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Dominion contractor Melissa Carone sits down for an interview in Detroit, Mich., on Nov. 27, 2020. (Bowen Xiao\/The Epoch Times)<\/p><\/div>\n
BY ISABEL VAN BRUGEN
\nThe Epoch Times<\/p>\n
A\u00a0Dominion<\/a>\u00a0Voting Systems contractor who worked at Detroit\u2019s TCF Center on Election Day testified before the\u00a0Michigan<\/a>\u00a0House Oversight Committee on Dec. 2 that she witnessed at least 30,000\u00a0ballots<\/a>\u00a0being counted numerous times in Dominion machines.<\/p>\n Melissa Carone, a freelance IT worker who assisted Dominion at Detroit\u2019s ballot-counting site from 6:15 a.m. on Nov. 3 to 4 a.m. the next day, before returning later for several more hours on Nov. 4, said in\u00a0an affidavit<\/a>\u00a0on Nov. 10 that she \u201cwitnessed nothing but fraudulent actions take place.\u201d<\/p>\n The affidavit was submitted as a supplement to a lawsuit in Michigan.<\/p>\n \u201cI observed numerous employees, city workers, running batches of ballots through the tabulators countless times, without discarding them first,\u201d Carone said Wednesday, responding to a question from President Donald Trump\u2019s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani about what she observed while working at the center.<\/p>\n Carone said that the tabulating machines would jam two to three times an hour. She explained that the proper way to scan ballots when there\u2019s a paper jam is to reset the count on the machine, or in other words discard the count, and rescan all of them with the jammed paper on top.<\/p>\n \u201cInstead of discarding, they were just rescanning, rescanning, rescanning,\u201d Carone said. \u201cCounting ballots nine to 10 times.\u201d<\/p>\n Carone noted that there were approximately 22 to 24 tabulating machines where she was working, and that she observed the malpractice \u201cthousands of times\u201d while she was at the site.<\/p>\n A worker with the Detroit Department of Elections celebrates after hearing the nearly final number of 167,000 absentee ballots that were counted being announced over the loudspeaker at the Central Counting Board in the TCF Center in Detroit on Nov. 4, 2020. (Elaine Cromie\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n She explained that ballots were to be tabulated in batches of 50. However, as she observed poll workers scanning ballots more than once, the number of tabulated ballots on some machines reached figures in the hundreds.<\/p>\n Carone alleged that when she alerted her manager Nick Ikonomakis about the issue, he dismissed her concerns.<\/p>\n \u201cI called my manager to a specific tabulating machine and I showed him a number on it that was over 500. They shouldn\u2019t be over 50\u2014ballots come in batches of 50. I said that we have a severe problem here Nick,\u201d Carone explained.<\/p>\n \u201cHe [Nick] said, \u2018Melissa I don\u2019t want to hear that we have a problem, we are here to assist with IT, we are not here to run their election,\u2019 and at that point I was really frustrated and upset, I could tell what was going on,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat was going on?\u201d asked Giuliani.<\/p>\n \u201cHe was in on it. They were cheating. It was very, very apparent,\u201d Carone replied. \u201cIt was apparent that he was in on it. When he caught on to me knowing that he was in on it, he just wanted nothing to do with me.\u201d<\/p>\n When questioned why more people haven\u2019t come forward with allegations that they witnessed fraudulent actions at the Detroit ballot-count site, Carone said that her life has been destroyed.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ll tell you why,\u201d she said. \u201cMy life has been destroyed because of this. I\u2019ve lost family, I\u2019ve lost friends, I\u2019ve been threatened, my kids have been threatened, I\u2019ve had to move, I\u2019ve had to change my phone number, I\u2019ve had to get rid of social media\u2014nobody wants to come forward. I can\u2019t even get an actual job any more, because Democrats like to ruin your lives. That\u2019s why.\u201d<\/p>\n A second witness, a Republican poll challenger, echoed Carone\u2019s claims, saying she noticed that some workers at Detroit\u2019s TCF Center appeared not to know what to do when ballots were jammed. She asserted that workers in some cases wouldn\u2019t discard the ballots prior to the problem ballot, therefore she saw numbers at 300 to 400 when they were tabulated in batches of 50.<\/p>\n \u201cI could tell most of these people didn\u2019t have enough training, and they were just mindlessly doing their job,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n \u201cThis election I will say, these Democrats took every avenue possible to commit fraud in this election, and what I saw on Nov. 3 and Nov. 4 was over 20 counts of fraud taking place right in front of my face,\u201d Carone added.<\/p>\n![\"Epoch](\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2020\/12\/01\/Michigan-1200x688.jpg\")
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