St. Charles County council members are hosting a town hall on March 16 so residents can discuss voting machine accuracy and whether elections can be manipulated.
“As an elected official and as the other elected council members, we were getting a lot of people coming to our council meetings who were just not happy with election issues,” said Joe Brazil, who represents District 2. “So, what we're doing is on Thursday we're having these folks come in and presenting information on what they believe could be a malfunction with electronic voting machines.”
Clay Parikh and Clint Curtis will lead the meeting, which takes place at The Family Arena on Arena Parkway and starts at 6:30 pm
“One of these guys can hack a voting machine in three minutes and so, they'll talk about that,” Brazil told the St. Louis Record. “There will be election directors out there and they can ask questions. We must have this conversation because I have a lot of constituents asking questions. If you just turn a blind eye to it, it's not going to go away.”
Brazil, who previously was a Florissant council member, cited a triggering event in which a group of three Democrat and three Republican judges in Augusta voted absentee but their ballots did not show up in the system. After testing the machine with a sample ballot and arguing with Election Director Kurt Bahr, they were arrested for election fraud.
“They were just stewing about it because they felt the system was not working properly and their other question was how many other votes in how many other locations or precincts are they having the same issues,” Brazil said in an interview. "The election director didn't seem to have any interest in listening to both sides of the story."
Clay Parikh, a guest speaker at the event, has more than 19 years of experience in cyber security and information assurance having led teams in vulnerability management, security test and evaluation (ST&E), and system accreditation.
The second guest speaker, Clint Curtis, is a former computer programmer turned attorney who became an election fraud whistleblower when he testified before Congress against a Republican legislator. At that time, Curtis testified about a code he had written, which was a prototype algorithm designed to use voting equipment to switch votes after ballots were cast.
"There are quite a few folks that would maybe consider going back to hand counting because there is too much room for error with electronic machines," Brazil added. "I think it's something that should be looked at."
Cause of America, a national election integrity organization, is helping organize the town hall event. My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell launched Cause of America 18 months ago and the Election Crime Bureau last week.
"With these electronic voting systems and with the voter rolls the way they are, citizens have no idea really what's happening," said Shawn Smith, president of Cause of America. "Even the elected officials have no idea what's happening inside the voting systems and they've been, unfortunately, desperately misled by a lot of the information provided to them by the National Association of Secretaries of State, state election directors, and the U.S. Election Assistance Commission itself."