Dallas City Wire

Russell James Ramsland Jr. filed an affidavit speculating a built-in computer program was activated in certain precincts resulting in votes being improperly assigned. 

“This pattern strongly suggested that the algorithm (a future enhancement referred to as “ranked choice voting algorithm” or RCV) was activated."

Ramsland works for Dallas-area Allied Security Operations Group. His affidavit was filed in cases in Michigan and Georgia. 

He said the software could be easily manipulated to produce the desired election results. 

“For instance, blank ballots can be entered into the system and treated as ‘write-ins’,” he said in the affidavit. “Then the operator can enter the allocation of the write-ins among candidates as he wishes. The final result then awards the winner based on ‘points.’ The fact that we observed raw vote data that includes decimal places suggests strongly that this was, in fact, done. Otherwise, votes would be solely represented as whole numbers.”

In Michigan, a bipartisan panel of software engineers said data they reviewed from four Michigan counties reveals voting software may have deployed which could have changed vote from one candidate to the other.  

Michael Burry, an investor who made a fortune on his data-based stock picks and was featured in the Big Short, suggested the theory may have teeth.