FEC Ballot Error Rate Guidelines: .0008% – Dominion Error Rate 68% – High Error Rate Allows Votes to Be Counted With No Audit Trail

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The error rate for ballot tabulation on Dominion voting machines has been found to be orders of magnitude higher than guidelines set forth by the Federal Election Commission.

FEC guidelines call for an allowable election error rate of 1 in 250,000 ballots or .0008%. A recent forensic examination of Dominion voting machines in Antrim County, Michigan, reveal an error rate of 68.05% on those machines.

The exorbitantly high error rate requires votes to be “adjudicated.” That process allows for votes to be allotted in a process with little to no oversight.

From the report:

“It is critical to understand that the Dominion system classifies ballots into two categories, 1) normal ballots and 2) adjudicated ballots. Ballots sent to adjudication can be altered by administrators, and adjudication files can be moved between different Results Tally and Reporting (RTR) terminals with no audit trail of which administrator actually adjudicates (i.e. votes) the ballot batch. This demonstrated a significant and fatal error in security and election integrity because it provides no meaningful observation of the adjudication processor audit trail or which administrator actually adjudicated the ballots.”

The forensic examination was conducted by a seven-person team from the Allied Security Operations Group (ASOG), a government cybersecurity task force, who examined the machines on Sunday.

The report was ordered released by a federal judge this morning.

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