I tracked down the @RealMarkFinchem debate claim about 140k ballot images missing time stamps. The claim originates from Jovan Pulitzer, and the explanation is simple:
Election Day ballots cast at vote centers. All procedures were followed properly.
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Election Day ballots cast at vote centers. All procedures were followed properly.
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The vast majority of ballots (1.9 million) are counted at the MCTEC warehouse on massive counting machines called ICCs. They add a sequential ballot ID, batch ID, and time stamp to every ballot image.
But election day ballots are counted on location on ICP2 tabulators.
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But election day ballots are counted on location on ICP2 tabulators.
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ICP2 ballot images don't give a batch ID b/c they are assigned to a vote center, they don't need them. They do assign a non-sequential ballot ID and NO timestamp. This is done purposefully to protect a voters privacy.
Why?
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Why?
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Well, if I, Garrett Archer, go to a polling location at 3pm. I check in, there is a record of when I checked in that includes a time. IF the ICP2 assigned a timestamp to the ballot, it would take very little effort for someone to figure out which ballot is mine.
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Finchem misspoke at the debate about the images missing the entire header. They were only missing the time stamp value. Jovan told one of our reporters this when we reached out.
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So the claim about 140k ballots having issues is rated as False. They were legal ballots cast on election day, in which all procedures by @maricopavote were followed properly.
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Addendum: The reason the ICC image stamp is different is the voter's privacy is protected at the step before when the ballot is removed from the affidavit envelope. There is already no way to tie a voter to a ballot.
Jovan saw this, I'm sure found it odd, but framed it as fraud.
Jovan saw this, I'm sure found it odd, but framed it as fraud.
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