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North Idaho College Trustee Banducci speaking during May special meeting. He points out that while the media is blaming him for opening up NIC to liability, if one looks at the pay out of legal issue over the past ten years most of the blame falls on the former present of NIC, Rick MacLennan. There were documents that one could view at the meeting showing this data. www.thebushnellreport.com

NIC Trustee John Goedde says, "Whoever gets hired is going to be stepping into what remains of a toxic environment. We are going to have to pay a premium because of that." NIC Trustee Todd Bandduci says he is tired of that red herring. "Then tell me why all those people applied. Why people fought to become the acting interim president. Even the people internal or retiring said they would stay if they get to become president. You guys have manufactured this crisis..." www.thebushnellreport.com This is a video clip from the North Idaho College Youtube channel.

NIC Trustee Banducci mentions that the previous college president's salary was $200,000. The current interim president's salary is $180,000. That is about $15,000 a month. Trustee Goeede states that he thinks the higher salary is important due to the high cost of housing and living. Doesn’t think we can find a quality candidate for less than the salary range he suggested. Trustee McKenzie asks if Trustee Goedde would be open to a mixture of items to get to that amount like a cost of moving stipend. Goedde says no he would not be open to that. Trustee Banducci points out that with health insurance and state retirement it will be approaching $300,00 if they stay with Goeddes suggested salary range. Trustee Mckenzie mentions this new president's salary will be 4 times the salary of other employees at North Idaho College. www.thebushnellreport.com This clip is from the May 13th meeting on the North Idaho College Youtube channel.

Elections Clerk Asa Grey gives more details on the May 17th primary in Kootenai County. Voter turn out was 36.4% Usually our primaries have an 18% turnout. This turn out is almost as high as the Nov. 2021 General Election turn out. www.thebushnellreport.com Video is from the Kootenai County Youtube Channel.

Kootenai County Clerk Jim Brannon talks about how a lot of voters did not understand how to vote in the May primary. He mentions that lots of people wrote in names, but since they were not valid write-ins they didn't count. Looks like more voter education is needed. www.bushnellreport.com Video clip from Kootenai County YouTube account.

Four young adults sit down to discuss extremism in Idaho and how it is weaponized against Conservative candidates to make like minded citizens uncomfortable voting for them. The coordinated efforts of multiple organizations use the strategy of unsubstantiated rumors and leftist smear tactics to divide conservatives to ultimately win elections. Are candidates controlled by conviction or by donors?

Why should Idaho voters need to provide proof of citizenship to vote at the polls and who should be responsible for verifying it? www.thebushnellreport.com

This is more video from the April 14th meeting of the Hayden City Council, Councilman Saterfiel expressed again that he doesn't think the City Council could make an unbiased decision regarding who would be picked for mayor. Councilman DePriest agrees with Saterfiel. This sounds similar to what has been going on at North Idaho College with their trustees.

At the April 14th meeting of the Hayden City Council, Councilman Saterfiel expressed that he didn't think the City Council could make an unbiased decision regarding who would be picked for mayor. He wouldn't admit that he has bias. My concern is that he wants a committee to pick the mayor or the governor. Not the elected officials voted in by the residents of Hayden. This sounds similar to what has been going on at North Idaho College with their trustees. www.thebushnellreport.com

How much confidence should Kootenai County Resident have in their vote being counted? Candidates Jennifer Locke and Mike Bauer respond. Clip from the CDA Press Candidate Forum. www.thebushnellreport.com

Explain your stance on the county's current building codes. Are you open to changing them or do you want to keep them the way they are? www.thebushnellreport.com

Please describe the primary function of county coroner and why you are the best candidate to perform these duties.

Ada County Clerk Phil McGrane was asked how he deals with issues that arise during an election. Mary Souza and Dorothy Moon also responded. www.thebushnellreport.com

Do you think that Joe Biden won the 2020 Presidential Election? Dorothy Moon, Mary Souza, and Phil McGrane answer the question. www.thebushnellreport.com

What is your assessment of the decision to not let the voters decide on a potential change in the form of county government? The question itself is very biased. What do you think of the answers that Mattare and Fillios gave? The Coeur d'Alene Press held an online candidate forum - this is a clip from their video.

This is a continuation of the previous video. Chad Houck from the Idaho Secretary of State's office answers Kootenai County resident's questions. Help America Vote Act in 2006 brought in Federal Government money to buy tabulation machines. (Is this when we gave up more of Idaho sovereignty?) The question was asked, "What level of technical expertise do local and state level officials have?" www..thebushnellreport.com

This video is 1 hour and 44 minutes. ES&S presented information about themselves and then took questions from the audience. Idaho Secretary of State employee also answered questions. Chris Wlaschin and Brandon Clifton were the main speakers from the vote tabulating company - ES&S ( Election Systems & Software). I don't agree with their statement right off the bat that they are our servants. They are a for-profit business. Here are my notes and opinions on the presentation by ES&S - the company that makes and maintains the vote tabulating machines for Kootenai County. Two things I noticed right away during their presentation: 1) Brandon Clifton from ES&S came across as disingenuous when presenting, 2) Chris Wlaschin trusts the federal government. According to the ES&S facts sheet handed out at the Tuesday elections office meeting: - The federal government tests the tabulation machines. (Hardware and software). Why? Why does the federal government need to do testing? Why are they involved? - The tabulating machines are windows based. Why? Tech notes: Windows 10, LTXE, Linx, BUTA, 256 encryption, firmware is done in house. Chips from IBM and Texas Instruments. Shipped from Mexico and/or Taiwan. - They background check regularly their employees and contractors they work with. - Per ES&S the two weakest points are when data is transferred, and absentee ballots. - 3 people do updates on tabulating software/maintenance/patches. Always observed. I asked how many people are involved with the hardware and software for the tabulating machines from beginning to end. ES&S has 225 employees in Omaha, Nebraska. Development is about 100 people split into voter registration, vote tabulation, and poll books. There is no connection with the internet at their company, only computer networking within their building. Quality Assurance team has 10 people. Certification team has 8 people. All hardware and software goes to be tested by the federal government and/or a third party company. That is done in Colorado (75 people) or Huntsville (30 people) Then an escrow agent gives the software to the state of Idaho. So about 350 people are involved in the making and testing of the tabulation machines. The question was asked, “Why the switch from hand count to machines?” ES&S said that in 2006 the federal government funded tabulating machines. They also mentioned time, cost, social influence - want results quicker. Security partnerships ES&S have: DHS, FBI, and the U.S. Intelligence Community to name a few. Some interesting from the representative from the Idaho Secretary of State: - Per Idaho law there are no modems in the tabulating machines. But it is legal to have modems in them in some states mostly in ES&S 200’s. ES&S says that 10% of tabulating machine can communicate by modem per request from the States that want the modem in them. - Idaho uses a Verizon zero-tunnel when the clerks office submits the pdf of the preliminary results to the Idaho Secretary of State. - There no law allows citizens to audit/inspect voting technology. The law needs to be changed to be able to do that. - Forensic Audit needs to be built in and have a standard. The law in Idaho needs to be changed to require a post-election audit. - New election audit standards just became law in 2022 for Idaho. If a county has over 100,000 people - it is more likely to be audited. Ada, Canyon and Kootenai. Ada is mostly likely to get audited next canyon, then Kootenai. 20,000 to 100,000 people counties - 8 of them. 3 out of 8 will be likely to be audited. Under 20,000 people counties - there are 3. Two counties are not included in the audit. Canvas and Clark counties. They hand count, and have 300-400 people per county. - They think that registration to vote is the weak point. - Voter information is retained for 22 months in Idaho. Digital is wiped by DOD cleaning software. Paper ballots are then shredded. - Current Kootenai County Clerk Jim Brannon has asked for 3 people to be prosecuted for election fraud in his nine years as clerk. Only one was actually prosecuted. Why is the federal government involved in state elections at all? When did Idaho give aways its state sovereignty regarding elections to the federal government? www.thebushnellreport.com

Kootenai County Clerk Jim Brannon explains more of the counting processes for Kootenai County. Jennifer Locke, Kootenai County Deputy Clerk and Idaho Secretary of State employee Chad Houck add their thoughts. Jim explains that we are the largest central count county. This means that no ballots are counted at the precincts. The county takes place at the elections office. www.thebushnellreport.com

Jennifer Locke, Kootenai County Deputy Clerk explains the absentee ballot request process for Idaho. 10X is the system used by the state of Idaho for absentee ballot requests. www.thebushnellreport.com

Post Falls City Council voted on using ARPA funds recently. It was a 3-3 vote with the Mayor breaking the tie in favor of using the ARPA funds. No votes: Shove, Walker, Ziegler Yes votes: Thorsen, Borders, Malloy Mayor Jacobsen voted yes and broke the tie. Elections matter, especially on local races. 3 no votes due to three new city council members. On a side note, I am impressed with Malloy's research despite his yes vote. www.thebushnellreport.com

Post Falls City Councilman Joe Malloy gives his detailed analysis of ARPA, regarding whether or not the City of Post Falls should use ARPA funds. He said this is the most research he has done in his time on the city council. www.thebushnellreport.com

Keep in mind that if someone asks you to sign a petition to get the Idaho Quality Education Act on the ballot, it is coming from Reclaim Idaho and the Idaho 97 Project. This act states that it will raise personal income taxes, trust taxes, and estate taxes. The man in this video is Mike Satz a registered lobbyist who works for the Idaho 97 Project. He is a registered Democrat. The woman in this video is Alicia Abbott of Sandpoint, Idaho. She works with the Idaho 97 Project and has worked with Reclaim Idaho previously. She proudly claims to be an unaffiliated voter. The Idaho 97 Project is a Democrat group that works with Reclaim Idaho, also a Democrat group. Both groups are working to turn Idaho blue. www.thebushnellreport.com

The amount of fear that Mike Satz expresses in this video is sad. Is he so full of fear due to a steady diet of mainstream media content? Is he fearful when people with opposite opinions of his come to meetings or the capitol in large numbers? Or is his intolerance making him fearful? Was there actual issues regarding safety at the special session this past November? If you were down there in person please comment. Notice that he said, "Alicia and I do this for a living." They are paid to do what they do. I don't begrudge them a living. It is context to be aware of. The man in this video is Mike Satz a registered lobbyist who works for the Idaho 97 Project. He is a registered Democrat. The Idaho 97 Project is a Democrat group that works with Reclaim Idaho, also a Democrat group. Both groups are working to turn Idaho blue.

Idaho 97 Project is bragging that they have pressured groups/people to not work with the Idaho Freedom Foundation. Bully much? Looks to me like the Idaho Freedom Foundation is hurting the alt-left in Idaho if the Idaho 97 project feels the need to bully. The man in this video is Mike Satz a registered lobbyist who works for the Idaho 97 Project. He is a registered Democrat. The Idaho 97 Project is a Democrat group that works with Reclaim Idaho, also a Democrat group. Both groups are working to turn Idaho blue.