In a bombshell revelation, TGP contributor Joe Hoft and his crew at JoeHoft.com have raised critical questions on poll counting procedures in Orange County, California.
Reviewing video footage from the Orange County poll counting facility on the night of Friday, November 8, 2024, three days after the election rely ought to have stopped, Joe recognized a troubling incident: an election employee appeared to course of a big batch of ballots by way of a voting machine three separate instances.
“We don’t know if there’s a official cause for the employee’s actions,” Joe wrote, including, “However the employee pushed the identical batch by way of the machine 3 times. (Every poll is to be counted solely as soon as.)”
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What makes this example much more regarding is its timing. This exercise allegedly occurred shortly after the ability had acquired a bomb menace, forcing the evacuation of employees and public observers.
The Gateway Pundit beforehand reported {that a} bomb threat was called into the Santa Ana constructing the place counting was occurring.
In a statement, Orange County Registrar of Voters Neal Kelley Web page sought to reassure the general public, saying, “The Orange County Registrar of Voters is dedicated to making sure equal entry to the election course of, defending the integrity of votes, and sustaining a clear, correct, and honest election system.”
Web page defined that the bomb menace, despatched by way of electronic mail, was instantly addressed by the Orange County Sheriff’s Division, already current on-site as a part of customary safety protocols throughout poll processing.
Now, in response to Joe’s explosive reporting, the Registrar’s workplace supplied an in depth clarification to The Gateway Pundit.
In response to their assertion, the employee seen scanning the ballots 3 times was not committing fraud however reasonably following a normal protocol to handle “scanner errors.”
Orange County Registrar of Voters mentioned in a press release:
In his put up, Joe Hoft said: “We don’t know if there’s a official cause for the employee’s actions.”
The reply is “Sure.” This video exhibits an Orange County election employee scanning a batch of ballots 3 times, however solely saving the batch as soon as.
That is proven on the 1:25 mark of the video Mr. Hoft posted when following her third scan of the batch of ballots, a batch report printed from the printer on the finish of the desk, which she then connected to the highest of the batch of ballots. This batch report didn’t print the primary two instances she scanned the batch of ballots, which means she didn’t save these scans.
She probably scanned the batch of ballots twice after which cleaned the scanner earlier than scanning the batch of ballots a 3rd time as a result of in the course of the first two scans among the ballots have been rejected by the scanner. Given the massive variety of vote-by-mail ballots we should scan throughout an election, we should commonly clear the scanners.
We full high quality checks and audits to make sure ballots are solely counted as soon as and precisely, together with:
- Different Orange County election employees later high quality checked the batch of ballots on this video two extra instances, ensuring the ballots within the batch match the knowledge printed on the report. We don’t add any batch of ballots into the tally till these two critiques are accomplished.
- Earlier than I licensed the outcomes of the election, we audited the outcomes of every of the 171 contests on the poll. The audit was carried out by randomly deciding on one % of the precincts within the county (23) after which deciding on extra precincts (62) till each contest was included. Then four-person audit groups hand counted each poll in these chosen precincts. Our audit groups hand counted about 40,000 ballots for this election. These hand-counted outcomes have been in comparison with the voting system tally, discovering that the outcomes of every contest was appropriate. You’ll be able to evaluation details about these audits on our web site at ocvote.gov/audit.
