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Thousands of Ballots Were Scanned Numerous Times in Dominion Machines: Contractor Witness

Posted on Thursday, December 3, 2020
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ballotsDominion Voting Systems contractor who worked at Detroit’s TCF Center on Election Day testified before the Michigan House Oversight Committee on Dec. 2 that she witnessed at least 30,000 ballots being counted numerous times in Dominion machines.

Melissa Carone, a freelance IT worker who assisted Dominion at Detroit’s 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 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 ballots 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 ballots 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 ballots 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.

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.

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—ballots 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 election,’ 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 cheating. 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 ballot-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 ballots were jammed. She asserted that workers in some cases wouldn’t discard the ballots prior to the problem ballot, 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 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,” Carone added.

Dominion has not responded yet to a request from The Epoch Times for comment and declined to appear before a state legislative hearing when requested.

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Rik
Rik
5 years ago

This is extremely frustrating … we’ve all already known all of this and to have Democratic appointed Judges in these states say that there is not enough evidence and have that Jackass John Roberts not jump on accepting this case of fraudulent criminal action boils my anger to overflowing! … If they think We the People will just quietly accept Jackass Joe Biden as OUR duly elected President, they are all nuts! … if I was President Trump, I would declare Martial Law and claim himself the People’s choice and start arresting any and all Communist Democratic leaders and politicians who can lie with a straight face against what We all know as true! … This farce must end!

NeverBiden
NeverBiden
5 years ago

Thanks to Dominion, we are trading an all-day, everyday president for a once a week president.

Misty
Misty
5 years ago

As long as there is a true and just God, this will all be stopped before Joe Biden takes office. But if that man is actually inaugurated, I will burn my Bibles and my rosary beads.

James Liskutin
James Liskutin
5 years ago

I have looked into the testimony and watched her body language and listened to how she presented herself. Melissa Carone Is a highly double degree qualified working mother. She has no time for nonsense and since reporting this she has been threatened as her children have too. Forced to move home, change her number, and shut down her social media because of threats and violent abuse from democrats. I could not detect any falsehood in her behaviour or responses. I could however, detect extreme distress. I applaud this brave strong young mother. She has been laid out for public execution by her peers. however she did it for integrity.

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