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It’s Happening: Voting Machines Down in Several Districts in Pennsylvania Due to “Votes Getting Flipped”

Election Day got off to a rough start in several districts in Northampton County, Pennsylvania.

Lehigh Valley News has reported several voting machines in multiple districts across Northampton County are down due to “votes getting flipped and not recording properly.”

Voting machines went down in Palmer Township, Bethany Wesleyan Church in Lehigh Township, College Hill Presbyterian Church in Easton, and at the Allen Township Fire Hall.

The voting machines only flipped votes in the retention race between Judge Jack Panella and Judge Victor Stabile for the Pennsylvania Superior Court.

In a press release, the Northampton County Elections Office stated: “It appears that when a voter selects a “Yes” or a “No” for one of the candidates for retention to the Pennsylvania Superior Court, the selection is recorded on the paper ballot and on the machine for the other candidate.”

The statement continued, “The issue is limited to the retention of Superior Court Judges and is only an issue when recording the votes for when a voter selected a “Yes” for one candidate and a “No” for another candidate.”

Read the full press release from the Northampton County Elections Office :

Per Lehigh Valley News:

Election Day got off to a rough start in the Lehigh Valley, with major problems at multiple districts across Northampton County.

Voters were filling out paper ballots — seemingly because some machines were not being used due to a flaw with the recording of votes for one race.

A statement from the county said the issue affected the votes for retention to the Pennsylvania Superior Court, affecting Judge Jack Panella and Judge Victor P. Stabile.

Some of the votes were getting flipped and not recorded properly, according to the county.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/11/its-happening-voting-machines-down-several-districts-pennsylvania/

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Pennsylvania appear to be using

ExpressVote XLvoting machines and counties are now required to publicly report voting machine malfunctions

Pa. will track voting machine malfunctions under new settlement with election security groups

Department of State reaches agreement after advocates raised concerns in 2019 with a new voting machine that glitched and compromised voter privacy in its first year.

By Carter Walker

August 18, 2023

Thanks to a new settlement between Pennsylvania and a coalition of election security groups, the commonwealth’s Department of State will soon require counties to publicly report voting machine malfunctions — a measure that election experts say could be the first of its kind.

Counties are still awaiting details on what the program — which begins with this November’s municipal election — will look like. But experts saythe new reports, which must be posted publicly, could present a unique opportunity to improve efficiency while combating the kind of election misinformation that has become routine in recent cycles.

The settlement caps a longstanding lawsuit, in which the election groups sued the state after a few counties adopted new voting machines that the groups argued were flawed.

“As fringe conspiracy theories and false claims about election results aboundin our civil discourse, this case is a win-win for voters and for election officials who wish to protect both the transparency and the credibility of election results,” said Ben-Zion Ptashnik, president of the bipartisan National Election Defense Coalition, one of the plaintiffs. “It allows future elections to be safer from manipulations, and inoculates election technology from those wishing to undermine the credibility of our democratic institutions.”

Along with having the state direct counties to report malfunctions, the settlement agreement requires the department to give the public better opportunities to witness its voting equipment examination process and requires that the three counties using the voting machine, called the ExpressVote XL, upgrade to its latest software.

Along with the National Election Defense Coalition, the groups involved in the suit against the Department of State include the Pennsylvania-based Citizens for Better Elections, the election equality nonprofit Free Speech for People, and a cohort of several Pennsylvania voters.

Their dispute with Pennsylvania began in July 2019, following Philadelphia’s controversial selection of the ExpressVote XL as its voting system of choice.

https://www.votebeat.org/pennsylvania/2023/8/18/23837562/voting-machine-malfunction-reports-public-database-election-lawsuit/

https://www.essvote.com/about/

JUST IN - U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary releases a report about the censorship industrial complex: "DHS, GEC, Stanford University worked together to censor Americans."

Executive SummaryFirst 3 paragraphs

Following the 2016 presidential election, a sensationalized narrative emerged that foreign

“disinformation” affected the integrity of the election. These claims, fueled by left-wing election

denialism about the legitimacy of President Trump’s victory, sparked a new focus on the role of

social media platforms in spreading such information.1 “Disinformation” think tanks and

“experts,” government task forces, and university centers were formed, all to study and combat

the alleged rise in alleged mis- and disinformation. As the House Committee on the Judiciary and

the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government have shown

previously, these efforts to combat so-called foreign influence and misinformation quickly

mutated to include domestic—that is, American—speech.2

The First Amendment to the Constitution rightly limits the government’s role in

monitoring and censoring Americans’ speech, but these disinformation researchers (often

funded, at least in part, by taxpayer dollars) were not strictly bound by these constitutional

guardrails. What the federal government could not do directly, it effectively outsourced to the

newly emerging censorship-industrial complex.

Enter the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP), a consortium of “disinformation”

academics led by Stanford University’s Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO) that worked directly

with the Department of Homeland Security and the Global Engagement Center, a multi-agency

entity housed within the State Department, to monitor and censor Americans’ online speech in

advance of the 2020 presidential election. Created in the summer of 2020 “at the request” of the

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA),3 the EIP provided a way for the

federal government to launder its censorship activities in hopes of bypassing both the First

Amendment and public scrutiny.

https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/EIP_Jira_Ticket_Staff_Report_11-6-23_Clean.pdf

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=The Election Integrity Partnership - EIP

• EIP created “at the request” of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)

in the summer of 2020, the EIP provided a way for the federal government to launder its censorship

activities in hopes of bypassing both the First Amendment and public scrutiny.

The US federal government outsourced the censorship of Americans' speech to -

• Stanford University’s Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO) (project leader) who worked directly with

• The Department of Homeland Security

• The Global Engagement Center, a multi-agency entity housed within the State Department

Dig Call

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This interim staff report details the federal government’s heavy-handed involvement in

the creation and operation of ==the EIP, which facilitated the censorship of Americans’ political

speech in the weeks and months leading up to the 2020 election.==

This report also publicly reveals for the first time ==secret “misinformation” reports from the EIP’s centralized reporting system, previously accessible only to select parties, including federal agencies, universities, and Big

Tech.==

The Committee and Select Subcommittee obtained these nonpublic reports from Stanford

University only under the threat of contempt of Congress. ==These reports of alleged mis- and

disinformation were used to censor Americans engaged in core political speech in the lead up to the 2020 election.==

Who was being censored?

 President Donald J. Trump

 Senator Thom Tillis

 Speaker Newt Gingrich

 Governor Mike Huckabee

 Congressman Thomas Massie

 Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor

Greene

 Newsmax

 The Babylon Bee

 Sean Hannity

 Mollie Hemingway

 Harmeet Dhillon

 Charlie Kirk

 Candace Owens

 Jack Posobiec

 Tom Fitton

 James O’Keefe

 Benny Johnson

 Michelle Malkin

 Sean Davis

 Dave Rubin

 Paul Sperry

 Tracy Beanz

 Chanel Rion

 An untold number of everyday Americans of all political affiliations