Tuesday, Senator Tom Pischke’s CVR bill SB104 passed 6-0 out of the Senate Local Government Committee, and will be sent to appropriations with a DO PASS recommendation. You can listen to the hearing HERE.
After years of battling with election officials over the very existence of CVR’s, hordes of public records request denials, two lawsuits and being subjected to the errant decision of a very ill informed hearing examiner – the truth finally prevails. Now, it’s just a matter of funding the laptops and required software for the 60 counties who have been driving blindfolded for 20 years.
Despite all the lies and deception, public slander, and misuse of taxpayer funds to cover up their lies and deception, we still have not heard one election official or county commissioner admit the truth, and offer a public apology.
Currently Minnehaha County’s Auditor, Leah Anderson, is the only election official in the state who is fully trained and utilizing the ballot images, CVRS and audit logs for….wait for it……auditing.
We heard this a lot: “but we did a post-election audit”. First of all, it’s a recount, not an audit. And secondly – could any of the auditors answer WHY the “audit” was different from the machine count? Minnehaha County Election Coordinator Mike Mathis could, and told the committee when they looked at the ballot images, along with the CVR, they found in all cases the HAND COUNT WAS CORRECT, and the machines did not properly interpret voter intent.
The ongoing software licensing fees, which are based on the number of registered voters in a county, are a concern for counties, who rely on federal funding (that comes with strings) to support their electronic elections. If we can’t afford to be able to even SEE THE AUDIT TRAIL to the machines, we should probably just dump them and return to hand counting.
Luckily, Senator John Carley dropped SB217 which will do just that!! Say goodbye to ES&S!! Let’s return the power to the People and conduct constitutional elections again in the local precinct, where the COUNT SHALL BE PUBLIC.
We can already hear the screams of the liberals and the establishment. Watch for the leftist talking points of “That’s Illegal!!!” “That’s unconstitutional!!!” “That violates HAVA!!!!” “We’ll get sued!!!” “We are disenfranchising people! How will the blind ever vote again??”
DON’T FALL FOR IT.
You can find our easily readable Argument for Machine Free Counties here:
https://www.sdcanvassing.com/_files/ugd/944eb0_35a514a1578f46e5b24d0e54c636d9c7.pdf Please read this and help your legislator understand.
Electronics are NOT required for elections.
Ballot marking devices are NOT required for elections – polling places are only required to be ACCESSIBLE.
NO – the petitions were NOT illegal. The citizens were subjected to vicious lawfare by Sarah Frankenstein and others we’ve named before.
NO – the lawsuits filed by the citizens were not dismissed based on the MERITS of the case.
We have tried for four years. We were lied to, denied public records, subjected to public slander, media harassment, lawfare, gaslighting, mockery in legislative hearings, censorship, intimidation…. and on, and on, and on.
Our friend Rick Weible started off on this journey working to get to a point where we could trust the machines. And he has arrived at this point : It’s futile. There is no trusting the machines.
If you are following the USAID money laundering scandal, the threads just continue to unravel. USAID has already been connected to FirstNet and Smartmatic, and this is just the tip of the iceberg.
All the elections are rigged and fake…. to which Elon Musk replies “Yes”.
Rep. Reimer and Sen. Hulse’s HB1127 – require that notice of a county’s canvass, post-election audit, and testing of automatic tabulating equipment be posted to the secretary of state’s website, is an attempt at looking transparent, but falls flat. In it’s current state, this bill would require the auditor to post to the SOS website, which they cannot do, and the post election audit, machine testing, and canvass are already public record. One good thing that would come out of this would be if the machine testing reports were posted on the state’s website, along with the expected results report, the rest of country would soon become aware of what we already know. The current testing performed statewide has been in violation of 12-17B-5.1, which means we can’t use the machines because the testing is non-compliant.
Let’s just pass SB217.
Rep. Heather Baxter’s HB1062 is also a big step towards increasing transparency in South Dakota elections. This bill would make the voter rolls available free of charge, and is waiting to be scheduled in Senate State Affairs.
Residency is back up in House State Affairs TOMORROW and also the topic of a Federal Only Ballot for all those problem children (about 50,000 of them) who do not meet the requirements of the state to register to vote.
STAND BY FOR THE BANNING THE TABULATORS BILL.
We will send an alert message as soon as we see it scheduled for a committee hearing, and then we need EVERYONE to show up in your SD Canvassing gear or your No Transparency No Trust shirts so the committee is fully aware of what the ELECTORATE wants from their representation.
