A bipartisan group of software engineers has come out with initial findings from the 2020 elections in Michigan showing anomalies suggesting a computer algorithm was functioning inappropriately in voting machines.
The group was led by Shiva Ayyadurai, an inventor and software engineer who recently lost the U.S. Senate race in Massachusetts, Bennie Smith, a Democratic Party elections official in Shelby County, Tenn., and Phil Evans, who is a software engineer and entrepreneur.
The group's findings were clear, the election integrity in many jurisdictions across the country is vulnerable.
“This is not a Republican, Democrat, independent issue – this is an American issue,” Ayyadurai said. “It's an engineering issue.”
In Michigan, the group said 2020 election results from four counties they studied appear to show evidence of an algorithm improperly influencing the outcome of the voting machines tally. One of those counties was Macomb County.
In particular, the group pointed to a feature on voting machines that allows for votes to be weighted. In other words, the vote loses its value as a single vote once entered into a voting machine.
“The documented feature of a weighted election is such, such a bad idea,” Smith said. “The only thing that can verify to us in a black box is the input and if we don't know, we don't know. We can't know if a weighted election was conducted. It's a feature, it's not a bug. So the only way we could get back to that is for the citizens to be able to remove the computers from the situation.”
The group said they believe Trump votes were transferred to Biden and that their analysis backs up such a claim, but that there simply is no way to properly verify the election.
In Kent County, Ayyadurai said the data showed that around the 25 percent mark, Trump leveled out again and it looked like 22,500 votes were taken from him and given to Biden.
With Kent County, the data from Election Day and early voting were studied together.
"And here you see (a) nearly 45,000 vote margin for Biden, which means around 22,500 votes were taken from Trump, 22,500 votes were given to Biden," Ayyadurai said. "And what you see was a 45,000 margin. And again, in these communities, which are more Democratic communities, Trump's doing well and then again, the algorithm kicks in and Trump's votes start getting eaten."
Smith said even if Republicans dislike Trump, it wouldn't be as perfect as the diagram suggested.
"You can even make the argument that even if you want to believe that Republicans hated Trump so, so much, the larger that the population size where they still wouldn't be able to hate him in such a perfect line," Smith said.
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