The Problem Isn’t Dominion’s Machines, It’s Their People
When the US is so politically divided, there needs to be a neutral player who has the country’s trust. It’s not Dominion.
Was the election riddled with fraud? The jury is still out but I think the answer is a clear yes.
An gang of partisan politicians, bureaucrats and activists flooded the country with millions of untraced ballots, relaxed the standards used to check the ballots, blocked observers, defied court orders and did vote counts in the middle of the night that would make a third-world dictator blush.
When politics corrupts the electoral process this badly, we need a trusted third party to tally the votes more than ever. Unfortunately, Dominion Voting Systems isn’t it.
Not even close.
Here’s why.
For this story, I’m not going to address the software and Dominion’s connections to Smartmatic and its ties to Hugo Chavez.
I already wrote about this at length in a story here.
Instead, let’s focus on Dominion’s machines, and the people around them.
Back in 2008, Prof. Andrew Appel at Princeton showed the world how easily a voting machine could be hacked.
Within a few minutes and using just a screwdriver, he popped the door off the ballot machine and replaced one chip with another. It was that quick and easy.
When it’s that simple to tamper with a voting machine, of which there are thousands around the country, then the real layer of security at a voting precinct is not the expensive technology — it’s the people around it.
And this is where we have a problem. It should be clear to everyone by now that many voting precincts are run by partisan ideologues who don’t give a damn about fair counts.
They don’t just impede observers, they cheer when they’re strong-armed out of the room. This doesn’t happen in any other modern democracy. And it didn’t use to happen in America.
But this is where we aren today. America’s electoral process has become a third-world operation and everyone knows it.
So it’s a bad situation. But it’s a bad situation made a lot worse because of who is supplying the machines. Namely, the people from Dominion.
They are not apolitical professionals. They are people like Eric Coomer, the company’s director of strategy and security.
Let’s first point out how senior this guy is. Here he is in January this year, the man with glasses sitting just behind the right shoulder of CEO John Poulos during Congressional hearings in Washington DC.
He looks normal. But now here’s Coomer talking on a message board for Antifa members just before the election.
“Don’t worry about the election; Trump’s not gonna win. I made f***ing sure of that!”
We know this thanks to Joe Oltmann, an investigator who was studying Antifa at the time. He didn’t know who Coomer was then. He first heard of Coomer and Dominion after the election, which made him go back and check his notes.
Then he found more, which you can view over on Joe’s account at Parler.
(Joe was kicked off Twitter. It’s not unusual anymore).
Here’s an Antifa statement that Coomer reposted on his account in June, at the same time he was traveling the country checking on the integrity of voting machines.
Remember, Coomer is a senior executive at Dominion. That was him with the CEO testifying to Congress.
I wish I could say Coomer was an exception at Dominion, but I can’t.
Let’s discuss Penelope Starr, the company’s manager of communications. First, there’s her work history. She was with the Clinton Foundation and then she was a VP at the consultancy Teneo, whose founder Declan Kelly is a big money man for Clinton’s campaigns.
Okay, that’s just her resume before Dominion. What matters is what she does when at the company handling ballots, right?
This is Starr in 2017 organizing a protest against Trump in Washiington.
A reporter approached her at the protest and wrote the following:
“You know shit’s bad when the Canadians are here,” Canadian Women’s March co-organizer Penelope Chester Starr yelled into what I thought was a megaphone (it wasn’t, she could just really holler). Canadian women were mad as hell alongside their American sisters — and we were there to get the work done.
As you can see, Starr is very vocal about her politics. She was a Canadian organizer for the Women’s March Against Trump in 2017 and she works for left-wing groups including We Are MARCH ON and Future Coalition.
There is little doubt that Dominion is aware that their communications manager, the face of their company on social media, is fiercely opposed to a president and his supporters at the same their company is responsible for tallying their votes.
I wanted to find out more about Dominion but the word had clearly gone out, and their employees’ social media profiles had all been scrubbed clean.
But one more name popped up anyway.
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A contractor named Melissa Carone hired by Dominion to help with the election in Detroit saw some troubling things during the count, and swore an affidavit under oath. She mentions Nick.
“I confronted my manager, Nick Ikonomakis saying how big of a problem this was. Nick told me he didn’t want to hear that we have a big problem. He told me we are here to do assist with IT work, not to run their election.”
These are the people providing the voting machines. And the voting machines are only as secure as the people who handle them.
For an idea of how easily they, or anyone else, could interfere with the vote, let’s see what Coomer said in 2016.
At a meeting with election officials, Coomer was asked if someone could alter the data collected by Dominion’s machines.
“Yes, if they have access,” he admitted.
When asked who had access, he said: “Vendors, election officials, and others who need to be granted access.”
How reassuring. Think about the chaotic scenes we’ve witnesses at voting precincts. The partisan politicians and bureaucrats who call half the country Nazis. The officials who doxx their rival’s children.
Now imagine them with access to a voting machine when the observers are gone and it’s 3am. And imagine the Antifa supporter Eric Coomer who vowed to prevent Trump’s election. Would he show them how to access these machines?
We don’t have to imagine too hard. We know how far they would go.
Dominion can’t be trusted. It’s employees can’t be trusted. The officials running ballot counts in the middle of the night can’t trusted.
We can’t trust the vote.
