The Cochise County Board of Supervisors asked the Department of Justice (DOJ) to provide certain information that would verify the integrity of the 2022 election.
In a letter submitted last week to Tulsi Gabbard, director of National Intelligence, the board of supervisors asked for information concerning the accreditation of Voting System Test Laboratories, certification of the ES&S electronic voting systems, and use of engineering change orders during the 2022 election.
“The Board of Supervisors has a constitutional and statutory obligation to ensure compliance with election law. We therefore request your office’s assistance in providing clarification on these matters,” stated the letter, written by Chairman Frank Antenori.
The supervisors voted to send the letter during their meeting last week Tuesday. Along with the letter draft, the action item to send the letter included a copy of Gabbard’s early February letter to the Select Committee on Intelligence leadership. The letter was a defense of her presence at the FBI search of the Fulton County clerk of court’s office in Georgia earlier this year.
That letter also briefly touched on the concerns over voting machines. Gabbard reiterated her position that U.S. electronic voting systems remain vulnerable to exploitation and therefore vote manipulation. She alluded to “information and intelligence” to justify her belief that the systems pose a threat to elections.
Gabbard broached the issue of voting machines as a threat to election integrity in a Cabinet meeting last April. She indicated there was sufficient evidence to justify the elimination of voting machines in favor of paper ballots — a move desired by President Donald Trump.
“We have evidence of how these electronic voting systems have been vulnerable to hackers for a very long time and vulnerable to exploitation to manipulate the results of the votes being cast, which further drives forward your mandate to bring about paper ballots across the country so that voters can have faith in the integrity of our elections,” said Gabbard at that meeting.
The board alleged the existence of a problem in the federal Election Assistance Commission’s (EAC) interpretation of accreditation requirements for voting systems. The EAC maintains that voting systems enjoy indefinite accreditation unless formally revoked. The board argued the plain text of the statue does not allow for that, but instead requires biennial renewals.
The board asked Gabbard’s office to investigate the lawfulness of the EAC Voting System Test Laboratories accreditation practices, validity of certifications issued for ES&S voting systems and associated engineering change orders, and the proper interpretation of federal and state requirements for voter system compliance and ballot tabulation.
The board’s ongoing concerns with voting systems has deep ties to their controversial delay of the 2022 election results. The supervisors’ hesitance to certify the election results was based on integrity concerns. Their delay resulted in the investigations and prosecutions of two individuals: former board member Peggy Judd and current board member Tom Crosby. Cochise County’s own attorney colluded with Attorney General Kris Mayes and Secretary of state Adrian Fontes to prosecute Judd and Crosby.
Those unaddressed concerns from the 2022 election, along with Gabbard’s position on the matter, has the board contemplating the elimination of tabulation machines from upcoming elections altogether.
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