Voter registration databases, poll votes, and election reporting systems are so complex that most election officials don’t know how they work, according to an election security expert.
“Most of us are simple people who rely on these systems to control every aspect of our lives and all of our freedoms and if we can't understand the very system that we use to provide us those freedoms, we cannot use that system,” said Mark Cook, a featured speaker at The America Project (TAP)’s election integrity conference on Sept. 10 in West Palm Beach.
TAP was founded by Gen. Michael Flynn, an advisor to former President Trump, while Cook is an IT specialist and cyber security election expert. The event was co-sponsored by the American Citizens & Candidates Forum for Election Integrity (ACCFEI), Florida for America First, and the America First SOS Coalition.
“Voter registration databases were designed and engineered by very smart people that know far more than we do and that know far more than the election officials that are supposed to be using these systems know and I believe we are all getting conned,” said Cook, who allegedly helped Dallas Schroeder, a Colorado county clerk, copy the hard drives of Elbert County's election server, according to media reports. “Some election officials might be in on it, but I don't think many of them are. This is just a massive con job.”
Cook lectured on the 90-minute Solutions Panel alongside 2018 Congressional candidate Tim Canova and election integrity activist and international election observer Craig Pasta Jardula. Former CBS and Fox correspondent Lara Logan was the moderator.
“If you go and vote early, you give them the ability to have that information early so that they have all the time in the world to pepper in the ballots they need to inject to counter your vote and disenfranchise you,” he added. “So, don't afford them the option of having that data ahead of time. Go in on election day only and vote and make them work for it.”
Jardula urged citizen watchdogs to become more involved in elections than just working the polls.
“The way we must get involved with our elections is poking around, looking around, and demanding answers from election officials and the secretary of state,” he said.
“You want to know how many people that secretary of state or that election official is expecting to vote at this polling place in one day. How many volunteers is he going to hire? If they're not going to hire many volunteers, what outsourcing are they doing? Are they going to hire another company to come in and do the work that volunteers can do?”