PALMYRA – Rex Schroder said he hopes to rid Nebraska of potential election fraud by returning to hand-counting ballots, accurate voter registration, and election day polling.

Schroder, a 48-year-old small business owner, and former Palmyra fire chief says he is running for secretary of state because the current officeholder, Bob Evnen,  does not appear to be persuaded to act by what he considered to be irregularities in Arizona and elsewhere following the 2020 presidential election.

Schroder: “You’ve heard about these vote-counting machines. I want to throw them away. I want to count every vote in the State of Nebraska by hand. I want to get the poll books off of that software and I want to get those machines out of our polling. I want to count everything by hand.”

Under Evnen,  Nebraska contracted with Election Systems & Software, ES&S.

Schroder says that the contract includes a non-disclosure agreement that shields too much election data.

Schroder: “If you don’t count them first and you just run them through the machine – if you never actually count these by hand and you just trust what the machine says, now you’re trusting whatever has been programmed into the software.

 

 

"So, if you don’t count those, it may look legit – you may have even verified the signature in a county or two – but unless you actually count the vote, you’re just going to go off the machine count.

“When we can’t test these things... we can’t actually test the machines. Then we have a thumb drive that gets plugged into the side of the machine and the data gets downloaded to a thumb drive. We can’t test the thumb drive to see if there is any software in it. Then, when you plug it into the tabulation machine, we can’t test that either. All this stuff is being farmed out to ES&S and we have no oversight. Okay?

“Our elections … in our Constitution, we have the right to a free and fair election and there should be no hindrance or impediment for us to exercise our election process, and right now we can’t do that very well.”

Schroder said election integrity benefits all Nebraskans, including those in the state’s Second Congressional District that provided an Electoral College vote to Democrat Joe Biden.

Schroder: “If we would open up the machines and make sure there are no wireless modem chips and if we would do a full forensic audit and find out that Joe Biden actually did win that district up there, wonderful. But I think when we open up those machines, we’re going to find things that shouldn’t be there.”

Schroder: “We can’t even test the voting machines – ES&S tests them. Well, if they find something wrong, we can’t tell anybody … nondisclosure agreements … so we can’t even test them right. We have no idea if the actual number of votes is correct because nobody is really looking for it.”

He said the Secretary of State is required to recount 2 percent of the precincts in the state but says Evnen only recounted  “day-of” ballots and not the mail-in ballots. Schroder said he would limit mail-in ballots only to exceptions, such as shut-ins and military.

Schroder: “We also are like all the other states. We don’t verify citizenship. So, in other states, there have been illegals on the voting rolls and they’ve voted. That’s a federal crime. We have the same systems in place and we’re not really checking those very well either.”

He said the results of the presidential election did not sit well with many Nebraskans, who saw Donald Trump holding campaign rallies while President Joe Biden’s campaign was less visible.

Schroder: “Once you start hearing about the Arizona audit, not just the recount, but the actual audit, and they found people who have moved, there were deceased people, they found illegal immigrants, the found people who voted more than once – we have the same systems in place – and when you see Biden hardly ever went out and did anything and Trump was all over the place and still the election happened. We were just like every other state who really didn’t believe that.”

https://www.voicesofnebraska.com/ Arizona is leading Nebraskans to question their own system.

https://www.voicesofnebraska.com/

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