To satisfy the numerous questions about the Dominion Tabulators used in our township voting process, herein are various articles and statements which will describe the safety/verification measures that have taken by our township.
1. Our votes have been re-counted by the Mackinac County Clerk and are verified correct. 2. Our Clerk and township board are confident that there is nothing wrong with our tabulator. 3. The tabulator was NOT connected to the internet during the voting hours of Nov. 3, 2020.
Regarding the Antrim County incident:
Facts About Dominion And Antrim County, Michigan December 14, 2020 Dominion Voting Systems has been the target of a continuing malicious and widespread disinformation campaign aimed at eroding confidence in the integrity of the 2020 presidential election. Additional fabrications focused on our role in Antrim County, Michigan have been spread in the media over the last few days. In light of these new false claims, which have been presented without a shred of evidence, we wanted to share a few key facts: 1. There were no software "glitches" that "switched" votes in Antrim County or anywhere else. The errors identified in Antrim County were isolated human errors not involving Dominion. a. Officials failed to update the programming in their tabulators after requiring changes to their ballot. b. Human errors around election programming are caught during public Logic & Accuracy testing, which is performed after election programming is finalized. Officials in Antrim failed to conduct Logic & Accuracy testing. c. The post-election canvass process is designed to catch errors, which is exactly where these errors were discovered.
2. There was no digital adjudication of votes in Antrim County. a. Antrim County does not license nor use digital adjudication. To the extent Antrim County needed to resolve any absentee ballots, it was done manually—by hand—outside the tabulation system. b. Digital adjudication requires the use of ballot images. Antrim County does not record images. c. Any U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) accredited VSTL can easily and independently verify whether adjudication is used by review of the database structure.
3. Antrim County (and all of Michigan) has a paper ballot record for every vote cast on a Dominion machine. a. Voters make, review, and cast their paper ballots. These paper ballots are in full custody of the election officials of each county. The proof of the accuracy of tabulation machines can be verified by hand counts and audits.
4. Antrim County does not use modems. a. While the State of Michigan requires all tabulation systems to be capable of transmitting election results from the precincts via modems, Antrim County does not use modems. b. If modems are ever used, they are external on Dominion machines so that poll workers and poll watchers can easily identify when they are in use. c. Dominion results servers are designed to not be connected to the internet. Since they are in the custody of election officials, many officials have EAC accredited
VSTLs perform audits to forensically confirm that they have not been connected to the internet. When there is any doubt, officials can always revert back to the hand counts and audits of the paper ballots that NEVER leave the county. a. A simple review of the ballots easily confirms this, as there is only one marking area beside each candidate. Any EAC accredited VSTL could also verify this through source code and database review. a. Extremely thorough and rigorous audits are performed on all EAC certified tabulation systems by third-party test labs, chosen by the bipartisan Election Assistance Commission and accredited by a program of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Their tests include complete source code reviews, volume and accuracy tests, along with post-election audits and verifications.
4. Antrim County does not use Rank Choice Voting.
Updated: December 17, 2020 SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT: FACTS & RUMORS Get The Facts On Antrim County, Michigan | Dominion CEO Statement to Michigan Senate (PDF) - Watch Hearing Video Dominion Demands Retraction of Sidney Powell's Defamatory Falsehoods | Demand Letter to Sidney Powell (PDF) Get State Facts: Arizona | Colorado | Georgia | Michigan | Pennsylvania | Wisconsin | Back to Main DOMINION VOTING SYSTEMS HAS BEEN THE TARGET OF ELECTION DISINFORMATION SEEKING TO UNDERMINE CONFIDENCE IN THE INTEGRITY OF THE 2020 ELECTION. HERE ARE THE FACTS:
• Dominion is a private American company that provides voting systems in 28 states, including "red" and "blue" jurisdictions. Since its founding in 2003, Dominion has supported tens of thousands of elections in non-partisan fashion. • All Dominion systems are capable of producing paper records and are 100% auditable, with testing, reviews, audits, and recounts subject to oversight and verification by all political parties. • All 2020 election audits and recounts using Dominion technology have validated the accuracy and reliability of results, confirming the integrity of election outcomes. • Baseless claims about the integrity of the system or the accuracy of the results have been dismissed by election authorities, subject matter experts and third-party fact- checkers. • Malicious and misleading false claims about Dominion have resulted in dangerous levels of threats and harassment against the company and its employees, as well as election officials. STATEMENT FROM DOMINION ON SIDNEY POWELL CHARGES (Nov 26, 2020) HOW DO WE KNOW THAT DOMINION VOTING SYSTEMS ARE ACCURATE AND SECURE?
All U.S. voting systems must provide assurance that they work accurately and reliably as intended under federal and state certification and testing requirements. In addition to multiple layers of testing and certification, as well as chain of custody controls, all Dominion systems use paper ballots or paper records for auditing. An unsubstantiated claim about the deletion of 2.7 million pro- Trump votes that was posted to the Internet and spread online has been taken down and debunked by fact-checkers. The U.S. Department of Justice has found no evidence of widespread voter fraud. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) confirmed the 2020 election was "the most secure in American history," adding, "There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised." IS THERE ANY EVIDENCE OF DOMINION SYSTEMS VOTE SWITCHING OR SOFTWARE ERRORS?
No, all baseless claims have been debunked by election officials, subject matter experts and third-party fact checkers. No evidence whatsoever has been offered to support claims that there was a systemic problem with vote-counting machines. A hand recount of all paper ballots in the State of Georgia completed on November 19 verified that machine vote totals were reliable and accurate. Certified results in Arizona, Georgia, Florida, Michigan, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, plus other states all validate the accuracy of official tallies. DID A FORENSIC AUDIT OF DOMINION VOTING SYSTEMS IN ANTRIM COUNTY, MICHIGAN FIND A 68% PERCENT ERROR RATE?
No. Michigan’s Dominion voting system tabulators do not read ballots incorrectly 68% of the time. The so-called “forensic analysis” report that is being referenced, while ambiguous and technically incoherent in many places, does not even try to make this claim. The report is severely flawed, having been produced by Russell Ramsland Jr. of Allied Security Operations Group (“ASOG”), a firm with a history of spreading disinformation as part of error-prone affidavits for lawsuits (i.e. mistaking Minnesota for Michigan, for example). The Michigan Attorney General and Secretary of State categorically dismissed the report’s credibility, stating it is "critically flawed, filled with dramatic conclusions without any evidence to support them." A review of the “analysis” by any independent, federally-accredited Voting System Test Laboratory (“VSTL”) can easily refute this disinformation. IS THERE AN ALGORITHM THAT CAN SECRETLY REAPPORTION "FRACTIONS" OF VOTES?
No, Dominion systems do not support fractional or "weighted" voting.
WHO OWNS DOMINION VOTING SYSTEMS?
Dominion Voting Systems is a non-partisan American company that makes electronic voting systems. No foreign national directly or indirectly owns or controls the company. As verified by the Associated Press, Dominion began as a Canadian company and was later incorporated in the United States. One of the company's founders, John Poulos, serves as CEO. Dominion and other voting system manufacturers submit extensive company disclosures to federal and state authorities as terms of product testing and system certification. The company has no ownership ties whatsoever to UBS, or the governments of China, Cuba, or Venezuela. DOES DOMINION HAVE TIES TO SMARTMATIC, OR USE SMARTMATIC SOFTWARE?
No. Dominion and Smartmatic are two separate companies that make electronic voting systems. Dominion does not use or license Smartmatic software. Smartmatic has also refuted such claims. Dominion did NOT acquire Smartmatic and/or its software from Sequoia. IS DOMINION AFFILIATED WITH - OR OWNED BY - ANY POLITICAL FIGURES OR POLITICAL PARTIES?
No. Dominion has no ties or company ownership relationships with the Pelosi family, Feinstein family, Clinton family, George Soros, or any ties to the governments of China, Venezuela or Cuba. The company works with all U.S. political parties, and our customer base and government outreach practices support this non-partisan approach. Given the high headline risk and the public visibility of elections, it would be difficult to thrive as a business without maintaining reliable technology and high standards as an industry provider. DOES DOMINION HAVE SERVERS IN GERMANY WHERE VOTES GET COUNTED?
No, all votes are counted in the U.S. by local election officials – not by Dominion. Voting systems are, by design, meant to be used as closed systems that are not networked (meaning not connected to the Internet). It is technologically impossible to "see" votes being counted in real-time and/or to "flip" them.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has debunked claims about the existence of a secret CIA program for vote fraud called Hammer and Scorecard, and the U.S. Army has refuted claims of secret military "raids." WHAT HAPPENED WITH TEXAS CERTIFICATION OF DOMINION SYSTEMS? Dominion systems are certified in 28 states. While the company disagrees with the decision and rationale offered by the State of Texas for not certifying our system, we recognize there are different standards for different states. The Dominion system has successfully undergone U.S. federal government certification. Importantly, no other review of this system has ever identified concerns about the system being inefficient or insecure. WHAT HAPPENED WITH ANTRIM COUNTY, MICHIGAN'S ELECTION RESULTS?
The issue with election results reporting in Antrim County was due to user-error. The Michigan Secretary of State's office has provided a technical explanation with the facts about what happened. CAN DOMINION EMPLOYEES SWITCH VOTES DURING BALLOT ADJUDICATION?
No, the canvass process exists to allow election officials to validate and count ballots that were unable to be counted on Election Day because they needed additional adjudication. Dominion employees do not have access to this adjudication system, nor do they operate it. All states require bipartisan/multi-person teams in order to adjudicate ballots in accordance with the law.
IS IT OKAY TO USE SHARPIE PENS FOR VOTING?
Yes. Sharpie pens are safe and reliable to use on ballots. Election officials provide writing instruments approved for all in-person voters using hand-marked paper ballots. Dominion machines can read all these instruments, including Sharpies. The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors assures that "Sharpies do not invalidate ballots."
Dominion Statement:: https://www.dominionvoting.com/election2020-setting-the-record-straight/