bookmark_borderAbout those Pesky Voting Machines – It’s Almost Election Day

Here is the Report Again –
INVESTIGATION OF THE VOTE MISCOUNT
IN THE MONMOUTH COUNTY
NOVEMBER 2022 ELECTION
INVESTIGATIVE FINDINGS

You do not have to read all of it,
One of my Blog Readers has done that and made notes.

This is from Page 10. I am focused on the Media Status report.

At the end of the day on November 9, 2022, the user or users of the
programmer’s account ran a Media Status Report, a report that indicated the load
status of all flash drives, including whether, when, and how many times a flash drive
previously had been inserted. Electionware records do not indicate that the report
was run again before the county certified the November 2022 Election results.
No one we interviewed noticed the double insertions in the Media Status Report before the election was certified.

County personnel stated that they were never instructed by ES&S to
run after elections either a Media Status Report or an Election Audit Events Report
that tracks all activity in Electionware. In fact, the County Clerk stated that she did
not even know that those reports existed in November 2022.

This continues on page 11,

Although vendors should ensure that counties are aware of these reports
and know how to run them, we note that the Electionware User Guide does provide
instructions about how to run a Media Status Report and how to run a report
indicating the total number of ballots cast. Moreover, the user of the county
programmer’s Electionware account ran a Media Status Report at the end of the day
on November 9, 2022.

Here is page 19,

Although someone using a county Electionware account ran a Media
Status Report at the end of the day on November 9, 2022, no one discovered the
double insertions in any Electionware reports before the election was certified.
Counties that use ES&S’s election software can generate and review certain reports
to detect tabulation errors. Among these reports are an Election Audit Events Report,
which tracks all activity in the software; a Media Status Report, which tracks the
load status of all flash drives inserted during the election; and a report of the total
number of ballots cast, which counties can compare to the total number of voter
check-ins in pollbooks. Some of these reports are quite lengthy and difficult to read
and understand. For example, the portion of the Election Audit Events Report from
Election Day and the day after the election is nearly 1,000 pages, and the Media
Status Report is nearly 300 pages. Voting equipment vendors should ensure that
these reports are easily reviewable.

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This media status report should show the double USB drives being inserted. So I OPRAed it from the county. The report said it was run. Let’s get a copy.

Here is their response.
Mr. ****,

My office represents the County of Monmouth. My office has been asked to reply to your request of September 21, 2023 for the Media Status report dated November 9, 2002 that was referenced in the Attorney General’s Investigation of the Vote Miscount in the Monmouth County November 2022 Election (the “Investigation Report”).

Unfortunately, there are no records responsive to your request in my client’s possession. In fact, my client was baffled by this reference in the Investigation Report as no Media Status report dated November 9, 2022 exists. Upon reading the Investigation Report, we requested a copy of the same record from Peter Harvey’s office a couple of weeks ago and have received no reply. The only Media Status report our client has that was provided to Mr. Harvey’s office was generated in January 2023.

Please do not hesitate to contact me with any questions.

Best,
Brian

Brian M. Nelson, Esq.
Spiro Harrison & Nelson LLC
200 Monmouth Street, Suite 310
Red Bank, New Jersey 07701
732.784.1470 Law Office
bnelson@shnlegal.com

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