/qrb/ - QResearch Bunker

Globals

>>53149 Summary to date of info on Q drops and Law of War new

>>51758 Contacts, Websites, Other Info - now in dough under Links to alt-media

>>47678 Maricopa County Livestream Audit

>>51899 MP4s for wearethene.ws don't post as graphics

Notables

are not endorsements

#200

>>54487 "Requested Meeting with BoS about audit questions will be tomorrow at 1pm"...soc. media

>>54489 info on fukin' with Amazon

>>54499 Antrim, Michigan Motion To Dismiss Hearing y/t

>>54502 LIVE: Mike Pompeo In-Depth on Biden’s National Security Policies y/t

>>54503, >>54526, >>54527 Not AF1 Joe back to JBA, >>54528, >>54551 pf report(s)

>>54505 Deutsche Bank Picks U.S. General Counsel to Head Anti-Financial Crime Unit-wsj

>>54513, >>54514 US Navy Twat " Taking Flight from IKE! plus Q drops #60,105, 108,114

>>54515 China extends South Pacific reach by funding runway project-nikkei

>>54517 LIVE-STREAM VIDEO: AZ Senate Holds Hearing at 4 PM ET – Will Include: Audit Update from Vendor! – Address Questions on Missing Files with Maricopa County Supervisors-gatewaypundit

>>54529 Dollar slides to 2-1/2 month low as Fed rate hike fears subside-reuters/mktwatch

>>54540, >>54541 Barnett: “I’ve got the evidence I need from the recovered data”

>>54543, >>54548 45: Joe Bidens imperiled economy

>>54544 45 on GA pols

>>54545, >>54546 Matt DePerno and Bill Bailey have backups to their backups: "The case is going to continue on a couple different fronts. … HOLD TIGHT!"

>>54547 @RepGosar Honchos at the Post Office run the Internet Covert Operations Program (ICOP) while they are in massive debt and derelict in their delivery duties.

>>54549 CM: I hope the auditors are looking closely at Stephen Richer’s election.

>>54550 Texas Gov. Abbott: Border Agents Seized Enough Fentanyl To Kill Every New Yorker

>>54552 #200

#199

>>54431, >>54432, >>54436, >>54437, >>54439, >>54448, >>54458, >>54459 Planefaggory aloft

>>54461 Billionaires Are Offloading Massive Amounts Of Stock

>>54451 Hackers behind Colonial Pipeline attack received $90 million in bitcoin before shutting down

>>54435 China Huarong Wires Funds for $300 Million Bond Due Thursday

>>54430 Andrew Giuliani officially throws his hat in the ring for NY governor

>>54428 Man with Hunting Rifle Foils Attempted Mass Shooting at Apartment Complex

>>54423 Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer Orders Shutdown Of Oil Pipeline During Gas Crisis

>>54421 TGP Reporter Confronts Soros-Backed Maricopa County Sheriff After His Meltdown Over Router Request (VIDEO)

>>54420 Gretchen Whitmer Story Unravels: Florida Plane Not Authorized for Charter Flights

>>54419 Bombshell Photos Reveal Years of Meetings Between Bloomberg Executives and Chinese Propagandists in Beijing

>>54472 #199

#198

>>54375 QAnon believers go "undercover" to spread conspiracies online

>>54381 Gen McInerney: Do not use Parler.

>>54383 Gen Mc: Soros is gunning for Telegram

>>54384 Reuters connected to Pfizer

>>54385 Zerohedge permanently suspended from Twitter

>>54386 Boebert: SCOTUS delivers big victory for gun rights today!

>>54387 Scott Presler: Attn Pennsylvania, limit the power of the gov to extend emergency declarations

>>54388 Fauci's criminal malpractice and killing of medical freedom

>>54389, >>54390, >>54391 TechnoFog now - on the January 2017 Felony Leaks

>>54392, >>54393 on Covid, Vaxxes, CyberHumanism & Getting Right with God

>>54394 John Solomon: HUD will not prioritize American citizens over illegals for public housing

>>54395 Arizona AG Calls On Biden To Fire Harris As Border Czar For ‘Abysmal’ Performance, Ignoring Crisis

>>54397 Antriim Co officials purposely deleted the images of the ballots to destroy the evidence

>>54398 Adrian Fontes' Great Arizona Elections Day Bungle continues

>>54399 #198

#197

>>54295, >>54357, >>54363 planefaggin

>>54362 World Economic Forum Cancels Annual Meeting After Moving It To Singapore

>>54361 Trump Chess Move Revealed/UFO reveal

>>54360 The Biden administration has approved three more detainees at Guantanamo for transfer

>>54358 REVEALED:Voting Machines Had Built-In Ballot Stuffing Mechanism — and Elected Officials Have No Control Over Their Own Elections

>>54349 Ingersoll Rand Inc. sold by KKR & Co.: $724.86m-May 13

>>54344 CDC today announced masks are required for dirt naps. For the keks!

>>54331, >>54333, >>54337, >>54339, >>54340 Senator Fann says the Senate will respond to the Board of Supervisors letter at 1:00 PM PT tomorrow via live-streamed meeting.

>>54323, >>54324, >>54325 Qanon believers go "undercover" to spread conspiracies online/Qanon rebut

>>54311 Graftech Int'l sold by Brookfield Asset Mgmt: $166.65m-May 13

>>54308 California Farmers Facing Drought Are Choosing Empty Fields

>>54306 45: Congratulations to Frank Eathorne for being reelected as Chairman of the Republican Party of Wyoming

>>54304, >>54305 acct to watch for guud things

>>54294 Spanish military patrolling the streets of the autonomous city of #Ceuta after a sudden influx of people from Morocco.

>>54292 The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors has announced that they will not be responding to any more requests regarding the forensic audit

>>54291 All my AZ people need to understand that the Senate will see the forensic audit all the way through to the end

>>54290 Was said he promoted a book while on duty was reason for his dismissal........

>>54288 Windham, NH audit

>>54287, >>54293 Biden admin approves $735 million weapons sale to Israel amid the ongoing conflict.

>>54286 A large portion of our military has embraced marxism. The other side are Patriots and loyal only to America.

>>54285 Pompeo:The CCP and some liberals in Congress like @BernieSanders, @AOC & @IlhanMN are siding with Hamas terrorists and against America and Israel.

>>54284 Georgetown in Qatar-Palestinian Solidarity

>>54283, >>54289 Another HAZMAT train crashes & catches fire in Iowa

>>54282 2016 Genetically engineered 'Magneto' protein remotely controls brain and behaviour

>>54365 #197

Previously Collected Notables:

>>54077 #194, >>54183 #195, >>54274 #196,

>>53541 #187, >>53612 #188, >>53668 #189, >>53740 #190, >>53826 #191, >>53901 #192, >>54000 #193

>>52991 #180, >>53045 #181, >>53159 #182, >>53249 #183, >>53309 #184, >>53405 #185, >>53489 #186

QRB notables archived here >>>/qrb/9528

Notables aggregator https://wearethene.ws

Meme Ammo

>>>/qrmemes/ One-stop Meme Board, organized by topic

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Q Proofs & Posts

Q Proofs Threads Proofs of Q's Validity>>>/qresearch/6156082

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Sealed Indictment Masterhttps://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kVQwX9l9HJ5F76x05ic_YnU_Z5yiVS96LbzAOP66EzA/edit#gid=1525422677

Sealed Indictment Master Files Backup https://drive.google.com/open?id=1iBS4WgngH8u8-wAqhehRIWCVBQKD8-5Y

Searchable Indictment Map w/dockets, links & morehttps://bad-boys.us/

Resignations

All Resignations Website https://www.resignation.info

All Posts Search Tool https://qresear.ch

Q Graphics

Q Graphics all in GMT >>>/qrb/43434

Q Graphics all in GMT#001 and scroll down (in numerical order)>>>/qresearch/11187218

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All My Tweets - Archive/Scan any Twatter account in text form www.allmytweets.net/

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Deleted Trump Tweets factba.se/topic/deleted-tweets

Trump Tweet Archive trumptwitterarchive.com

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Archivers for Firefox, Opera & Webpage >>39619

Baker Tools v0.7.2https://pastebin.com/L1p6iRzZ

Biden's destruction of America - LINKS>>43288

Commercial Aviation Incident List avherald.com

Criminal Cases Databasehttps://www.justice.gov/usao/find-r-united-states-attorney

DMCA takedown notice or abuse report reporting@isitwetyet.com.

Federal Judicial Court Dataset from 93 Federal Districts - Searchable dbbad-boys.us/

Federal Procurement Data Systemwww.fpds.gov/fpdsng_cms/index.php/en/

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Hussein WH visitor listqest.us/obamavisitors

Legal Newswww.justice.gov/usao/pressreleases

Links to alt-media resources >>51758new

Q Boards/Sites>>38758

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Reverse image search to sauce https://tineye.com/

Stock Movement Scraperqest.us (for seeing LARGE movements of $)

Wayback Machine for old archived websites:https://web.archive.org

Webpage Archiver:http://archive.md/

QRB Archive

Board ArchiveThe main /qrb/ board archive8kun.top/qrb/archive/index.html

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MasterArchivistmasterarchivist.github.io/qarchives/

Supplement to MasterArchivist (main spreadsheet, 2nd tab,labeled)

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GermanArchiveAnon mega.nz/folder/LPZxEIYJ#N5JwCNoxOxOtAoErKdUgvw

Staff Notes

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Plz avoid passwords in fullchan.net>>44282, >>44284

QRB content policy>>44058

Wearethene.ws formatting >>43537, >>46268, >>46270, >>51899 new

>>51871 QRB baking - watch for a lag

Learn To Bake!

Quick Pic Bakes & E-bake instructions >>>/comms/7549,https://pastebin.com/aY5LyDPY, >>>/comms/9252

Resources from last LIVE Baking Class #39>>>/comms/40980(step by step baking instructions)

Baker Tools v0.7.3 https://pastebin.com/EDmx2iEr

How to format multi-page notableshttps://qanonbin.com/paste/0kIGTHWjd

Tips on Notables for Bakers >>41931

Iwo Jima flag on YouTube for TOR posting https://tu.be/9E3uBWn7e8U

>>54565

moar sorties then?

>>54566

yep been up every night since that started

>>54567

*restarted

Biden clears way for Russian pipeline after blocking Keystone Pipeline in US

The Biden administration will waive sanctions on the corporation and CEO overseeing the Nordsteam 2 pipeline construction, a source familiar tells Fox Business.

But at the same time, the State Department is expected to send its 90-day report to Congress listing entities involved in the pipeline’s construction that deserve sanctions. The State Department will acknowledge that the corporate entity in charge of the project, Nord Stream 2 AG and its CEO, the Putin crony and former East German intelligence officer Matthias Warnig, are engaged in sanctionable activity, according to Axios, which first reported the news.

The Nord Stream 2 deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin's regime will transfer Russian gas to Germany via a pipeline running under the Baltic Sea. If completed, this new pipeline would double the amount of natural gas Russia transports directly to Europe and hand an enormous geopolitical victory to Vladimir Putin.

In December, Congress passed legislation — the National Defense Authorization Act — that contained sanctions targeting companies and individuals involved in the Nord Stream 2 project. Another source familiar with the issue tells Fox Business this conclusion had been hinted at weeks ago and that it signals the U.S. is not willing to sacrifice its close relationship with Germany over the pipeline. In February, Biden also froze former President Trump’s plan to withdraw American troops from Germany.

But on his first day in office, President Biden issued an executive order cancelling the Keystone XL pipeline at home in the U.S. Still, a State Department spokesperson condemned the pipeline and said others who are involved risk sanctions.

"The Biden Administration has been clear that the Nord Stream 2 pipeline is a Russian geopolitical project that threatens European energy security and that of Ukraine and eastern flank NATO Allies and partners," the spokesperson said in a statement to Fox News. "We continue to examine entities involved in potentially sanctionable activity and have made it clear that companies risk sanctions if they are involved in Nord Stream 2. We will continue to underscore U.S. strong, bipartisan opposition to this Russian malign influence project."

The U.S. will continue to sanction ships involved in the building of Nord Stream 2 even though it refuses to sanction the company in charge of the project.

Currently, Russia has to transport gas through Ukraine on its way to Europe. Completion of the pipeline would allow Russia to freeze out its former client state Ukraine, now operating under a democracy.

moar

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/biden-russia-nord-stream-pipeline-blocking-keystone

>>54574

no, can't wait to see the list of "discrepancies" that come out of this, so much for precision

>>54574

so much for fair and honest too

bastids

>>54577

https://gcaptain.com/maersk-tankers-invests-tech-hedge-fund-cargometrics/

Boston-based CargoMetrics Technologies was founded by Borgerson in 2010 as data-driven investment company that uses proprietary software to provide real-time insight into the global shipping industry. The company has long been considered a front-runner in the space of big data in shipping and has attracted investments from tech bigwigs such as Eric Schmidt, former CEO and executive chairman of Google, and hedge fund investor Paul Tudor Jones. In 2017, the company entered into an equity agreement with Maersk Tankers, giving the A.P. Moller-Maersk unit access to CargoMetrics’ data and software.

anons are not hungry enough for bread to want to learn to bake, I've never figured that out, I was always hungry

>>54582

kekkin hard

nik'd it

tyvm

kek

>>54581

they know that they will get an ebake

wasn't always like that before

when it stopped it stayed that way for a bit good twenty minutes or longer at times.

>always hungry

how notes got started.

find a way and contribute

got me B

there were not as many barriers then as if you screwed up, did a few, it wasn't a bomb-or muh graphics-dropped on ya like nao.

>>54584

you do a much better job than I with notes, I was always torn between what is important vs what was important to me, what I saw as important, mabbe I've gotten better but still the pull is there

>>54577

Two-year-old logistics software startup firmClearMetal Inc.,which wants to apply predictive intelligence tools to container shipping firms such asCMA CGMand Maersk Line, has landed $3 million in seed financing from a group of investors featuringEric Schmidt,the chairman of Google Inc. parent company Alphabet Inc

https://www.dcvelocity.com/articles/27839-software-startup-lands-3-million-funding-to-improve-container-shipping-with-artificial-intelligence

Eric Schmidt and CargoMetrics. Former CargoMetrics CEO Scott Borgerson is GhizMax's husband.

https://shippingwatch.com/suppliers/article10724262.ece

Scott Borgerson a bit of a sadistic prick

https://www.kirbysommers.com/newsletters-archive/2020/12/12/meet-the-new-mr-maxwell-scott-borgerson

>>54585

the only reason is the timing

appreciate dat d'oh

Had luxury of paying attention to wut all were saying too-hard to do with an active bake and drops at same time.

That is wut they can't duplicate over there and never will.

Took pride in showing up when needed..then back to werk.

For sure it would be same if not worrying about the speed and timing of overall bake

They keep pushing it ober there too...needing notetakers and just bakers.

muh sides each time I see it

king faggit and crew can't keep it up and are wilting so they need the drama so control can be exerted.

If you were new would you deal with those faggits?

can't say I would but they are moar entertainment than anything else at thtis point

>>54588

dc is such a jew cesspool. they're all there to run our gov, to attack and dispossess us with it.

>>54577

https://gcaptain.com/cargometrics-founder-and-ceo-scott-borgerson-resigns/

Boston-based CargoMetrics Technologies was founded by Borgerson in 2010 as data-driven investment company that uses proprietary software to provide real-time insight into the global shipping industry. The company has long been considered a front-runner in the space of big data in shipping and has attracted investments from tech bigwigs such as Eric Schmidt, former CEO and executive chairman of Google, and hedge fund investor Paul Tudor Jones. In 2017, the company entered into an equity agreement with Maersk Tankers, giving the A.P. Moller-Maersk unit access to CargoMetrics’ data and software.

https://gcaptain.com/maersk-tankers-invests-tech-hedge-fund-cargometrics/

Maersk Tankers said on Wednesday it has entered into an equity agreement with U.S. hedge fund CargoMetrics, giving it access to analytical models and algorithms to better manage its tanker operations.

Maersk Tankers, a unit of shipping group A.P. Moller-Maersk , has invested a “significant” but undisclosed amount in the Boston-based hedge fund, which will give the firm exclusive right to its analytical models, algorithms and capabilities.

CargoMetrics links satellite signals, historical shipping data and proprietary analytics for trading purposes in its systematic investment platform.

“Data about the ninety-percent of global trade that moves by sea is a powerful trading edge,” said Scott Borgerson, Chief Executive of CargoMetrics in a statement.

The investment is in line with the more than 100-year old conglomerate A.P. Moller-Maersk’s push into new technologies as global trade becomes increasingly more digital.

“In the partnership, we will accelerate our use of digital solutions to enable our business strategy,” said Maersk Tankers Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer Soren Meyer.

>>54589

>>54589

no, they don't feed muh hunger any longer and it's not about Q, it's the bullshit, I always liked the girls, witty and snarky but anime baker gives me headaches and oss makes me x out, jus like that, it's just not appetizing anymore

>>54592

Because Richer is a jew and he's just doing what they always do, they lie shamelessly about everything

I think releasing the filename must've got them nervous though.

>>54594

hear ya.

do feel similar and agree.

never say never cause I don't but would take a lot though

fine here

>>54581

what time of day needs bakers the most?

how demanding is it, how much time do you spend in a shift?

>>54596

It's like the red car that goes fast to compensate for a small dick, the power and prestige, Jews don't believe in an afterlife or gathering treasure for heaven, I think that explains their behavior, not excuses mind, just a diff mindset, not all are Talmudic but they all feel superior and invite all the worldly troubles they've had

imo

>>54599

don't know

don't keep up with it

watched speed a couple of times though

seems like a guud one to learn on

surely with all the bullshit posts it would be easier

>>54602

they used to have a board that was like a bakers howto do you remember what it is?

>>54607

comms

wanna learn to bake

I can help

>>54606

kek

ain't gonna habs one soon

>>54604

weird how they all tell the same lies no matter what race they're mixed with

>>54608

thinking about it but don't have a lot of time, thats why I'm asking how long the shifts are. Maybe I could pull a short shift.

>>54610

there are no shifts, it goes by bread, no shame in sayin I got time for one and ghosting, lemme know when you want to learn to bake, I can teach ya, easy peasy, takes a bit to get the mechanics but the bake is a 2-3 min deal, every time

AMERICA LAST: Biden Shuts Down Keystone Pipeline in US — But Waives Sanctions for Putin’s Pipeline to Germany

On his first day in office Joe Biden killed off an estimated 52,100 American jobs.

After his inaugural behind fences and 20,000 military troops, Biden hobbled to the Oval Officer where he signed several executive orders including the end of construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline and the end of construction of the Trump border wall.

Canceling the Keystone Pipeline costs over 11,000 construction jobs and 42,100 jobs throughout the US during the construction process according to the US State Department.

At the same time Joe Biden was promoting a pipeline project for the Taliban.

And now the Biden is waiving sanctions on Putin’s pipeline to Germany.

Breitbart.com reported:

President Joe Biden will waive some American economic sanctions on Russia in order to streamline construction on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline to Germany, according to Axios.

Citing “two sources briefed on the decision,” Axios reporter Jonathan Swan reports the State Department will include the Nord Stream 2 pipeline Russian company and CEO on its list of Russians who deserve sanctions, but the Biden administration will waive them, citing American interests.

The Biden administration plans to scrap the sanctions on the Russian company responsible for the pipeline, despite initial signals that they would not.

During his Senate confirmation hearing, Secretary of State Antony Blinken told senators he is “determined to do whatever we can to prevent that completion” of the pipeline.

The national defense bill signed by Trump in 2019 included legislation to level sanctions on companies laying pipe for the project.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/05/america-last-biden-shuts-keystone-pipeline-us-waives-sanctions-putins-pipeline-germany/

>>54611

how about tomorrow, an hour earlier?

>>54613

give me an EST to meet and we'll work it

place to meet:

https://8kun.top/comms/res/40980.html

ok, I'll be there tmr 10:15 PM EST

>>54615

you got it

see you at the URL then

just post your presence

like at timestamps

I'll check in

qool?

>>54615

prelims

do you have notepad++

are you using windows?

>>54617

>>54616

sounds good, I have windows and notepad++, will check if it needs updates

I'll post when I'm on

Thanks

>>54618

great

sorry took a bit to answer, collectin notables now

baker's work is never done

it's a job, remember that

can't imagine not doin it though

your very welcome

#201

>>54564, >>54565, >>54570, >>54593 GOLD Eyez to the Skyz

>>54562 China's $2.14tn of bonds coming due unnerves foreign investors

>>54569, >>54612 Biden clears way for Russian pipeline after blocking Keystone Pipeline in US

>>54571, >>54574 Serial numbers missing between original, duplicate ballots in Arizona election audit

>>54572 U.S. names current and former Central American officials said to be involved in corruption or drugs

>>54573 45 on 1-6 commission

>>54577, >>54579, >>54587, >>54591 ERIC SCHMIDT connected toCargoMetrics(Scott Borgerson → GhizMax)

>>54586 The Media’s Matt Gaetz Source – Joel Greenberg – Just Pleaded Guilty to Making FALSE Pedophilia Allegations about His Opponents.

>>54588 Eyes on DC redistricting, think future habbenins

>>54592, >>54596, >>54595, >>54597, >>54600, >>54603, >>54604, >>54606 CM all about Richer

>>54605 The Trump organization is now officially under criminal investigation by New York Attorney General Letitia James and Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance, Jr.

#201

czech em

lemme know

>>54621

thanx G

g'nite

>>54623

https://www.creativedestructionlab.com/people/dror-berman/

As the founding Managing Partner of Innovation Endeavors, Dror seeks diverse, creative ways to partner with entrepreneurs who are applying emerging technologies to reshape industries globally. Throughout his career, Dror has been passionate about how entrepreneurial ecosystems can give rise to companies that have positive human and financial impact. Prior to joining Innovation Endeavors, Dror worked on global search products with Yahoo, spearheaded an R&D team at NICE Systems, and led business development for an Israeli CE retailer. He also spent three years in an elite unit at the Israeli Defense Forces.

Dror has an MBA from Stanford, and graduated cum laude in Computer Science and Bioinformatics from Ben Gurion University in Israel. Dror lives with his wife Diti in Palo Alto and travels frequently to Israel.

>>54623

https://www.innovationendeavors.com/team/dror-berman/

https://www.innovationendeavors.com/team/eric-schmidt/

Eric Schmidt

Founding Partner

Eric Schmidt is Technical Advisor to Alphabet Inc., holding company of Google Inc, where he advises its leaders on technology, business and policy issues. Eric was Executive Chairman of Alphabet from 2015-2017, and of Google from 2011-2015.

From 2001-2011, Eric served as Google’s Chief Executive Officer, overseeing the company’s technical and business strategy alongside founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Under his leadership, Google dramatically scaled its infrastructure and diversified its product offerings while maintaining a strong culture of innovation, growing from a Silicon Valley startup to a global leader in technology.

Prior to joining Google, Eric was the chairman and CEO of Novell and chief technology officer at Sun Microsystems, Inc. Previously, he served on the research staff at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Bell Laboratories and Zilog. He holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University as well as a master’s degree and Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley.

Eric was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2006 and inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as a fellow in 2007. Since 2008, he has been a trustee of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Since 2012, Eric has been on the board of the Broad Institute and the Mayo Clinic. Eric was a member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science 2009-2017. In 2013, Eric and Jared Cohen co-authored The New York Times bestselling book, The New Digital Age: Transforming Nations, Businesses, and Our Lives. In September 2014, Eric published his second New York Times bestseller, How Google Works, which he and Jonathan Rosenberg co-authored with Alan Eagle. Eric became the Chairman of the Department of Defense’s Innovation Board in 2016 and was awarded the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service in January of 2017 by Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter. Eric is an MIT Visiting Innovation Fellow, member of the Advisory Board for MIT IQ, member of the MIT Commission on the Work of the Future, and member of the MIT CEO Advisory Board.

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Scientists said to buy cheaper, safer voter machines. SC spent $51M on these instead

It’s difficult to talk for long about voting technology and election security in South Carolina before hearing the name of Dr. Duncan Buell.

Since the state invested in its first electronic voting computers in 2004, Buell, a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of South Carolina, has studied the performance of the technology in the region. He is one of only a couple of South Carolinians who belong to the Election Verification Network, a group of interdisciplinary voting experts from around the country, and serves on the Richland County Board of Voter Registration and Elections.

So when he discovered that a panel of five people with limited technical expertise had been entrusted to choose the new technology that S.C. voters would use for many elections to come, Buell asked to present his knowledge at one of the group’s meetings in 2019, which were coordinated in part by the State Election Commission (SEC). He was added, then mysteriously taken off the agenda, he says.

“That’s not in the citizens’ best interest, but he’s the sharpest critic (the SEC) had,” said Frank Heindel, a retired businessman from Charleston and self-described citizen activist who has requested hundreds of pages of documents from the government about S.C. elections. “I don’t think they wanted to hear it.”

The decision is just one example of how for years, choices about voting technology in South Carolina have been made behind closed doors, say lawmakers, citizens and voting scholars. Scientists believe the technology products S.C. officials ultimately selected, including the voting machines now being used in the 2020 presidential election, have not always met the “gold standard” for safety.

Since 2004, the methods favored by the SEC have benefited one corporation: Election Systems & Software (ES&S). Despite a decade of evidence that shows technology made by ES&S was involved with repeated voting problems in S.C. elections, the state has continued to award the majority of funds designated for election hardware and software to ES&S. The latest awards in 2019 and 2020 totaled over $57 million.

“Big decisions are being made about our voting systems, and they’re being made In the dark,” said Lynn Teague, vice president of the League of Women Voters of South Carolina. “They’re not being made in a public hearing with testimony from a wide range of concerned citizens and experts.”

When asked by The State Media Co. why Buell was not allowed to present to the panel, SEC spokesman Chris Whitmire said he was not aware of the specifics of Buell’s request. But inviting someone to speak who had already made up his mind about which voting system he preferred — as Whitmire characterized it — would not have allowed for a fair selection process by the committee.

But some election observers say it was the state’s selection process that was unfair.

ADVICE GIVEN, NOT FOLLOWED

Experts and state officials agree that the voting computers the committee selected that are now being used in the 2020 presidential election, called Ballot Marking Devices, or BMDs, are safer than the ones S.C. voters were using before, called Direct Recording Electronic machines, or DREs.

In his testimony to the U.S. House of Representatives in January, Matt Blaze, a professor of computer science at Georgetown University and researcher in the field of security and computing, described voting systems that employ DREs as “from a security perspective, by far the most problematic and risky class.”

South Carolina’s fleet of more than 11,000 of the computers, made and maintained by ES&S, had repeatedly been linked to voting errors. Often with the help of documents requested by Heindel, Buell reported many of the problems in his research and 2018 audit for the League of Women Voters.

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The machine’s software had recurring bugs, Buell noted. From looking at data of years of elections, Buell wrote that he found flaws with the code that led to votes being counted more than once, ignored or tallied incorrectly. Problems with the external hardware became more frequent as the computers got older and also led to votes not being included in official counts, he observed.

More than one problem sometimes happened at a time. On Election Day in 2012, a voting terminal in Richland County had been difficult to boot up in the morning but had eventually been made to function. When a poll manager tried to extract the votes from the device at the end of the day, however, the machine responded with an error message: “MACHINE NOT OPENED.” The votes inside were not included in the original certified count, and similar error messages would run for years to come without correction, Buell observed.

In his reviews, Buell mentions that he never encountered an error in the ES&S devices so grave that it might have changed the outcome of a state race. But even small mistakes that occur in voting technology can pose a serious threat to democracy, Blaze explained before Congress.

“A hostile state actor who can compromise even a handful of county networks might not need to alter any actual votes to create widespread uncertainty about an election outcome’s legitimacy,” Blaze said. That bad actor could do something as simple as plant a detectable software bug in just a few voting machines or add a couple of fake names to the list of people who voted, he explained.

Then, if the “wrong” candidate wins, “they could covertly reveal evidence that county election systems had been compromised, creating public doubt about whether the election had been ‘rigged,’” Blaze told lawmakers. “This could easily impair the ability of the true winner to effectively govern, at least for a period of time.”

The BMDs chosen last year by the panel that are being used today are similar to DREs in some ways. Both types of voting computers display or read aloud a ballot electronically, for one. But instead of recording voter selections inside the computer’s memory like DREs do, BMDs print out a paper ballot that shows a barcode and text, intended to reflect the choices the voter made on the computer. That ballot is then scanned and recorded through a different device.

Proponents of the system say that because of that print-out, voters can be trained to spot when something goes wrong before their vote is counted, and that software bugs or foreign interference can be identified quicker than with the DREs. Some disability advocates prefer the computers because they allow people with disabilities to vote with accommodations through the same machine that a non-disabled person uses, reducing distinctions between the two experiences.

But scientists say the five-member panel could have picked a safer system.

NOT THE “GOLD STANDARD” FOR SC

Of the seven options submitted to the state in response to its request for proposals (RFP) last year, three vendors proposed the state buy their hand-marked paper ballot systems, also known as optical scan paper ballot technology. The hand-marked technology wasn’t just significantly cheaper than the BMDs: It also came enthusiastically reviewed by top scholars.

On January 16, 2019, months before the selection committee met for the last time in May, 23 professors, researchers, and scientists from MIT, Harvard, Google and other well-respected technological institutions sent a letter to S.C. Speaker of the House Jay Lucas, the President of the Senate Harvey Peeler and the executive director of the SEC Marci Andino. Buell was among the co-signers.

The authors were clear about their consensus that simpler, hand-marked paper ballot technology would be better than the more expensive and technically complicated ballot-marking devices.

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“We write to urge you to follow the advice of election security experts nationwide, including the National Academies of Sciences, the Verified Voting Foundation, and the many states that are abandoning vulnerable touchscreen electronic voting machines in favor of hand-marked paper ballots as the best method for recording votes in public elections,” the letter read.

“Our strong recommendation is to reject computerized ballot marking devices (BMDs) as an option for South Carolina’s voting system, except when needed to accommodate voters with disabilities that prevent them from hand-marking paper ballots,” the experts continued. “Well-designed hand-marked paper ballots combined with risk-limiting post-election tabulation audits is the gold standard for ensuring that reported election results accurately reflect the will of the people.”

It’s a common misconception that because the BMDs spit out pieces of paper, the paper trail they leave is as reliable as the one left by hand-marked paper ballots, Buell said. What most people don’t know, he said, is that when the papers imprinted by BMDs are scanned to record the votes encoded on them, the barcodes transmit the voter selections, not the printed words. Since people can’t read the barcodes, “a BMD ballot is absolutely not voter verifiable.”

Audits conducted after an election can catch evidence of errors in voting technology by comparing the votes printed on paper ballots to the final votes registered. For audits on BMDs to be effective, however, Buell said that auditors would need to statistically sample not just whether the text on the pieces of paper printed by the machines matched up with the votes that were eventually recorded, but whether the text matched with the information transmitted through the barcodes. Buell doesn’t believe sampling like that is being done in South Carolina, so the BMDs likely won’t allow for the “gold standard” in auditing here, either, he said.

Blaze echoed Buell’s points about BMDs in his testimony before Congress, and added one more drawback: “If BMDs fail or must be rebooted at a polling place, there may be no alternative method for voters to create marked ballots, making BMDs a potential bottleneck or single point of failure on Election Day.”

Bottlenecks can lead to long lines and wait times, which are known to discourage people from voting. The form of voter disenfranchisement disproportionately affects communities of Latino and Black voters, research from The Brennan Center, a nonpartisan law and policy institute, shows.

Blaze went on to make the same recommendation the 23 experts had sent a year earlier to S.C. lawmakers. Simple technologies, like optical scan paper ballot technology, should be deployed to make sure elections are as strong as possible against external attacks.

But in the notes scribbled by the five panelists during the meetings they attended to decide which vendor and technology system would win the S.C. award in 2019, the known security problems with BMDs and benefits of hand-marked paper ballots were hardly mentioned. The notes were obtained via an open records request and reviewed by The State newspaper.

“Handmarked systems can cause human error + doesn’t provide the necessary assistance for those with disabilities,” wrote Amanda Loveday, one of the five, on an evaluation form about one of the hand-marked proposals. About the BMD system proposed by ES&S, she wrote that “ES+S offers customized hardware … a sophisticated thumbdrive vote secure system.” On another form, she added that ES&S’s “current relationship + knowledge of the state was a plus.” The other selectors made similar remarks.

Ultimately, the group gave the hand-marked systems lower scores and voted unanimously for ES&S’s BMDs, which would cost the state over $51 million.

Loveday currently works in public relations and doesn’t consider herself “a tech person.” Others on the committee included a councilman and two businessmen. Loveday said she did not remember being given academic articles or research from computer scientists as part of the selection process, nor did she remember being shown the letter sent to S.C. lawmakers and the SEC from the national group of voting experts about their recommendation of a hand-marked ballot system.

But Loveday didn’t feel like the group would have made a better decision had there been someone with more technical expertise on the committee, she said, and her experience as a former executive director of the S.C. Democratic Party where she worked closely with the SEC qualified her to serve on the board.

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The SEC followed procurement law, Whitmire added, and the panel was advised by cybersecurity experts, advocates for voters with disabilities, national consultants, county election officials and state election official administrators. After listening to them and to the representatives from each of the companies, the review panel decided that the BMDs from ES&S were best, he and Loveday agreed.

What was more, the SEC was happy with the support and commitment that ES&S had provided to the state so far, Whitmire said in an earlier conversation with The State. In his opinion, even their old machines had been reliable “like an old pair of Levi’s (jeans).”

Teague of the League wasn’t surprised when she heard that the committee had decided to select ES&S and its BMD system last year. “The whole thing was set up in a way that would facilitate that,” she said. “We feel the procurement panel was given a biased view.” Lawmakers, scientists, and citizens repeated similar concerns to The State.

It wasn’t the first time questions had been raised about the SEC and its relationship with ES&S. In 2004, a review conducted by the state chief procurement officer determined that ES&S had not met the requirements of the RFP despite the fact that the state had already announced its intention to give the company the job, a Legislative Audit Council report found. The solicitation had to be rebid before it was eventually given to ES&S later that year.

And in 2018, an investigation by McClatchy, The State Media Co.’s owner, reported that the SEC’s Marci Andino was among the group of election officials who were paid to attend meetings as part of ES&S’s national advisory board. Andino has publicly reported accepting a total of $19,200 in expenses from ES&S since 2009, but has said that her involvement did not have any bearing on the committee’s decision to pick ES&S as the vendor for the latest contracts.

Meanwhile, the Nebraska-based company was busy expanding to other states.

“THE MARKET FOR VOTING EQUIPMENT IS DYSFUNCTIONAL.”

In the ES&S response to the S.C. RFP for the new voting machines, the company outlined that it provided “state-wide installations” like South Carolina’s to 14 states in total, and other voting services to clients in all but eight states in America. The company’s technology served over 80 million registered voters — more than any other competitor on the market — a study about the industry from the University of Pennsylvania found in 2017.

But the success of ES&S and its nearest competitors isn’t owing to their technological prowess, suggested Dan Wallach, professor of computer science at Rice University in Houston. Wallach currently serves on a committee that helps develop national guidelines for voting technology products and conducts research with the nonprofit, VotingWorks. Like Buell, he is a member of the Election Verification Network.

“There’s certainly nothing worthy of the phrase ‘innovative’ from anybody in the entire election space,” Wallach said. “To the extent that we’ve had public analysis of the major current vendors, the code that they wrote for the previous generation of products, it was just really terrible. They were making it up as they went along.”

The RFP sent to South Carolina in 2019 hints at why that might be. Of the seven ES&S employees included in the “biography” section of the company’s paperwork, only one, the senior vice president of operations, seems to have obtained any sort of formal education in technology. He earned an associate’s degree in applied science and electronics, then graduated with a bachelor of science in business administration. The rest of the team either graduated with a bachelor of science in marketing or business, a bachelor’s of arts or an associate’s of arts.

Though ES&S receives millions of public dollars to pay for voting technology and services, an ES&S spokeswoman said that the company was too busy preparing for or supporting elections to schedule a tour or call with a reporter from The State when asked in September and October. At the time of publication, ES&S did not choose to comment about the technical experience of the company’s employees.

Wallach was frank about the lack of good options on the market. There are federal standards for the technology, but they’re “old and inadequate.” Even so, the systems available for sale today are not built to the most recent guidelines, Wallach said.

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