Analysis of Election Ballot Irregularities

I found that there were about 25,000 ballots

that were not printed from the official Dominion PDF ballot.

In other words, the printing process, appearance,

uh, is completely different than what you

would get from a first generation PDF

printing. We had

twen- approximately 25,000 ballots that

were not created from the PDF that is

used for the election process. So in other words,

the election provider comes up with ballots,

and it's specific to a geographical area.

Because the person that lives in this neighborhood might not

be voting for the same

people that live in that neighborhood or, or another neighborhood.

So here in Maricopa County, from memory, you had

5,012 or something like that, just over 5,000

different permutations and combinations to the ballots.

Then that's multiplied by two because there's a Spanish version that's available

for each one of these ballots. But it's the same ballot with the same

people,

just in a different language.

So we've got 5... We'll just say 5,000 different ballots for

now,

uh, that are created ahead of time, and those are created in PDF.

Now, the big reason why is y- you

have a third party send out mail-in ballots, so those have to be created

in advance. And second, for your early voting,

you have vote on demand.

So in other words, even if I live way out in the corner of the

county, but I work

downtown, I could go to something downtown

that could print my ballot from my area,

and I could vote here. It's convenient. A lot of people do that.

So these PDFs are created in advance.

They're obviously good quality PDFs, and when they're printed, they should look

roughly or exactly the same.

In this group of ballots, I find that the quality is severely

degraded from what a PDF would be p- as if printed on

demand, or if printed by your, uh, third party

provider who

prints these all the time.

I'm Eric Spieken. I'm a forensic chemist

and a forensic document

analyst. That means I deal with all aspects of

question documents, when they were

made, if they've been altered, changed, or added to, and how long ink has been on

paper. I was asked if I had experience in election matters

to look at primarily printing processes, machine-copied

marks, uh, CPS code, which is a Counterfeit Protection System,

and I said that I did, and I traveled to Arizona with three other

people from my

office,

uh, that I had. Number one is that there were a series of

ballots, uh, that I examined the photographs of,

and Dominion, as the

election

subcontractor, produced ballots for each of the

zones or districts that were involved, at least in the area that I looked at

here in Maricopa County.

Um, and there were 5,000, approximately, a little over, different

ballots. As you know, in a state, there could be two different senator

races.

There could be 10 different House races.

I- and all the permutations and combinations is what gives you the

5,000.

So they create a final ballot for each one of these

districts or zones or regions, so that when you go in

and you give your name,

and it knows you're from this area, you would get this

ballot to vote on all the issues that pertain to you, and only the issues

that pertain to you. And I found that there were about 25,000 ballots

that were not printed from the official Dominion PDF ballot.

In other words, the printing process, appearance,

uh, is completely different than what you

would get from a first-generation PDF

printing.

As you can imagine, the lines are perfect.

So they're perfectly straight, no breaks in them.

The circles, or ovals as they may be, and they're a solid line.

When I examined

some of the early voting

ballots and Election Day ballots from various polling

locations, there were about 25,000 that did not have

printing from this

perfect PDF as you would expect, but instead had

breaks in all the same places around an oval.

So you can look at one of the ovals, and there are imperfections in the line,

and they're in the same place on every single one of these ballots.

These 25,000 unidentifiable ballots alone

represent over double the amount of Joe Biden's

10,457 vote mar-

In July of '21, actually before that, we, uh, we

told them in June, we told them that we suspected from

what we're seeing 25,000-plus

counterfeit, inauthentic ballots.

Uh,

that was early on in the process.

Again, because of propaganda by the

GOP's attorney,

the GOP,

other conservative operatives,

they planted the seed inside this that you can't trust that, no,

that's not it, et cetera. You'll hear more about it,

but every one of the people up there knew this

in advance, even of this hearing today.

Now, the reason I bring that up is they had well over a year and a

half to react to this so it wouldn't be duplicated

in 2022,

but they didn't. They did nothing, and they allowed it.

They enabled this to be done again