Nebraska Elections - Gold Standard or Soft Coup D'état??
a letter for Congress
Dear Friends,
Hopefully the letter below will be received by Congress, along with letters from a couple dozen other states, in the very near future:
Nebraska Elections - Gold Standard or Soft Coup D'état??
Dear Congressman XXXXXXX,
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the CONSENT of the governed."
Our form of government, our entire compound constitutional republic, is based on CONSENT. We the people not only have a right and duty to participate in that CONSENT, we have a right and duty to VERIFY that CONSENT.
I ran for Nebraska Secretary of State in 2022. Nebraska Citizens were not allowed to verify their CONSENT, even though they were required to pay the hefty bill for it.
2020 made Nebraskans aware that they needed to start paying better attention. After we started doing so, we learned that our Secretary of State Office had handed control of Nebraska's elections over to a private, profit-driven technology vendor (ES&S) that shrouds the entire election process in secrecy and lawfare.
The Election Act of Nebraska's Legislature is based entirely on the advice and input of our Secretary. Moreover, the Legislature has given him the final say on all "disputed points of election law." (NRS 32-201)
Nebraska Citizens have realized they can not simply assume, or trust, that our Secretary is honest and/or that he knows what he is doing by allowing a private vendor to conduct our elections. Nebraska Citizens cannot simply assume, or trust, that the secret, proprietary, digital, computerized "election" process used by this private vendor is giving them true and accurate CONSENT. It goes without saying that too much hangs in the balance.
Engraved over the main entrance of Nebraska's Capitol Building is the following saying: "The Salvation of the State is Watchfulness in the Citizen." Watchfulness, not assumption or trust. Our Secretary refuses to allow Nebraska Citizens the Watchfulness necessary to verify their CONSENT.
The EAC certification document (pg 3) for ES&S tabulators states that they scan “the front and back of a paper ballot and/or vote summary card in any of four orientations for conversion of voter selection marks to electronic cast vote records (CVR).”
These "cast vote records" were standardized by NIST to allow the tabulator's work to be audited. The intended audience included the general public. Nebraskans are not allowed access to these public documents. Why? Why is the Secretary so resistant to this? Why is he so against allowing Citizens to verify their election results? Everyone should want this.
The private vendor's "election process" was not sold to Nebraska voters for its accuracy. Actually, it wasn't sold to Nebraska voters at all. It was sold to election officials for its speed in creating “election results" (and because “federal” money was being offered at the time to pay for them—Nebraskans have since been left holding the expensive bag).
Speed is not the priority in an election. The only thing that matters in an election is accuracy—verifiable accuracy. Elections do not belong to election officials, candidates or corporations. They belong to We the People, the collective body politic, who not only have a God-given and constitutionally-protected right to elect the representatives WE WANT, but to KNOW that a given election was indeed honest. The only way to KNOW that is through transparency and verifiability.
Our Secretary touts "Logic & Accuracy Testing" (EAC) and "Manual Audits" of a few select precincts as proof of accuracy. They are no such thing. A computerized "vote-counter" can very easily be programmed to compartmentalize fraud. Which is to say, it can count a "test deck" accurately, and then proceed to RIG any race and/or precinct in the county.
County election officials are not technology experts. They have no expertise in computer hardware or software, or cyberspace and wireless connectivity technology. When they make claims of accuracy in computerized elections, they are only expressing a belief in vendor talking points echoed by the Secretary’s office.
Elections should not be left up to trust or belief. NO ONE can guarantee that this computerized and networked process can't/won't be abused, and abused on a grand scale. The world is connected like never before, and that includes computerized "voting" systems. We must assume the worst until proven otherwise.
A sudden, hard stop must be put on computerized "elections," and we must return to the Gold Standard in elections before the 2024 general election.
The Gold Standard is a common sense, precinct-based, manual approach that allows for public/citizen Watchfulness and verification. It has been around since elections became a thing. That Gold Standard is openly acknowledged by our Secretary. He uses it in his "Logic & Accuracy Testing" and "Precinct Audits.” But again, the problem with them is the secret computerized tabulators can compartmentalize fraud.
When we speak of a "Gold Standard" in elections, we are referring to the following:
— voter rolls that are transparent, verifiable and fixed before an election;
— paper ballots that cannot be counterfeited;
— law-enforcement-grade chain-of-custody on all ballots;
— one-day, in-person voting (with very few exceptions; exceptions must be verified by affidavit);
— precinct-based, publicly-verifiable hand counts (video-taped so anyone can audit);
— reconcilability between the number of people who voted and the number of votes;
— accountability for all ballots prepared for and used in an election;
— results that are posted at the precinct level before being sent anywhere else.
None of which is presently being done.
Barring the secret voting booth, elections should be transparent and fully verifiable. Our constitutional republic depends on it. A process that is not transparent and fully verifiable must be regarded as a charade, a pretense, a simulation, that can easily be manufactured in a computerized process.
There is no easier way to execute a soft coup d'état against our form of government than by deceptively installing a secret computerized "voting" process that can secretly s-elect and place weak and/or corrupt actors in power.
If trying to overthrow government is treason, then trying to overthrow the CONSENT by which government is instituted is also treason.
I am asking you to call for and support a full investigation into computerized "elections." Democrats and Republicans have both alleged that the machines can be hacked. And now we have proof from around the country.
This fight is about Liberty and Justice for ALL Americans.
Respectfully,
Robert J. Borer
Former Nebraska Secretary of State Candidate
I’m also sending this letter out to public servants across NE today.
We pray for God’s intervention.
Robert J. Borer
P.S. The Secretary’s office is busy spewing all kinds of election propaganda ahead of the primary. Below is an example. If you’re on FB, and go and challenge his nonsense.
This one is from Lancaster, but it comes straight from the SoS page:
https://www.facebook.com/NebraskaSOS
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