While Sidney Powell’s federal lawsuits in Georgia and Michigan allege that the Dominion voting machines were connected to the internet in violation of federal election law on the preservation of evidence, a Thomas More Society attorney claims the denial of access to Dominion’s computer logs is even more telling.
“I am deeply concerned about state officials refusing to access computer logs,” Philip Kline, director of the Thomas More Society’s Amistad Project, said.
“You can’t count what you can’t see and you can’t audit information election officials hide.”
Powell, a former federal prosecutor, filed lawsuits in Georgia and Michigan alleging that there is evidence that the physical security of the voting machines and its software were breached,
Filed in the Eastern District of Michigan on Nov. 25, Powell's lawsuit accuses Wayne County in her complaint of using the same Dominion voting system tabulators as did Antrim County while Wayne County tested only a single one of its vote-tabulating machines before the election. A federal judge has rejected its claims.
“The Trump campaign asked Wayne County to have an observer physically present to witness the process,” Powell wrote in the complaint. “Wayne County denied the Trump campaign the opportunity to be physically present. Representatives of the Trump campaign did have the opportunity to watch a portion of the test of a single machine by Zoom video.”
But Kline told Legal Newsline that any real analysis of machine performance begins with access to the logs.
“These machines are a box and so we need to see inside the box,” Kline said in an interview. “The only way to do that is if Dominion and state authorities released the logs for each one of these optical scanners. Every forensic computer expert will tell you at the beginning of the investigation to get the computer logs.”
In a statement online, Dominion said all electronic devices used in the U.S. must be designed to be audited.
“Dominion Voting Systems are in fact auditable—and are audited and tested regularly by multiple government agencies and independent third parties,” Dominion states. “Servers that run Dominion software are located in local election offices, and data never leaves the control of local election officials.”
Powell’s Georgia lawsuit filed in the Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta Division, also alleges that unprotected logs are used within the Dominion voting machines.
“The design and features of the Dominion software do not permit a simple audit to reveal its misallocation, redistribution or deletion of votes,” Powell’s Georgia complaint states. “Essentially, this allows an unauthorized user the opportunity to arbitrarily add, modify or remove log entries, causing the machine to log election events that do not reflect actual voting tabulations—or more specifically, do not reflect the actual votes of or the will of the people.”