As early as August, Patrick Byrne, the tech billionaire and founder of the American e-commerce giant Overstock, assembled a cyber intelligence team to analyze Voting systems in the United States. Electoral fraud, he said, was the Party’s secret “killer card”, an issue that has long troubled national security hawks.
“For more than a decade, there has been talk in Chinese [Communist] instruments of an impending ‘assassin’s mace’ that could be taken down by the US,” Mr Byrne said in an interview.
“The national security community in the United States has been trying to figure this out. Is it their new aircraft carrier? Is it a hypersonic missile? Is it this, is it that, is it an EMP weapon?”
“I don’t think so,” he told the host, Jan Jekielek. “A knockout blow to America is what we’re experiencing right now.”
The 2020 election involved “massive electoral fraud,” he stressed, “not voter fraud, but electoral fraud.”
Byrne has supported the research needed in the lawsuit brought by the lawyers Lin Wood and Sidney Powell. He has also been working with data company Dominion Special Operations Group (ASOG), which recently conducted forensic audits of the Dominion Voting machines in Antrim County, Michigan.
Mr. Byrne said he began the investigation as early as August and, as expected, observed something very unusual in the November election.
He said his team of cybersecurity experts now believe that at least two major VOTING systems have infiltrated the United States and that Chinese developers are “behind this.”
Suppliers of US election software and systems have responded to allegations of voting irregularities by denying that their systems can be manipulated or that they have any improper links with foreign governments.
Reverse engineer the coup
Mr Byrne described the election as a “soft coup” (sometimes referred to as a “silent coup”, a non-violent one).
“We are basically reverse-engineering the coup,” Byrne said of his 30-40 team.
Mr. Byrne said he met a group of cyber experts who have been studying the issue of election manipulation since 2018. At the time, they were hired as members of the Blue Ribbon Commission, which examines potential electoral fraud in Texas.
“That group of people had two years to actually reverse engineer and the rest of the country only had a few weeks to learn about it,” he said.
“They’ve figured out a dozen different ways to disrupt or hack elections. This refers to an intrusion in a broad sense, not necessarily a hack by an electronic network expert.”
According to Byrne, they found that it was “industrially possible to look at votes and produce hundreds of thousands of fake ballots”.
Mr Byrne says the manipulation can be determined by examining three key points, which he calls “three facts”.
“One is to understand the systems themselves and how they are built, including what they do and what vulnerabilities exist.”
Second, it is about how the electoral process works. “[If there is fraud] you would expect people to have relevant experiences when they vote or when they volunteer in their district,” he said.
A Georgia Republican ballot monitor looks at voting machine transportation equipment at the Fulton County Election Center in Atlanta, On November 4, 2020. (Jessica McGowan/ Getty Images)
He cites practical examples, such as the sudden interruption of polling tabulation, the denial of entry to ballot monitors, and videos of election workers taking out a box of ballot papers from under their desks after the monitors had gone home and then scanning them.
A third fact, he says, is the extreme statistical outliers produced by the manipulation process.
“It does happen. These statistical outliers include: 123,000 votes in a row for the same candidate; In Pennsylvania, I believe 580,000 votes were cast, 99.4 percent of them for Biden. And those votes were processed exactly when all the Republicans were told they had to go.”
“These things are like, you win the Powerball lottery three weeks in a row. And yet, it’s happening in dozens of places across the country at the same time.”
“When you put these three different stories together, they fit together perfectly and confirm each other.”
Vote-rigging goes back to the Communist Party
Mr Byrne said the manipulation of the voting system could be traced back to China.
“There’s basically a chain of command, from China through Iran, to Cuba and Venezuela,” he said. “The Chinese funded Smartmatic through its Panama, and then through Venezuela.”
“Recently discovered code hidden within the Dominion machine that appears to be of Chinese origin.”
“The people behind this stuff are Chinese developers whose software was actually put on the Smartmatic system,” Byrne said. “However, this system has infiltrated at least the major voting systems used in the United States.”
Photo taken on Dec. 2, 2020 shows Smartmatic headquarters in Boca Raton, Fla. (The Epoch Times)
“I say this as someone who loves China,” he added. “I speak Chinese and I have a lot of affection for China and the Chinese people, but I don’t have a good impression of the Communist Party.”
Smartmatic said its products were used in only one Los Angeles county during the 2020 U.S. election and that it has always denied any past or present wrongdoing or voter or election fraud. The company says it has no relationship with any government or political party or Dominion.
Dominion Voting Systems, too, has denied any wrongdoing or vulnerability in its Systems, saying it does not use software owned by Smartmatic and that it has no ownership ties with the governments of China, Cuba or Venezuela. In this election, Domini products were used in 28 states.
However, Byrne said Smartmatic created software through a series of mergers, acquisitions, spinoffs and licensing agreements that eventually became part of at least two of the dominant commercial voting systems in the United States, including the Dominion.
“It’s genetic, it goes back to the software.” He said.
Other analysts, too, signed the same affidavit.
Dominion’s ownership structure has also come under scrutiny after the Dominion’s parent company raised funds with the help of a Swiss bank ahead of the 2020 US presidential election. The deal is odd in several ways, leading some to speculate that Chinese companies could be indirect investors in the company.
Byrne says stealing the U.S. election does not require all-out cheating.
“You only have to vote in six counties, and if you steal those six counties nationally, you flip their six states, and that flips the Electoral College, and that flips the whole country,” he said. “He said.” You have to choose six places and go crazy there.”
He says some security experts, whom he calls “white hat hackers,” say they give the system a security score of 1-2 out of 10.
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