Melissa
DEC 09, 2016Pls see https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/recountwi_st_croix for additional info on her youtube video and supposed ballet tampering by Ami ( she has Ami’s full name ).
Lynn
DEC 09, 2016See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qxtIu5tv-0rn ( Wisconsin Recount -Day 2 – St. Croix County ) Especially: 2h 43min: https://youtu.be/5qxtIu5tv-0?t=9752rnrnPeople left for lunch and a reporter left a camera in the room.Caught a woman doing things w/papers and putting in trash.Was she supposed to be in the room alone?It’s on the YouTube link sent to Jenn.
Rose
I was the primary Green Party observer this day in St Croix County. There were a couple of greens and a couple of dems present to observe, and a woman stating she was an attorney for the trump campaign. Last night I heard there had been reports of tampered ballot counting machines. The warranty seals on 4 of the machines were broken. I am attaching a photo of my notes of the last 4 digits on the machines and the status of the seal. I was told that the seals were broken by the manufacturer when they installed modems. They are working on getting an affidavit but it is the weekend. I closely watched those machines and did hand tallies and the machines are working properly. All vote counts have been coming out correctly.
Melissa
2 observers including myself reported on the seals that had been tampered with. I wasn’t going to let this go without trying to do my best to figure out what all this meant. I called a local news station, that was very happy to help observe the seals. They did a report on it which can be found here. www.fox9.com/news/221518020-story
After this report the reporter did NOT give up and was very willing to help us address some of our concerns and questions. One being how many machines were given to this county for the recount, as we noticed on Sunday a machine with damage and a yellow sticker covering a white one had been placed, that was never there prior. I myself have all machines video taped showing the white stickers. And another person said they also never seen a white sticker from her observations Thursday or Saturday. The reporter stated they only had 9 machines total for this recount. So between Saturday after the recount and before Sunday morning there was a yellow sticker put on one of the machines, and according to a amended affidavit signed on 12/5/2016 The last Service to any of these machines was on 11/16/2016. So no service was done during the recount. Where did the yellow sticker come from? The WI Elections Commissions put out a report about the stickers, but we didn’t give up. Something was missing. Here is the report.
Statement from Wisconsin Elections Commission
Questions have been raised by some recount observers in St. Croix County about the security of voting equipment. The Wisconsin Elections Commission has been in contact with the St. Croix County Clerk and the equipment manufacturer, Elections Systems & Software (ES&S), and is confident that this is not an issue that would have affected the accuracy of the results reported by the equipment.
St. Croix County municipalities use DS200 scanners from ES&S. After the equipment was purchased, ES&S sent out a technician to install modems in the scanners, which are used on Election Night to transmit unofficial results to the county. In order install a modem, the technician was required to break a “warranty seal” on a door on the scanner. Unfortunately, the technician apparently did not replace those seals on the doors after completing his work.
According to Gary Jacobsen, Regional Field Service Manager for ES&S: “These are warranty seals used by technicians and should not be confused with “security seals” that the County would have used on Election Day. To gain access to the inner workings of the scanner, the technician uses a T-10 Torx screwdriver that has a security tip that is needed because of the special screws that are used.”
ES&S will produce an affidavit from the technician attesting to the fact that he was the person who broke the seals and why he did so. The Commission has asked the St. Croix County Clerk to provide a copy of that document after it has been completed. Also, the equipment will be tested following the recount.
The County Clerk reports that observers from the Stein campaign have been verifying the equipment’s accuracy for selected reporting units by observing the ballots after they are tabulated by the equipment with the broken warranty seals. They have the scanners set up on tables (without the ballot bin) so that every ballot processed by the machine slides out on the table for observers to see and count without handling the ballots. They are not doing this for every reporting unit recounted on each of the machines in question, but have verified several and all of the hand count tallies match the results tape generated by the scanner.
Based on the evidence provided by the St. Croix County Clerk’s office and ES&S, the Commission staff is confident that the voting equipment is accurately tabulating and reporting the results in St. Croix County.
The issue with this statement is that it is not adding up to the amended affidavit. Also that this mystery Yellow Sticker that showed up on 12/4/2016 was not mentioned at all in the services of the machines. The amended affidavit was signed 12/5/2016. This warrants many questions about why this was not reported and where the sticker came from?Attached is the WI Elections Commissions initial report, along with the amended affidavit. Also for verification there were only 9 machines used, you may contact the news reporter who helped us with this story. I do hope someone can figure out what is going on. I will attach also a photo of the Yellow Mystery Sticker. If you need further proof all 9 machines had white stickers applied when I recorded them on 12/3/2016 you may contact me for my video.
Melissa
I was requested to go ahead with this report by a Lawyer from the Jill Campaign.
2 observers including myself reported on the seals that had been tampered with. I noticed some irregular things and pursued to figure out what all this meant. I called a local news station, that was very happy to help observe the seals. They did a report on it which can be found here. www.fox9.com/news/221518020-story
After this report the reporter did NOT give up and was very willing to help us address some of our concerns and questions. One being how many machines were given to this county for the recount, as we noticed on Sunday a machine with damage and a yellow sticker covering a white one had been placed, that was never there prior. I myself have all machines video taped showing the white stickers on All the machines on Saturday. Also another person said they never seen a yellow sticker from her observations Thursday or Saturday. The reporter stated they only had 9 machines total for this recount. I also confirmed this at the County Clerk office in which they stated no machines were swapped out. So between Saturday after the recount and before Sunday morning there was a yellow sticker put on one of the machines, and according to a amended affidavit signed on 12/5/2016 The last Service to any of these machines was on 11/16/2016. So no service was done during the recount. Where did the yellow sticker come from? None of the last 4 of the serial numbers add up to the one machine he does state he put a yellow sticker on with the last 4 being 0216 placed Dec 28th 2015. The WI Elections Commissions put out a report about the stickers, but something was missing. Attached is the report.
The issue with this statement is that it is not adding up to the amended affidavit. It stated these machines were opened and the seals were broke when they bought them to install modems. His report says there was several maintenance orders for the machines in question. Yet he states the ONLY time he ever replaced a sticker was with that yellow one that still did not add up to any of the machines at this location. No other one over the years he serviced, has he actually fixed the seals. Now that this mystery Yellow Sticker showing up on 12/4/2016 is a serious concern. The amended affidavit was signed 12/5/2016. This warrants many questions about why this was not reported and where the sticker came from?Attached is the WI Elections Commissions initial report, along with the amended affidavit,also a copy of the last 4 numbers of each of the machines on Saturday that were recorded. For for verification there were only 9 machines used, you may contact the news reporter who helped us with this story, or the County Clerk in St. Croix County. I do hope someone can figure out what is going on. I will attach also a photo of the Yellow Mystery Sticker with the damaged machine. If you need further proof all 9 machines had white stickers applied when I recorded them on 12/3/2016 you may contact me for my video.I do also have a recording of all 9 machines on Sunday showing the Yellow Sticker as well. Either this machine was swapped, in which a paper trail would need to be done, and try to have this machine inspected to see if the damage matches up and the number of the one he did put a yellow sticker on, or it was worked on during the recount and not reported under oath in the statement by the maintenance tech. I did follow up with Someone from St. Croix county as the machines are still at the location to see if they will allow me to inspect the yellow tagged machine as it is still here in the location. I am still awaiting a response. Either way this needs to be addressed and followed up on.
Rose
I was the primary Green Party observer this day in St Croix County. There were a couple of greens and a couple of dems present to observe, and a woman stating she was an attorney for the trump campaign. Last night I heard there had been reports of tampered ballot counting machines. The warranty seals on 4 of the machines were broken. I am attaching a photo of my notes of the last 4 digits on the machines and the status of the seal. I was told that the seals were broken by the manufacturer when they installed modems. They are working on getting an affidavit but it is the weekend. I closely watched those machines and did hand tallies and the machines are working properly. All vote counts have been coming out correctly.
Melissa
I was sick but was lucky there was a reporter live feeding most of the recount in my county. I was able to observe from home via live stream on YouTube. I am very concerned as I witnessed a lady enter the room at lunch break with some material she didn’t leave with. She was alone in the room by herself digging in papers and what looks to be filling something out. You can see her pick up a ballot as well and more scuffling.
I will attach the entire video recording today, but also went back in the video to see this same woman stamping a Presidential ballot that was not filled out all the way, and was rejected. She carried it around with her, looked very suspicious, folded it and seemed to almost put it in her coat 2 times. The head lady seemed to be conspiring possibly with her, when she turned her back she ran back to the table and shoved the ballot somewhere. The lady seemed very nervous and even at times looked right at the camera that was left on through lunch. by Uptake, a local Journalist from the Twin Cities. I reported it to the Jill team and sent proof. I am not even sure if it is legal for someone to be in a room full of ballots alone with no one else. Here is that video it is at around 3hrs and 19 min I notice the man stating why the ballot was rejected. Watch the woman closely, as she is the one that also returned during the lunch break all by herself. Pics include the woman in question Also she left with a bottle of water and nothing else and returned with material in her hands. I hope this video will be relooked over very close. Something does not seem right. Will be going out next week to the location for more observation.
Wendy
Five of the nine machines being used in the recount have tampered seals. Photos of two are attached. Photo of seal, followed by photo of serial number.
Rose
Election workers made it through 9 voting districts in this time period. There were no discrepancies between previously recorded results and recounted results. The county clerk Cindy Campbell was very helpful and open. There were three of us there from the Green Party. I left my hand tallies from some of the machines with the Green Party primary, Rob M.
