Orange armbands on Peace Monument/Civil War Sailors Monument, J6 2021, 1:06 PM. Within minutes of Ray Epps leading tip of the spear through Capitol Police barrier. Any significance? People up there were goading unsuspecting crowd members to "move forward." flickr.com/photos/1924011…
1:36 PM, January 6, 2021: Green tape unit designator markers on individuals wearing tactical gear, goggles and respirators. At top of walkway to crypt level of Capitol, West Front, Senate side. Some might be same as above. flickr.com/photos/1924011…
🧵In 2005, the bipartisan Commission on Election Reform, co-chaired by Jimmy Carter and James A. Baker III, expressed concerns about electronic voting systems.
2) Carter-Baker report, pp. 25-27: Voting machines lack transparency.
“Voting machines must … be transparent. They must allow for recounts and for audits, and thereby giver voters confidence in the accuracy of the vote tallies.”
“The accessibility and accuracy of DREs [direct recording electronic machines], however, are offset by a lack of transparency, which has raised concerns about security and verifiability. In most of the DREs used in 2004, voters could not check that their ballot was recorded correctly. Some DREs had no capacity for an independent recount.”
3) Carter-Baker report, p. 27 says there are no standards of transparency for voting machines (and, by implication, software):
"The standards for voting systems ... should assure ... transparency in all voting machines. Because these standards usually guide the decisions of voting machine manufacturers, the manufacturers should be encouraged to build machines in the future that are both accessible and transparent ….”
In a 62-page ruling, a federal magistrate judge agrees with @dominionvoting and sacks attorney Stefanie Lambert from defending @PatrickByrne from Dominion.
Case 1:21-cv-02131-CJN-MAU.
The judge is with the squeaky-clean US District Court for the District of Columbia.
What is in the emails being produced in discovery that Dominion wants to keep secret?
@dominionvoting @PatrickByrne Download the 62-page PDF of the court decision siding with Dominion to sack Patrick Byrne's attorney, Stefanie Lambert.
I have posted this on my Academia account in the public interest so that people may download it for free. I am not party to this case. academia.edu/122888005/DOMI…
What is in those Dominion emails that is so damning that the company is pulling out all the stops to prevent their disclosure?
Could it have to do with @Smartmatic? Could it be related to election fraud? Did someone at Dominion commit a crime? What do you have to say, @dominionvoting?
🧵 Breaking: @Smartmatic President and COO Roger Piñate has surrendered to US authorities in Miami to face federal grand jury charges of international corruption and bribery.
@smartmatic The @Smartmatic co-founder and executive put up $8.5 million in bail, but did not enter a plea of guilt or innocence, according to the Nuevo Herald, because he says he doesn't have a "permanent attorney."
@smartmatic Second @Smartmatic executive charged in the same international corruption and bribery crime: Jorge Miguel Vásquez, vice president of development.
He pled not guilty to international corruption and money laundering charges and was freed on $1 million bail.
🧵 Let's crowdsource some answers to these five questions, one at a time. I welcome @Smartmatic CEO @antoniomugica to help us out, for transparency's sake:
1) Did the Venezuelan engineers of the Delaware-incorporated Smartmatic, including Mugica and Roger Piñate, create the software to help Hugo Chavez cheat his way out of the 2004 recall referendum? (1/5)
@smartmatic @antoniomugica 2) The following year, in 2005, did Smartmatic buy Sequoia (which controlled 22 percent of the US electoral market) and if so, where did it get the cash? (2/5)
@smartmatic @antoniomugica 3) Was Sequoia, with its Smartmatic software developed for Hugo Chavez, sold to Dominion in or about 2010 and involved with the Philippine elections that year?
President of Smartmatic is among four indicted today by federal grand jury for bribery and fraud related to electronic voting systems.
DOJ names Roger Alejandro Piñate Martinez in the news release, but does not identify him as president of Smartmatic. justice.gov/opa/pr/four-me…
Smartmatic says its Presdident Piñate "played a critical role in planning and executing the world’s largest election using optical scanners (in the Philippines) and in Smartmatic winning the largest election contract in US history (in Los Angeles)." smartmatic.com/us/team-member…
Smartmatic President Piñate, indicted today for bribery and fraud, "co-founded Smartmatic with two partners. In the 20 years since he has been responsible for carrying out successful projects in the USA, Latin America, Europe and Asia," the company says. smartmatic.com/us/team-member…