{"id":40201,"date":"2020-12-06T17:17:23","date_gmt":"2020-12-06T21:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=40201"},"modified":"2020-12-06T17:17:39","modified_gmt":"2020-12-06T21:17:39","slug":"dominion-voting-machines-in-michigan-will-be-subjected-to-an-forensic-audit-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=40201","title":{"rendered":"Dominion Voting Machines in Michigan Will Be Subjected to an Forensic Audit &#8212; Judge"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Judge Allows Forensic Audit Of Dominion Voting Machines In Michigan<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->by Jack Phillips<br \/>\nThe Epoch Times<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump\u2019s legal team began a forensic analysis of Dominion voting machines in Michigan after a judge on Friday permitted the examination.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cOur team is going to be able to go in this morning at about 8:30 [a.m.] and will be there for about eight hours to conduct that forensic examination and we\u2019ll have the results in about 48 hours, and that\u2019ll tell us a lot about these machines,\u201d attorney\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-jenna-ellis\">Jenna Ellis<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TeamTrump\/status\/1335589049206263815\">told<\/a>\u00a0Fox News on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cA judge actually granted our team access \u2026 to conduct a forensic audit,\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Ellis\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TeamTrump\/status\/1335589049206263815\">added<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1335648324112748550&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fpolitical%2Fjudge-allows-forensic-audit-dominion-voting-machines-michigan&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1335648324112748550\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"ad__wrapper-element\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Ellis was referring to a ruling from a judge in\u00a0Antrim County, Michigan, who authorized the audit of\u00a022 Dominion Voting Systems machines, said Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not clear\u00a0which of the several election lawsuits the order originated from.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/Epoch-Times-Jenna-Ellis-510A2830-700x420.jpg?itok=r3PrOKKU\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/Epoch-Times-Jenna-Ellis-510A2830-700x420.jpg?itok=r3PrOKKU\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/Epoch-Times-Jenna-Ellis-510A2830-700x420.jpg?itok=FI6EdGm8 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1280px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/Epoch-Times-Jenna-Ellis-510A2830-700x420.jpg?itok=FI6EdGm8 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 480px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/Epoch-Times-Jenna-Ellis-510A2830-700x420.jpg?itok=FI6EdGm8 1x, https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/Epoch-Times-Jenna-Ellis-510A2830-700x420.jpg?itok=FI6EdGm8 2x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1024px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/Epoch-Times-Jenna-Ellis-510A2830-700x420.jpg?itok=FI6EdGm8 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 768px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/Epoch-Times-Jenna-Ellis-510A2830-700x420.jpg?itok=r3PrOKKU 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/Epoch-Times-Jenna-Ellis-510A2830-700x420.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"040c04a1-3c2f-4d00-8c98-fa6dd0584e84\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Later, Antrim County spokesperson Jeremy Scott\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2020\/12\/05\/giuliani-claims-win-antrim-judge-pot-proposal-order\/3839075001\/\">told<\/a>\u00a0the Detroit Free Press that\u00a0<strong>forensic images will be taken from voting machines used during the Nov. 3 election<\/strong>. Judge Kevin Elsenheimer issued the order regarding a challenge from voter William Bailey, who filed a lawsuit alleging that ballots were damaged in a recounting of ballots in a marijuana proposal that narrowly passed,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-legal-team-michigan-antrim-county-judge-order-dominion-machines\">reported<\/a>\u00a0Fox News.\u00a0Elsenheimer\u2019s order doesn\u2019t mention the presidential race, and it\u2019s not yet clear if the order allows Trump\u2019s team to examine the machines.<\/p>\n<p>The Michigan GOP last month noted that voting machines in Antrim County\u00a0<strong>incorrectly switched 6,000 votes from Trump to Joe Biden<\/strong>. The Secretary of State\u2019s office said it was due to a technical error and non-updated software, adding that the issue was later corrected.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ellis, in the Fox News interview on Sunday, cast doubt on the Secretary of State\u2019s claims, saying that it was \u201can unexplained and so-called \u2018glitch.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/Dominion-Voting-Systems-600x400.jpg?itok=RXbD6tsd\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/Dominion-Voting-Systems-600x400.jpg?itok=RXbD6tsd\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/Dominion-Voting-Systems-600x400.jpg?itok=mySsxxmz 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1280px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/Dominion-Voting-Systems-600x400.jpg?itok=mySsxxmz 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 480px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/Dominion-Voting-Systems-600x400.jpg?itok=mySsxxmz 1x, https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/Dominion-Voting-Systems-600x400.jpg?itok=mySsxxmz 2x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1024px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/Dominion-Voting-Systems-600x400.jpg?itok=mySsxxmz 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 768px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/Dominion-Voting-Systems-600x400.jpg?itok=RXbD6tsd 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/Dominion-Voting-Systems-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"0b0cc20f-efcb-4dde-871b-895fa0b9cfc1\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>(L-R) President and CEO of Election Systems &amp; Software Tom Burt, President and CEO of Dominion Voting Systems John Poulos, President and CEO of Hart InterCivic Julie Mathis testify during a hearing before the House Administration Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, Jan. 9, 2020. (Alex Wong\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Elsenheimer\u2019s order said that Antrim County needs to\u00a0\u201cmaintain, preserve and protect all records in its possession used to tabulate votes in Antrim County, to not turn on the Dominion tabulator in its possession and to not connect the Dominion tabulator in its possession to the internet,\u201d as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2020\/12\/05\/antrim-co-judge-orders-preservation-tabulators-election-materials\/3841276001\/\">reported<\/a>\u00a0by the Detroit News.<\/p>\n<p>Jake Rollow, a spokesman for Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, told the Detroit News that the judge\u2019s order is not clear.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cHowever, what we know, and has been previously explained on numerous occasions, is that a human error by the Antrim County Clerk prompted results to be reported incorrectly,\u201d said Rollow to the publication.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReporting errors are common, have no impact on tabulation, and are always caught and corrected in the county canvass if not before, as was the case in Antrim County.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Dominion Voting Machines, in numerous statements, has vigorously denied that its machines can switch votes from one candidate to another and has also denied ties to other vote-tabulation software companies or foreign governments.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Epoch Times has reached out to the Michigan Secretary of State\u2019s office and Antrim County after Ellis\u2019s Fox News interview.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/judge-allows-forensic-audit-dominion-voting-machines-michigan\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/judge-allows-forensic-audit-dominion-voting-machines-michigan<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judge Allows Forensic Audit Of Dominion Voting Machines In Michigan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}