Moncla 2023 025
Moncla 2023 025
Moncla 2023 025
Moncla
824 Lake Grove Drive Dr.
Little Elm, TX 75068
469-588-7778
[email protected]
Copies to:
Ex officio:
Mr. Brad Raffensperger
Secretary of State
214 State Capitol
Atlanta, Georgia 30334
Those Responsible:
I am writing this letter in response to your email to me and Mr. Joe Rossi on
Wednesday morning in which you said, “I need to see the entire Excel spreadsheet
so I will have all the information. I need this by Noon on Friday September 22,
2023.”
Letter to Mr. Vincent Zagorin
September 21, 2023
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“I have not examined or heard of an election in the United States with errors of this
type or this magnitude.” 2022-Duncan Buell
I am responding to you tonight so that you will “have all the information”
you need with time to spare. We are exasperated at being told to provide 48-hour
turnaround service on a matter that has been pending since at least the date we
drafted the complaint (July 8, 2022). Please understand that most of this information
was presented to the Governor or the Secretary of State even before that date and we
have spent a lot of time and treasure trying to get someone to review this analysis.
So even though we may express our frustration, we are heartened by the fact that
someone is actually reading what we submitted more than 14 months ago.
As I explained to you and the board on September 7, 2023 (2 weeks ago), the
screenshot I provided was but an example to show you that your theory as to the
cause of 17,852 missing ballot images was flawed and not possible. In response, you
questioned the credibility of the data shown in the screenshot, to which I explained
that you should access the data at its source – we sourced this data from the
Secretary of State and we believed that you would want to authenticate our data.
That would be helpful for two reasons: (a) you could verify that we have not
compromised the integrity of the data, and (b) if there is anything amiss with the
data, your office is best positioned to determine the errors and correct us – and the
courts from which we obtained the data. 1
Your insistence on obtaining our data raises the following issues at least for us:
1. As noted above, we believe you cannot rely on our data for the purposes
of your official investigation. Months ago, we provided a separate list
specifically identifying each tabulator, each batch, and the number of
ballots missing from each of those batches. It is the height of gross
negligence that the Secretary of State’s office is not already in possession
of this data and has not already made the same conclusions that we have
made.
instead used that power to undermine the efforts of True the Vote, another
complainant. You sued True the Vote, caused them to spend valuable
resources on lawyers and specious litigation, because you refused to
provide protections for a whistleblower. This Board’s actions have placed
their lives in jeopardy. You have ignored the valuable data they have
provided and used a handful of cherry-picked cases - to put on display. 2
3. Will we now be the targets of an investigation? Like True the Vote, are
we too in jeopardy or at risk of being sued by the State Election Board for
seeking redress and remedy from our government for fraud, waste, and
abuse? Does anyone at the Secretary of State’s office want to
acknowledge that we have a First Amendment right to petition our
government for the redress of grievances?
We stand firmly behind our work and have the courage of our convictions.
Thus, I have already provided the spreadsheet that you demanded -- as a courtesy and
act of good faith; however, your deadline “by Noon on Friday September 22, 2023” is
surprising, yet troublesome. Surprising because of the newfound sense of urgency.
Troublesome because such a deadline suggests the creation of a false pretext which
could potentially be used to drop the complaint.
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David Cross has filed several complaints with the SEB involving potential ballot mules that have not been
investigated.
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Will the three attorneys now on the Board who voted to adopt that agreement sight-unseen, do so again
knowing they could face bar complaints for violating the Rules of Professional Conduct? Was Ms.
McGowan aware of the circumstances detailed above? Or will attorneys who work with us be subject to
bar complaints and disbarment proceedings, like John Eastman in California or Harry MacDougald in
Georgia?
Letter to Mr. Vincent Zagorin
September 21, 2023
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"...the investigation is (sic) has been complete but Mr. Rossi "keeps asking
that the scope of the investigation be broadened beyond the original
complaint,”
How could it have been completed without accessing the source data? And if the
data has already been referenced, why is Mr. Zagorin now seeking it from us? Is
contesting his explanation for the missing ballot images we know to be false,
"broadening the scope"?
Let me be very clear -- Neither Mr. Rossi nor I have ever sought to "broaden the
scope" of this case. We have no need to add weight to our complaint, as it stands on
the material, independently verified, meticulously cited facts. Those facts are the
records of Fulton County and the Secretary of State.
Ms. McGowan states that the "...SOS office is ready to move forward with the
investigation as initially presented in the original complaint if the Board is ready to
hear it." (We wonder if Ms. McGowan is getting a full report on the status of this
investigation.)
The information you now seek has been available to you since December of
2020 and likely before. It was obtained by us and many others -- only as a result of
hard-fought litigation – in both the pending Fulton County ballot case matter, while
the media continues to report that there is “no evidence” of any irregularity in the
2020 election, or in the Curling case, which has hardly moved to any conclusion
over the six years it has been moldering in the Federal court. And the media reports
that the courts have “heard the evidence.” You know that is not true.
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Mr. Rossi simply attempted to say that the Secretary of State shared responsibility for the 36 Fulton County errors,
to which Mr. Mashburn interjected, “Mr. Rossi, you are out of order!”. Mr. Rossi asked, “Who decided that”? “I
did!”, stated Mashburn.
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Mr. Rossi filed a separate complaint specifically naming the SOS as a Respondent. Chairman Duffey asked the
SOS to open an investigation “…regarding the posting of the county-level RLA results for the 2020 General
Election.”. In response, the SOS’s General Counsel, Charlene McGowan, stated, “I have instructed our
investigations division that this office will not be opening a case on this complaint for several reasons.”.
McGowan states, “…the SEB has no jurisdiction over this complaint.”, and then, “…the SEB has no oversight
role over the Secretary of State.”. Assuming hypothetically that there was an alleged violation or crime, McGowan
further states that the SEB would need to refer the case to the Attorney General’s office, “…and the AG’s office
does not take legal action against their own clients.”; “For all these reasons, the SEB cannot pursue complaints
against the Secretary’s office, and to do so would be unprecedented action by the Board. I trust with this
information that the Board will inform Mr. Rossi that no case will be opened on this matter.”.
Letter to Mr. Vincent Zagorin
September 21, 2023
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This is the exact same number that Professor Philip B. Stark of the University of
California at Berkeley calculated in his analysis, so we have provided a link to his
declaration for your review. 6 We call your attention to paragraph 63 of his
Declaration from March 9, 2022 (page 20), which confirms that number:
For the first machine count, production included images of ballots or BMD
printout cards for only 168,726 of the 528,776 cast vote records: 376,863
image files are missing. For the second machine count, Fulton County’s
production included images of ballots or BMD printout cards for 510,073 of
the 527,925 cast vote records: 17,852 image files are missing.
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Philip Stark CGG 9 | PDF | Government (scribd.com).
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20220111 Buell Expert Report Final Served | PDF | Election Recount | Voting (scribd.com)
Letter to Mr. Vincent Zagorin
September 21, 2023
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Other records, like the Recount ballot images, were also produced by Fulton
County in litigation, so a lot of time and money has been spent obtaining this
information. If you have any reason to believe that the information, we have is not
correct, please let us know so that we can report back to our sources and the courts
so that this can be cleaned up as these cases proceed.
In some cases (3,125 to be exact), there was no ballot image for a vote, but a
vote in the same ballot style was cast, leading us to believe (and Professors Stark and
Buell) there was a duplicate ballot in the system. Those are marked as “TRUE” in
Column U (vote was the same for two ballots with the same “signature”). From Prof.
Stark’s Declaration (para. 65):
Entire batches of images are missing from Fulton County’s production, for example,
images from Scanner 801 batch 117 and Scanner 801 batch 118 are referred to in the
cast vote records for the second machine count but the images were not among the
electronic records. We note that 100% of the votes in Scanner 801 batch 117 and
Scanner 801 batch 118 were cast for Joseph R. Biden. It has become painfully aware
to us through this process that your office is doing everything it can to convince the
public that the election was “the most secure election in history” and that our
criticisms are baseless. How can anyone who knows what has been raised say such a
thing without intentionally conspiring to prevent the data from being investigated?
We must face the reality of the Secretary’s intransigence and refusal to review any
competent analysis. It is being done maliciously to deprive voters of their equal
protection, to prevent oversight of government functions, and to obfuscate the
evidence that is clear in the data sets and cryptic election records.
Letter to Mr. Vincent Zagorin
September 21, 2023
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We don’t understand why it has become necessary to ignore the facts to come
to a conclusion that exonerates your office from all liability for a screwed-up
election. Or maybe we do understand.
Finally, as Mr. Rossi has ably explained in his earlier communications with
the Secretary of State’s attorneys, it is beneath the process of any investigation to
resort to lying about the conduct of the complainants – we are, after all, the ones who
are trying to bring evidence of these irregularities to your attention. We do not
appreciate being told that we are the cause of any delay. But we know that the
Secretary of State has access to all of this data – you have had it for nearly three
years now.
Mr. Mashburn, please be advised that we have filed multiple very serious complaints
documenting the very serious problems with Georgia’s elections over the course of
nearly three years. We have been very patient and very understanding. Aside from those
which were referred to the SEB by Governor Kemp, our complaints have been ignored. 8
In fact, our complaints have been avoided. Now games are being played and I have
grown tired.
I am speaking only for myself here. Mr. Mashburn, listen well. There will be no more
excuses. I am putting you on notice that I will be holding you accountable. There are 19
people whose lives hang in the balance because they knew Georgia’s 2020 General
Election and Senate run-off results were wrong. Those people were right. You can either
properly investigate our complaints and verify the facts or I will show you publicly in the
media. You are the chairman of the State Election Board, which is the only entity in the
state of Georgia who has the authority to investigate, recognize, and remedy the travesty
that you are witnessing. We have the receipts- not just for Fulton County, but for
multiple counties across the state. Preserve all records and communications, Mr.
Mashburn. I expect to hear from you by noon on Monday.
If we can help explain what you have that you do not understand, please feel free
to call on us. You have our telephone numbers and email addresses. Thank you.
Very truly yours,
Kevin Moncla
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I must take this opportunity to say that when we asked the Governor to review the complaint at issue
today, he had his office to do immediately. We were treated with respect and the people at his office were
professionals. They called it like it was and didn’t try to excuse or dismiss our findings. In fact, with regard
to 2021-181, the Governor’s team found and identified 2 additional mistakes that were missed.