Delco To Notify And Cure Mail-in Ballots — The Delaware County (Pa) Board of Elections, this morning, Oct. 25, unanimously approved to inform voters of problems with their mail-in or dropped off ballots and allow them to be fixed.
They described this as “notify and cure”.
Sounds reasonable but maybe this wasn’t the year to do it, considering the reputation the county got two years ago.
Also Director of Election Operation James P. Allen said the solar powered cameras monitoring the county’s 40 or so dropboxes work all night. He said there have been power failures at some locations but they have been quickly fixed. In some cases, the solar power was replaced with hardwire.
Among the citizens speaking were whistleblowers Leah Hoopes and Gregory Stenstrom, the authors of The Parallel Election, which describes some of what occurred in the county in November 2020.
They said they still have two court cases pending regarding election issues and that due to their whistleblowing they have been subject to smears and lies.
Colleen Vogel (phonetic spelling) who has a back ground in computer tech said (30:20 mark in video) that when she observed the logic and accuracy testing of the machines, the procedure was improperly followed according to the guidelines for the testing. She asked the board to address this twice but never got an answer.
She also said that according to guidelines the machines’ software and firmware needed to have been updated. She asked if they had the maintenance certificates for patching the many machines, and asked that, if so, it be publicized as the certificates are the first step in developing trust in information technology.
Allen said they didn’t do updates because the machines are on closed networks and nobody ever made any requests.
Can’t say that was the most comforting answer.
Ms. Vogel was rather quickly cut off when she pressed things (33:40)
In other matters, it was revealed that 60,000 mail-in ballots were sent out in Delaware County and about 30 percent have been returned. Also mandatory retraining for Judges of Election was approved if the judges had not been retrained since 2020.
The meeting can be watched below.