LANSING — President Donald Trump’s legal team is examining and taking images from 22 vote tabulators in Antrim County Sunday morning after a judge issued an order later Friday, a Trump attorney said.
“A judge actually granted our team access … for us to conduct a forensic audit,” Trump attorney Jenna Ellis told Fox News on Sunday.
Antrim County is solidly Republican but its unofficial results initially showed Democrat Joe Biden winning more votes on Nov. 3 than Trump did. The results were soon corrected and county and state officials have said the initial reporting inaccuracies were due to programming errors by the Republican clerk and not due to errors by the Dominion Voting Systems election equipment or related software.
“That was an unexplained and so-called glitch,” said Ellis, an attorney who has been prominent in the Trump campaign’s efforts to overturn election results that show Biden won the presidency.
“So our team is going to be able to go in there this morning and we’ll be there for about eight hours to conduct that forensic examination and we’ll have the results in about 48 hours and that will tell us a lot about these machines.”
.@JennaEllisEsq on the Antrim County, Michigan judge that gave Team Trump access to 22 Dominion voting machines to conduct a forensic audit TODAY! pic.twitter.com/SbzGSIuKQx
— Team Trump (Text TRUMP to 88022) (@TeamTrump) December 6, 2020
Judge Kevin Elsenheimer’s order, issued late Friday, called for the preservation of Antrim’s election information and allowed for the “forensic imaging” of 22 tabulators, subject to a protective order intended to keep proprietary and other confidential information from being made public. The order made no mention of the Trump legal team being involved in the examination.
Antrim County said in a Saturday news release the examination of the computer equipment would be conducted by ASOG. That is an apparent reference to Allied Security Operations Group. Russell Ramsland, who has given inaccurate analyses, including one that confused districts in Minnesota with ones in Michigan, in support of Trump’s legal cases in Michigan and elsewhere, is described in media reports in the New York Times and elsewhere as an officer of Allied Security Operations Group. It was not clear whether Ramsland would be part of the team examining the voting equipment Sunday.
Elsenheimer issued the order despite concerns from the county that the examination would violates its licensing agreements with Dominion, which is not a party to the litigation and could not be reached for comment Saturday.
Many election observers took to social media Saturday and Sunday expressing concern that the examination will be used to spread further disinformation and conspiracy theories about the election.
The lawsuit in Antrim County’s 13th Circuit, which flew mostly under the radar until Trump personal attorney Rudy Giuliani touted the ruling in a tweet Friday night, was filed Nov. 23 by Central Lake resident William Bailey.
BIG WIN FOR HONEST ELECTIONS.
Antrim County Judge in Michigan orders forensic examination of 22 Dominion voting machines.
This is where the untrustworthy Dominion machine flipped 6000 votes from Trump to Biden.
Spiking of votes by Dominion happenned all over the state.
— Rudy W. Giuliani (@RudyGiuliani) December 5, 2020
The suit cites the initial inaccuracies in the unofficial results from Antrim and claims the county’s “tabulators were compromised.”
But those claims were not cited in Elsenheimer’s order. The judge’s order said Bailey was concerned about a close outcome on a village marijuana proposal and alleges that ballots were damaged during a recounting of the county’s ballots conducted Nov. 6. The result was that a marijuana proposal in the Village of Central Lake shifted from a tie vote to passing by one vote, according to the order.
A little more than 16,000 votes were cast in Antrim County, where Trump beat Biden by nearly 4,000 votes. Statewide, Biden beat Trump by more than 150,000 votes.
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Unfortunately, an uphill battle for Trump. What a disgrace the United States is, with regard to voting. We are a corrupt banana Republic.
The spreading of disinformation and the conspiracy has already occurred BEFORE the election, so why not NOW take the time to clarify and correct it before it gets codified into precedent and American law? Once again the Democrats point one finger at law obeying voters AFTER the election when THREE point at them the law breakers, and what they did in disinformation and conspiracy BEFORE and DURING the election.
AND its telling, that for 2+ decades, we’ve kept SEEING election after election, these “Glitches/irregularities etc” happen, BUT ONLY EVER where the dems benefit from it.. YET NOT ONE PERSON has ever been fired for the negligence/incompetence that LED TO THOSE glitches….
WHY?!
Looks like the tip of the iceberg our ship of state ran into in November. The women and children have already abandoned the ship along with the RINO’s disguised as women who left in order to save their own skins. Maybe singing “Nearer my God to Thee” this time will bear fruit and save the damaged floundering electoral ship of state when the now enlightened Supremes weigh in and the Christian majority votes for Truth that sets men free over expediency of a secular socialist immediate gratification that will lead to a long term social and electoral corruption.
If it is anything like the Smartmatics software, better audit it. Consider this,
Smartmatics software
Here are some ‘Features’ documented in the Dominion User Guide that I would like to know more about:
6. Once a Contest Result object has been created and selected from the list below the user can enter data on the right side of the contest result list. The following items can be edited: • Turnout statistics including: Total Voters Cast, Total Cards Cast, DRE Voters Cast and DRE Cards Cast. • Contest level statistics including: overvotes, undervotes, blanks, double votes, invalid votes, write-in overrides. • Votes per candidates and party affiliation • Write-in resolution is also possible for manually entered write-in votes in the same way as for regular result files.
—Those who oppose the audit are likely afraid of being outed. This really stinks, and I am mad about that.
THIS IS WHY , i demand to know, WHO THE HELL Signed off, on authorizing Dominion software.. WHO VETTED IT prior to that signing off.