Robert B. Sklaroff, M.D., F.A.C.P.

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Ordinarily, I squish the weekly-report from the Thomas More Society onto a page, but lotsa detail
was discussed (focused on Virginia and New Jersey) that illustrates the depth of these meetings;
thematic was Phill Kline’s op-ed detailing the importance of following election law. Inexplicably,
someone claimed falsely that the PA Supremes had a GOP-majority after Brobson’s victory; also,
proposed was awarding Michigan’s 15 electoral votes to the national popular vote victor instead
of to the state’s victor. The Wisconsin Legislative Audit Bureau released its “2020” report, and the
Sheriff of Racine County announced an investigation of WEC's operation of the 2020.

New Jersey Gubernatorial Race. The final polls had the Dem leading by 8-14%, but the race was
called with a Dem incumbent win of 2.6%. The Republican challenger was ahead until Dem county
and mail-in vote totals were received on the following day; this was reminiscent of how, in 2020,
a New Jersey postman was charged in federal court for throwing out 99 general election ballots.
On Tuesday Night, CNN reported the race was "too close to call"; with 84% of the vote reported.
On Wednesday Morning, "Phil Murphy narrowly trailed Jack Ciattarelli with ballots—many of
them vote-by-mail—in Dem-rich areas yet to be counted. With nearly 98% of precincts reporting,
Ciattarelli held a mere 1,200 vote lead, a statistical dead heat, and there were about 700,000 early
and mail-in votes still to tally." **Later reports would report fewer votes were totaled ("88%"). It
was assumed the media would say the discrepancy has to do with provisionals, mail, early, etc.
On Wednesday Afternoon at 12:30 PM, after 88% of the 2.37 million votes had been counted,
Ciattarelli led by 695 votes (0.02%); at 3:00 PM, Murphy led by ~15,000 votes (Murphy = 1,201,420
and Ciattarelli = 1,186,337). On Wednesday Evening at 6:30 PM, the race was called after Murphy
took the lead after tabulation of more mail-in ballots and Dem-heavy Sussex County; the margin
was viewed as insurmountable, but Ciattarelli didn’t concede due to this last-minute “stuffing.”

New Jersey State Senate Race. The New Jersey senate president seems to have been upset by a
GOP challenger who spent less than $200 on the race. The Dem senator didn’t concede because
“they have found 12,000 ballots” (recalling the box 13 scandal). Unspecified was whether chain-
of-custody procedures were followed and the overall “who/what/when/where/how/why.”

Virginia Gubernatorial Race. Glenn Youngkin won after promising to place parents in charge of
schools, to help businesses create jobs, and to ban arbitrary government rules/lockdowns. And
he promised proper application of five election policies: [1]—update voter rolls monthly; [2]—
strengthen voter-ID no matter the manner of voting; [3]—verify all mall-in applications and ballots
are legitimate/timely; [4]—require observers during tabulation and the audit of voting machines;
and [5]—establish a politically independent/transparent Department of Elections.

{The above was squished; what follows is copied verbatim due to Tim Griffin’s intimate knowledge
of what transpired, although minor edits have been made to optimize narrative flow.}
Was there election fraud in Virginia? The legacy media is making the case that the sore losers
from 2020 aren't saying anything about the Virginia Governor's race because they won, and they
only complain about election fraud when they lose. Obviously, the sting of fraud hurts less when
your candidate wins, but that doesn't mean that Virginia had a perfect election. I served as a poll
observer with Christine Brim and a few others in Virginia's largest jurisdiction -- Fairfax County,
outside of Washington D.C. Virginia was much better than what I witnessed in Detroit and Atlanta
over the last year, but that isn't to say it didn't have problems. We saw a host of problems:

• Poll Observer Access. Fairfax limited poll observers to ONE per room. Usually about two
- four teams of workers were processing absentee ballots, and would allow one observer
per political party access.
• Temporary Workers. Although Virginia law requires political party parity between the
hiring of election workers, the army of temporary workers hired to pre-process ballots
are not required to identify their political party. A supervisor told me that they were all
non-partisan. The problem with this is that Fairfax is 70/30 democrat-to-republican, and
government workers from other departments often take these positions. This creates a
major imbalance in the bipartisan process.
• USB Flash Drives Unreliable. Fairfax County had 16 early voting "satellite office"
precincts where voters could show up to vote early up to 45 days before the
election. Voters would vote on a literal paper ballot OR on a BMD (Ballot Marking Device),
where they would vote on a screen and would be issued a sheet of paper that identified
their votes, but had a unique barcode that is unreadable by the human eye, which serves
as the record the machine tabulator will use to tabulate votes. I was told that early voting
sites promoted the use of BMDs, while mail-in absentee ballots were pure paper ballot
voting. This is interesting because mail-in voting heavily favors democrats, whereas early
voting does not and even favored republicans in some areas of the Commonwealth. The
tabulators used were made by ES&S. ES&S tabulators accept the ballots, extract the data
needed to count the ballots, record this info on the flash drives. A flash drive could record
about 7k votes before the flash drive was full. Each flash drive had both a primary and a
backup drive that were kept together. Under Virginia law, votes are not allowed to be
counted until after 7:00 PM on election night. However, all of the counts are knowable
for those in possession of the flash drives (although this would technically be
illegal). What Christine and I witnessed was a large number of the Flash drives had not
been properly formatted OR had been in machine tabulators that were not properly shut
down. This led to tens of thousands of ballots having to be re-counted on election
day. Machine proponents would say, "this is how you know this system is working
because there was a problem, so we went back to the source and required a literal paper
ballot recount". However, if close to a quarter of your flash drives are failing, it doesn't
give me confidence in the system.
• Masks. Masks continued to be a way to suppress right-leaning voters and observers. All
throughout the day we heard stories of voters and observers being turned away for not
wearing masks inside of a precinct. Most registrars seemed to be good about making sure
that local election offices were overruled and voters allowed to vote. But how many
voters were turned away and didn't complain or call for backup -- but instead simply drove
away?
• Miscounts. As a result of the error messages on the USB drives, some satellite offices had
to be recounted. The paper ballots were pulled. The ballots pulled from one of the early
precincts was especially interesting. The Mount Vernon precinct had about 11,336 voters
vote early. These paper ballots were divided up into eight separate cardboard boxes,
sealed, and had a report on the outside of the box. The report had the date range these
ballots had been accepted, the precinct, a box number, the total number of ballots inside
of the box, and I believe many of them had the signature of the person who had filled the
box. Mount Vernon Box #362 was marked as having 478 ballots. However, when the box
was opened up and re-counted, it had 1,532 ballots.

No one could explain why a sealed box with less than 500 ballots suddenly had more than
1,500 ballots. I spoke directly with the registrar multiple times on this issue. At the end
of the day, he determined that because the entire precinct had recorded 11,336 voters,
and the recount revealed 11,332 ballots (missing four ballots -- I don't recall the reason
for this) -- that all was well. But when I asked him WHERE and WHEN these extra ballots
may have come from, why the notes on report were incorrect, whether another box of
ballots was 1k ballots short, etc.... there was no answer. 1,000 un-explainable ballots in
one precinct is a lot. I should note that a GOP-retained attorney observer had a follow-
up conversation with the registrar and felt that the reason for the ballots was
acceptable. I never received an explanation.
• Center for Civic Design. You will remember the Center for Civic Design was a left-leaning
non-profit heavily involved in the 2020 election. This group was involved in creating ballot
designs, and plans to count massive amounts of mail-in ballots. Our own AVA Jacqueline
spoke to us about their involvement in the California recall race this year and the holes in
the ballot envelopes. Officials for CCD as well as a representative of the U.S. Elections
Assistance Commission came to the Fairfax Registrar's office and were given a secret
meeting and private tour of the facilities and process on election day. None were willing
to identify themselves. The registrar told me that the reason the three reps
from CCD were there is because they were working in conjunction on a project with
the U.S. Elections Assistance Commission. The one lady who was in Fairfax with CCD from
the Elections Assistance Commission would not provide a card or name. Scott stated to
me she was the Executive Director of the Commission. Based on this information, I
believe it was Mona Harrington.
• Certification. Following the canvass effort that is wrapping up this week in most
localities, the election will be certified by the State Board of Elections, a panel of political
appointees that the governor appoints, with a one-party edge to the governor's
party. The position of AVA continues to be that elections should be overseen by a joint-
standing committee of both houses of the legislature so that there is accountability in the
process. This unelected board of political appointees are far removed from accountability
to citizens, voters, and taxpayers.
• Political Party Observers. My personal experience in this election was that political party
observers from all political parties were a complete joy to work with. This stands in stark
contrast to a place like Detroit where I personally observed democrat poll watchers
attempt to have republican poll observers arrested. Poll watchers called each other
names, stalked, intimidated, etc. I mention this only because election observers must
know their terrain and prepare for what those opposed to honest and transparent
elections may do.
 • Pre-processing of Absentee Ballots. Virginia had pre-processed almost all absentee and
early ballots prior to election day in 2021. This meant that by the time many poll
observers showed up on election day, the work was done. The ballots had been
identified, logged in the internal VERIS system, and stacked for tabulation prior to
election day. This process began in October. The good news is that early pre-processing
avoids the chaos of consolidated counting centers that took place in cities across the
nation as they race to count hundreds of thousands of ballots streaming through the door
in real-time. The bad news is that if fraud occurred, or procedures were bypassed -- these
acts would likely be unknowable. Notably, this makes it almost impossible to justify late-
night ballot dumps.
• Post-election Ballots. Under a new Virginia law, mail-in absentee ballots can now be
accepted until Friday after the election at noon, as long as they are postmarked or even
under some circumstances if the postmark is ineligible. This was not a problem for in this
year's election for one simple reason: the winning candidates won by large enough
margins that thousands of mail-in ballots would not have helped them. In a very tight
election, this process still presents grave danger.
• Write-in candidates. A local school board race saw the writing-in of tens of thousands of
names in Bedford County, VA. These names were written onto a traditional paper ballots
but many voters used the first line to write the candidates first name, "Matthew" while
his last name, "Holbrook" was written below and outside of the box. The local county
board of elections was tasked with tabulating the votes. Rather than count the paper
ballots, they used the state-directed process where the Dominion machine prints a long
receipt (like a grocery store receipt), where they what is written in the box is printed over,
and over, and over. This makes it much easier to tabulate. However, it makes it much
more difficult to determine a voter's intent as the only vote the board of elections was
shown was "Matthew". Fortunately, the local Board of Elections voted to accept
"Matthew" as a vote for "Matthew Holbrook" and so it didn't become an issue. But it isn't
difficult to see how this system could be abused in a less gentile jurisdiction.
• Differences from the 2020 Election? One of the most noticeable differences between
Virginia 2021, and swing states 2020 is that elections offices in Virginia weren't flooded
with private money, consultants, and get out the vote efforts in left leaning
jurisdictions. All of the problems with mail-in ballots remained, but election offices
weren't commandeered into GOTV offices on behalf of left leaving organizations.
• Poll Observers. Republicans had over 90% poll observer coverage across the entire
state. That made a huge difference.
• Same Day Registration. It is worth noting that Virginia will have same day registration
starting in July, so things are about to get even more complicated.

During the discussion of these observations, a recurrent theme was the potential disconnect
between what type of preparation is provided by the party to the workers and what actually is
going to be relevant while observing the voting process; notwithstanding the perennial existence
of “dead wood,” the challenge facing this new wave of activists is to enlighten powers-that-be.

Underlying these machinations is the fact that The Donald is still in the game, even as pundits
continue to reveal their “never-Trumper” pedigrees via both messaging/vocabulary; claiming that
the “Old School GOP” prevailed in Pennsylvania’s swing counties will not dissuade fellow-activists.