How the ballot is filled out is easy to identify. Fill in a circle, different people have different patterns.
On Wednesday (Dec. 30, 2020), the Georgia Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on elections. Jovan Pulitzer, the inventor of barcode scanning technology, was the highlight of the hearing, using his irrefutable expertise to convince the Judiciary Committee to thoroughly investigate Fulton County mail-in ballots.
Pulitzer’s system identifies whether the ballot was folded, whether it went through the mail-in process, whether it was filled out by hand or machine, whether it was scanned multiple times, and whether it was printed by an authorized printer or copied by machine. Because paper has memory, he said, each fake mail-in ballot can be identified.
Pulitzer is the inventor of barcode scanning technology, the barcodes that people today have to scan every day for shopping, and cell phone scanning technology (except for huawei phones), and he holds more than two hundred patents. For the last 24 years he has been studying how paper, machines and the Internet interact with each other, and for the last six years has been studying paper down to the nano level.
Give him a piece of paper, he said, and he can tell if it came from China and if the person handling it is a smoker.
Pulitzer said paper leaves traces every time it is folded, and the technology he uses, called kinemetic, allows him to clearly see the traces left behind after the paper is folded by an external force. He said this is not a new technology, long used to identify counterfeit money and art forgeries, just never used to identify ballots.
All mail ballots are first printed, folded, and then sent to voters’ homes through the post office. Once received, the voter has to open the ballot, fill out the ballot, and finally put it in an envelope and send it back from the post office.
Throughout the process, the ballot is folded several times, and each fold is recorded on the paper, which means that the paper has a memory, and this memory can be read. Each fold has damage to the fibers, is irreversible, and absolutely impossible to hide.
And it is easy to identify how the ballot is filled in. Filling a circle, different people have different patterns, some fill it from inside to outside, some from outside to inside, some from top to bottom, some from bottom to top, etc. And the kind of pen used to fill in the traces left behind are all different.
Pulitzer said there is a lot of information recorded in the paper to identify where the ballot was printed, where the paper is, whether it was folded, whether it was filled in manually or printed by machine, whether it was scanned multiple times, and so on.
During the hearing, Pulitzer also showed samples of ballots from two different precincts in Fulton County, Georgia. One was a Democratic-majority precinct and one was a Republican-majority precinct. There was a difference in the printing quality of the two ballots. The Republican side of the ballot had poorer printing quality and was printed significantly off the locator mark, with the consequence that the scanner could not identify and thus reject the ballot, and these rejected ballots then required manual adjudication.
According to data released by the Fulton County Elections Officer, 106,000 of the 113,130 ballots required manual adjudication, a whopping 93.67 percent. That compares with 1.2 percent in 2016 and 2.7 percent in 2018. The large number of manual adjudications gives people with the intent to falsify an opportunity to adjudicate thousands of ballots to Democratic candidates without being detected.
Pulitzer said that paper ballots are “facts” and manual adjudication is “opinion.” Adjudicating a ballot is like going to the bank and depositing $100, but the bank tells you that you only deposited $2.33 and won’t allow you to verify it. A large number of ballots are rejected because of problems with the machines that read them or problems with the printing of the ballots themselves, which can be fully identified by examining the ballots themselves.
He said that he could test all the mail-in ballots for free, and with hundreds of thousands of ballots, his machine could verify them all in a few hours and get objective results.
In addition, a few days ago Pulitzer asked President Trump to issue a presidential order that would allow him to audit paper mail-in ballots and their digital copies, because by federal law, ballots must be printed on recycled paper made in the United States, and ballots should be kept for 22 months for audit and inspection, and ballots are the property of the people.
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