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    Exhibit D - Maryland Blank Ballot Defined Report

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    Over 25% of ballots cast in a single precinct in Baltimore County, Maryland were classified as "blank ballots". Blank ballots represent voters who were effectively disenfranchised. The ES&S voting machines are required to accept blank ballots without alerting voters, and any error rate above 1 in 125,000 would exceed the maximum acceptable level set by the EAC. The abnormally high number of blank ballots in this precinct suggests potential issues with the voting machines, such as hardware or software errors, or even tampering that could affect the reported election results.

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    Exhibit D - Maryland Blank Ballot Defined Report

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    Over 25% of ballots cast in a single precinct in Baltimore County, Maryland were classified as "blank ballots". Blank ballots represent voters who were effectively disenfranchised. The ES&S voting machines are required to accept blank ballots without alerting voters, and any error rate above 1 in 125,000 would exceed the maximum acceptable level set by the EAC. The abnormally high number of blank ballots in this precinct suggests potential issues with the voting machines, such as hardware or software errors, or even tampering that could affect the reported election results.

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    Over 25% of ballots cast in a single precinct in Baltimore County, Maryland were classified as "blank ballots". Blank ballots represent voters who were effectively disenfranchised. The ES&S voting machines are required to accept blank ballots without alerting voters, and any error rate above 1 in 125,000 would exceed the maximum acceptable level set by the EAC. The abnormally high number of blank ballots in this precinct suggests potential issues with the voting machines, such as hardware or software errors, or even tampering that could affect the reported election results.

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    Exhibit D - Maryland Blank Ballot Defined Report

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    Over 25% of ballots cast in a single precinct in Baltimore County, Maryland were classified as "blank ballots". Blank ballots represent voters who were effectively disenfranchised. The ES&S voting machines are required to accept blank ballots without alerting voters, and any error rate above 1 in 125,000 would exceed the maximum acceptable level set by the EAC. The abnormally high number of blank ballots in this precinct suggests potential issues with the voting machines, such as hardware or software errors, or even tampering that could affect the reported election results.

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    Exhibit D

    PRELIMINARY REPORT ON MARYLAND ELECTIONS BLANK


    BALLOTS
    PRELIMINARY REPORT ON MARYLAND ELECTIONS BLANK BALLOTS
    A. BALLOTS CAST – BLANK EXPLAINED
    1. The following is a breakdown of the ballots cast in the 2020 November Election for
    a single precinct in Baltimore County Maryland. This data was extracted from the
    OFFICAL RESULTS ES&S Precinct Summary Report in Detail. This election results
    report is referred to as the EL30A report.

    The red rectangle represents the total votes cast that were classified as “BALLOTS
    CAST – BLANK”. This category of BALLOTS CAST – BLANK can be seen as reflected
    in each of the five ballot categories. EV, ED, MB1, Prov, MB2

    The blue circled numbers reflect the following:


     Total Number of Blank Ballots Cast
     Blank Ballots as a Percentage of All Ballots Cast In This Precinct
     Blank Ballots Cast In Early Voting
     Blank Ballots Cast On Election Day
     Blank Ballots Cast by Mail in Ballot Category 1
     Blank Ballots Cast as Provisional Ballots
     Blank Ballots Cast by Mail in Ballot Category 2

    FIGURE 1

    Every single ballot that was cast by a Maryland voter and then classified as a
    “BALLOTS CAST – BLANK” is the ballot of a voter being disenfranchised.

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    Blank ballots being cast in such large numbers are a clear indicator of either voting
    system machine hardware errors, software accuracy errors, machine tampering, or
    some other illegal activity used to materially affect the outcome of an election.

    In this particular precinct in Baltimore County Maryland over 25% of all the ballots
    cast by voters have been classified as “BLANK BALLOTS”.

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    2. BLANK BALLOTS AS DEFINED BY ES&S IN THE DS850 OPERATORS MANUAL
    Blank Ballots are defined as ballots with one of the three characteristics:
    a.) Ballots that do not contain any votes,
    b.) have been marked with a non-standard marking device that the DS850 cannot read
    c.) have been marked improperly.

    FIGURE 2

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    3. The ES&S DS200 machine MUST be set up to always accept the blank ballots without
    alerting the voter to check the ballot for this many ballots to be accepted as blank
    if they are indeed blank. These are CAST ballots, not pre-printed and not used stock,
    in order to be counted as a blank ballot here. The image below was captured from
    the operator’s manual for the ES&S DS200 which is used in precincts to tabulate
    voters’ cast ballots.

    FIGURE 3

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    4. EAC – Voting Systems Performance Guidelines: Accuracy and Functional
    Requirements For Software used in voting systems. In the following section of the
    EAC certification, the accuracy requirement is very clear, as it states: “SHALL
    MAINTAIN ABSOLUTE CORRECTNESS”.

    “g. In all systems, voting system software, firmware, and hardwired logic shall
    maintain absolute correctness (introduce no errors) in the recording, tabulating,
    and reporting of votes”.

    FIGURE 4

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    5. EAC – Voting Systems Performance Guidelines: Accuracy for Hardware
    Requirements. The benchmark is derived from the “maximum acceptable error rate
    of 1 in 125,000. Therefore 2 or more errors in every 125,000 votes would exceed
    the maximum acceptable error rate.

    FIGURE 5

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    6. EAC – Voting Systems Performance Guidelines: Accuracy Requirement Hardware
    Calculations. According to the EAC guidelines as prescribed under the Help America
    Vote Act of 2002 presenting this benchmark in terms of votes instead of ballot
    positions provides a more precise metric for the evaluation of accuracy.

    FIGURE 6

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