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Monday, October 10, 2022
Private consortium that flagged 2020 election 'misinformation' defends its work with feds Election Integrity Partnership denies it aimed to "decide what is or isn’t 'misinformation,'" says DHS never filed misinformation reports through its system. New statement doesn't mention State Department's misinformation reports.
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Konnech Inc has various products deployed within the U.S. Election Systems and abroad. Some products have to do with oversea voting under UOCAVA provisions , and other products help disabled voters vote without going to a polling location. These products are often connected to the internet via smartphone applications utilizing cloud services that connect to the hardware. Konnech has deployed phone applications for over a decade while most of the public was still learning how to use their smartphones. Konnech has contracts with countless counties all over the United States, deploying their products to this day. Konnech has many products that connect to the internet, but we will focus on PollChief, an Election Worker Management System (EMS). PollChief helps manage the poll workers, polling locations, campaigns, assets, mail-in ballots, and supplies necessary to run elections in the United States, Canada, and Australia. The Smart Phone Application first surfaced in Hillsborough County, FL, on September 29, 2011. Konnech offered many products in their early days before entering the Election world, including automated voicemail systems within school districts to notify parents of weather delays and language learning tools to help teach children and foreign exchange students. One city, in particular, has always given Konnech a shot. The City of Detroit has long advocated for Konnech products from the beginning. IBM purchased ten telephone systems with voice mail fea-
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By John Solomon and Greg Piper A private consortium that played a major role in censoring social media content during the 2020 election has acknowledged anew it collaborated closely with two federal Cabinet agencies and state and local election officials on the project, but said most of its requests to Big Tech came from its own research. The Election Integrity Partnership issued a lengthy statement Wednesday after a series of reports by Just the News on the breadth of its efforts to censor purported misinformation, which impacted nearly 22 million tweets, 4,800 URLs, 20 news organizations, several lawmakers and candidates and two dozen influencers, with a 35% success rate for content removal, labeling or "softblocking." "Unfortunately, not everything written or said on TV about us has been correct," the statement says, claiming the consortium's researchers including students "have received threatening emails and social media messages." It denied the consortium ever attempted to do factchecks or "decide what is or isn't 'misinformation'" as opposed to identifying attempted election interference and delegitimization of results. The Hunter Biden laptop story, for example, is not "in scope" for its project. "To be clear, EIP did not send any reports of false
rumors or disinformation to social media companies on behalf of the Department of Homeland Security or the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency," the DHS component that was instrumental in the consortium's creation.
also reviewed tickets from its external partners. Consortium leaders determined whether reports were in scope with its mission.
The DHS-funded Center for Internet Security, which runs the Elections Infrastructure Information "CISA's relationship with Sharing and Analysis Center, was next with EIP was reviewed and approved by Trump Ad- 16% of tickets, according ministration attorneys as to the after-action report, which said most of those compatible with CISA's congressionally approved "originated from election authorities," the statement officials." The new statement says several insays. volved Arizona's "Sharpiegate," and those The consortium's afteraction report does not say posts were "possibly lathat CISA, whose interns beled or demonetized." were credited with the The consortium disclosed idea for the consortium, was prevented from filing new details on how many "tickets" through the sys- reports of misinformation were filed by certain "civil tem to flag content and society collaborators," ask for action from Big and the content of those Tech, however. reports. "Government and civil The Democratic National society partners could Committee, for example, create tickets or send notes to EIP analysts, and filed four reports: "a claim about voting-by-mail that they used these procedures to flag incidents or received little traction and emerging narratives to be was closed without acassessed by EIP analysts," tion," a political ad with "false claims about votethat March 2021 report by-mail fraud," a series of says. "spammy content farms It also noted that CISA's with extreme political Countering Foreign Influ- content" that were never ence Task Force "aided in referred for action, and an the reporting process" for ad suspended by Facebook that "incorrectly the consortium "and in claimed that completed implementing resilience efforts to counter election ballots had been thrown out." misinformation."
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Delaware Supreme Court rules universal mail-in voting unconstitutional Friday's ruling is a blow to Democrats who have sought to make permanent COVID-19-era adjustments to the absentee voting process.
By Ben Whedon The Delaware Supreme Court ruled on Friday that a state law enacting universal mail-in voting violated the state's constitution. "The Vote-by-Mail Statute impermissibly expands the categories of absentee voters identified in Article V, Section 4A of the Delaware Constitution," the court wrote. "Therefore, the judgment of the Court of Chancery that the Vote-by-Mail Statute violates the Delaware Constitution should be affirmed." The court further rejected a component of the law that would have created same-day registration throughout the state. "The Same-Day Registration Statute conflicts with the provisions of Article V, Section 4 of
the Delaware Constitution," the judges found. "Consequently, the judgment of the Court of Chancery that the SameDay Registration Statute does not violate the Delaware Constitution should be reversed." The court asserted that the three-page ruling would precede a "more formal opinion" but highlighted the state's plan to mail ballots to voters by Oct. 10 as the rationale for the "abbreviated order." While absentee voting is constitutional in Delaware, per the Epoch Times, anyone seeking such an accommodation must be unable to reach their polling place, due to reasons such as illness or disability. Friday's ruling is a blow to Democrats who have sought to make permanent COVID-19-era adjustments to the absentee voting process in a plethora of states.
White House says nuclear posture on Russia hasn't changed, following Biden's 'Armageddon' remark
The NAACP referred a "The kind of irresponsible rhetoric we have single claim, that the seen is no way for the leader of a nuclear-armed Proud Boys were sending state to speak, and that's what the president was "threatening emails" on making very clear," Karine Jean-Pierre said. behalf of President Trump, which the consortium determined to be a nor do we have indicaBy Natalia Mittelstadt hoax. tions that Russia is preThe White House has not paring to imminently use About four in five tickets "We immediately sent our changed its position renuclear weapons," Jeanwere filed by the consorti- analysis to the team at Pierre told reporters garding Russian Presi(Continued on page 16) dent Vladimir Putin's um's own analysts, who aboard Air Force One, according to The Hill. threat to use nuclear weapons despite PresiShe said that Biden was dent Biden’s remarks of simply reinforcing the a potential administration's message "Armageddon," press that Putin's threats were secretary Karine Jeanirresponsible. Pierre clarified Friday. The new statement tellingly leaves out any mention of the State Department, whose Global Engagement Center did file tickets through the system, according to the after -action report.
"We have not seen any reason to adjust our own strategic nuclear posture,
"The kind of irresponsible rhetoric we have seen
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