A wireless modem has been found embedded in an electronic voting machine in Michigan. The discovery was a result of an investigation into voting machines and software stemming from the November 3 election.
The revelation of the modem was made in a report recently released by Michigan attorney Matt DePerno. DePerno is litigating a case on behalf of a Michigan client, William Bailey, who says his vote was disenfranchised as a result of vote manipulation.
The suit, brought against Dominion Systems, has resulted in the only forensic audit of Dominion voting machines conducted in the nation so far. That audit, performed by a seven-person team from the Allied Security Operations Group (ASOG) a government cybersecurity task force, found that Dominion machines are intentionally designed to influence elections.
The team found Dominion intentionally generates ballot errors so votes can be counted with little to no oversight, and that it achieves this by using a ballot-error rate that is orders of magnitude higher than what is allowed under federal guidelines.
A judge ordered ballot machines inspected as well as the software and the discovery of the modem is a result of those inspections.
A Telit LE910-SV1 Modem Chip was found installed on the motherboard of an ES&S DS200 voting machine. Motherboards on electronic devices are the main circuit boards that tie together all of the device’s components allowing them to communicate with one another and the device to function.
The modem chip found on the motherboard indicates the voting machine in question was hardwired to be able to communicate – wirelessly – with outside devices. That would allow access to the machine, and theoretically to vote counts and tallies, without any discernible external wires or connections.
In fact a printed summary tape from the ES&S machine that was inspected appears to show that the modem was in use (communicating with outside devices) on November 4, 2020, the day after election day.
A 7,000-vote swing responsible for initially awarding Antrim County to Joe Biden was discovered in the days after the election. President Trump actually won the county by nearly 4,000 votes.
Telit, the maker of the modem, is a publicly traded company based in the UK. But it has operations in Italy and is partially owned by a Hong Kong based company. An English press report from August 2020 indicated there were concerns of Chinese influence on Telit raised within the UK government.