Background:
Awhile back I posted these questions:
https://greatawakening.win/p/13zfvecAwK/i-am-a-citizen-of-my-state-and-i/
Shortly after, I sent them also to my county elections secretary. After allowing them some time to gather information, I met with them yesterday. During the weeks waiting for our meeting, I started reading my state's election statutes and obtaining useful websites so that I would be prepared.
My strategy: Clean my own house first and work outward from there. So, my questions were focused on my voting precinct.
Here's what I learned:
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OK State Statute Title 26 has the elections statutes. These can be read online at https://www.oscn.net/applications/oscn/Index.asp?ftdb=STOKST26&level=1
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Article 3, section 130 is the code about post election audits. OK doesn't have any statutes regarding forensic audits of elections presently.
https://www.oscn.net/applications/oscn/DeliverDocument.asp?CiteID=485610
- Article 3, sections 126 and 127 are big friends to those wishing to understand about specifics of their elections, and many of the answers to my questions can be obtained by submitting specific requests for public information to the county elections office. The elections-related public records in Oklahoma must be retained for 24 months. The County Elections officials I met with were very helpful to provide documents and the public request form for me to use, along with the fees and constraints regarding the inspection of the public records.
https://www.oscn.net/applications/oscn/DeliverDocument.asp?CiteID=78442
https://www.oscn.net/applications/oscn/DeliverDocument.asp?CiteID=78443
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Regarding "canvassing" my precinct, I learned to define the word canvassing as meaning "going door to door to ask if residents participated in the 2020 election" rather than "the tallying of the ballots". County Election officials are more familiar with the latter definition of the word "canvass". I learned that my precinct has around 1100 or so voters in it--a manageable number, imho.
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Regarding Early In Person voting, I learned that it is done at the county level, not at the precinct level. I also learned that dropboxes are not allowed in OK (Praise the Lord!!).
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Regarding Mailed Ballots and Provisional voting, I learned that mailed ballots are sent only when requested by a voter, and specific affidavits must accompany the ballots returned by mail. The affidavits require notarized signatures. If a person votes a mailed ballot and also votes in person, the county knows and refers the voter to the DA (District Attorney) for voter fraud investigation/prosecution. The message I got from that is if you request a mail ballot, you better darn sure vote that mail ballot. Best in my opinion to vote in person on election day.
I will post more here, but I wanted to share these while I was thinking about it.
Edit #1. More Of What I Learned...
- I was provided the link to the State Election Secretary site where information about Oklahoma's voting system and Integrity and security is found. At the top of the page is a link to a letter sent to the legislature about why the State Elections Secretary believes a forensic audit is not needed. See the READ LETTERS hyperlink.
https://www.oklahoma.gov/elections.htm
The security and Integrity page on the site is where information about Oklahoma's voting system and other security processes and precautions are found. OK does NOT use Dominion Voting systems. (Praise GOD Again--Still!)
https://www.oklahoma.gov/elections/security-integrity.html
This site is also where one can find the November 2020 certified results for the precinct. It downloads results, and to get to the precinct you have to click the county details from a dropdown for each race after selecting your county. Although the County officials told me there were about 1100 registered voters for my precinct, I found that around 700 actually cast ballots per the certified results. This closely matches the State participation rate of 67% or so. I plan to compare what I find on this site with what EAC reported to Congress for OK in their 2020 EAVS report.
Will do more sharing of what I learned when I can fit it in. Sharing this with you is helping me organize my thoughts around it for further activity. I am already seeing areas where follow ups are needed.
Edit #2. More sharing of what I learned...
- There were a couple of things I learned that deserve the word interesting in front of them. So, here goes.
Interestingly:
8a. The County Elections Secretary and Assistant Secretary were unable to answer my questions 27 & 28 because they are prohibited from disclosing any information about these security topics.
Here's questions 27 and 28 that were unanswered:
Q27. Does OK have different passwords assigned to each pollworker/precinct? Who sets these passwords?
Q28. Are paper jams on E-Scan logged?
Some may recall that there were findings in the Maricopa County Forensic Audit regarding universally used login credentials.
8b. Early voting for my county for the General Election for 2020 (November 3) was held at OneOK Field (a minor league baseball venue). It was "offered" to the County Elections Office as a voting site since "Covid" needed the six foot separation stuff.
Because I'm suspicious naturally, I thought about how various athletic venues were offered to counties for voting purposes --like the State Farm Arena in Atlanta, GA (home of the Hawk's Basketball team). This is where the infamous toilet leak that cleared out the poll watchers occurred.
How many athletic organizations offered their sites for Early Voting and what prompted them to do it? Good will? Was it coordinated?
Way to GO!