Election worker shoving a large batch of ballots through a counting machine three times
In a bombshell revelation, TGP contributor Joe Hoft and his team at JoeHoft.com have raised serious questions about ballot counting procedures in Orange County, California.
Reviewing video footage from the Orange County ballot counting facility on the evening of Friday, November 8, 2024, three days after the election count should have stopped, Joe identified a troubling incident: an election worker appeared to process a large batch of ballots through a voting machine three separate times.
“We don’t know if there is a legitimate reason for the worker’s actions,” Joe wrote, adding, “But the worker pushed the same batch through the machine three times. (Each ballot is to be counted only once.)”
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What makes this situation even more concerning is its timing. This activity allegedly occurred shortly after the facility had received a bomb threat, forcing the evacuation of staff and public observers.
The Gateway Pundit previously reported that a bomb threat was called into the Santa Ana building where counting was going on.
In a statement, Orange County Registrar of Voters Neal Kelley Page sought to reassure the public, saying, “The Orange County Registrar of Voters is committed to ensuring equal access to the election process, protecting the integrity of votes, and maintaining a transparent, accurate, and fair election system.”
Page explained that the bomb threat, sent via email, was immediately addressed by the Orange County Sheriff’s Department, already present on-site as part of standard security protocols during ballot processing.
Now, in response to Joe’s explosive reporting, the Registrar’s office provided a detailed explanation to The Gateway Pundit.
According to their statement, the worker seen scanning the ballots three times was not committing fraud but rather following a standard protocol to address “scanner errors.”
Orange County Registrar of Voters said in a statement:
In his post, Joe Hoft stated: “We don’t know if there is a legitimate reason for the worker’s actions.”
The answer is “Yes.” This video shows an Orange County election worker scanning a batch of ballots three times, but only saving the batch once.
This is shown at the 1:25 mark of the video Mr. Hoft posted when following her third scan of the batch of ballots, a batch report printed from the printer at the end of the table, which she then attached to the top of the batch of ballots. This batch report did not print the first two times she scanned the batch of ballots, meaning she did not save those scans.
She likely scanned the batch of ballots twice and then cleaned the scanner before scanning the batch of ballots a third time because during the first two scans some of the ballots were rejected by the scanner. Given the large number of vote-by-mail ballots we must scan during an election, we must regularly clean the scanners.
We complete quality checks and audits to ensure ballots are only counted once and accurately, including:
Other Orange County election workers later quality checked the batch of ballots in this video two additional times, making sure the ballots in the batch match the information printed on the report. We do not upload any batch of ballots into the tally until these two reviews are completed.
Before I certified the results of the election, we audited the results of each of the 171 contests on the ballot. The audit was conducted by randomly selecting one percent of the precincts in the county (23) and then selecting additional precincts (62) until every contest was included. Then four-person audit teams hand counted every ballot in those selected precincts. Our audit teams hand counted about 40,000 ballots for this election. These hand-counted results were compared to the voting system tally, finding that the results of each contest was correct. You can review information about these audits on our website at ocvote.gov/audit.
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