The Gateway Pundit claimed in November of 2022 that a polling place in Dallas County had begun arbitrarily adding people to their ES&S ExpressPoll poll books. Election officials in Dallas County, Texas, saw hundreds of newly checked-in voters added to their E-Pollbooks right before polls closed on November 8, 2022. All the gadgets eventually settled on inflated values after this happened intermittently for around 15 minutes.
When it came time to close the polls on Election Day, November 7th, poll workers observed that their ES&S ExpressPoll E-Pollbooks were behaving similarly to how they did in 2022. Hundreds of votes were added throughout the 15 to 20 minutes.
The poll book in the video should have had 182 voters, but the system randomly started to add more and more votes until finally displaying “1,377 voters checked in”, or 1,195 more voters than should have been displayed.
A voter was marked as “voted” on one poll book and “eligible” on the book next to it at the same polling place.
LeadStories “fact-checked” the Gateway Pundit’s 2022 E-Pollbook increases and discovered reliable sources in the Dallas County Elections Department and ES&S. Despite being advertised as “state-certified” in that “fact check,” ES&S E-Pollbooks were not currently certified by the Texas Secretary of State as of the 2022 election, even though the website for the Secretary of State did display certifications for the system in the past. According to the Wayback Machine, it wasn’t certified as up-to-date until May 31, 2022, and that wasn’t until the January 2023 archive.
Further, Lead Stories quotes a page from Dallas County’s “Rumor Control” website, which reads:
“During the voting period, a qualified voter is accepted for voting at the e-pollbook and the transaction is recorded locally on the e-pollbook. The transaction is also uploaded to a central server hosted by ES&S through an encrypted connection. The central server receives the information, updates the database, and then allows all the other e-pollbooks in the system to download the transaction.
On Election Day, Dallas County processed over 200,000 voters on the e-pollbooks, which uploaded the transactions to the central server in a timely fashion. However, Dallas County noticed that there appeared to be some delay in the downloading of those transactions to the other e-pollbooks.
Once the polls closed at 7 pm on Election Day, the upload traffic on the network decreased and, as a result, the downloads appeared to have sped up significantly. Poll workers at many locations noticed the increased speed and continued downloads on their e-pollbooks after the close of the polls and reported those transactions to Dallas County and other entities.”
They then cite Katina Granger, the then-senior manager of public relations for ES&S, stating the following:
“During Election Day, any activity on the pollbook – including the check-in of a voter – is recorded as a transaction. These transactions are regularly synced through the day with the central database – with each pollbook uploading and downloading transactions. In locations where connectivity is slow or when there is a high amount of volume being shared by the secure network, these transactions may see delays uploading, downloading, and syncing. As connections improve or network volume eases, the pollbooks upload and download transactions which may have been previously delayed – updating data across all pollbooks. This transactional data may continue to update even after the close of polls, as long as pollbooks are connected to the central server, until all data is accurately reflected on each pollbook.”
As a final piece of information, Lead Stories spoke with Sam Taylor, who is the Texas Secretary of State’s assistant secretary of state for communications.
“Generally speaking, ePollbooks are required to communicate with each other and update in real time throughout the county, showing who has checked in at other polling places so that no voter can try to cast a ballot twice.”
To verify that a voter who checks in at one place has not been checked in at another, these systems are designed to do the following: update the central server, interact with all other E-Pollbooks, and record the voter’s selection.
They have priority internet connections through CradlePoint and FirstNet as “critical infrastructure.” The idea that they are delayed because “connectivity is slow” is ridiculous.
But they shouldn’t add every voter in Dallas County or even just that precinct to the electronic poll book. And if they did, by morning, the E-Pollbooks would be in sync. If the internet-connected gadgets fail, poll workers will usually have a paper backup of the voters they checked in. If every registered voter in Dallas County or even just that precinct was recorded in the E-Pollbook at a single polling location, a paper backup would be completely unnecessary.
The paper backup would show 182 voters checked in at that station, for example, while the E-Pollbook would show over 200,000 or so for the county, or all the E-Pollbooks would match for that particular precinct.
All that’s needed are consequences for criminal behavior, electoral fraud, and treason. Counting and elections would become so reliable that many people would be shocked.
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