And here’s Arizona’s Senate Audit confirming Dominion’s best friend sharpie,
Prior to the 2020 Insurrection Maricopa County Elections Director Kelly Dixon demanded that poll workers give ballpoint pens to voters prior to elections, but on Election Day “NEED TO USE SHARPIES.” https://t.co/sxzTIu4Fk6
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The speaker discusses the issue of bleed through on ballots and its potential impact on voting. They mention that if the bubbles on the ballot bleed through, it can cause an overvote or result in voting for a different candidate than intended. They refer to a newsletter from Maricopa County stating that they use VoteSecure paper, which is thick and has a special coating to prevent bleed through. However, the speaker points out that they have observed bleed through on actual ballots, which raises concerns. They mention the need for further analysis to determine the extent of the impact on votes. The second speaker seeks clarification and confirms that Maricopa County's newsletter stated they only use secure paper that does not allow bleed through. The first speaker affirms this and adds that paper experts have confirmed the thickness of the paper should prevent bleed through, but they have observed thin paper stock being used on Election Day.
Speaker 0: What happens to these ballots? What's the the if this happens, if there's, if they're off, the reading off, then what's the result? How is this dealt with in an election? So if you actually go to the next exhibit, we'll talk through that here. So if they're offset, what it means is when if it bleeds through, it can potentially cause an overvote.
It can potentially caused you to vote for someone that you intend to vote for and so forth. Because the bleed of one side's bubble can go, of course, to the other side and get within the area would be categorized the other bubble? Now specifically, we should not have had problems with bleed through. If you scroll down a little bit farther and zoom in where we've got the red box, This is actually a newsletter that was put out by Maricopa County that talks about the paper types that are utilized. And specifically, they state that they use VoteSecure paper.
Now Evote Secure Paper is utilized. It's actually a thick paper. It has a special coating on it that helps make sure there isn't bleed through. And so it would help ensure that bleed through wouldn't be a problem even if things happen to be not perfectly calibrated. But if you scroll down to the next page, we I'll give you an example of an actual ballot where you can see the bleed through that goes through.
And you can see that the bleed through is actually very, very close to where votes are cast. Now as part of additional analysis, we're going to try to get a better idea as to when or if this did impact votes and did impact values. It does require additional analysis in here. But, specifically, this is an indication of problems that could cause an overvote situation Or could cause for us to be cast in in a for a different candidate than intended.
Speaker 1: So let me clarify something. I wanna make sure I get straight? Because this was an issue early on right after the election. So Maricopa County, you're saying on their website, said that they only use secure paper, which does not allow for bleed through.
Speaker 0: Correct.
Speaker 1: Correct?
Speaker 0: Correct. This is actually a newsletter from them, but yes.
Speaker 1: Okay. Their newsletter. And so if that is correct, there is no way there would be bleed through as what we're seeing on the ballots.
Speaker 0: Yes. Based on our discussions with paper experts, They specifically state that that paper is thick enough that it wouldn't bleed through, and we are seeing a lot of very thin paper stock being utilized, especially on Election Day.
Speaker 1: Okay. Was this
