In response to our canvassing efforts Seth Keshel, former military intelligence officer, describes how the data correlates with his analysis. Here is a link to his video.
Radio interview with Liz Callaway
Laura and representative Vic Dabney spoke with Liz Callaway regarding the February 5th Big Reveal meeting.
Press Release for 2/5/22 Canvass Results
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Contact:
Laura Scharr
SC Safe Elections Group
scsafeelections@zohomail.com
www.scsafeelections.org
Results of South Carolina Citizen-Led Canvass of 2020 November General Election Reveal Election Irregularities and Thousands of Errors In Voter Rolls
Columbia, S.C. – February 5, 2022 – SC Safe Elections Group, a non-partisan volunteer group comprised of approximately 75 citizens from across eight South Carolina counties presented findings of its canvass of South Carolina voter rolls and the 2020 General Election today. Presenters shared results that revealed widespread inaccuracies with voter rolls and potential ineligible votes.
“Our canvassing efforts have shown that much work needs to be done by our local and state election officials to clean up our voter rolls and to enforce existing laws, said Laura Scharr, leader of the South Carolina voter integrity effort. “Our state lawmakers also need to enact new legislation now that ensures greater accuracy and confidence in our elections. Every illegitimate vote cancels out one of our voices. It is essential that we not have any errors in our voter rolls and that only legal votes are counted.”
Highlights of the audit included the following:
• Approximately 21% of voters on the voter rolls appear to be ineligible or to have voted outside of the regulated guidelines.
• Over 4,300 registered voters on the rolls across eight counties were either deceased or had moved prior to the 2020 November election.
• We found 1,369 citizens were registered to vote (and many of which voted) at commercial addresses such as grocery stores, USPS locations, non-residential university addresses where the voters were not students, and vacation RV parks.
“For citizens to trust our elections, it’s imperative that state and local officials and representatives work together to clean up the voter rolls, fix broken systems, and ensure that our election laws are followed,” said S.C. State Representative Vic Dabney, District 52. “I applaud the efforts of all these citizens involved with the canvass who took months of their time to research our voter rolls. Clearly, we have election integrity issues that must be addressed.”
“If our elections are not trustworthy, we lose any confidence in our system, said Josiah Magnuson, S.C. State Representative for District 38. “This is not a partisan issue but one that is foundational to our Republic as a whole. I am so thankful for those who through dogged persistence are bringing to light possible attacks on our state’s election process and showing us what must be done to ensure those candidates the people legally vote for are those who get elected. I look forward to pushing for immediate legislation that will renew the security and accuracy of our elections.”
S.C. State Representative Robert J. “RJ” May, III of District 88 added, “Free and fair elections are the bedrock of our Republic. We must have confidence that our votes count and that only qualified citizens are casting ballots. As your state representative, my stance on election integrity is simple: No cheating! I’m attending this conference to learn, but more importantly, to stand with the people I represent who demand action from the General Assembly.”
Other issues addressed at the presentation included: 1) concerns with the voter machines, 2) the state’s use of the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC), and 3) voter roll and statistical election race anomalies. Canvass volunteer leaders from each county presented their findings; in addition, Jeff O’Donnell, a software and database expert, spoke about voter roll anomalies, and Phil Evans, a data analyst and engineer, spoke about election race anomalies. A summary report of the findings of the audit can be found at: https://scsafeelections.org. A video recording of the presentation can also be found at this website.
Interview by Richard Citizen Journalist
Laura and Representative Vic Dabney from Kershaw County were interviewed by Citizen Journalist Richard Potcner about why reform of the election process is so important. And we talk about the reveal of our statewide canvassing efforts.
Gateway Pundit Coverage (Latest)
We were honored to be mentioned in this week’s Gateway Pundit article about our BIG REVEAL of the canvassing and data analysis results of our grassroots efforts over the last few months.
Be sure to tune in.
The BIG REVEAL
The SC Safe Elections team will be presenting their findings on voter roll analysis and canvassing efforts for the state of South Carolina on February 5th, 2022 from 1 PM to 5 PM. All the SC legislators are invited to The BIG REVEAL as well as Governor McMaster, the SC Election Commission, the Republican and Democratic chairman, and Attorney General Alan Wilson. The event is not open to the public. Only invitees, press, volunteers, and their family and friends are attending. Please call your legislator today to encourage him or her to attend. This is MUST SEE TV!
Details are below. We will post a link to the live feed on February 4th and an executive summary will be posted after the event. Be sure to tune in.
MEDIA ALERT:
Contact:
Laura Scharr
(803) 331-3721
SC Safe Elections Group
Results of South Carolina Citizen-Led Canvass of 2020 November General Election To Be Presented on February 5, 2022, in Columbia, S.C.
Who: SC Safe Elections Group – A non-partisan citizen volunteer group
focused on election integrity.
What: Media and Elected Officials are invited to attend a presentation by group members and election experts on the findings of the canvass of S.C. voter rolls and the 2020 November general election. The public will be able to view a live feed online at https://scsafeelections.org.
When: 1:00-5:00 p.m. EST, February 5, 2022
Where: Segra Park, Club Lounge, 1640 Freed Street, Columbia, S.C.
Columbia, S.C. – January 25, 2022 – SC Safe Elections Group, a non-partisan volunteer group comprised of approximately 75 citizens from across eight South Carolina counties will present findings of its canvass of South Carolina voter rolls and the 2020 General Election on February 5, 2022, from 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. EST in the Club Lounge at Segra Park in Columbia, S.C. Presenters will share results that revealed widespread inaccuracies with voter rolls and potentially ineligible votes.
“Even though South Carolina is a red state and went for Donald Trump in the 2020 election, our canvassing efforts found bombshell evidence of phantom voters, deceased voters, ineligible voters, lost votes, cross-state votes and many other anomalies with the 2020 election,” said Laura Scharr, leader of the South Carolina voter integrity effort. “Our goal with this event is to inform the public and our lawmakers of the issues we uncovered and to request specific steps that will improve the accuracy of our elections.”
The public will be able to view the presentation through a live feed at: https://scsafeelections.org. A summary report of the findings of the audit will also be found at this website.
Election Integrity-Move along?
This post was submitted by member Barbara Williams.
SC GOP: Nothing to see here.
Why am I still focused on events of the ‘voting’ conducted (perpetrated?) on or about 3 November 2020? Why do I refuse to give up the fight for election integrity and just move along to 2022?
It’s because I am fully convinced that We The People were played for fools at best, and at worst the victims of the crime of the century. We must find out exactly how it was done and take direct action to bring to justice those responsible. Failing that, we must get rid of the current methods of candidate ‘election’ and go primitive.
In November 2021, a year after the 2020 election, we had a school board ‘election’ here in Spartanburg County. Not only were voting machines used again, but the poll books appeared as electronic terminals. No more of those antiquated printed lists of registered voters, no sirree! Let’s speed things up and look up the names on the internet!
What? But haven’t we been told that there is no way the voting machines are connected to the internet?
What really happens at a polling place in SC.
On your phone, you can check for available internet connections wherever you are. Right? Most of the time in a school or a fire department polling place, the choices are innocuous. But those brand-new, oh so convenient little poll books are connected via hotspot to the net. Yes, they are. The way you can tell is that there is a network listed for SEC-SITES.
That network sets up a Local Area Network (LAN). Ostensibly the LAN is used only to transfer data, from voting machines set up at a precinct, to the router used to store that information. That would only hold true if everything were hard wired, with no wireless functionality.
If data is whizzing through the air, it can be intercepted by any 10 year old with a cell phone. Fact. All you’d have to do would be to access the SEC-SITES network. It can be done from the privacy of your car in the parking lot. Want to make sure a candidate wins? This is virtually undetectable.
What are election officials hiding?
When informed of this security breach, public and election officials bluster that it can’t happen here. None of our election machines are connected to the internet (wink, wink), Trump won in 2020, so we’re good. Right? Nothing to see here, move along, peasants.
Much is made of the Board of Elections claim that the voter rolls in SC are publicly available for inspection, even online. It’s also in our South Carolina Constitution. See Article 5, Registration Books and Lists of Electors, Section 7-5-410, Maintenance and inspection of official registration records. Of course. If all you want to do is to verify one registration, you simply need to provide the name, address, date of birth, and SSN. One at a time. And you can’t see anything except those fields before you fill them in. But you are free to investigate, peons. Knock yourselves out. Furthermore, if you want to analyze the entire voter roll database you must fork out $2500. Some states have no fee to acquire the voter roll database.
I submit to you that we haven’t had a fair election in over a generation, maybe further. The installation of these voting machines from hell simply made the steal easier. Why do you suppose the new motto of SCVotes is, ‘Every vote matters. Every vote counts.’? Presumably, they mean every Legal vote. But why not say that? And why would our GOP leaders insist that we should make it easier to vote, but harder to cheat? How soon are they going to implement the ‘harder to cheat’ part?
The unvarnished truth about voting in SC
All of these attitudes and actions, taken together, make it obvious that those currently in power (elected or not) have no intention of jeopardizing their power base. If you get a positive response from an official, promising to look into this serious problem, you won’t get any further action. That invisible stone wall is virtually impenetrable. The SC GOP party line is, we need to “move forward.” They don’t want to acknowledge the 600 lb gorilla in the room. We need to review and analyze what happened in 2020 to diagnose any potential issues and determine what we need to fix to ensure that no invalid votes are recorded.
There are few politicians in the entire state of South Carolina, who will commit to action on honest voting. It seems as if they are in their own little world and they see things completely different than the rest of us. For the most part, we the people are on our own. Again.
What’s to be done to ensure voting integrity?
Perhaps a better question would be, what Can be done? The public is denied free access to the entire election database. Why is that? Are they concerned that the dead people voting, multiple votes, the illegals, the phantom voters, and the vote switching would be found and corrected? Can’t have that, now.
The simplest, least expensive, most reliable thing to do is to shove those machines to the side and vote Amish. Paper ballots, marked by each eligible voter, with a copy for the said voter to prove his action. One day to vote. Minimize mail-in ballots. No electronics whatsoever. Count the ballots with any registered voters who care to observe. There should be an equal number of counters – Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, Christian, MAGA, whatever. No exclusions. And total access.
Once the votes are counted, that’s it. No more of this ballot discovery in the closet, or someone’s van, to be added to the certified total until a Democrat or equivalent ‘wins.’
We The People have had enough of this nonsense. We deserve a full forensic audit to examine the paper ballots, machines, routers, tabulators, voter rolls, servers, etc. Given the egregious errors and fraud that have been found in other states, we want to ensure that SC doesn’t just do elections “mostly right” but that it does them professionally and legally.
The machines are flawed
“If the Vice President of sales for a voting machine company admitted on camera a fatal flaw in the machines that makes them susceptible to fraud before the county voted to spend millions of dollars to spend on new machines, don’t you think the public should be aware of that video of him admitting the flaw in the machines, don’t you think the news should cover that?”
Yes. That answer is always yes.
My response to Drew McKissick
SC GOP not supporting forensic audits: “We won’t stop.”
It was disheartening to find out that Drew McKissick and the SCGOP leadership didn’t support forensic audits in our state. We the people want to ensure that our votes count and yet our own party doesn’t seem to care. They want to “move on” from 2020 and push watered-down “election integrity” measures for the future. This does not reflect the pulse of the people.
To wit, a recent survey indicates that only 36% of Republicans think that elections are fair. Source (NPR/PBS Newshour Marist poll October 2021). In a CNN poll, 78% of Republicans believe Biden did not legitimately win enough votes to win the presidency, and one-third of all Americans believe that Biden won due to widespread fraud (Monmouth University poll).
We need to determine what went wrong in 2020 in every state. Even though our officials claim that in SC we “mostly did things right” that infers that there were some things that were “not quite right.” Even if there was a little bit of fraud, we have a problem. Every legitimate vote should count. Fraud vitiates everything. And it doesn’t matter whether or not it affects if Trump won or not in South Carolina. If my vote was stolen or messed with, I am rightfully angered.
What is more disconcerting is that our own Lexington GOP leaders didn’t support our vote and my efforts for a full forensic audit of 3 major counties. I worked hard with other contacts across the nation as along with other members of our Lexington GOP family to draft this resolution and pass it in other counties. It was approved unanimously by our ECs and yet our own representatives didn’t follow up with me, form the 5-person committee to provide recommendations or vote for moving forward with the resolution in the recent state GOP meeting. With friends like that, who needs enemies?
Make no mistake, the EFAC (Election Fraud and Audit Committee) team will continue to tirelessly work to investigate any form of maladministration of the election process in our state. Despite attempts to subvert our progress from other audit groups that popped up recently and even members from our own Lexington team, we will continue to work toward determining the truth. We are not moving on. We are focusing on what did go wrong in 2020 so that it never happens again. We can’t get rid of the election process issues unless we can fully diagnose the problems that exist.
Our machines and poll books are capable of connecting to the internet and did so in the 2020 election. Source: US Cybercommand
Our voter rolls are an unmitigated mess and need to be cleaned up—dead people and people who have moved years ago are still on the rolls.
The ES&S machines themselves were not certified since the testing laboratories that are supposed to conduct exhaustive studies on them did not follow the HAVA act of 2002 and EAC manual guidelines.
Our vote is not secure nor transparent as it moves through an opaque system and is transmitted overseas via a foreign-owned company (SCYTL).
Our vote is our voice and the EFAC team will not rest until we are certain that our vote truly counts and can be verified and that only those who are eligible to vote are voting.
Respectfully,
Laura Scharr, EFAC team leader
Baby Steps…..The REIN act is a start but….
Over one year after the 2020 election, the people of South Carolina are still concerned that their vote didn’t possibly count. It doesn’t matter that Trump won our state. This isn’t about a particular party or who won an election, it is about the fact that we are suspicious of the election process that records, tabulates, and reports our votes. I think most of us can agree that something seemed very strange and wrong on election night and what transpired thereafter.
Legislators want to move forward to 2022 and to that end a bill called the REIN act (Restore Election Integrity Now) has been proposed by some courageous House members who want to make a difference. To their credit, they are looking to draft legislation that can be passed. We the people and particularly our group EFAC have been studying and analyzing the SC voter issues for over a year. We want an exhaustive study done of our elections here in SC so that we feel comfortable that our vote is indeed being counted.
Here are some additional issues that should be addressed with the REIN or other legislation:
Ballot security and verification of our vote are essential but the best way this can be accomplished is with paper ballots that are blockchain verified, watermarked, and can be then checked by the voter for accuracy.
Here is a great video on this topic by Arizona’s Mark Finchem:
(Note that this will also reduce the budget for elections as the cost is roughly around $.25/ballot as per the Arizona Election Integrity Project.)
Click here for a short 3-minute video: https://vimeo.com/561635300
Get rid of the machines. This was proposed by a number of IT experts including election expert Duncan Buell. Any electronic system is hackable. Full stop. Furthermore, we continue to verify that our machines have and can be connected to the internet.
Evaluate our voter roll registration and maintenance process. Unfortunately, the ERIC system is not doing an adequate job of cleaning our rolls.
While uniformity in the election process is necessary from a quality control standpoint, we also need to ensure that our state doesn’t centralize elections at the state level such that there is more control. Centralization can create too much power at the top with little oversight. Oversight is needed for accountability. This is why it is essential that the role of the SEC is evaluated as well as the impact of the judiciary on the election process.
For example, although the state supreme court ruled in favor of our AG regarding the use of witness signatures on absentee ballots, the verification of these signatures was not enforced. The SEC told the various county Board of Elections to not bother. Why would they do that?
The REIN bill calls for a forensic audit on 3 counties for the 2020 primaries and general elections but only calls for an evaluation of the witness signatures on the absentee ballots. What exactly will that entail? We have spoken to experts that did this analysis in Maricopa but were limited in their scope. This cannot happen here. In addition, the bill makes no mention of the paper ballots scanned by the machines or the machines themselves. We need to examine the machines, routers, and most importantly the program source codes, etc. to determine if and how these machines were possibly altered to manipulate vote counts. The Jason data from Edison showed our votes being flipped and reduced during the “counting.” This is disconcerting. We are happy to bring in expert Lisa Smith who did this analysis to review it with legislators or Laura Scharr can step through her summation of Lisa’s work.
One large concern about the REIN bill is who the committee of 7 is comprised of. This committee could be potentially be stacked with people who do not want to see transparency and disclosure of the election process. The selection of the committee members is crucial to a credible outcome of the results and the report. There should also be adequate input from ‘The People’ regarding the audit, how it is conducted, who is involved etc. We saw how Arizona was corrupted due to the involvement of people who are perhaps not willing to allow all of the evidence to be turned over nor the entire results to be provided to the public. It is essential that outside experts who are not biased be involved.
The fact that one committee member is appointed by the governor is also concerning as the SEC board members are appointed by him and under his purview so that could be a potential conflict of interest.
We understand that creating legislation is a messy process and like sausage-making requires many steps, ingredients and perhaps isn’t so pretty when observed in person. EFAC wishes to partner with these key legislators who care about the veracity of our vote so that we can create a process we are all confident about.