Election
Board scandal: 21Bernie votes were erased and 49 Hillary votes added
to audit tally, group declares
A
group of citizens set out to audit the audit performed by the Chicago
Election Board and were horrified by what they saw while watching the
audit take place.
The
group has since voiced their concerns at the Chicago Election Board
meeting on April 5, 2016. One of the “audit auditors” from the
citizen group testified in front of the Election Board committee that
she witnessed shocking altercations to the hand-counted tallies from
voting machines by Chicago Election Board auditors, noting that the
auditors were changing final tallies in a bid to ensure the results
matched the machine counts even when they were off by a significant
margin.
In
one particularly concerning instance, the citizen group witnessed an
auditor erase 21 Bernie Sanders votes and add 49 Hillary Clinton
votes in order to ensure the audit matched the machine’s official
count. This, according to the group, is proof that the Chicago
Election Board is not performing a true audit, but rather performing
a “fake” audit that hides the fact that hand-counted votes were
significantly different from the machine counted votes in the Chicago
area.
The
State of Illinois requires an official audit of five percent of all
votes by local election boards to ensure that electronic voting
machines are working correctly. However, one group of citizens claims
that the city of Chicago did not perform a real audit but rather
manipulated audit results in such a way to ensure that all
hand-counted votes matched the machine’s output and precinct totals
from the election. Therefore, instead of identifying possible
discrepancies in electronic voting machine totals, the auditors
covered up the evidence by manipulating the data after performing the
hand count.
At
the Chicago
Election Board Meeting on April 5, 2016,
the group presented their audit concerns to the Board for
consideration and the evidence was shocking. The video gets
interesting at approximately the 24 minute mark and the bombshell is
dropped at the 30 minute mark.
In
the video, we see a member of the citizen group who audited the
Election Board audit discussing discrepancies she personally
witnessed as the auditors tallied hand-counted votes. According to
the group, numerous members of their audit watch team witnessed with
their own eyes, “auditors” changing tally marks after hand
counting votes. The group claims that the tallies were changed in a
bid to ensure the numbers matched that of the electronic voting
machine totals and the official precinct totals released to the
public.
However,
as you can see at the 30 minute mark, the totals didn’t always
legitimately match. Instead, the group says the tally marks were
altered and were not a true representation of what was actually
counted during the audit. One particularly concerning incident was
witnessed by the speaker in which she details watching auditors
remove 21 Bernie votes from the final tally while adding 41 tally
marks to the Hillary Clinton total in order to force the audit
results to match that provided by the machine. Therefore, the group
says the audit is meaningless and not an audit at all.
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Chicago Election Board Meeting - 2016-04-05 - something fishy about vote totals...:… http://dlvr.it/L6WDV3
The
Daily Kos points
out that if the group’s
accusations are true,
it could change everything about the Chicago election as the hand
counted votes would have shown Bernie Sanders winning a district
secured by Hillary Clinton with 56.7 percent of the votes. However,
due to the alleged manipulation by the Chicago Election Board,
Sanders totals were dropped to 47.5 percent, which is an astonishing
18.4 percent swing from the audit hand count. Despite the alleged
discrepancy, no recount was ordered by the Election Board, as the
tally was altered to match the machine output instead of signaling a
red flag to a potential problem with the electronic voting machine.
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Chicago Election Board Meeting 2016-04-05 Showing It should be 56.7% for Bernie 18.4% Swing
As
law currently stands, citizens can not demand a recount, only a
candidate can do that, and Bernie Sanders has since missed the
deadline for such a count to take place. Therefore, a group of
concerned voters have created a GoFundMe
account to
secure litigation funds in a bid to change the law to allow voters to
request a recount when evidence such as this presents itself.
“We need money to file suit over possible violations of Illinois election law and a constitutional right to have your March 15, 2016, primary vote counted without being corrupted, stolen or disregarded by ‘black box’ vote machines. The money raised will be used for attorney fees, costs, legal research, legal filing fees, expert witness fees and costs and any other costs of the litigation. I am not the attorney for the matter but am helping us obtain the best legal representation for this matter.”
If
the citizen group is able to prove their claims against the Chicago
Election Board, should a recount be honored as the city would have
failed to perform the state mandated five percent audit?
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