Suspicious? Dominion warned memory cards might need to be prematurely removed from voting machines

Due to vote counting limits, at least 36 memory cards in voter tabulators had to be prematurely removed, raising new concerns about chain of custody and belatedly discovered memory cards.

Dominion Voting Systems issued a warning to Georgia officials prior to the 2020 election that memory cards might need to be removed from vote tabulation machines prior to the end of the election to deal with a limitation in its system, according to records obtained by Just the News through an open-records request.

Pdf Harvey directed officials to follow one of two policies outlined by Dominion "If [they] believe that a single ICP will reach 10,000 ballots cast." One of those was a directive to "Remove the original memory cards from the tabulator that has reached or is nearing maximum capacity" and install new memory cards into it.

Harvey's memo directed officials to refrain from closing the polls on the cards "Until 7:00 p.m. on Election Night" and to "Store the memory cards securely." In attached instructions coming directly from Dominion, the company as part of that protocol directed workers to "Remove the original memory cards and for store [sic] tabulation at the appropriate time." Those instructions do not mention anything about secure storage.

"After my staff and I did the test to confirm that the max was 5,000 ballots, we consulted upper management and made the determination that we would swap out memory cards at 3,000 ballots. We swapped out memory cards 36 times during the early voting period."For security, each set of memory cards was placed in a secure memory card bag that was locked and sealed and then placed in a locked cabinet," the official continued.

"The memory cards were locked in the cabinet until election night after the polls closed at 7pm. At this time the cabinet was unlocked, the seals were broken on each bag and each memory card was uploaded into the Election Management System for tabulation.

In Fayette County, authorities found a memory card with over 2,700 votes on it, while in Floyd County officials found one memory card with 2,600 votes uncounted.

" In addition to the card-removal protocol, Dominion in its Oct. 26 advisory also offered election officials the opportunity to add more tabulators to their election setups rather than deploy new memory cards on original tabulators.
 

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