Breaking: Dominion/Liberty Vote Tabulator flips a vote in Chaves County – Changing the Outcome of a School Board Election

New Mexico is on a roll for exposure of faulty Dominion/Liberty Vote machines. A few weeks ago, an unused tabulator in Valencia County somehow added a few hundred fake votes from an unused tabulator into election results. Last week, another Dominion tabulator flipped a vote during an incredibly tight recount in Chaves County, changing the outcome of the election.

The race in question was for the Dexter School Board where four candidates were running to fill three positions. The top three candidates would get the spots, but the third and fourth place finishers were only a single vote apart – requiring a mandatory recount.

On election night, the results of this race were reported as Luis Davalos with 136 votes and Ryan Regalado with 135 votes:

The recount took place on Tuesday, December 2 in Roswell. District Court Judge James Hudson, a representative from Dominion/Liberty Vote, County Clerk Cindy Fuller, Presiding Judge Tracy DeLaRosa, and other election officials and workers were in attendance.

The recount is processed by first doing a hand tally of 100 total ballots from the absentee, early and election day categories. Each category of ballots was run through a separate Dominion/Liberty Vote machine. Only nine absentee ballots were cast in this race and they were all part of the hand tally.

The tallies from the hand-verified counts were then compared to the machine counts from election day. A serious problem was discovered with the absentee ballots – the hand-verified votes for Ryan Regalado showed he had received one more vote than what was reported by the Dominion/Liberty Vote machine on Election Day. The Dominion/Liberty Vote machine had counted someone’s legitimate vote as an undervote – as if that voter had not cast a vote in that race.

The nine absentee ballots from that race were scrutinized to determine if there was any reason that could be attributed to the markings on the ballot as to why the Dominion/Liberty Vote machine would fail to count that vote, such as a poorly or lightly marked ballot, but no such cause was found.

According to an anonymous source who was present at the recount, both the District Court Judge and the Dominion/Liberty Vote representative were shocked. County Clerk Cindy Fuller had seen a Dominion/Liberty Vote tabulator flip a vote before during a post-election audit of the 2020 election and had reported it to authorities who did no follow up investigation:

The recount showed that the race for the third position on the Dexter School Board is actually a tie. It is unclear how the winner will finally be determined.

The Otero County Commission completed a full recount and audit of their 2020 Election and found that the Dominion machines in that election mis-counted votes at a rate of 15 times that allowed by federal law. The Secretary of State’s own post-election audits show that the machines mis-count votes as much as 318 times the legal limit. State and federal law both require that voting machines that cannot meet the accuracy requirements must be decertified.