As a follow-up to our post the other day, another aspect of the FOIA received from York County Elections office is a batch of emails following the 11/8/22 General Election between York County Elections office and Clear Ballot.
Attached to an email prior to the Primary were instructions from Clear Ballot detailing the uploading of ballot images and processing of the external hard drives, including instructions to pay close attention to security seals/chain of custody.
This is a good thing! When issues with broken security seals were brought to the attention of the SEC after the June 2022 Primaries, the SEC made the citizens out to be the bad ones for trying to ascertain how widespread the issue was and reporting them to the SEC. Across the state there were many documented instances of either missing or voided security tape on election machines, some of which I personally witnessed or saw documented with photographs.
Our tabulation machines have the same security tape and when it was pointed out to the SEC by concerned citizens, some of those citizens were reported to SLED and DHS by Executive Director Howard Knapp and Deputy Executive Director Chris Whitmire, according to another FOIA received last week by Palmetto State Watch.
As you can see from the emails below, counties were to upload their ballot images by 11/10/22, and also mail back the external hard drives by end of business that same day.
As of 11/14/22 Clear Ballot had only received 32,209 of the 96k ballots cast in the 11/8 General Election.
So we'll take that gamble with an outside company who does who knows what with our ballot images, could potentially share them with outside companies, and analyze them in heaven knows what way, but regular citizens are left out in the cold.
https://palmettostatewatch.wpcomstaging.com/sec-doxxes-election-integrity-advocates/
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