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To: Pat Vidgen PSM
Electoral Commissioner Queensland
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G'day Pat,
Re: Queensland 2020 State Election results 31st October 2020 Poll should be declared invalid as unsafe and unsatisfactory and Null and Void
I attach the response COM-6419.pdf from Julie Cavanagh Executive Director Election Event Management
Which response I am not satisfied with for example I have been recommending Online voting via to the ECQ since 2009 like a lot of other government workers because it is their job which they want to keep The ECQ have no interest in improving the situation
Any improvements to the existing archaic paper based system would only perpetuate this costly insecure and unreliable means of voting
And I quote the response One of the ways in which this is managed is by storing ballot papers in a locked room, within a locked venue and this has been the case at the Beerwah and Caloundra early voting centres you mention in your correspondence
The premises at at 1 Bulcock street Have 10 ( ten) means of highly insecure entry and exits at the front and rear with no operational security cameras
So there are 20 ( twenty) means of getting in and out of the building including glass slat windows that can be removed and climbed through and which are pictured below
I was shown the 'secure' store room where the votes were kept overnight right next to a double door fire escape exit ( not alarmed) and by law kept unlocked in an emergency
Anyone with access to the premises eg former tenants or others who may still retain unauthorised keys
And represents completely insecure access to building such as ECQ Early Voting and Polling Centre 1 Bulcock Street CALOUNDRA
The premises would be entirely accessible by any intruder from the outside with basic authorised or unauthorised entry skills
The lock to the room was an ordinary interior 'Yale' type lock that can be picked or even opened using a pen knife and which are also easily removed
Double Fire Exit doors pictured below with adjacent store room to the left
Any person so minded could thus influence an election by substituting and replacing forged ballot papers whether using pencil or inked pen to corrupt the result of voter ballot and intention which is also a personally unverifiable ballot
As previously advised generally I think there are a few problems with the voting system using sellotape cardboard boxes and pencil on paper such as the current election ballot box postal system in use by the ECQ today and non verifiable tracking or tracing of votes cast by individual secret ballot voters
None of the votes were checked for validity or authenticity eg by UV watermarque because no equipment or training exists to do this certainly none of the ECQ staff I scrutineered had any idea about verifying authenticity
The votes are held in 'sealed' ( zip tie style ) in cardboard boxes filled out using pen or pencil on paper such as the current election ballot box postal system in use by the ECQ today and non verifiable tracking or tracing of votes cast by individual secret ballot voters
I suspect these variations errors and omissions such as improperly secured and unsealed ballot papers over a period of two weeks at BEERWAH and CALOUNDRA ie 75% of the ballot papers indeed every other Early polling booth in Queensland without such a security policy in place could give rise to forgery and substitution of votes cast with forged ballot papers
Attached is picture of my ballot paper as submitted at Beerwah Simpson Street Early Voting Centre there are no Friday 23rd October 12:40PM which confirms there are no unique code for tracking and tracing a ballot paper verifiable by the voter
Anyone in possession of copied forged or replica ballot papers could
The ECQ response states that " ballot papers have security features such as imbedded markings that can only be seen under blue-light and they are printed on distinct, watermarked paper." I think ALL ballot paper votes such as that pictured below completed by early voters such as myself should be verified that they are genuine using watermark and infra red Ultra Violet blue light verification such as is the purpose of
In her official response Julie Cavanagh Executive Director Election Event Management also alleges that "It is not reasonable to deduct that a person would access the secure premises through other means such as a ventilation shaft, false floors or suspended ceilings."
These are entirely practicable means for an intruder to enter such a building particularly the Early Voting Centre in Simpson Street BEERWAH
I think the election should be declared NULL AND VOID
If you've got the key to the premises you can hold your own election and make the result up to whatever you want once the ballot paper is in the box no audit trail or verification whatsoever even filled out in pencil!? All sellotape and cardboard boxes even when 'sealed' with a zip tie
ELECTORAL REFORM
I have been recommending Online voting via to the ECQ since 2009
If you can bank online you can vote online
Everyone has heard of the internet and or knows someone with online access or a smartphone You can't deal with the government without holding a bank account perhaps linked to your TFN Bank Account which would avoid all of these problems including spoilt or informal votes using Online voting via MYGOV and or QGOV
That way we could vote more regularly and frequently - more often on more issues isn't that why we have elections in the first place!?
like a lot of other government workers because it is their job which they want to keep The ECQ have no interest in improving the situation
Any improvements to the existing archaic paper based system would only perpetuate this costly insecure and unreliable means of voting
With regard to Julie Cavanagh Executive Director Election Event Management Response to Results Software response
I wish to clarify that the ECQ's Election Management System data and infrastructure is entirely housed within Australia and your statement is untrue. There is no reason to suspect the results of the 2020 State general election are unsafe and unsatisfactory as stated in your letter.
Does not address the fact that 'Chinese communist party 'results' software' in relation to the Queensland electoral roll I believe used by the ECQ this time round at the October 2020 election that we are talking about
Based on gut feel intuition instinct and logic with 75% of the votes cast at pre-polling stations in the CALOUNDRA State Constituency I believe at the BEERWAH and CALOUNDRA pre-polling booths alone
I believe that the Queensland State Election 31st October 2020 Poll should be declared invalid, and the results Null and Void And demand a full check of every ballot paper to see that it is verifiably genuine at least by UV watermark as alleged by Julie Cavanagh Executive Director Election Event Management Because I don't believe they are genuine and valid votes if made on
Electoral fraud is a punishable offence with 75% of votes over a period of two weeks were left unsealed in the remote early polling premises - until polling day!? I believe that this was criminally negligent
None of the votes were checked for validity or authenticity eg by UV watermarque because no equipment or training exists to do this certainly none of the ECQ staff I scrutineered had any idea about verifying auhenticity - as raised to the ECQ herein
Coupled with ECQ's flat refusal to allow myself as a candidate and authorised scrutineer to determine overnight security at the BEERWAH early polling centre where these votes were kept until polling day -
I append the email from Lani Mercer Email Returning Officer for GLASSHOUSE and CALOUNDRA Early Polling Station I called her on her mobile number on numerous occasions 0419 786 972 Please See Appendix A and I attach Appendix B my own email to her the original - not the one amended in her email which omits her mobile number
Please Watch ABC News iView BEERWAH regarding Early Voting Centre refusing to allow scrutineering of Pre Poll votes security - 75% of votes accessible to anyone with access to the building ballot boxes not even sealed overnight - nor votes checked for authenticity - staff never even heard of UV
My own gut feel intuition instinct and logic tells me electoral fraud is apparent
Not least by taking advantage of Coronavirus COVID19 restrictions regarding anti 'social' distancing for the second time this year ( Council Elections ) Completely unable to usefully observe counting and allocation of preferences
What was abundantly clear was that at no stage did I observe UV watermark verification of authenticity of votes and for this reason require verification of validity of votes at least using this process to determine that votes cast were made on authentic stationery and had not been substituted during the unsecured unsealed fortnight that pre poll votes were kept at unsecured remote pre-polling stations prior to collection and collation prior to counting at official polling booths - which at CALOUNDRA 1 Bulcock Street which I had the opportunity to inspect were one and the same Ie completely insecure in my opinion and NONE of the staff who I interviewed knew about UV watermark or how to check it
ACTION
I think ALL ballot paper votes completed by early voters if not EVERY ballot paper should be verified that they are genuine such is the purpose of having a watermark and infra red Ultra Violet blue light lamps for verification and a recount ordered please across Queensland if any fraudulently invalid are found wanting
Inquiry into why I was flatly refused being able to scrutineer by Lani Mercer and her staff upon request
Queensland 2020 State Election results 31st October 2020 Poll should be declared invalid as unsafe and unsatisfactory and Null and Void
Yours sincerely
Mike Jessop
INDEPENDENT
CALOUNDRA
ATTACHMENT
Good afternoon Mr Jessop,
I am not quite sure which number you have been calling. I do not have any
missed calls or messages to call you on my Returning Officer phone.
As you are not a Candidate in the state electorate of Glass House, you have no
entitlement to scrutineer for yourself (as a candidate) and unless you have
been appointed as a scrutineer for a candidate in the Glass House electorate, I
am not able to accommodate your request.
I believe that you attended my office earlier today and demanded entry with my
temporary staff. And that you were refused (quite rightly) and asked to contact
me via email.
Counting has been completed in Glass House, and my office is now closed to the
public except at 2:00 pm when I will officially declare the Poll. However, you
will not be given permission to enter the premises, given that you are not a
candidate for Glass House.
If you have further queries please address them to the Electoral Commission of
Queensland.
Regards
Lani Mercer
ATTACHMENT
Lani
I am copying this and your email to the ECQ with a view to declaring the votes
remitted to CALOUNDRA from BEERWAH Glasshouse ECQ office
I ask you once more to allow me to confirm that prepoll votes for CALOUNDRA
were sufficiently secured over a two week until official polling day please
Yours sincerely
ATTACHMENT
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APPENDIX A
Email from Lani Mercer Returning Officer for GLASSHOUSE and CALOUNDRA Early
Polling Station calling on her number 0419 786 972 on numerous occasions
Subject:
Re: G'day Lani
Date:
Thu, 12 Nov 2020 02:30:44 +0000
From:
Lani Mercer (Glass House)
To:
Mike Jessop
RO Glass House
APPENDIX B
My original email as responded to by Lani Mercers
Subject:
Re: G'day Lani
Date:
Thu, 12 Nov 2020 13:27:23 +1000
From:
Mike Jessop
To:
Lani Mercer (Glass House)
, [email protected], Scott Sawyer
As a candidate in which early voting has taken place at your office I am
perfectly entitled to inspect every aspect of early voting
I have been trying to ring you all week on the number published for you namely
0419 786 972 and sure enough as your email confirms you have refused me
legitimate scrutineering which may be sufficient grounds to declare the votes
invalid
MIKE JESSOP
State Candidate for CALOUNDRA
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Lani Mercer
Returning Officer
Glass House
1300 881 665
[email protected]
L20/1 Eagle Street, Brisbane, Queensland, 4000
ecq.qld.gov.au
APPENDIX C
My email contained within Lani Mercer's response to my email as amended by her
which is quite different to My original email as responded to her ( please see
appendix A)
IE. This is the amended contents of my email to Lani Mercers contained within
here response that has been amended by her
From: Mike Jessop
Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2020 10:39 AM
To: Lani Mercer (Glass House)
Subject: G'day Lani
G'day Lani
Been trying to ring you on your mobile all week and left several messages to
arrange scrutineering
I specifically want to inspect the secure room that the pre polling votes were
secured in during the two weeks of pre polling here at BEERWAH Simpson Street
I am at the BEERWAH returning offices now
I gather you may be here around 2:00 pm today so that I may do this please as
an in person Candidate scrutineer today 12th November 2020
May God bless you
Regards
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