LAWRENCE COUNTY ES&S ELECTION TABULATOR TESTING 5/29/2024

Follow along as citizens witness the ES&S tabulators tested for their county and ask a multitude of great questions to their auditor. This is a group of citizens who are awake and watching!

I decided to go full transparency and show you the whole recording of this meeting while I was there. I had to leave early, but this is the majority of the meeting itself. I included timestamps of when certain questions were asked so you can fast forward to your preferred questions you'd like to listen to.

Beginning: explanation

5:16 setting the machine

7:50-8 zero report is shown

8:25 testing begins

10 min: Mowry asks question about blemishes and what they do

11:40 Ballot stamp question

12:35 over count and under count question

18:05 question of testing folded ballots

20:57 Question about overvotes

21:30 questions about the maintenance of the tabulating machines (she brings up how the machine counts is on a thumb drive…listen to this part!!)

23:30 question about security risks of the equipment

23:57 Auditor: “There’s no access to the internet with these machines at all”

25:11 question about the use of the thumb drive (another one to listen to!)

27:30 Question: Have you reviewed the EAC certificate for your equipment?

27:38 Question: Do you have the manuals for your election equipment?

27:45 Question: Do you know what a cast vote record is?

27:52 Question: What is a cast vote record?

28:14 Question: Are the CVRs publicly available?

28:23: Are you keeping a record of the CVRs?

28:28: How long will you keep the CVRs?

28:35 brief discussion about the ballot images being turned off versus CVRs

31:50: continued discussion on the ballot images being turned off

32:13: Auditor: “We were informed that it was not against federal law to have it (ballot imaging) on”

32:22 Q: “Can you tell us where it says the CVRs are not publicly available…?”
Auditor: “I can get you the OAG opinion”

32:55 Are there any test ballots from the machine in the lobby?

34:53 Question: Do you have ES&S election ware reporting?

35:33 Question: Do you review the logs on the thumb drives?

35:57 Question: Is the public allowed to fill out ballots for a public accuracy test?

37:07: More questions about how they receive and handle the thumb drives. “So the thumb drive IS put into his computer though…”

Auditor: “YES.”

….”So you’re really trusting ES&S….”

39:49 “Are the tabulators backed up before they have maintenance?”

40:30 do you put a hash on the data that you do on the thumb drive?

40:54 Are the cast vote records the same as the ballot images?

41:30 Is there a reasoning for not having the CVRs publicly available?

41:38 Me: “Just clarifying, you said that the OAG ruling was an OPINION (concerning turning off the ballot images) and not LAW, is that correct?”

43:37 Question of how they’re getting the numbers for the votes. This was interesting…
Paula Mowry noticed that the percentage of votes all looked the same, regardless of how much the women worked to ensure the votes were random. It was as if the machine kicked out vote totals that looked like an algorithm.

48:50 What kind of insurance does the county carry for this?

50:20, I make my way over to Paula Mowry to get more details of her question about the vote tally

55:30 Can the machines detect if ballots go through twice?

56:40 is there a report for test decks available?

1:05:30 - Auditor explains about how she counts the absentee votes

1:08:43 - Paula Mowry asks about the vote tallies all looking the same

End: I show the vote tally and how it seems as if there's an algorithm to it and not random.