, 2022). "Film Claims It Has Video of 'Mules' Stuffing Ballot Boxes in 2020 Election". Newsweek. Retrieved 2022-05-25.

Reuters Fact Check. (May 27, 2022). "Fact Check-Does '2000 Mules' provide evidence of voter fraud in the 2020 U.S. presidential election?". Reuters. Retrieved 2022-05-30.

Two leaders of True the Vote jailed by federal judge for contempt of court | The Texas Tribune

Trump says Texan is source for unsupported voter fraud claim | The Texas Tribune

Arizona woman gets 30 days in jail for collecting 4 ballots in 2020 election | Fox News

BREAKING: First Arrest From The Documentary '2000 Mules' Pleads GUILTY To This- LOOK Who It Is!!! Proof The 2020 Election Was RIGGED. | Washington News

She helped create the Big Lie. Records suggest she turned it into a big grift. | The Texas Tribune

A pro-Trump film suggests its data are so accurate, it solved a murder. That's false | NPR

FACT FOCUS: Gaping holes in the claim of 2K ballot 'mules' | Associated Press

Trump Implores Audience at 2000 Mules Premiere: 'Do Something' to Fight Voter Fraud | Brietbart

Dinesh D'Souza's Election Lie Film '2000 Mules' Grosses $751,000 in Cinemark-Boosted Limited Release | The Wrap

Dinesh D'Souza serves misinformation about 2020 election to gullible conservatives | USA Today

Dinesh D'Souza: Enough Fraud Was Committed to Steal 2020 Election | The Epoch Times

Read what FactCheck.org has to say about "2000 Mules" here.

In mid-October, 2022 mainstream media sources reported that the Special Investigations Section for the office of Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich sent a letter to the FBI and the IRS asking those agencies to review the financial records of True the Vote (TTV). The letter alleges that True the Vote raised money on false statements about widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election:

TTV has raised considerable sums of money alleging they had evidence of widespread voter fraud and their efforts would train the public to protect election integrity at the polls and to help protect all voters' rights. They indicate they have provided the information to law enforcement agencies; in our case they have not after promising to do so. Another law enforcement agency has also stated they have not provided them the information, informing them they had given the information to us. Given TTV's status as a nonprofit organization, it would appear that further review of its financials may be warranted.

Chief Special Agent Reggie Grigsby, the author of the letter, said that Catherine Englebrecht and her business partner Gregg Phillips met with representatives of the Special Investigations Section on three separate occasions — June 3, 2021, April 5, 2022 and June 1, 2022.

Grigsby said that prior to each of those meetings he was told by Englebrecht and Phillips that they would provide information to support their allegations, but the information was not provided. Grigsby also said that TTV "began to publicly assert that they had provided us with the information – to include a hard drive – and made that claim to the Arizona State Senate and Phoenix Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation" noting that that information is "patently false."

Source:

Herlihy, Brianna. (October 14, 2022). "Arizona AG asks FBI, IRS to investigate election integrity watchdog True the Vote". Fox News. Retrieved 2022-10-18.

Knox, Brady. (October 16, 2022). "Arizona attorney general requests FBI and IRS investigate 2,000 Mules-linked group". Washington Examiner. Retrieved 2022-10-22.

Donald Trump's 12-page Response to the House Select Committee Hearings

On June 12, 2022, Trump released a 12-page response to the House Select Committee Hearings (investigating the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol).

Trump opens with a long list of challenges currently face by the Biden administration, claiming that the "Kangaroo Court" (i.e, the House Select Committee) is nothing more than an attempt to distract Americans from those challenges. He also states that when he was president America was "respected" and America "prospered."

In the next section entitled "The Sham Investigation", Trump goes on and on about how the Committee is "disgracing everything we hold sacred about our Constitution." He refers to the Committee as "illegally-constituted", a "mockery of justice", and claims it is hiding evidence, among other things.

Trump also declares the following:

Democrats created the narrative of January 6th to detract from the much larger and more important truth that the 2020 Election was Rigged and Stolen.

Source:

Trump, Donald. (June 13, 2022). "STATEMENT BY PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP". cdn.nucleusfiles.com. Retrieved 2022-06-14.

The 22 wildest lines from Donald Trump's 12(!)-page statement on the January 6 committee | CNN

Trump goes on to say:

This entire charade of the Unselect Committee is a brazen attempt to detract the public's attention from the truth. The truth is that Americans showed up in Washington, D.C. in massive numbers (but seldom revealed by the press), on January 6th, 2021, to hold their elected officials accountable for the obvious signs of criminal activity throughout the Election. Those who are supposed to be public servants are using the power of government against the people who entrusted them with the power. We've been betrayed.

In the next section entitled "Stop the Count", Trump returns to his all-to-familiar gripe about how on election night he was ahead by hundreds of thousands of votes in the battleground states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. This time his claim is that those in charge of elections in those states then made the "treasonous decision to stop counting" votes, and that it took them four days to complete the counting of "a few hundred thousand ballots." Then Trump poses the question:

Why would it take four more days to count a few hundred thousand votes when they had counted millions in one day?

Trump answers his own question by saying this:

The Swamp was so determined to keep their stranglehold on power that they delayed the results of the Election so that they could find, manufacture, or produce more ballots, after they knew how many they needed to beat me. They cheated! There's no reasonable explanation for why it took so much longer to count the few remaining ballots as opposed to the millions on Election Day – other than they needed to traffic more ballots, and it took four days to produce the ballots and do it. They couldn't have done it without an elaborate ballot trafficking scheme.

In the next section entitled "Ballot Trafficking", Trump touts the "2000 Mules" documentary by True The Vote and Dinesh D'Souza which I discuss in another section of this post.

Trump ends this section by saying this:

The truth is, according to Joe Biden, that the Swamp has created the "most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics, and it centers around
ballot trafficking.

In the next section entitled "The Math", Trump digs deep into the "fraudulent" ballot counts in battleground states. He opens this section by saying the following:

The illegal ballot harvesting operation is an insult to the democratic process, but the kicker is the media feeding us the bogus line that this was the most secure election in U.S.
history. What a load of bologna! The data shows us how compromised the system was. The math shows us that it changed the outcome of the Election.

Trump then goes through "the math", adding up all of the supposed "muled" ballots in Georgia, Arizona, and Philadelphia. Then he says:

Those three states show that the illegal ballot trafficking scheme alone sufficed to change the outcome of the Election. But what about the other states?

Trump then goes through "the math" for Michigan and Wisconsin, concluding this section by saying:

With just Georgia, Arizona, and Pennsylvania, and there were others, the Electoral College vote would have been Trump 279 to Biden 259. But they cheated. And now look where we are as a country!

In the next section entitled "But What If There Were More", Trump concludes the section by saying:

It's also highly likely that True the Vote did not uncover 100% of the mules, making the numbers much larger than a landslide in scope, and that there were many more mules out there affecting more of the Election than we realize. This was not a close Election

In the next section entitled "Defying the Odds", Trump spends a lot of time comparing Biden's vote tallies with Obama's, questioning how it's possible that Biden out-performed Obama in some key states and counties.

In the next section entitled "Zuckerbucks", Trump describes and complains about the private money Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's non-profit Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) gave to 2,500 election departments across 47 states to help them administer the 2020 election.

Zuckerberg donated $350 million to CTCL because the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic relief package known as the CARES Act included only $400 million in election funding - not enough to cover all of the new pandemic-related election expenses. Zuckerberg donated this money even though he stated in a Facebook post in October, 2020 that government should have provided the funds, not a private citizen like himself.

The "Final Report on 2020 COVID-19 Response Grant Program and CTCL 990s" states that CTCL is "a non-partisan organization backed by Republicans, Democrats, and non-partisan officials", and it has a link to CTCL's IRS Form 990 (covering activity from Feb. 1, 2020 to Jan. 31, 2021) which shows, by entity (county, county election commission, etc.) exactly how much money was donated to each entity.

Source:

Hilu, Charles. (June 8, 2022). "What are ‘Zuckerbucks’ and Why Are They Controversial?". National Review. Retrieved 2022-07-18.

Sherman, Amy. (March 15, 2022). "'Zuckerbucks' for 2022 elections? Republicans say thumbs down". Politifact. Retrieved 2022-07-18.

Trump says that the donated money "was not primarily used for China Virus protection", and that "For example, in Wisconsin the money was conditioned upon the five largest counties adopting a Democrat only initiative of the Wisconsin Safe Voting Plan (WSVP)". The five key counties, Milwaukee, Kenosha, Madison, Racine, and Green Bay, became known as the 'Zuckerberg 5'."

Trump notes the source of the WSVP and 'Zuckerberg 5' information as coming from the "Second Interim Investigative Report On the Apparatus & Procedures of the Wisconsin Elections System" created by the Wisconsin Office of the Special Counsel, delivered to the Wisconsin State Assembly on March 1, 2022. According to that Report:

From the beginning, the purpose of the WSVP contract and its private funding was for the Zuckerberg 5 to use CTCL's private money to facilitate greater in-person voting and greater absentee voting, particularly in targeted neighborhoods.

Any Agreement Where a City's Election Officials Receive CTCL or Other's Private Money to Facilitate In-Person and Absentee Voting Within a City Facially Violates Wis. Stat. § 12.11's Prohibition on Election Bribery Under Wis. Stat. § 12.11.

Read more about this here.

Trump concludes this section of his letter with the following:

Did all the grants to the states have strings attached? Or was it just Wisconsin? How unfair and illegal is this? How do you win an election against this? But we did, getting almost 75 million votes, the most in history for a sitting President.

In the final section entitled "Pandemic of Injustice", Trump talks about all of the failed election lawsuits, he revisits Antrim County, and he goes on about voting machines being connected to the internet when results were being tabulated.

Courts didn't want to be the sole arbiter of such a massive political issue, but they also shouldn't be afraid to do their job. State legislators, members of Congress, senators, governors, secretaries of state, and many other state and federal officials should do their jobs and protect their citizens' right to vote. But, the Swamp runs deep.

Americans have very real pressing concerns about the basic necessities of life. What is Congress doing about it? They're doing everything they can to ignore and distract from the very real pain that they have caused this country. They want to talk about anything but the 2020 Election results and the fact that they are the cause of our country's problems.

Many other forms of cheating surfaced during 2020. Republican challengers were excluded from the process, bullied, and berated. Corrupt officials moved to centralize the vote count away from precincts, making it easier to cheat. Some areas are reported to have had more votes than voters! That raises some questions. These are only a few of the many forms of cheating that took place in, what I call, the Crime of the Century, and its cover up by the American media. This is merely an attempt to stop a man that is leading in every poll, against both Republicans and Democrats by wide margins, from running again for the Presidency.

Mike Lindell's "Moment of Truth Summit" and "[S]election Code"

Mike Lindell hosted a "Moment of Truth Summit" at University Plaza Hotel and Convention Center in Springfield, Missouri the weekend of August 20-21, 2022.

It will feature a presentation by Lindell, "speakers from all 50 states," a "world premier" of a movie centered around conspiracy theories of election fraud, "expert discussions," "unveiling of new evidence," "calls to action" and more. The 48-hour event will also be livestreamed to his website, called Frank Social.

Source:

Bacharier, Galen. (August 5, 2022). "Election conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell holding Springfield 'summit': What to know". Springfield News-Leader. Retrieved 2022-08-07.

Mike Lindell pours millions toward more election fraud claims: Report | Washington Examiner

A three-minute video on Lindell's website, Frank Social, states the following (excerpts):

For the first time in the history of our nation, technology has been activated that attacks our Constitution, with the capacity to destroy our future.

We must remove voting machines and any electronic devices from all elections, forever.

Everyting that can be done to prevent this disaster is being called into service.

Every step of the ladder of experience has been taken to expose the truth.

Data experts have worked countless hours to bring forth the truth to the American people.

This is a war on nationial security. This is a war between good and evil. This is a war that will affect what our country becomes.

Through all of the wrongs and discord, through all the pain and suffering, through all our times there is one thing that has nourished and elevated our souls; that is, our faith in God, and courage. We must be brave.

Elections have consequences. These "selections" are transforming the spirit of our country.

The focus of the entire nation must be on this event - the moment of truth.

We as a people must stand for the American dream. One nation, under God, for liberty and justice for all.

[Video shows Lindell speaking] If the election of 2020 didn't happen, we would never, ever, ever, have gotten to this great place we're gonna get to. Trust me on that. Ever. This was all God's plan and we are in the greatest revival of Jesus in history.

Source:

(August 7, 2022). "Moment of Truth Summit - Aug 20 & 21". Frank Social. Retrieved 2022-08-07.

Trump posted the following on his "Truth Social" account on August 17, 2022:

Make sure to watch The Moment of Truth Summit this Saturday, starting at 9 am CDT, hosted by Mike Lindell! Watch the movie premier of [S]election Code and hear experts and Patriots from all 50 states showing how the 2020 Election was RIGGED AND STOLEN and how to STOP it from ever happening AGAIN. A MUST SEE event to help SAVE our COUNTRY from the deliberate AND ILLEGAL DESTRUCTION going on NOW!! Watch on FrankSpeech.com or RSBN. For more info, go to momentoftruthsummit.com.

As Trump mentioned in his August 17 post, a documentary entitled "[S]election Code" premiered at the Summit.

Selection Code "follows the story of Tina Peters the County Clerk in Mesa Colorado, who made a backup of her county’s Dominion Voting System server, only to stumble across evidence of manipulation in a recent local city council election."

Source:

Wagner, Sarah. (August 18, 2022). "Mike Lindell's New Summit on 'Rigged and Stolen' 2020 Election: 'Moment of Truth'". American Faith. Retrieved 2022-08-22.

"[S]election Code" was produced and directed by Lara Logan.

Newsmax ends relationship with Lara Logan after world leaders 'blood of children' comment | The Hill

Journalism needs Lara Logan | The Hill

Conspiracy Theorist Lara Logan Thanks God She Was 'Dumped by Fox' | Rolling Stone

Opinion | From respected journalist to trolling opinionist: What happened to Lara Logan? | Poynter

Information on the Home page of the Selection Code website states:

Was 2020 stolen? It's deeper than that.

You've heard it said "Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything."

What about those who code the vote?

What if our leaders aren't actually being elected by us, but instead… selected?

[S]ELECTION CODE follows the story of Tina Peters the County Clerk in Mesa Colorado, who made a backup of her counties Dominion Voting System server, only to stumble across evidence of manipulation in a recent local city council election…. and also the 2020 general election. Tina's discovery ignites a chain reaction upending her life. And upending the world.

You will not be able to unsee what you see.

We stand at an apex in human history. Are we handing too much power to technology – and those that program it?

[S]ELECTION CODE is a political thriller uncovering a secret so critical to the survival of America it transcends political parties. It is not about correcting the past. It's about correcting the future.

Once you see [S]ELECTION CODE you'll never again let a machine near your vote.

Source:

"[S]election Code". [S]election Code. Retrieved 2022-08-22.

On May 23, 2021, Colorado Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters allegedly allowed an unauthorized person to access voting machines. That person, identified as Conan Hayes, took pictures and made copies of vote-counting equipment hard drives.

Another person, Gerald Wood, was allowed to attend a secure software update of voting machines. According to election department rules, only people who worked for the county elections office, the Secretary of State, and Dominion are allowed to be present during software updates.

Conspiracy theorists released three different reports based on examination of the copied hard drive data. Mesa County District Attorney Dan Rubinstein ordered an investigation of the third report (the only one of the three reports alleging criminal conduct).

On May 19, 2022, Rubenstein presented the results of the investigation to Mesa County Commissioners. Rubenstein said the investigation found no evidence that vote counts in either election (the 2020 General Election and the 2021 Grand Junction Municipal Election) were incomplete or improper. He also said the investigation found that system anomalies during both elections were due to human error. Rubenstein also stated investigators found extensive evidence that the conclusions in Report 3 are false, and that no evidence was found to indicate outside interference with the election.

Rubinstein said the investigation began prior to March 9, 2022, the day on which Tina Peters was indicted by a Mesa County grand jury on 10 crimal counts including three counts of attempting to influence a public servant, criminal impersonation, two counts of conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation, and identity theft (all felonies). Peters is also charged with first-degree official misconduct, violation of duty, and failing to comply with the secretary of state (all misdemeanors).

Deputy Clerk Belinda Knisley was charged with three counts of attempting to influence a public servant and one count of conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation (all felonies), violation of duty, and failing to comply with the secretary of state (both misdemeanors).

On August 25, 2022, under a plea agreement that requires her to testify against Tina Peters, Knisley pleaded guilty to misdemeanor counts of trespass, official misconduct and violation of duty. Knisley was sentenced to two years of unsupervised probation.

On November 30, 2022, under a plea agreement that requires her to testify against Tina Peters, Sandra Brown pleaded guilty to attempting to influence a public servant (felony) and official misconduct (misdemeanor). Brown will be sentenced after she testifies at Peters' trial which will take place in 2023.

On March 3, 2023, in a separate case, Tina Peters was convicted on a charge of misdemeanor obstruction for trying to prevent authorities from taking an iPad she allegedly used to videotape a court hearing.

Source:

Verlee, Megan. (February 14, 2022). "The Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters' election security controversy, explained". CPR. Retrieved 2022-08-22.

Birkeland, Bente. (May 19, 2022). "DA investigation refutes Tina Peters' claims of Mesa County 2020 election fraud". CPR. Retrieved 2022-08-22.

Hindi, Saja. (March 9, 2022). "Grand jury indicts Mesa County clerk Tina Peters and deputy clerk in election system breach investigation". The Denver Post. Retrieved 2022-08-23.

(November 30, 2022). "Election-denying former Colorado clerk guilty of obstruction". Associated Press. Retrieved 2023-03-04.

Cassidy, Christina A; Slevin, Colleen. (November 30, 2022). "Worker pleads guilty in election equipment tampering case". Associated Press. Retrieved 2023-03-04.

Anderson, James; Peipert, Thomas. (August 25, 2022). "Deputy elections clerk in Colorado to testify against boss". Associated Press. Retrieved 2023-03-04.

Voting machines blasted at Springfield's Mike Lindell event | Springfield Daily Citizen

Moment of Truth Summit highlights | TCN News

Colorado elections clerk indicted in voting system breach | Associated Press

Added Votes and Anomalies in Pima County, Arizona

In November 2020 (after the 2020 election), during an Arizona GOP state Senate meeting an e-mail claiming election fraud in Pima County, Arizona was presented. The e-mail is supposedly written by an anonymous whistleblower who states that 35,000 fraudulent votes were added to County, State, and Federal Election Democratic candidate vote counts in Pima county in the 2020 election.

According to a cybersecurity expert who attended the meeting (retired Army Col. Phil Waldron), the author of the e-mail is a Pima County tech support provider. Waldron said the whistleblower told him he sent the e-mail to the U.S. Department of Justice. Waldron also said the whistleblower told him he attended a meeting with Democrats on September 10, 2020 where the scheme to add 35,000 votes was discussed.

On October 14, 2021, a letter was sent from the Office of the Arizona Attorney General to Arizona State Representative Mark Finchem regarding "Statements Regarding Evidence Related to Pima County 2020 General Election." The letter, written by Assistant Attorney General Jennifer Wright, requests that Finchem submit any evidence he has regarding election fraud in Pima County to the Arizona's Attorney General's Elections Integrity Unit.

On December 13, 2021, Arizona State House and Senate members met in Tucson to discuss election integrity concerns in Pima County. At the meeting, Mark Finchem read the anonymous whistleblower e-mail.

Here's the full text of the e-mail:

Please be advised the Pima County Recorder, located at 240 N. Stone Avenue in Tucson, Arizona, 85701 in Pima County, Arizona, and the Democrat Party added fraud votes. In the initial count of the vote by mail (VBM) totals released at 8 pm on November 3, 2020, There are approximately 35,000 fraud votes added to each Democrat candidates' vote totals. Candidates impacted include County, State, and Federal Election candidates. Through the utilization of the automated ballot count machines in Pima County Elections, My understanding is that 35,000 was embedded into each Democrat candidates' total votes. Below are the meeting notes.

In a meeting I was invited to by the Democrat party in Pima County, Arizona on September 10, 2020, no phones or recording devices were allowed. A presentation was given including detailed plans to embed 35,000 votes in a spread configured distribution to each Democrat candidate’s vote totals.

When I asked, "How in the world would 35,000 votes be kept hidden, or from being discovered?" It was stated that spread distribution will be embedded across the total registered vote range and will not exceed the registered voter count. And the 35,000 was determined allowable for Pima County based on our county registered voter count.

It was also stated total voter turnout versus total registered voters determined how many votes we can embed. The embedding will also adjust based on voter turnout. Because the embedded votes are distributed sporadically, all embedded votes will not be found if audited because embeds are in groups of approximately 1,000. This is so the County Recorder can declare an oversight issue or error, as a group of 1,000 is a normal and acceptable error.

Maricopa County's embed totals will be substantially larger than Pima, due to embeds being calculated based on the total number of registered voters. When I asked, "Has this ever been tested, and how do we know it works?" the response was, yes, this has been tested and has shown significant success in Arizona judicial retention elections, since 2014. Even undetectable in post audits because no candidate will spend the kind of funds needed to audit and contact voters to verify votes and the full potential of the total registered voters, which is more than 500,000 registered voters. This year our Secretary of State has removed precinct level detail from election night releases, so candidates can't see precinct over-votes.

This is what I have from this meeting. Just thought I'd report this. Not sure if you can do anything since I was unable to have a recording device at this meeting. Thank You.

Source:

Phillips, Jack. (November 30, 2020). "Alleged Anonymous Email From Arizona Tech Worker Says 35,000 Votes Given to Democrats: Expert". The Epoch Times. Retrieved 2022-09-21.

Heine, Debra. (December 14, 2022). "AZ State Rep Reads Dem Whistleblower's Letter to the DOJ About 2020 Election Fraud During Election Integrity Hearing". American Greatness. Retrieved 2022-09-20.

Alexander, Rachel. (December 15, 2021). "AZ State Rep Reads Dem Whistleblower's Letter to the DOJ About 2020 Election Fraud During Election Integrity Hearing". The Tennessee Star. Retrieved 2022-09-22.

Donald Trump's 14-page Response to the 9th House Select Committee Hearing

On October 13, 2022, Trump sent a letter addressed to Bennie Thompson, the Chairperson of the January 6 House Select Committee. The letter was entitled:

THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2020 WAS RIGGED AND STOLEN!

The first four pages of the letter are a recap of Trump's ongoing greivances about the 2020 election, other greivancs related to lack of security at the Captiol on January 6, and greivances about the Committee itself.

The next two pages are what appear to be photographs taken at the Capitol rally on January 6, 2020. I assume these were included to show how large the crowd was on that day.

The next six and one-half pages are long lists of specific, supposed election fraud that occurred in the swing states of Arizona, Georiga, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

The last page and one-half lists more greivances and more supposed instances of election fraud.

Source:

Trump, Donald. (October 13, 2022). "THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2020 WAS RIGGED AND STOLEN!". Fox News. Retrieved 2022-10-17.

On page 1 of the letter Trump rails about the people who created the January 6 Select House Committee stating:

The same group of Radical Left Democrats...are the people who created this Committee of highly partisan political Hacks and Thugs whose sole function is to destroy the lives of many hard-working American Patriots, whose records in life have been unblemished until this point of attempted ruination.

Trump then makes the following statements:

Those who committed the Fraud, thereby having created the Crime of the Century, go unblemished and untouched, but those who fought the Crime have suffered a fate that was unthinkable just a short time ago.

A Majority of people in our Country say that the Presidential Election of 2020 was determinatively dishonest, including the fact that many Legislatures were overridden by local and State politicians and judges on vital regulations and requirements, which is totally illegal and UNCONSTITUTIONAL.

On page 2 of the letter Trump refers to a February 2021 article published in Time entitled "The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election" saying:

Time Magazine broke the story of the shadow campaign that was launched to rig the 2020 Presidential Election.

Trump, of course, characterizes the campaign the article talks about as a campaign to "rig" the 2020 election, when in fact the story is about a campaign to save the election.

Here are some quotes from the Time article:

A second odd thing happened amid Trump's attempts to reverse the result: corporate America turned on him. Hundreds of major business leaders, many of whom had backed Trump's candidacy and supported his policies, called on him to concede.

The handshake between business and labor [a joint statement of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and AFL-CIO published on Election Day] was just one component of a vast, cross-partisan campaign to protect the election–an extraordinary shadow effort dedicated not to winning the vote but to ensuring it would be free and fair, credible and uncorrupted.

The scenario the shadow campaigners were desperate to stop was not a Trump victory. It was an election so calamitous that no result could be discerned at all, a failure of the central act of democratic self-governance that has been a hallmark of America since its founding.

Their work touched every aspect of the election. They got states to change voting systems and laws and helped secure hundreds of millions in public and private funding. They fended off voter-suppression lawsuits, recruited armies of poll workers and got millions of people to vote by mail for the first time. They successfully pressured social media companies to take a harder line against disinformation and used data-driven strategies to fight viral smears. They executed national public-awareness campaigns that helped Americans understand how the vote count would unfold over days or weeks, preventing Trump’s conspiracy theories and false claims of victory from getting more traction. After Election Day, they monitored every pressure point to ensure that Trump could not overturn the result.

Source:

Ball, Molly. (February 4, 2021). "The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election". Time. Retrieved 2022-10-17.

Trump states:

No work was done by the Committee on Election Fraud. We, and a huge portion of the American people, simply asked that it be a part of your Committee's work. It wasn't.

On page 3 of the letter Trump talks about the lack of security on January 6. He states:

...I recommended and authorized thousands of troops to be deployed to ensure that there was peace, safety, and security at the Capitol and throughout Washington, D.C. on January 6th...Why the failure to act or use this ready force [National Guard]? Had even a small percentage of National Guard or fencing been there, there would have been no problem, January 6th would have been just another date. I did my job long ahead of schedule.

On page 4 of the letter Trump states:

Despite very poor television ratings, the Unselect Committee has perpetuated a Show Trial the likes of which this Country has never seen before. There is no Due Process, no Cross-Examination, no "real" Republican members, and no legitimacy since you do not talk about Election Fraud or not calling up the troops. It is a Witch Hunt of the highest level, a continuation of what has been going on for years. You have not gone after the people that created the Fraud, but rather great American Patriots who questioned it, as is their Constitutional right.

January 6 House Select Committee Hearings

Dec 23, 2022:

Donald Trump rails against Jan. 6 committee in rambling Truth Social video after it blames him for Capitol riot | Insider

Watch Trump's video response to the January 6 Committee Final Report here.

Dec 22, 2022:

The House Jan. 6 committee releases its final report on the Capitol attack | NPR

Read the entire 845-page January 6 Committee Final Report here.

Dec 19, 2022:

January 6 House Select Committee Hearing number 10 (final):
https://www.c-span.org/video/?524851-1/jan-6-committee-makes-criminal-referrals-fmr-president-trump-john-eastman

Read: Jan. 6 panel report executive summary | The Hill

Oct 13, 2022:

January 6 House Select Committee Hearing number 9:
https://www.c-span.org/video/?523473-1/january-6-committee-votes-subpoena-president-trump

Jul 21, 2022:

January 6 House Select Committee Hearing number 8:
https://www.c-span.org/video/?521771-1/eighth-hearing-investigation-january-6-attack-us-capitol

Jul 12, 2022:

January 6 House Select Committee Hearing number 7:
https://www.c-span.org/video/?521495-1/seventh-hearing-investigation-capitol-attack

Jun 28, 2022:

January 6 House Select Committee Hearing number 6:
https://www.c-span.org/video/?521387-1/sixth-hearing-investigation-january-6-attack-us-capitol

Jun 23, 2022:

January 6 House Select Committee Hearing number 5:
https://www.c-span.org/video/?521076-1/hearing-investigation-january-6-attack-us-capitol

Jun 21, 2022:

January 6 House Select Committee Hearing number 4:
https://www.c-span.org/video/?521075-1/fourth-hearing-investigation-capitol-attack

Jun 16, 2022:

January 6 House Select Committee Hearing number 3:
https://www.c-span.org/video/?520944-1/president-trumps-campaign-influence-vice-president-pence

Jun 13, 2022:

January 6 House Select Committee Hearing number 2:
https://www.c-span.org/video/?520804-1/hearing-investigation-capitol-attack

Jun 9, 2022:

January 6 House Select Committee Hearing number 1:
https://www.c-span.org/video/?520282-1/open-testimony-january-6-committee

Berkeley Research Group "Project 2020" Report

Feb 11, 2023:

Trump campaign paid researchers to prove 2020 fraud but kept findings secret | The Washington Post

Mar 17, 2023:

Trump-commissioned report undercut his claims of dead and double voters | The Washington Post

Trump Campaign Reportedly Commissioned Study Showing No Widespread Election Fraud—But Continued To Push Claims Anyway | Forbes

Simpatico Software Systems Investigation

Mar 17, 2023:

A second firm hired by Trump campaign found no evidence of election fraud | The Washington Post

Second Trump-hired firm found 2020 fraud claims were 'all false' | The Hill

Konnech Election Management Software Company

Two leaders of True the Vote jailed by federal judge for contempt of court | The Texas Tribune

Special Collection | Konnech

Mike Lindell's Election Crime Bureau Summit (August, 2023)

Conspiracy theorists gather at Missouri summit to discuss rigged voting machines, 2020 election | USA Today

Arizona features prominently at Lindell's election conspiracy forum | AZMirror

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• Michigan AG charges 16 'fake electors' in 2020 scheme | The Hill
• Runbeck: We did not use AI in 2022 signature review | AZMirror
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• Five top revelations from Dominion's explosive court filing in Fox News lawsuit | The Hill
• Son of Civil Rights Activist Charged for 'Stuffing' Ballots Into Voting Machines | The Daily Beast
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• Texas GOP approves measure declaring Biden 'was not legitimately elected' | The Hill
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• Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America | donaldjtrump.com
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• Overblown Claims of 'Bad Things' at Philly Polls | factcheck.org
• Georgia review found just four deceased voters' ballots cast in 2020 election | The Hill
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• Dominion says OAN's 'expert mathematician' who claimed to prove election fraud had a job 'setting up swing sets' | Business Insider
• OAN Report Features Baseless Assertion of Election Fraud by Algorithm | factcheck.org
• Dominion Voting Systems suing Newsmax, One America News over election claims | The Hill
• Newsmax Issues Retraction And Apology To Dominion Employee Over Election Stories | NPR
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• Video Doesn’t Show Election Fraud in Georgia | factcheck.org
• Dominion Voting Machines | Gateway Pudit