Guest Post on Williamson County Elections

3 minutes at Commissioner Court Mtg  28 June 2016

I am Bill Kelberlau from Williamson County. I am a 6^th generation Texan.   I am a retired Navy CAPTAIN with over 25 years of active and reserve duty, and a decorated war veteran. For those who do not know, a Navy CAPTAIN is the same as a full bird Colonel.  I am also retired from industry, GTE, Texas Instruments, and Raytheon in many areas of management, engineering and customer service. I have been a part of Williamson County for over 37 years.

Around the 2012 time frame Williamson County residents and I, here in Commissioners Court expressed our concerns about the integrity of Williamson voting process.  We requested strong consideration be given to implementation of a paper audit trail process. This was 2 election administrators ago.  Although both county chairs at the time supported the idea nothing was done.

Although the current election administrator has done an excellent job of improving training and other procedures internally the fundamental issues of external intervention remain.

ESS IVO systems have a documented history of system weaknesses, vulnerabilities and actual election irregularities in many states as well as Texas. These vulnerabilities are easily exploited and are outside the control of an election office.   All it takes is money.

Williamson County elections office currently has no expertise or procedures in place to detect or evaluate an external intrusion.   Also the office is not fully in compliance with state election statutes.

After doing statistical analysis on some of the 2016 primary election results there are strong indications of  algorithmic intervention. There is insufficient time in this 3 minutes to even outline the basics of this problem.

I have met with the Williamson County election administrator and provided some of this data to him. As I mentioned previously he currently has no capability of dealing with external intervention.

Williamson County is currently at the mercy of ESS and whoever has the money and desire to control the outcome of an election.

It is not who votes, it is who counts the vote.

I would be happy to meet with the Commissioners Court and provide the detail behind this short summary.

On page 40 of Governor Abbott's book, “ Broken but Unbowed”, he states a commitment to “prosecuting election fraud”.  I plan to confirm that commitment.