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Pennsylvania Poll Watcher testifies he observed Election Day Irregularities, Including 47 Missing USB Cards

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A Pennsylvania poll watcher testified to a Senate GOP Policy Committee hearing in Gettysburg Wednesday that he witnessed numerous Election Day irregularities.

Gregory Stenstrom, a former commanding officer in the Navy and a forensic computer scientist with expertise on security and fraud issues, alleged that 47 USB cards used during the Nov. 3 election have gone missing and estimated that as many as 120,000 votes cast in the election should be questioned.

“I personally observed USB cards being uploaded to voting machines by the voting machine warehouse supervisor on multiple occasions. This person is not being observed, he’s not a part of the process that I can see, and he is walking in with baggies of USBs.”

Gregory Stenstrom, a former commanding officer in the Navy and a forensic computer scientist

Stenstrom told the committee that he witnessed a number of violations during his time working as a poll water in Delaware County, PA, all of which he said broke rules defined by the Delaware County Board of Elections and the election process review, as reported.

“In all cases the chain of custody was broken,” Strenstrom said. “It was broken for the mail-in ballots, the drop-box ballots, the Election Day USB card flash drives. In all cases they didn’t follow any of the procedures defined by the Board of Delaware County of Elections.”

Strenstrom said in his testimony that he witnessed a warehouse supervisor upload data from USB cards on to voting machines without being observed by a poll watcher, which he said he saw happening at least 24 times.

“I personally observed USB cards being uploaded to voting machines by the voting machine warehouse supervisor on multiple occasions,” Stenstrom testified. “This person is not being observed, he’s not a part of the process that I can see, and he is walking in with baggies of USBs.”

Strenstrom notified law enforcement of his observations, but no action was taken.

“I literally begged multiple law enforcement agencies to go get the forensic evidence from the computers. It’s a simple process. It wouldn’t have taken more than an hour to image all 5 machines. That was never done despite my objections and that was three weeks ago.”

Stenstrom said he was told by an attorney that it’s normal for several USB cards to be left in voting machines and then brought back by the warehouse manager for input into tally systems. When he asked U.S. Attorney General William McSwain and law enforcement officers, he was told it is unusual for more than two drives to be left in voting machines.

“As a computer scientist, an American and a patriot, it doesn’t matter who those votes were for. It was shocking to me that that could even happen,” Strenstrom said. “There is no cure for this, no remedy for this. I don’t believe as a citizen and an observer to this, anyone can certify this with a good conscience.”

Pennsylvania certified its election results on Tuesday, declaring Joe Biden the winner of Pennsylvania’s 20 electoral votes.

The hearing was arranged the next day to address allegations of possible voter fraud following the election.

President Trump was initially planning to attend Wednesday’s hearing, but instead met with his legal advisors in Washington. Trump’s attorney, Rudy Giuliani, appeared at the hearing.

“Your election – because of these two counties, and maybe one other – is a sham,” Giuliani said.

He added that he knew “crooks”, and accused election officials of deliberately rigging the election.

Giuliani said that the type of election irregularities witnesses described in Pennsylvania also occurred in other battleground states.

“What we’re going to describe to you, with these witnesses, happened in roughly the same way in Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada, and Georgia—the primary device was mail-in ballots.”

Giuliani said he does not want to disenfranchise anyone.

“We want to disqualify 672,000 votes so 72 million people are not disenfranchised, because that’s what happened by the cheating that went on here,” Giuliani said.

Trump’s legal battle in Pennsylvania will continue. A letter was filed with the Third Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday, calling for oral arguments as the campaign fights against a dismissal of their case challenging Pennsylvania’s certification of votes.

You can follow Annaliese Levy on Twitter @AnnalieseLevy

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RFK Jr. announces lifelong Democrat, advocate of left-leaning causes, CA native as running mate

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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced Tuesday that attorney and tech entrepreneur Nicole Shanahan will be his vice presidential running mate in the upcoming election. The Independent candidate announced his choice for the 38-year-old Oakland, California native by praising her insight into “how Big Tech uses AI to manipulate the public,” her athletic ability, and willingness to be a “partner” in a number of policy areas, including on securing the border.

Fox News writes that Shanahan is a philanthropist with a long history of donating to Democrat and left-leaning causes, including supporting President Biden in his 2020 election bid before switching to Kennedy when he launched his own run for the Democrat nomination last year.

She is the founder and president of Bia-Echo Foundation, a private firm that describes its mission as focused on “new frontiers in reproductive longevity & equality, criminal justice reform and a healthy & livable planet.”

Fox News reports Shanahan initially dropped her support for Kennedy after he decided to run as an independent, but later got behind him again by giving $4 million to the super PAC that boosted his candidacy with a John F. Kennedy-themed campaign ad that ran during the Super Bowl in February.

Shanahan also previously donated to Democrat presidential candidates Marianne Williamson and Pete Buttigieg during the 2020 presidential race, and threw more than $150,000 behind progressive Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon’s 2020 election bid.

Shanahan, a life-long Democrat, told the crowd that she was leaving the party.

“The Democratic Party is supposed to be the party of compassion. It is supposed to be the party of free speech, and most importantly, the party of the middle class and the American dream,” Shanahan said.

“While I know many Democrats still abide by those values…I do believe they’ve lost their way in their leadership,” she continued.

And she urged “disillusioned” Democrats and Republicans to support Kennedy’s independent White House bid.

 

 

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