“Bennie Smith, a data analyst and county election commissioner in Shelby County, Tenn...found a glitch in the system there that counted some votes in FRACTIONS.”
A voting machine “glitch” in the South caused “some votes” to be counted as FRACTIONS?! 1/ https://t.co/wrYdvJCjGs
"'I nearly fell out of my chair in astonishment and shock when I looked at the lines of Code in GEMS... These code definitions [of 64-bit floating point fractional 'Double'] should never, ever, have been introduced into GEMS. Period..." https://t.co/rkgisG4VkF 2/
"The GEMS system is capable of being manipulated on the weight of peoples' vote even during the middle of an election. Consultants are granted access to log into the GEMS statewide vote tabulation system in the heat of an election night." 4/
"In October 2015, ... Bennie Smith received a report from an African-American candidate Wanda Halbert. On Election Night, she had noticed that as votes accumulated, the number of votes in her race were somehow getting subtracted as new votes were added." 5/
"Upon digging into the matter, Smith uncovered a bombshell. Smith caught GEMS creating false vote totals.
... In comparing the [precinct] poll tape to the GEMS central tabulator report, Smith saw that the totals did not match." 6/
"Discovering this glaring GEMS vote tabulation anomaly, Smith proceeded with deeper investigation research. What Smith uncovered was very disturbing." 7/
"Quoting https://t.co/RVeaHkp0rR, 'Weighting a race [through the use of GEMS] removes the principle of 'one person-one vote' to allow some votes to be counted as less than one or more than one." 8/
"Regardless of what the real votes are, candidates can receive a SET PERCENTAGE OF VOTES. Results can be controlled. For example, Candidate A can be assigned 44% of the votes, Candidate B 51%, and Candidate C the rest." 9/
"'All evidence that [rigged] fractional values ever existed [in the GEMS system] can be removed instantly even from the underlying database using a setting in the GEMS data tables... [E]ven instructing GEMS to show the [rigged] decimals will fail to reveal they were used.'" 10/
"'Source code: Instructions to treat votes as decimal values instead of whole numbers [i.e., rigging] are inserted multiple times in the GEMS source code itself; thus, this feature cannot have been created by accident.'" 11/
The GEMS system was created by Global Election Systems (later re-named Diebold Election Systems), which ES&S acquired in 2009. According to the DHS, the GEMS system can be accessed REMOTELY. https://t.co/RQyQekFFFm 12/
As reported by @KimZetter, both ES&S & Diebold installed remote access software in election management systems, which include county (or state) central tabulators. https://t.co/d2dhyRMiDT 13/
@KimZetter When ES&S acquired Diebold in 2009, the combined company totaled 70% of US election equipment. But they were related even b4 the acquisition, as one of ES&S's two co-founders (who were brothers) moved to Global/Diebold as president. 14/ https://t.co/7roUkaf9EN
@KimZetter Global's largest shareholder and Senior Vice President was a convicted embezzler whose crimes involved sophisticated tampering with computer files. https://t.co/7roUkaf9EN 15/
@KimZetter A deposition transcript from the embezzler's court case showed that he was called back for consulting work before the 2002 election in Georgia, which resulted in several surprising and unverifiable (bc GA chose paperless voting machines) GOP victories. https://t.co/1EDNHMIwxQ 17/
@KimZetter It was a Global/Diebold machine that "inexplicably" deleted 16k Gore votes in Volusia County, FL in 2000. It is unknown if other FL counties experienced similar anomalies, as George W. Bush--with an assist from future SCOTUS justices Kavanaugh & Roberts--stopped the recount. 18/
@KimZetter According to the Guardian, the embezzler at Global/Diebold programmed the GEMS tabulators used to count 1/3 of the votes in 37 states in 2004, an election that saw massive discrepancies between the exit polls & the reported totals, especially in Ohio. 20/ https://t.co/7roUkaf9EN