OmniBallot: Another Way Democrats Can Manipulate Elections...
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BE FOREWARNED: King County Elections, which controls 17 of the State’s 49 Legislative Districts, has contracted with a leftist third party corporation called Democracy Live. Democracy Live operates the OmniBallot voting system, which just used an online/mobile phone web app ballot curing program for the August 6, 2024, Washington State Primary Election.
When a voter forgets to sign the envelope containing their ballot or when the signature on the envelope does not match what is on record, “Ballot Curing” is necessary. This is the process of informing a voter to Fix/Cure their signature so their vote is counted, per WAC 434-261-053.
The OmniBallot online voting system used in King County, which reportedly has 1,392,113 of the state's 4,874,877 registered voters, is also being used for the King County Conservation District elections. This controversial mobile app voting system is ripe for manipulation, as any nefarious person could easily OMNICHEAT and cook the books to achieve the desired end result for their Selected candidates. Especially using WA State’s Mail-in voting methods, where it is impossible to validate ballots of specific voters once they have been separated from their envelopes…
Gee, what could go wrong when a Leftist Organization can send out text messages VIA a WEB APP to their Selected “Registered Voters” cell phones to have them CURE THEIR BALLOT SIGNATURE ONLINE…
Hmm…Online digital voting and online vote curing. Whatever happened to election machines not connecting to the internet and being air-gaped?
UPON FURTHER REVIEW, it appears that the Corrupt Office of the Washington State Secretary of State is interpreting RCW 29A.60.165 - Unsigned Ballot Declarations per their written WAC 434-261-053 - Ballot Declaration Signature Cure Process, and now apparently somehow permits this online vote curing, IN A STATE-WIDE ELECTION, by providing a ridiculous online chicken scratch signature verification method or:
(5) (b) (i) The last four digits of the voter's Social Security number or the voter's full driver's license, instruction permit, or state identicard number;
(ii) Photo identification, valid enrollment card of a federally recognized Indian tribe in Washington state, copy of a current utility bill or current bank statement, copy of a current government check, copy of a current paycheck, or a government document, other than a voter registration card, that shows both the name and address of the voter; or
(iii) A multifactor authentication code, from a system approved by the secretary of state, the COUNTY AUDITOR sent to the voter's phone number or email address that has previously been provided by the voter.
ONLY IN WASHINGTON STATE CAN YOU NOW CURE VOTER’S SIGNATURES WITHOUT THE NEED OF ANY PROOF OF A SIGNATURE! This is more than problematic, it is insanity and needs to be challenged in court!
As a reminder, per RCW 29A.04.611, the Washington Administrative Code (WAC) is supposed to be a reasonable interpretation of the Revised Code of Washington (RCW), which is state law: The Secretary of State SHALL MAKE REASONABLE RULES in accordance with chapter 34.05 RCW not inconsistent with the federal and state election laws.
The SoS is not authorized to rewrite a law passed by the legislature, and in this case WAC 434-261-053 should be challenged in court simply because it does not match the RCW. Chapter 34.05 RCW does NOT give authority to the SoS to make up new laws to fit their whims, and SoS Hobbs has exceeded his authority by completely changing the original meaning of RCW 29A.60.165 Unsigned Ballot Declarations.
It is hard to believe that this is legal and that the State Legislature would have passed a bill if they knew it would lead to this KING COUNTY ONLY High Risk Questionable Online Web App approach for ballot curing IN A STATE-WIDE ELECTION!
If only one county uses this questionable method to cure ballots, isn’t that a disenfranchisement of all the other statewide voters?
Also, with this method of vote curing and the crazy new rules being followed, it is virtually impossible to validate if these are, in fact, real voters as anyone nowadays can easily access social security numbers, street addresses, and signatures online via the dark web. In fact, a recent lawsuit claims that the records of up to 2.9 billion people, which includes Social Security numbers of both living and deceased individuals, were stolen!
OF CONCERN: When the voter is notified of this issue (missing or mismatched signature), and sent a text message link via a cell phone to cure their ballot, the voter is directed to the OmniBallot webpage (NOT King County Elections).
We are being told by King County Elections that 2,092 ballots were “Cured” with a 99% acceptance rate, using the corrupt OmniVote Web App method in the Aug 6 Primary Election. What a great and creative way to inject fraudulent votes to swing an election!
Most obviously, this easily could have swung the Commissioner of Public Lands Race (separated by only 51 votes) to favor a Democrat, pending the current re-count. Once again, it is the Democrat Party Destroying Democracy!
Using all this online gadgetry, what confidence level do we have that these are real human beings actually doing their own ballot/vote curing? After all, in this era AI is now being used to cheat in just about every way possible…
The Commissioner of Public Lands preliminary results have Republican Jamie Herrera Beutler and Democrat Dave Upthegrove edging out Republican Sue Kuehl Pederson. Making them the top two candidates in the November General Election for this incredibly close statewide race.
The current statewide hand recount per RCW 29A.64.021, set to conclude and certify Wednesday, September 4, is the first since the controversial 2004 WA State Rossi/Gregoire Governor Race. Republican Rossi, after initially winning the race by 261 votes and then again winning the first re-count, lost the second recount after a box of ballots mysteriously appeared in a car…In that race Election Day was on Nov. 2, 2004, but the race wouldn’t be over until June 7, 2005, after a Chelan County Superior Court judge ruled in Gregoire’s favor for the position.
Founded in 2007, Democracy Live specializes in online voting technology. In 2021, a pair of prominent election security researchers concluded in a study that the company’s flagship product is riddled with flaws. “We conclude that using OmniBallot for electronic ballot return represents a severe risk to election security and could allow attackers to alter election results without detection,” Michael Specter of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and J. Alex Halderman of the University of Michigan wrote in a published study.
It has been reported that OmniBallot uses a simplistic approach to internet voting that is vulnerable to vote manipulation by malware on the voter's device and by insiders or other attackers who can compromise Democracy Live, Amazon, Google, or Cloudflare.
Democracy Live's OmniBallot platform is a web-based system for blank ballot delivery, ballot marking, and online voting. A few other states, including Delaware, West Virginia, and New Jersey, allow certain voters to cast votes online using OmniBallot. Given the well-established risks of internet voting, it is hard to believe that anyone would actually use such an extremely insecure web app for ANY type of voting!
In addition, reports say Democracy Live receives sensitive personal information, including voter ID, ballot selections, and in some cases, even a browser fingerprint, which could be used in political/disinformation campaigns.
OmniBallot can also be used to mark ballots that will be printed and returned in the mail, the software sends the voter's identity and ballot choices to Democracy Live, an unnecessary risk that jeopardizes a voter and the secret ballot.
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IMPORTANT: WAGOP researchers found that in the primary election there were inconsistencies in Matchback reports for King County. There were 215 ballots from Mon Aug 19 to Tue Aug 20 that were “cured” in King County, and there were 146 votes not accounted for. King received an extra 29 ballots on Aug 19. Aug 20, no extra ballots were received and looking at all the ballot return statistics, King County was supposed to ONLY COUNT 320 ballots before certification on Aug 20. Instead they added 681 ballots (Upthegrove received 203 votes and Pederson received 64 votes).
OF INTEREST: According to the Aug 20 King County Elections Canvassing Report, Upthegrove received 56% of the total cured ballots, a whopping (and statistically unlikely) 21% above his 35% vote primary election vote total…
SOME IMPORTANT TAKE-A-WAYS:
Allowing online vote curing promotes the use of fraudulent ballots by fraudulent voters. This dilutes the real registered voter pool and in-turn disenfranchises real voters, and also violates the voters’ Civil Liberties and the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution: deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws!
WA State DSHS is reportedly giving phones to illegal immigrants, how easy would it be for these people to vote? Or how easy would it be for someone to vote/cure ballots for them? This needs to be tracked.
VERIFY before CERTIFY. Election Observers need to DOCUMENT EVERYTHING - IF YOU SEE SOMETHING SAY SOMETHING, no matter how trivial it may appear. It is also very important to take good notes and set up data collection systems to aggregate and organize everything!
Democrats advocate for online voting, however, the system we have doesn't have a reliable way for citizens to verify its operation. Are we going to change to yet another less reliable system, even more difficult to verify?
Counties are overloaded with absentee/mail-in ballots. The simple solution is to stop mail-in voting (except for disabled, absentee or UOCAVA), rather than creating new vulnerabilities and trying to deal with them. We must get back to ONLY In-person voting with ID, at the precinct level, with hand counting of paper ballots!
Transparency and verifiability by the citizens are the most important principles of our election system. Accuracy is only determined by verifiability. Convenience should be the LAST priority!
Since “Voting systems are critical national infrastructure” - There should be no argument for rigorous election audits, and in the case of online voting, the validation of IP Addresses should be required, right???
It amazes me that many voters say the reason they do not vote is because “it won’t matter.” That is a crazy, defeatist attitude (especially given the current Commissioner of Public Lands Race as just other example). EVERY VOTE IS IMPORTANT AND EVERY VOTE MATTERS! For Republicans and Conservatives to win in November, it is vital to vote and to help get out the vote. Every ballot and every vote are more important than ever!
Bill Bruch
Bill Bruch is the WA State GOP Election Integrity Chairman, WSRP Executive Board Member, 4-Term Skagit County GOP Chairman, Citizen Journalist, Blogger, Business Owner, “2021 Citizen Activist of the Year” award by the Olympic Conference, 2020 WA State House Representative Candidate, Former Council Member, and WA State 2016 and 2024 RNC National Convention Delegate.
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