New Jersey Ballots Disappear After Dominion Voting Failure

Over 3,000 paper ballots went missing following a malfunction with Dominion Voting machines in Mercer County, New Jersey.

QUICK FACTS:
  • After Dominion Voting systems failed to count ballots electronically, voters turned to paper ballots, many of which have since disappeared.
  • The issue originated with the machines’ optical scanners, prompting Dominion programmers to travel to Mercer County to address the malfunction.
  • Dominion has “claimed responsibility” for the scanning failure, according to unknown “sources.”
  • “We are asking poll workers to use the official ballots because they can still vote them manually and place them in the slot in the scanning machines, and we will count them manually,” said Mercer County Clerk Paula Sollami Covello, confirming that citizens would still be able to vote regardless of the problem.
  • The hand-cast ballots were then taken to the Board of Elections following a “fail-safe measure.”
  • Robbinsville Township Mayor Dave Fried was later told by Mercer County Election officials that “the ballots of one of our districts had gone missing,” who added that “approximately 11% of our residents’ votes have yet to be safely delivered and counted.”
  • Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office was informed of the situation and was asked to “investigate as to whether this scanning problem occurred based on an error or whether something was intentionally done to create chaos and distrust in the election system.”
  • While the missing ballots will likely not affect federal offices for the state, school board positions are highly contested, with two candidates separated by a mere 67 votes.
VOTING MACHINE ‘GLITCHES’:
  • In June, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) acknowledged there are nine different vulnerabilities within Dominion software, making it susceptible to hacking and exploitation.
  • Despite the 16 states being vulnerable to exploitation, CISA holds there is “no evidence that these vulnerabilities have been exploited in any election.”
  • Voting machines used in Georgia’s Democratic Primary were off by thousands, a hand count concluded.
  • The Georgia Secretary of State Office then recognized there was a “programming error” on their part, affecting the total votes cast per candidate.
  • Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, also experienced a “coding error” when voters were given a Democratic ballot, with a Republican ballot presented on the next screen.
  • The “typo” raised concerns for voters, the county director of elections saying, “We want to assure everybody that what happens is when you are a registered Republican, we have a specific code for that ballot. And once we punch that code in, even though the header says something like, ‘Democratic ballot.’ it’s actually for the races that are in the Republican party.”
BACKGROUND:
  • American Faith reported that Fulton County, Pennsylvania, filed a lawsuit against Dominion, citing a “breach of contract” over “severe anomalies” and the failure to meet basic certifications.
  • Due to election vulnerabilities, Nevada counties considered hand-counting paper ballots for future elections, moving away from Dominion software.

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