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A couple of weeks in the past I beneficial to our County Executives to offer funds for a hand depend of our upcoming 2022 governor and US Senate races in chosen municipalities. I emphasised this would offer proof to these of us which are skeptical of the voting machines.
The Washington County Govt Committee lately introduced that the Washington County Board has offered funds to carry out a hand depend of ALL the votes in your complete county!
It is a nice first step. Please announce this in your web site in order to encourage different counties in Wisconsin and elsewhere to do the identical.
If we discover the machines are usually not tallying the votes accurately, that can be prima facia proof of the fraud. If the tally is appropriate, we’ll want to maneuver on. However we positively want extra counties to do what Washington County has accomplished; do a hand depend to match the 2. Sure, we’re counting the paper ballots not machine photos.
For more information please name me any time or electronic mail. I’ve additionally given this data to Jefferson Davis, who’s doing a follow-up.
Right here’s a hyperlink to the native information report concerning the funding allocation. The essential part is in the previous few paragraphs.
By Grayson Sewell
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WASHINGTON COUNTY — The Washington County Govt Committee voted to improve the county’s election administration system, and to do a full recount of choose state and federal elections, throughout their assembly on Wednesday.
“What we’re doing is starting to program all of our elections right here, in-house, fairly than contracting with [Dominion Voting Systems] as we’ve previously,” mentioned Washington County Clerk Ashley Reichert.
In response to Reichert, her predecessor had beforehand programmed the election machines utilized by the county in-house, till April of 2016 after they had determined to change to Dominion voting machines and contract the work out by means of Dominion.
At the moment, the county has the “lite” model of the software program used for the voting machines, and would want to pay for upgrading to the total model to allow them to begin programming the machines in-house once more. The county will be capable of use the identical voting machines with the total model of this system.
“It’s the identical software program, it’s only a program that provides me the aptitude of inputting the entire information that I compile already,” mentioned Reichert. “Then I’m in a position to truly put all of it collectively and finalize all of it fairly than having Dominion accomplish that.”
The price of upgrading the software program and coaching workers is estimated to be as much as $75,000, in response to the committee report.
Reichert mentioned this will even result in ongoing bills for the county for elevated charges, however they are going to be included in her price range transferring ahead and would undergo a price range modification sooner or later.
In response to Reichert, one of many price will increase is $11,000 greater than the county at the moment pays. The opposite is for $20,000 for coaching and help in programming as they swap to doing it in-house, however it should solely be for a yr or so.
“I feel that is one thing that Ashley needs to be recommended for. I feel something we are able to do to drag issues away from Dominion and have extra management, and Ashley, who I feel does an exceptional job, to have the ability to have her fingers on it, is a optimistic,” mentioned County Govt Josh Schoemann.
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“I’d wish to additionally echo those self same feedback. I feel we have to make our public conscious that we’re bringing a lot extra of this management in-house, contained in the county,” mentioned County Supervisor Caroll Merry.
The committee voted unanimously to approve the usage of as much as $75,000 in strategic precedence funds to improve the county’s election system administration software program.
The committee then voted on doing a full recount by hand of the governor, lieutenant governor and U.S. senator elections within the normal election on Nov. 8.
In response to Reichert, the county audits each election held, by selection.
Usually, the county will randomly choose two reporting items within the county after which hand-count the ballots in two of the races within the election and evaluate the outcomes with the voting machine tabulations.
“What we’re suggesting doing for the 2022 normal election is hand-counting your complete county as part of an audit doing the highest state race and the highest federal race, which might be governor, lieutenant governor after which the U.S. Senate race, and hand-counting all of these,” mentioned Reichert.
In response to Reichert, the expense of the recount is as much as $50,000, and can be paid for by the county and never the person municipalities. The funding would come out of the strategic precedence fund.
She added that she doesn’t imagine the recount would price the total $50,000, as in 2016 the total recount price roughly $36,000.
“Right here once more, I feel we have to commend the clerk’s workplace for taking a step ahead on this,” mentioned Merry. “Simply one other effort to reassure the voters of Washington County that we’re attempting to remain forward of any potential fraud.”
