Mississippi Democrat says there was voter fraud in Democratic primary orchestrated by Democratic county chairperson: 'High-tech election heist'



A Mississippi Democrat politician says there was voter fraud in a recent Democratic primary, and the alleged election corruption was orchestrated by a Democratic county chairperson.

Hinds County District 2 Supervisor David Archie is contesting the results of the recent election results against challenger Anthony Smith. Archie is claiming that there was voter fraud committed in the Democratic primary election held on Aug. 8.

He alleges that his fellow Democrats committed "high-tech election heist with corruption as well as fraud."

WAPT reported, "He lost to Anthony Smith, who, according to results from Hinds County election officials, won by 63% of the vote."

After losing the election, Archie said he requested a ballot box review of the election results. He claimed that the Hinds County Democratic Party only provided him with the paper ballots, but did not supply him with secondary confirmation measures, such as a voter signature book, digital images of the ballots, or the thumb drives from the voting machines.

Archie claimed the election fraud was orchestrated by Jacqueline Amos – chairperson of the Hinds County Democratic Executive Committee.

Archie alleges that Amos disparaged him in a text message between her and an unnamed person.

The unidentified person reportedly texted Amos, "Hey, don't let them cheat Debroha Dixon out of her election. She won fair and square."

Archie alleges Amos answered, "She won. But I'm going to f*** David Archie on the site!!!"

"The bottom line is that we have the text, she’s the chairperson, she’s the one that’s responsible," Archie said at a press conference. "She must be impartial to any and all elections here in Hinds County and this does not speak that she was being impartial to an election."

Archie proclaimed, "We have videotape of Jacque Amos going into boxes, bringing in thumb drives, bringing in ballots to be inserted into machines. We have pictures of Jacque Amos participating in what we think that is fraud as well as corruption."

Taylor Pedigo, a District 2 resident, said at the press conference, "I was watching the election numbers come in and immediately I knew that something funny was going on, that this man that I had never heard of, that I had never seen a yard sign of... came out the gate with a huge lead. This leads me to believe that this needs further investigation."

Cynthia Walker, a Yazoo City resident who participated in the ballot recount, said at the press conference, "I have reason to believe that we don’t know if you got 1,800 voters. All we know is you got 1,800 paper ballots. Had she left me some books, and I came back to 1,800, had she left me some media sticks, and I came back to 1800, had she left me a tally sheet, I came back to 1,800. Had they left us a receiving and a receipt in return form, we could come back to some serial numbers. Had they filled out the ballot accounting form, I could go back to 1,800. I can’t go anywhere but count those paper ballots. That does not tell us anything."

Archie was defeated by Smith by nearly 1,900 votes in the Democratic primary.

Amos responded to the voter fraud allegation in an email statement that read:

The Hinds County Democratic Executive Committee conducted the August 8th Democratic Primary in keeping with applicable state law. The Executive Committee has canvassed the returns and certified the results of the August 8th primary. Those results speak for themselves, as does relevant state law for anyone seeking to contest the certification of the votes duly cast on August 8th. We understand that one candidate who lost, namely David Archie, has decided to challenge the results of the August 8, 2023, primary. He has the right to challenge the results. We stand ready for the challenge and will cooperate however necessary.

Archie demanded that Amos resign from her position as chairperson of the Hinds County Democratic Executive Committee. He threatened to file criminal charges if she did not step down for alleged meddling with election integrity.

Archie is a member of the NAACP, an ACLU supporter, and a civil rights activist.

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Harris County PROVES we MUST audit EVERY election



Alex Mealer is a combat vet, West Point grad, and election integrity activist who has a serious problem with the way elections are being handled — specifically in Harris County, Texas.

She joins Chad Prather to discuss why she’s working to get an audit done in her county and how we might get our elected officials to do something about election integrity.

“The audit’s already been authorized,” Mealer tells Prather, adding, “I’m just asking them to complete it in months, not years.

In 2020, there was supposed to be an extensive forensic audit. It wasn’t released until the month after Mealer’s election, which wasn’t helpful.

Mealer explains that because of Texas election code laws, there is no real requirement for preservation of evidence.

“So, Harris County, controlled by progressives, just didn’t turn over the records,” she says.

It took two years for the county to look into her audit, which she says at that point, there was “not much to actually be able to audit.” While they did find some “egregious violations,” the report said there wasn’t enough information to audit.

“You know,” she continues, “there’s no shortage of Republican politicians that are willing to be kind of the big man and make a tweet, but it’s like, you know, a teenage girl can tweet. What I need you to do is put the full weight and power of your office to affect some sort of change or action.”

“A lot of tweets, a lot of press releases, and then literally no follow-through in a way that would at all be effective,” she adds.

The election code is the law, she explains. “When you don’t follow the code, you don’t follow the law. Where different kind of people disagree is: what was the extent? What was the outcome?”


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Arizona 2020 Vote Audit Finds Potentially Election-Shifting Numbers Of Illegal Ballots

While the reports made several significant findings supporting former President Trump’s complaints about the 2020 election, the corporate media ignored those aspects of the audit.

Arizona Republicans to seek more data and materials from Maricopa County as officials slam uncertified auditors



Arizona State Senate Republicans will seek additional material and data from Maricopa County as part of a now three-month audit of the 2020 election results, Senate President Karen Fann (R-Prescott) said Thursday.

During a hearing at the state Capitol, witnesses from Cyber Ninjas, the uncertified Florida-based cybersecurity firm contracted by Fann to conduct the outside audit, told her and Sen. Warren Petersen (R-Gilbert) they have finished auditing the 2.1 million ballots cast in the November election but need wireless routers and voting machine tokens from the county, or else their review will be "incomplete." Cyber Ninjas CEO Doug Logan also recommended that canvassers go door to door to question some registered voters on whether they actually voted by mail, the Arizona Republic reported.

"Based on the data we're seeing, I highly recommend we do the canvassing because it's the one way to know for sure whether the data we're seeing are real problems," Logan said.

Previously, the state Senate has held off on dispatching canvassers after the U.S. Department of Justice warned that such an effort might be directed primarily at minority communities and that it could be a form of voter intimidation and violate federal civil rights laws.

If Maricopa County officials refuse to comply with the requests for additional materials, it is likely the Senate will take them to court, which could delay the publication of a final report on the audit for weeks or months. Senate Republicans already sued once for access to ballots and tabulation machines from the county and were only able to begin the audit after a judge ruled in their favor in February. Republicans argued the delay brought on by more litigation might be necessary to deliver an accurate report.

"We need to get the additional information because how do you do a final report if you don't have all the information?" Fann said.

County officials contend that they have already turned over everything a qualified auditor would need to complete an election audit and refuse to deliver further materials to auditors who are not certified by the Elections Assistance Commission.

Allegations of voting irregularities

Witness testimony on the findings from the audit raised several concerns about the integrity of the 2020 election. Logan testified alongside Ben Cotton, the founder of CyFir, a cybersecurity company that is subcontracting for the audit.

Logan claimed that nearly 4,000 Maricopa County voters who cast ballots in the presidential election registered to vote after a court-ordered deadline of Oct. 15.

"Based on the registration information that we found in the voting rolls, we have 3,981 individuals who show having voted in this election [who] were registered after Oct. 15," he said.

According to Logan, there were 11,326 individuals who did not appear on the version of the voter rolls made the day after the Nov. 6 election but did appear on voter rolls prepared on Dec. 7.

He also testified that 18,000 voters who cast ballots in November were removed from voter rolls after the election.

The auditor further alleged that 74,243 early votes were received, but "there is no clear record of them being sent." Logan emphasized that the discrepancy could be a "clerical issue" but added there is no real way to know without contacting voters directly.

"I think when we've got 74,000 it merits knocking on a door and validating some of this information," said Logan.

Officials from Maricopa County responded to several of these claims in real time on social media. The county pointed out that the 74,000 early ballots are explained by the fact that you can vote early by mail or in person at voting centers. Anyone who votes in person receives a ballot at the center, so "it's not unusual that we would have more early votes than mail-in ballots sent."

The people who vote in-person use ballots provided at a Vote Center. This is not a new practice, so it's not unusu… https://t.co/RhGiEf0cRC

— Maricopa County (@maricopacounty) 1626396261.0

Logan also raised concerns over the way ballots were printed, explaining that because voters were provided with felt-tipped markers on Election Day, there was a possibility that the ink bled through to the opposite side of the ballot, which could alter how the vote was counted. County officials have insisted that this "bleed-through" effect is of no concern because the ballots are printed in such a way that the "bubbles" were aligned. If it did happen, poll workers would easily recognize it and correct the ballot, they said.

This accuracy is verified through logic and accuracy tests, hand counts performed by the political parties, and pos… https://t.co/WfUrHYESsm

— Maricopa County (@maricopacounty) 1626396262.0

But Logan provided images that he says show that the ballots on Election Day were misaligned and that stray marks could have resulted in a ballot cast for the wrong candidate or an invalidated ballot because it appeared someone cast their vote twice. According to the Arizona Daily Star, as many as 168,000 ballots were printed and cast at voting centers on Election Day.

Concerns over security

Cotton testified that the voting machines used in Maricopa County had not received a security patch since 2019, when they were certified. He said it was "critically important" that the county turn over its routers for examination to determine what security risks were present on Election Day.

He noted that days before the election, the FBI raided a home in Fountain Hills as part of its investigation into a cyber attack on the county's voter registration system. The county had identified the attack and reported it to the authorities, but Cotton said the incident shows that at least one part of the county's election system had been "hacked."

Responding, county officials said Thursday that the U.S. Elections Assistance Commission prohibits uncertified individuals such as Cyber Ninjas and CyFir from handling certified election equipment, which is why they have refused to turn over the requested materials. The county added in a tweet that "we cannot update our systems through security patches. That is why we maintained an air gapped system. Installing security patches would be changing the system that was certified."

Finally, baseless allegations from Ben Cotton (who is not EAC certified) are ridiculous coming from the guy who fal… https://t.co/2xeUuivxLG

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County officials have also previously said that turning over the information on its routers could compromise law enforcement data. If Fann presses for those materials, Maricopa County is almost sure to fight the request in court.

Republican Infighting

The controversy over Maricopa County's election results has pitted state Republican lawmakers against locally elected GOP officials in what was once a GOP stronghold.

President Joe Biden shocked Republicans by winning Maricopa County by more than 45,000 votes, narrowly defeating Donald Trump in the state of Arizona by about 10,000 votes total. Trump's insistence that the election was stolen despite multiple machine audits that verified the results has frustrated Maricopa County officials, who have defended the integrity of their election.

In a statement, Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Chairman Jack Sellers blasted the Senate audit hearing and criticized Senate Republicans for contracting auditors who were not certified by the EAC.

"It's clear the people hired by Arizona Senate leadership to supposedly bring integrity to our elections are instead just bringing incompetence," Sellers said.

He accused Logan and Cotton of asking "open-ended questions, portraying as suspicious what is actually normal and well known to people who work in elections."

"In some cases, they dropped bombshell numbers that are simply not accurate," he added.

"What we heard today represents an alternate reality that has veered out of control since the November General Election. Senate leadership should be ashamed they broadcast the half-baked theories of the 'Deep Rig' crowd to the world today," he continued.

"To Senate leaders I say, stop accusing us of not cooperating when we have given you everything qualified auditors would need to do this job. Finish your audit, release the report, and be prepared to defend it in Court."

Speaking at the hearing, Fann defended the actions of Senate Republicans from critics who say their efforts are a waste of time and are feeding conspiracy theories that the election was stolen.

"This is not about Trump. This is not about overturning the election. This has never been about anything other than election integrity," Fann insisted.

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She cited a poll that found 45% of the people in Arizona thought there were serious problems with the election and reminded critics that as elected officials, lawmakers have a duty to respond to those concerns.

"Whether that is true or not, whether they are rumors and unfounded accusations or legitimate problems, for whatever reason, as a Senate body, we felt that it was our obligation and our duty to answer," said Fann.

"Our voters are constituents. Answer those questions and either confirm what they were afraid of or thought or heard, or that we prove that those things were not true so that they could go back to the polls and they could vote with confidence knowing that their ballot is sacred."

Judge permits massive election audit in Georgia, rules absentee ballots unsealed for examination



A Georgia judge agreed Friday to unseal nearly 150,000 absentee ballots in Fulton County, the state's most populous county, to allow investigators to examine the ballots for evidence of alleged voter fraud.

What are the details?

Henry County Superior Court Judge Brian Amero is allowing more than 145,000 absentee ballots from the 2020 presidential election to be inspected in the audit, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.

The exact details of the audit are still being determined, but Amero made clear the ballots will remain under the care of Fulton County election officials while the audit is conducted.

More from the Journal-Constitution:

Friday's decision came in a lawsuit filed by nine plaintiffs, including Garland Favorito, a Fulton county resident and self-styled election watchdog. It's one of dozens of lawsuits that stemmed from the November presidential election and the January runoff for U.S. Senate, some of which are still winding their way through the courts.

The audit cannot change the results of the 2020 presidential election in Fulton County because they were certified months ago.

However, "plaintiffs say an examination of ballots would get to the bottom of what they see as suspicious activity at State Farm Arena on election night and pave the way for more accurate elections in the future," the Journal-Constitution reported.

Georgia state and local officials have said repeatedly there was no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the election.

What was the reaction?

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican who rebuffed Donald Trump's claims that Georgia's election was marred by voter fraud, said he supports the judge's decision.

In a statement, Raffensperger cited "a longstanding history of election mismanagement" in Fulton County.

"From day one I have encouraged Georgians with legitimate concerns about the election in their counties to pursue those claims through legal avenues," Raffensperger said. "Fulton County has a longstanding history of election mismanagement that has understandably weakened voters' faith in its system. Allowing this audit provides another layer of transparency and citizen engagement."

However, Fulton County Commission Chairman Robb Pitts (D) blasted the decision.

"It is outrageous that Fulton County continues to be a target of those who cannot accept the results from last year's election," Pitts said.

"The votes have been counted three times, including a hand recount, and no evidence of fraud has been found," Pitts continued. "The fact remains that Fulton County safely and securely carried out an election in the midst of a public health pandemic. It's a shame to see that the 'Big Lie' lives on and could cost the hardworking taxpayers of this county."

Wisconsin lawmakers authorize investigation into the 2020 presidential election



The Republican-controlled Wisconsin State Assembly approved a resolution on Tuesday to authorize an investigation into the 2020 presidential election in the state, which President Joe Biden narrowly won over former President Donald Trump.

The resolution, which passed the Assembly by a 58-35 vote, was needed to give the committee authorization to take investigatory action such issuing subpoenas to compel testimony and gathering documents for review, the Associated Press reported.

It was approved along party lines with every Republican member voting in favor of the resolution and every Democratic member voting against it. Any resulting investigation will now be conducted by the Assembly's elections and campaign committee.

Despite allegations of fraudulent activity and numerous lawsuits lodged by the Trump campaign post-election, the results were affirmed through a partial recount and efforts to change the outcome were rejected by the courts. In the end, Biden carried the state by just under 21,000 votes.

Republicans have maintained that an investigation into the election would serve to bolster the public's faith in the state's electoral process. The resolution, they say, would allow the Assembly to gather more evidence to see if laws were broken.

"This is important because over the past year, year and a half, we've heard allegations of improprieties not being done, specifically state laws on the books not being followed," said elections committee vice-chair Republican Rep. Joe Sanfelippo.

According to Channel 3000, "the resolution accuses the state's election officials of jeopardizing the election through 'failing to adhere' to and encouraging noncompliance with election laws."

Democrats, on the other hand, claim that Republicans are simply trying to score political points and in the process are actually undermining the public's faith in elections.

"The underlying resolution makes some very serious claims," Democratic Rep. Spreitzer reportedly alleged during debate. "I take great objection to the characterization of our election officials. That would be our clerks, our poll workers, [and] our national guard."

The AP noted that a legislative audit is already ongoing in the state to determine whether election officials adhered to existing election laws. That audit was ordered by the Assembly following a party vote last month and is being conducted by the nonpartisan Legislative Audit Bureau.

It will also look into things such as "how the state maintains its voter rolls and when it allows voters to get absentee ballots without showing IDs," the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported.

Arizona Senate GOP to conduct full hand recount, machine audit of 2020 election results in Maricopa County



Republicans in Arizona's state Senate have announced that they are set to conduct a full review of 2020 election results in Maricopa County — including a machine audit and a hand recount of all 2.1 million ballots cast there — to ensure that President Joe Biden's victory was legitimate.

In a news release posted on the group's website last Thursday, the state Senate's Republican caucus announced that it had selected a forensic team to conduct the audit and is now finalizing details on how the review would be executed.

"As thousands of our voters continue to call for a thorough audit of the 2020 election in Maricopa County, I am pleased to report we have narrowed it down to a preferred forensic audit team. We are negotiating final details on the execution of the audit and hope to have an announcement soon," wrote Senate President Karen Fann in the news release.

"We've been reaching out to experts on election processes in Arizona and around the nation and hope to have the best and brightest involved in the audit," she continued, noting the audit "will be broad and detailed."

She further specified that the review will include, but is not limited to, "testing the machines, scanning the ballots, performing a full hand count and checking for any IT breaches."

Republicans in the Senate had been pushing for months for a "full forensic audit" of election results in Arizona's largest county, citing concerns among citizens over the integrity of the election. On Feb. 26, the audit was greenlit after a judge granted the state Senate access to ballots and tabulation machines.

According to the Arizona Republic, the county board of supervisors had "argued the ballots were secret and the machines need to remain secure" in fighting a subpoena issued by Senate Republicans. But Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Timothy Thomason determined in his Feb. ruling that the Senate subpoenas were "legal and enforceable."

Throughout the process, Senate Republicans have insisted that a full review is necessary to restore trust in the state's election system. The Arizona Republic noted that two smaller audits of county election equipment were released last month, reportedly showing no evidence of malicious software or incorrect counting.

"When all the work is done, there will be a full report for the Senate and County to review. Our voters expect this audit, and it can be a big step in returning trust and confidence in our election process," Fann concluded.

Arizona judge orders Maricopa County to turn over ballots to state Senate



A judge in Maricopa County, Arizona, ordered county election officials on Friday to answer a subpoena from the state Senate to turn over ballots from the November election and provide access to its voting machines for audit.

Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Timothy Thomason said that the Senate subpoenas were "legal and enforceable" in a ruling resolving a dispute between the Arizona Senate and county officials over how to interpret state law.

According to the Arizona Republic, the county had claimed it was illegal for the Senate to subpoena the ballots and contended that multiple audits of the election which had already been competed were sufficient. The Senate argued that there are still lingering questions about the validity of the ballots and the integrity of the machines and wants to commission its own audit of the election.

The dispute arose over two state laws, one defining the Senate's subpoena powers and another law that orders county election officials to seal the ballots for two years after an election.

From Arizona Republic:

First, state law gives the Legislature sweeping authority to issue subpoenas and conduct investigations. The Arizona Attorney General's Office weighed in on this, saying that legislative bodies or committee chairs can issue summonses either to inform future legislation or to "investigate whether a particular governmental entity properly discharged its functions."

But state law also requires that, after results are certified, ballots be kept "in a secure facility managed by the county treasurer, who shall keep it unopened and unaltered for twenty-four months for elections for a federal office."

That portion of the law also states that a court order could unseal the ballots.

Essentially, the county said that only a court order could request the ballots and contested the Senate's ability to subpoena. In his ruling, Thomason sided with the Senate and said the law "does not immunize the ballots from being subpoenaed, let alone from being subpoenaed by the legislature, acting in its Constitutional role to ensure the 'purity' of elections."

"This statute simply does not create a privilege, justifying non-disclosure," he concluded after a hearing Thursday.

Last December, Arizona state Senate President Karen Fann issued two subpoenas to the Maricopa County election board.

The first subpoena calls for an audit of scanned ballots to collect an electronic ballot image cast for all mail-in ballots counted in the November 2020 general election. The second subpoena calls for a full forensic audit of ballot tabulation equipment, the software for that equipment, and the election management system used in the 2020 general election, the Washington Examiner reported.

The county has already conducted multiple audits of the election, including logic and accuracy tests for the machines and a hand count of a statistically significant number of ballots. The audits found that the machines counted votes accurately.

Most recently, an independent audit of the election published its findings Tuesday. The audit found that the voting machines produced accurate numbers.

"The combination of these findings, along with the pre and post Logic and Accuracy Tests performed by the Arizona Secretary of State, the post-election hand count performed by the political parties, and the many security protocols implemented by the Elections Department confirm that Maricopa County Elections Department's configuration and setup of the tabulation equipment and election management system provided an accurate counting of ballots and reporting of election results," the auditors said in a statement.

Arizona's largest county unanimously votes to conduct 'full forensic audit' of election equipment



The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously last week to conduct a "full forensic audit" of election equipment in Arizona's largest county.

The decision to audit the election equipment came one week after Joe Biden was inaugurated president following now-former President Donald Trump's challenge of the election results in multiple key battleground states, including Arizona.

What are the details?

Board chairman Jack Sellers explained in a statement that the audit is necessary to provide Maricopa County voters with "additional assurance" of election integrity.

"Maricopa County elections were administered with integrity throughout 2020. That's a fact. Multiple audits to date have proved as much, and multiple court rulings have concurred," Sellers said.

"It's also true that a significant number of voters want the additional assurance that a full forensic audit of tabulation equipment might bring, especially given all the misinformation that spread following the November 3 election. This audit shows our commitment to providing that assurance," Sellers added.

More from the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors:

The multi-layered forensic audit will dive into the tabulation equipment to analyze its hacking vulnerability, verify that no malicious malware was installed, and test that tabulators were not sending or receiving information over the internet. As an added layer of assurance, the county will hire two independent firms certified by the U.S. Elections Assistance Commission, to each independently audit the tabulation equipment: Pro V&V and SLI Compliance.
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In addition to the software and malware tests, one firm will also perform a logic and accuracy test of the county's tabulation equipment to ensure it accurately counted ballots and confirm that no vote switching occurred. As an added measure of transparency, the Board hired a reputable Certified Public Accountant firm to review county contracts with Dominion Voting Services and verify that the county leased the tabulation equipment according to state and county procurement regulations.

The first audit will begin on Feb. 2, and the second audit will begin on Feb. 8.

Anything else?

The board's decision comes after the Republican-controlled Arizona state Senate, which is seeking to conduct its own election audit, "issued subpoenas to the county in mid-December seeking access to copies of ballots, software used in vote tabulation machines and the machines themselves, among other items," the Associated Press reported.

The board initially fought the subpoenas in court, but is now cooperating with Senate attorneys, the AP noted.

According to KNXV-TV, nearly a dozen complaints were filed against the board following the election in November, but all were withdrawn or dismissed. No allegations of widespread voter fraud were ever confirmed.

"Prior to November, there were no complaints about the accuracy of the county's tabulation equipment, which was also used in elections in March, May and August," officials said, KNXV reported.