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We are experiencing a profound pattern of a loss of our freedoms as we don’t feel we have control over so many aspects of our lives.

Do you feel that the public school system is truly teaching and treating your kids and grandkids well?

Instead of teaching the “3 R’s” they are being bombarded with CRT (Critical Race Theory) propaganda and gender confusion. Do you feel that these kids in the public school or safe?

Do you trust that the information that the media is disseminating on a daily basis is honest and accurate?

The Twitter expose’ that Elon Musk has unmasked is shining light on the collusion among twitter execs, government agencies, the DNC and other key figures to suppress key and damaging information.  The truth was suppressed and our reality was hacked.

Finally, do you trust that your vote is being counted correctly?

Our team here at SC Safe Elections has uncovered information which consistently shows that our election management system, voter rolls, and other processes are a mess. Many voters are telling us they either don’t want to vote or they don’t trust that their vote is being counted accurately.

On a positive note, the flood gates are opening to reveal truth. The Twitter expose underscores how key evidence was suppressed that was extremely damaging to one political party. This was also occurring across social media platforms as well as mainstream (Mockingbird) media.  So many untruths were parroted to sway our opinion—Hunter Biden’s laptop was “Russian disinformation”; our election in 2020 was the “most secure ever.” People are suddenly dying due to “climate change.”  We need to lockdown for 2 weeks to “flatten the curve.” “The vaccine is safe and effective.” I could go on and on.

What was considered a conspiracy theory 2 years ago is now a fact—this is opening a lot of eyes to the controlling nature of our Big Brother government.

A sudden shifting of the narrative is now occurring.  Balenciaga and other fashion brands are being shown to utilize their ad campaigns and runway shows to propagate the sick, twisted sexualization of children along with creepy satanic messages and symbols. Seriously, why does a naked Kylie Jenner need to be slathered in blood to sell Coty makeup?  Why are runway models holding baby dolls soaked with blood in a Balenciaga fashion show? Who is drawn to buy these products with that messaging? Seriously people, wake up.

Our Vote is Our voice

On the election front, both the state of Arizona and the country of Brazil are illustrating that elections are broken and the “winners” don’t appear to be the people’s choice. And the people won’t stand for it.  These machines are selecting, not electing our leaders.

So, what happens next?

As more people become disgusted and disillusioned, they will demand action. The reengineering and realignment of these systems —media, schools, healthcare, finance, and our government–need to and will ultimately occur.

I have faith that we are getting to the bottom of the corruption and irregularities in AZ; and, if we still have a justice system that is fair in any way, we will see some action here.  The evidence is overwhelming. Ultimately, we may have to take it to the court of the public opinion.

The Brunson brothers’ case on the supreme court docket could prove to be a breakthrough. This case although it has a low probability of success is a very elegant, simple, and constitutionally-driven solution to a complex, controversial and emergent problem. Hopefully, the justices will have the courage to see it that way.  

Furthermore, we have our own case here in SC that will enhance transparency by allowing public access to Cast Vote Records. 

How can you take your freedom back?

Support the above initiatives by writing a letter to supreme court to tell them to consider hearing the Brunson case and also by contributing to the givesendgo fund for our state’s CVR legal battle.

Continue to spread the word regarding these overall issues of our freedoms being usurped by having constructive conversations with family and friends. Use curious questions to get them thinking rather than telling them your viewpoint. People readily embrace ideology when they are able to come to the conclusion themselves. Help guide people to understanding when new revelations are disclosed. Many people are just waking up to this reality so patience is sometimes warranted.

Stay positive and prayerful—truth has a way of ultimately revealing itself and “we the people” represent a critical mass who want relief from being captured by an enemy that doesn’t have the best interest at heart. Like a frog in boiling water, we have been in hot water for a long time and are close to the boiling point.  Will we have the courage to jump out of the hot water or continue to remain in the situation until it is too late?  This is up to every one of you.

Stay centered. Stay frosty. Stay prayerful.

SC Safe Elections is trying to get access to the Cast Vote Records (CVRs) for our elections here in SC. Currently citizens are being blocked from receipt of these reports. Our suit has a good chance of success as the judge has already granted an injunction that preserves the 2020 election data.

CVRs are like an x-ray for the voting machine in that it looks at the vote over time at each precinct. Here is a video of Lauren Martel our counsel on this case and Laura Scharr founder and team leader of SC Safe Elections discussing the case specifics and providing an update.

*****Our state constitution states that our vote should be cast in secret not counted in secret. Not allowing access to this valuable audit tool means that they are counting our vote in secret and we can’t see how that is happening.*******

We have a great change of success in this case but we need your help.
Please contribute to our givesendgo campaign which will 100% fund lawyer and expert witness costs.

Here is a link: www.givesendgo.com/SCFOIA

Here is also a link to our original blog when we first filed which includes court documents for this case. 

https://www.scsafeelections.org/updates/sc-safe-elections-files-suit-to-obtain-cast-vote-records/

In addition, here are some relevant blogs from our website re: cast vote records.

Update on our legal case to gain access to the Cast Vote Records for SC

A guest spot on John B Wells Caravan to Midnight

The SEC is not allowing the public access to Cast Vote Records

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In this presentation, our Berkeley team volunteer Gen steps through the many issues regarding our election process in SC and particularly the issues found in Berkeley county. She discusses canvassing results, poll observation data, and action steps you can take to improve our voting system to ensure your vote does count.

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Summary of findings from poll observation in primaries and midterms:  We mobilized roughly 40+ citizens who acted both as poll observers as well as poll watchers for candidates.  Although we sampled a small percentage of polling locations both in early voting (primarily at county board of elections) and in person on election day as well as the primary runoff, we found similar issues across the counties.

Executive Summary- poll observation from the SC midterms

We witnessed similar issues to what we saw in the primaries and runoff earlier this year. Key findings in the primary and subsequent runoff were as follows:

SC State Election Commission did not follow the SC election laws (7-13-35, 7-13-60, 7-13-72, 7-13-100, 7-13-710, 7-13-1750, 7-13-1770) For ex: oaths not filed

Machine glitches flipped votes from one candidate to another in many counties

Tamper resistant seals were voided or missing on “certified” machines

Poor or NO chain of custody practices were observed with ballots, equipment, and thumb drives

Races were missing from ballots due to redistricting

Same-day voter photo IDs issued without proper document proof

Absentee ballot envelopes were examined for signature verification day of receipt and in secret

We found the following issues during the Midterms

Machine Issues

The state of SC experienced some of the machine issues that other states encountered. Just from the small sample we observed, there were ballot printing errors, jams occurred and voters were unable to scan their ballots. Many times, these issues required the voter to redo the entire process or to be issued a provisional or failsafe ballot.  In one instance, the Express Vote ballot marking device kept reading “No Selection.”

More concerning were issues of flipped votes; there was an instance of a single candidate that flipped as well as a straight party ticket flipping from Republican to Green Party as well as straight party Republican flipping to Democrat. The above issues are disconcerting as they indicate that machines exceeded the allowable machine error rate of 1 in 10 M as set forth by the VVSG (Voluntary Voting System Guidelines, Voting System Standards Volume 1 Performance Standards Section 3.2.1).

In addition to the above issues, observers noticed that the tabulators, electronic poll books as well as the ballot marking devices were not calibrated. The time was fast by up to 20 minutes and many of the machines were off by an hour due to the fact that they hadn’t adjusted to the Eastern Standard Time. One polling location was off by an hour for 3 hours.  This could affect the ability to audit the votes and accuracy of reporting data.  These machines go through Logic and Accuracy testing prior to being put into use.  If the clock time is not accurate, what else is not calibrated?

Most disturbing was the issue of a recount in Newberry County where the woman who ran as a write in candidate (unopposed) and won with 14 votes asked for a hand count.  When the recount was complete, she had 300 votes! This is a major machine error that calls into question the accuracy of the tabulators as well as the ballot marking devices.

Regarding absentee ballots, a change to a smaller sized absentee ballot envelope design created 2 folds in the ballot which made feeding and tabulation of the ballots cumbersome and resulted in very long tabulation times, jams and increased errors.

Security

Tamper resistant stick-on seals and zip ties seals were often missing. This was particularly concerning as we had highlighted this issue in the primary. Seals are there for a reason. Chain of custody for our vote is essential to the security, veracity and authenticity of our count.  If the seals are broken it may suggest foul play.  Slapping another seal on doesn’t necessarily solve the problem.  Many of the poll workers were resistant to applying the seals and or replaced the top ones (once voided or after they were found to be missing) without informing the county or recording this issue. Seals are particularly essential during early voting where you have machines that are unattended overnight.

Here is a picture of a proper seal configuration. Here is one that is not.

Seals on the bottom drawers were removed nightly in the early voting centers so that ballots could be delivered to the counties.  Common sense would suggest that those seals should stay in place such that all the ballots could be counted at the end of the early voting period.  Afterall, the poll tape for the early voting is generated at the end of the early vote period.  If ballots are removed daily during this time, it would make sense to instead generate daily zero poll tapes and end of day poll tapes to ensure accurate tallies.  This is how it is done in other states.

Many observers were concerned about unsecure early voting centers where the public was often roaming into and out of the voting center during the day from other areas in the building. Some locations were set up such that the voter’s choices could be easily viewed from a glass window just behind the voting machines (Ballot marking devices). This would violate our constitution that states all ballots should be cast in secret.

Disenfranchised voters and observers

A voter was thrown out for asking questions or wanting to take pictures and not allowed to vote. An elderly woman was not able to finish her ballot and wasn’t allowed a second chance (to spoil her ballot and start again). She reported that the touchscreen was hard to get a letter to appear and would require a hard press or several tries. This made it difficult to complete a timely ballot if a voter had write-in candidates. Many others experienced the same issue when inputting write-ins.

DMV address update issues, in some cases affecting up to 10% of precinct voters that day, created long lines at the county BOEs and often required the precinct to issue the voter a failsafe ballot.  This potentially affected outcomes of local races and candidates as failsafe ballots don’t include house and school board races but only county and state races.

Observers were often treated poorly and only allowed limited viewing of the area.  Some were banned from observing curbside voting or tabulators.  Witnesses who attended training sessions informed us that the trainers were making inflammatory and defamatory remarks about poll observers.  This is inappropriate and detracts from a substantive training experience.

During the audits and recounts held for local school board races, observers were blocked from viewing anything and public notices for accuracy testing, audits and recounts were not found on the county websites for the voter registration centers.   Poll tapes were not always available or fully visible.

Laws were not followed

• Precincts refused to review ballots for write ins and one county specifically admitted they refused to check them as the law was antiquated. 7-13-1410
• Oaths were still not on file in some counties or were not filed in a timely manner and were not administered to poll managers in some precincts. 7-13-72
• 0 tapes not made available or had obstructed view 7-13-860, 7-13-1110
• Box not open during the election 7-13-840; Box sealed during election 7-13-1750

The above issues underscore the complexity and unreliability of our current system.  The people of South Carolina are losing trust in our elections.  We are concerned about the accuracy, timeliness, and security of our current electronic voting process.

Legislative action is needed to address these issues particularly with respect to the transparency of our elections. Our group will be recommending several measures in the near future to address this.

Here is a video of our amazing poll observer volunteers and their experience.

Here is the summary of the observations from the primary and runoff:

Here is the chart summary of issues with the midterms

SC is lucky to have Phil Evans as a resource for election analysis. In this video he discusses his decade plus history of election irregularities.

He moves through 2012, 2016, and even the 2022 primaries.

This is a must see video.

*Special thanks to Jack for his hard work and dedication to producing this video.

This video summarizes over a decade of work by analyst Phil Evans who shows that irregularities in our elections have been going on for some time.

His in depth discovery of anomalies cannot be explained by random human behavior. What is going on here?

Could it be that paper ballots are more secure and accurate than machines?

In this video our resident “data mamma” Cryste provides an overview of the counties we canvassed and how many issues were cleaned up —or not. Some counties certainly did a better job than others. However, considering the counties were supposed to clean their files 90 days before the primary there is certainly a lot of room for improvement. Especially when you find dead people voting….

In this video SC Safe Elections team leader Laura Scharr discusses the CVR lawsuit and how it will help provide more transparency to the voting process as well as possibly set a precedent for other states in obtaining these valuable records. Why can’t the people have more transparency regarding the counting of their vote?

In this video Colonel Shawn Smith presents shocking information on vulnerabilities with the Election Management systems across America and addresses poll tapes, tabulators, and audits.

Worried about issues with your vote not counting? If you are thinking of staying home and not voting, please don’t! The best way to best the cheat is to show up in large numbers on election day. Here are some tips to help ensure your vote counts.