Macomb Today

A bipartisan group of software engineers has come out with initial findings from the 2020 elections in Michigan showing anomalies suggesting a computer algorithm was functioning inappropriately in voting machines.

The group was led by Shiva Ayyadurai, an inventor and software engineer who recently lost the U.S. Senate race in Massachusetts, Bennie Smith, a Democratic Party elections official in Shelby County, Tenn., and Phil Evans, who is a software engineer and entrepreneur.

The group's findings were clear, the election integrity in many jurisdictions across the country is vulnerable. 

“This is not a Republican, Democrat, independent issue – this is an American issue,” Ayyadurai said. “It's an engineering issue.” 

In Michigan, the group said 2020 election results from four counties they studied appear to show evidence of an algorithm improperly influencing the outcome of the voting machines tally. One of those counties was Macomb County.

In particular, the group pointed to a feature on voting machines that allows for votes to be weighted. In other words, the vote loses its value as a single vote once entered into a voting machine. 

“The documented feature of a weighted election is such, such a bad idea,” Smith said. “The only thing that can verify to us in a black box is the input and if we don't know, we don't know. We can't know if a weighted election was conducted. It's a feature, it's not a bug. So the only way we could get back to that is for the citizens to be able to remove the computers from the situation.”  

The group said they believe Trump votes were transferred to Biden and that their analysis backs up such a claim, but that there simply is no way to properly verify the election. 

In Macomb County, the data showed that when Trump hit about 25 percent of the votes, meaning 14,000 votes were taken from him and given to Biden.

“Early voting, Macomb County, here there were 28,000 votes,” Ayyadurai said. “Fourteen thousand taken from Trump,14,000 were given to Biden.”

Ayyadurai said the algorithm kicks in around 25 percent in Macomb County and there is the same kind of slope as there were in the other counties.

“Ok, so they start eating Trump's votes at this point,” Ayyadurai said.

Ayyadurai said on Election Day in Macomb County, it looks like the same algorithm is at play for a total of 16,500 votes being taken from Trump and given to Biden.