Thousands of B****ts Were Scanned Numerous Times in D******n Machines: Contractor Witness
Dec 3, 2020 10:28:06 #
BY ISABEL VAN BRUGEN December 3, 2020 Updated: December 3, 2020
A D******n V****g Systems contractor who worked at Detroit’s TCF Center on E******n Day testified before the Michigan House Oversight Committee on Dec. 2 that she witnessed at least 30,000 b****ts being counted numerous times in D******n machines.
Melissa Carone, a freelance IT worker who assisted D******n at Detroit’s b****t-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 an affidavit on Nov. 10 that she “witnessed nothing but fraudulent actions take place.”
The affidavit was submitted as a supplement to a lawsuit in Michigan.
“I observed numerous employees, city workers, running batches of b****ts through the tabulators countless times, without discarding them first,” Carone said Wednesday, responding to a question from President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani about what she observed while working at the center.
Carone said that the tabulating machines would jam two to three times an hour. She explained that the proper way to scan b****ts when there’s 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.
“Instead of discarding, they were just rescanning, rescanning, rescanning,” Carone said. “Counting b****ts nine to 10 times.”
Carone noted that there were approximately 22 to 24 tabulating machines where she was working, and that she observed the malpractice “thousands of times” while she was at the site.
A worker with the Detroit Department of E******ns celebrates after hearing the nearly final number of 167,000 absentee b****ts that were counted is announced over the loudspeaker at the Central Counting Board in the TCF Center in Detroit on Nov. 4, 2020. (Elaine Cromie/Getty Images)
She explained that b****ts were to be tabulated in batches of 50. However, as she observed poll workers scanning b****ts more than once, the number of tabulated b****ts on some machines reached figures in the hundreds.
Carone alleged that when she alerted her manager Nick Ikonomakis about the issue, he dismissed her concerns.
“I called my manager to a specific tabulating machine and I showed him a number on it that was over 500. They shouldn’t be over 50—b****ts come in batches of 50. I said that we have a severe problem here Nick,” Carone explained.
“He [Nick] said, ‘Melissa I don’t want to hear that we have a problem, we are here to assist with IT, we are not here to run their e******n,’ and at that point I was really frustrated and upset, I could tell what was going on,” she said.
“What was going on?” asked Giuliani.
“He was in on it. They were c***ting. It was very, very apparent,” Carone replied. “It 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.”
When questioned why more people haven’t come forward with allegations that they witnessed fraudulent actions at the Detroit b****t-count site, Carone said that her life has been destroyed.
“I’ll tell you why,” she said. “My life has been destroyed because of this. I’ve lost family, I’ve lost friends, I’ve been threatened, my kids have been threatened, I’ve had to move, I’ve had to change my phone number, I’ve had to get rid of social media—nobody wants to come forward. I can’t even get an actual job any more, because Democrats like to ruin your lives. That’s why.”
A second witness, a Republican poll challenger, echoed Carone’s claims, saying she noticed that some workers at Detroit’s TCF Center appeared not to know what to do when b****ts were jammed. She asserted that workers in some cases wouldn’t discard the b****ts prior to the problem b****t, therefore she saw numbers at 300 to 400 when they were tabulated in batches of 50.
“I could tell most of these people didn’t have enough training, and they were just mindlessly doing their job,” she said.
“This e******n I will say, these Democrats took every avenue possible to commit fraud in this e******n, and what I saw on Nov. 3 and Nov. 4 was over 20 counts of fraud taking place right in front of my face,” Carone added.
D******n has not responded yet to a request from The Epoch Times for comment and declined to appear before a state legislative hearing when requested.
A D******n V****g Systems contractor who worked at Detroit’s TCF Center on E******n Day testified before the Michigan House Oversight Committee on Dec. 2 that she witnessed at least 30,000 b****ts being counted numerous times in D******n machines.
Melissa Carone, a freelance IT worker who assisted D******n at Detroit’s b****t-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 an affidavit on Nov. 10 that she “witnessed nothing but fraudulent actions take place.”
The affidavit was submitted as a supplement to a lawsuit in Michigan.
“I observed numerous employees, city workers, running batches of b****ts through the tabulators countless times, without discarding them first,” Carone said Wednesday, responding to a question from President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani about what she observed while working at the center.
Carone said that the tabulating machines would jam two to three times an hour. She explained that the proper way to scan b****ts when there’s 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.
“Instead of discarding, they were just rescanning, rescanning, rescanning,” Carone said. “Counting b****ts nine to 10 times.”
Carone noted that there were approximately 22 to 24 tabulating machines where she was working, and that she observed the malpractice “thousands of times” while she was at the site.
A worker with the Detroit Department of E******ns celebrates after hearing the nearly final number of 167,000 absentee b****ts that were counted is announced over the loudspeaker at the Central Counting Board in the TCF Center in Detroit on Nov. 4, 2020. (Elaine Cromie/Getty Images)
She explained that b****ts were to be tabulated in batches of 50. However, as she observed poll workers scanning b****ts more than once, the number of tabulated b****ts on some machines reached figures in the hundreds.
Carone alleged that when she alerted her manager Nick Ikonomakis about the issue, he dismissed her concerns.
“I called my manager to a specific tabulating machine and I showed him a number on it that was over 500. They shouldn’t be over 50—b****ts come in batches of 50. I said that we have a severe problem here Nick,” Carone explained.
“He [Nick] said, ‘Melissa I don’t want to hear that we have a problem, we are here to assist with IT, we are not here to run their e******n,’ and at that point I was really frustrated and upset, I could tell what was going on,” she said.
“What was going on?” asked Giuliani.
“He was in on it. They were c***ting. It was very, very apparent,” Carone replied. “It 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.”
When questioned why more people haven’t come forward with allegations that they witnessed fraudulent actions at the Detroit b****t-count site, Carone said that her life has been destroyed.
“I’ll tell you why,” she said. “My life has been destroyed because of this. I’ve lost family, I’ve lost friends, I’ve been threatened, my kids have been threatened, I’ve had to move, I’ve had to change my phone number, I’ve had to get rid of social media—nobody wants to come forward. I can’t even get an actual job any more, because Democrats like to ruin your lives. That’s why.”
A second witness, a Republican poll challenger, echoed Carone’s claims, saying she noticed that some workers at Detroit’s TCF Center appeared not to know what to do when b****ts were jammed. She asserted that workers in some cases wouldn’t discard the b****ts prior to the problem b****t, therefore she saw numbers at 300 to 400 when they were tabulated in batches of 50.
“I could tell most of these people didn’t have enough training, and they were just mindlessly doing their job,” she said.
“This e******n I will say, these Democrats took every avenue possible to commit fraud in this e******n, and what I saw on Nov. 3 and Nov. 4 was over 20 counts of fraud taking place right in front of my face,” Carone added.
D******n has not responded yet to a request from The Epoch Times for comment and declined to appear before a state legislative hearing when requested.
Dec 3, 2020 10:42:43 #
Absolutely disgraceful. I am embarrassed and ashamed for my state.
I saw some of the testimony on Newsmax. It was heart wrenching.
I saw some of the testimony on Newsmax. It was heart wrenching.
Dec 3, 2020 11:17:32 #
Fotoartist wrote:
Absolutely disgraceful. I am embarrassed and ashamed for my state.
I saw some of the testimony on Newsmax. It was heart wrenching.
I saw some of the testimony on Newsmax. It was heart wrenching.
What is heart-wrenching is that so many on this forum are OK with the extent of this criminal activity. Absolutely devoid of any intellectual curiosity or honesty.
Dec 3, 2020 20:02:18 #
thom w
Loc: San Jose, CA
Fotoartist wrote:
Absolutely disgraceful. I am embarrassed and ashamed for my state.
I saw some of the testimony on Newsmax. It was heart wrenching.
I saw some of the testimony on Newsmax. It was heart wrenching.
You left FOX for the new Trump TV?
Dec 3, 2020 20:06:28 #
She was drunk for Pete's sake. Both Rudy and the Repub chair tried to get her to shut up several times. She was hostile even with the Repub reps on the committee.
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