At an election integrity hearing in Colorado on Tuesday, Jenna Ellis, counsel to president Donald Trump‘s campaign, urged state lawmakers to investigate irregularities in the state’s mail-in voting system and the Dominion voting system used by counties.
Speaking remotely at a hearing with the Legislative Audit Committee at the Colorado State Capitol, Mr. Ellis said the Dominion voting machine software had changed the results of presidential elections in other states, and that the concerns should be grounds for Colorado to investigate and convince local voters that the elections were free and fair.
“If you really have nothing to hide, and this commission really wants to protect the integrity of voting in Colorado, then this agency has a duty to investigate.” “We don’t know if that happened in Colorado,” she said. “Don’t you want to know?”
Dominion’s software and machines are used in 28 states and have become the focus of voter fraud allegations across the country.
A forensic audit based on Dominion products in Antrim, Mich., showed the software “deliberately and purposefully designed inherent errors to create systematic fraud and influence election results.”
“The system deliberately generated a large number of ballot errors, and then electronic ballots were forwarded (manually) for adjudications,” the report said. Deliberate errors led to massive vote-counting — without oversight, transparency, or audit trails. And that leads to voter fraud or election fraud.”
Dominion denied the findings on Tuesday, saying “there is no software ‘failure’ to ‘switch’ votes in Antrim County or anywhere else” and that the error in Antrim County was “isolated human error involving no one Dominion.”
“No one has shown credible evidence of voter fraud or voter conversion by the Dominion System because it did not happen,” John Poulos, the company’s chief executive, told lawmakers at the Michigan hearing.
At the Colorado hearing, Wayne Williams, a former secretary of state (Jan. 2015-jan. 2019.1) and now a lawmaker in Springs City, was asked if there was credible evidence that the Dominion voting system or other mechanisms were shifting votes from President Trump to Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.
Mr. Williams replied, “As far as I know, there is no such evidence in Colorado.”
Jena Griswold, the secretary of state, said in an affidavit that the Dominion software had been widely used for years in Colorado and the system had been successfully tested many times.
But Another former secretary of state, Scott Gessler (from January 2011 to January 2015), admits that Colorado’s voting system is flawed.
“There is a clear security hole in Colorado’s signature verification requirements,” he said, according to CBS. So basically, because of the loose list of voters, we often send ballots to unqualified voters, or double ballots to voters. Some people can simply draw a mark or give some kind of illegible signature as a witness, and these [votes] will be counted.”
Mr Geisler also points to holes in the verification of addresses but, like Mr Williams, denies widespread fraud.
The Colorado hearing was initiated by state Representative Lori Saine, A Republican. Before The meeting, she told The Colorado Sun, a local online media outlet, that a string of allegations of fraud in The 2020 election had voters worried about The integrity of Colorado’s elections.
“There have been integrity issues in some states,” she said. “But is that happening in Colorado as well? It’s really kind of up to us to help answer that question. Does it happen here? Do we have widespread fraud?”
At the hearing, Lori spoke in support of an investigation into allegations of fraud and other irregularities, saying that “as elected representatives, we have a responsibility to eliminate any public doubt about the integrity of our elections.”
The committee ultimately decided not to order a performance audit of the secretary of State’s office, CBS reported.
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