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In 2022, I personally witnessed and reported 3 potential election irregularities in Ada County (Eagle), Idaho, which may or may not be relevant:

1. Ballots collected at an outside drop box put into a zippered bag. Who knows what happened to them between pickup and drop-off at the counting warehouse? No locks, no security on the bag. (Election employees told me it was secure because there were two of them working together.)

2. At least one voter did not receive a requested absentee ballot. I was not seeking the information. Just learned it while dropping off campaign information.

3. At least 1 machine at my polling place jammed as the first page of ballots was fed in. Pollworker had to kick the container below the computer to fix the jam. This happened once to me and then to my husband. Poll watcher said this had happened all morning (I voted two hours after polls opened). Yes, the count on the screen went up by one for number of ballots. But…

* How were those ballots actually recorded?

* Why did the jam happen just on the first two-sided page (the one with the votes for freedom candidates)?

* How will we know?

* What is the effect of repeatedly jarring the machine to clear jams?

* Why wasn’t the jamming machine taken out of service? (Explanations: Jam couldn’t be fixed permanently because workers were not allowed to open the collection box. Machines had to be kept in service to keep ballots moving.)

Just because a bunch of people haven’t reported or found the irregularities doesn’t mean they didn’t happen. The beauty of cheating is there are so many small ways to do it! They add up.

We need UNIVERSAL clean voter rolls; voting day (not voting week or month) elections; precinct level in-person voting on paper ballots; minimal absentee voting; careful signature verification; citizens only voting; well trained poll workers and watchers with virtually unlimited access to the entire process; hand counting with multiple levels of independent verification; and clerks, voters, and elected officials who are serious about election integrity.

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