Updated December 2: article updated to include the Gwinnett County Declaration
Social media users share reports claiming to show a video of an electronic voting company employee, Dominion Voting Systems, manipulating and stealing voting data. However, a Gwinnett County government spokesman and the Georgia Voice Implementation Management System explained that the person in the video is a Dominion technician who simply transfers a data report to another computer so he can read and can use the other computer to filter requested information. A Dominion spokesman said it was not physically possible to use voice tablets with a USB stick to add votes for a candidate.
The video in the posts (here, here, here) shows a man with a lanyard working on a computer and then gets up and moves to the corner of the room to work on a laptop. He clicks on different pages on the laptop and then removes a USB stick from the laptop. He then walks out of the room and apparently still holds the USB stick. The man’s computer screens are vaguely seen in the video and at a distance, so it is not possible to identify what he is working on.
Captions on the video say: ‘Look at a Dominion’s representative at the Gwinnett County polling station, responsible for tabling and certifying results, downloading data to a USB from the election management system, plugging it into a laptop, manipulate the data and palm the USB into. Some captions give the alleged name of the technician, who was discovered by zooming in on a screenshot of the badge on his lanyard in the video.
A Gwinnett County government spokesman told Reuters in an email what the video actually showed: “This is a Dominion technician compiling a data report on the server and storing the report on a Dominion USB thumb drive. and then use a laptop to filter the requested information. . The Dominion servers are not equipped with Excel and provinces are not authorized to install any hardware or software on these systems. ”
Georgia’s voting system implementation manager Gabriel Sterling also exposed the allegation posted on social media on December 1, where he also asked President Donald Trump to “stop inspiring people to commit potential acts of violence” “by unfounded demands of an unabridged election (here).
At 17-year-old point of this Reuters video here, Sterling explains that the Gwinnett County official is relaying the report so he can read it: ‘A 20-year-old techie in Gwinnett County today has death threats and a noose being put out to say that he should be hanged for treason because he transferred a report on groups from an EMS to a land computer so he could read it. ‘
Sterling later explained in a tweet about the snare: ‘I said the snare was on Twitter and said he would commit [sic] betrayal. ”(here)
Reuters was able to identify a tweet of this nature against the person posted on social media.
To a question from Fox News anchor Eric Shawn, which is not necessarily related to this particular incident, about whether a voice worker could drive an inch, stick it in the machine and fill it with votes for Joe Praying or uploading material from foreign sources. , Michael Steel, a spokesman for Dominion Voting Systems, said: ‘No. The tab has no thumbnail access, no USB ports […] It is not physically possible to do what they describe. The machines are what we call air barrier, they are not connected to the internet. ”(Here)
The Electoral Infrastructure Coordinating Committee Executive Committee and the Electoral Infrastructure Coordinating Council said in a statement that election security officials have no evidence that ballots were changed, removed or lost during the November 3 U.S. election, which they did. described as’ the safest in American history. ”(Here)
Republican President Donald Trump has (here) repeatedly made unfounded claims of election fraud.
Reuters has dropped many other claims related to Dominion (here, here, here) and voter fraud (here, here).
VERDICT
Untrue. A spokesman for the Gwinnett County Government and the Georgia Voice Implementation Management System said the man shown in the video was a Dominion technician using the USB to transfer a data report to another transfer computer where he could filter the requested information. A Dominion spokesman said it was not physically possible to use voice tablets with a USB stick to add votes for a candidate.
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