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27 of December, which was Sunday, pursuant to some civil litigation that was going on in Michigan, this group, Allied Security Operations Group, made public this report of theirs.

Just to back it up a minute, Antrim County in Michigan had some litigation that was in State court. The Department was not involved in that whatsoever. We had no involvement. But, pursuant to that State litigation, a judge allowed the plaintiffs and their experts to look at the voting machines in Antrim County, and those were Dominion voting machines. Dominion is widely used around the country, both their hardware and their software.

And, just to stop you for a minute, this State litigation is brought—initiated by former President Trump and his—others acting on his behalf, essentially making an allegation that those ballots were somehow infected, unreliable, and that's playing out in State court?

I don't believe so. I think this was brought by a private citizen. I don't think this was brought by the campaign. But whether that was someone who was in some way allied with the President's campaign, I don't know, but from my recollection, there was a private citizen who was challenging, if not the Presidential election, maybe something else on that ballot.

But, regardless, a State court judge said that the plaintiffs could go in, look at the hardware, look at the software, and do their own analysis. And, supposedly, that's what produced this report from Allied Security Operations Group. That came out on Sunday, the 13th. I believe this was attached to some sort of application in the State court proceeding, and so it became public. It was all over the internet. There was a lot of talk about it.

The allegation here essentially was that this forensic review indicated that the Dominion machines produced a 68-percent error rate. Now, obviously, if the Dominion