Pennsylvania Election Director Signed Off on Tests That Never Happened
A buried document. Contradictory emails. A voting machine that was never tested before counting thousands of ballots. That’s what’s coming to light in Cambria County, Pennsylvania.
Just before the 2024 election, the county submitted an official certification form to the state. It claimed that every single voting machine had passed testing and were approved for use in the election, including the high-speed central scanner that counts mail-in, absentee and often provisional ballots. Plus their backups.
Internal emails from Maryann Dillion, sent weeks after the election, later admitted that the central scanner hadn’t been tested at all. The document that was supposed to verify the election’s integrity wasn’t even found until months later.. uncovered by the new elections director, after Dillion had already left.
These documents were only found months later by the new Elections Director, Nicole Burkhardt following an inquiry from Rep. Frank Burns.
In them Dillion admits, “We do not test our central count,” and suggested that the county should begin doing so in the future. That’s not a clerical oversight… it’s a direct contradiction.
I’d also like to bring to your attention that right after certifying the votes on November 5th 2024, the very same government official who signed off on the machines — Maryann Dillion, Chief Clerk and Director of Elections — quietly retired two weeks after the 2024 General Election.
So on paper, the machines were tested.
In reality, they weren’t and yet, those same machines were used to count thousands of mail-in and provisional ballots. That’s not just sloppy recordkeeping… that’s a false certification, and it calls into question the legitimacy of the vote count itself.
According to official election data from Cambria County, PA, Donald Trump won with 49,408 votes.. roughly 69% of the total.
The county logged 15,022 absentee or mail-in ballots and 662 provisional ballots. That’s 15,684 votes counted by a central scanner that, according to internal emails, was never tested.
An untested machine tallied over fifteen thousand votes and no one knew until months later.
Just to give you a visual of what this looks like:
The ES&S DS450
According to Vote Verifier, this is the central count scanner for the 2024 election in Cambria County, PA. The very one that Maryann Dillon certified as tested. It processes mail-in, absentee, and provisional ballots in large batches.
According to EAC records, it was first introduced in Cambria County in 2020 and federally certified for use by Pro V&V.. a private testing lab with deep ties to the defense industry. They recertified it again in 2023.
I strongly recommend reading my deep dives into Jack Cobb, the man behind Pro V&V, who previously worked for CIBER Inc., a lab that lost its EAC accreditation and was effectively shut down.
Why? Because CIBER reportedly leaked election software and were caught using “test decks” provided by the very companies whose machines they were supposed to be independently auditing.
So, this central scanner… it’s built to handle thousands of ballots per hour. But in this case, it was never tested before it started counting. The county said it was. Internal emails later said it wasn’t. And no one caught the lie until long after the results were certified.
Now, this made me reflect back to the Tina Peters story. If you don’t know who she is, she was the elected clerk of Mesa County, Colorado and a 2020 election denier who allowed unauthorized individuals to image Dominion voting machines. She claimed she was “preserving evidence,” but what she actually did was hand sensitive election system data to pro-Trump operatives, leading to a major breach and her own criminal indictment.
I also thought back to the Trump team’s forensic cloning of ElectionWare during the Fulton County, PA data breach.. an incident that happened around the same time and ultimately led to the decertification of Dominion machines and over a million dollars in taxpayer costs.
Now, I want to make it clear, the DS450 was not among the machines publicly identified in the forensic copying operations tied to Trump allies after the 2020 election. Not as far as I could find.
We know for certain that the Dominion systems were accessed, imaged, and passed around through networks connected to the Trump legal team. We have no evidence that says it also involved the ES&S ones.
But let’s not pretend we’ve seen the full picture. Not every breach gets a headline. Not every forensic copy ends up in a lawsuit. And not every machine leaves a clean audit trail when it’s plugged in, copied, and quietly returned. Especially knowing that some of these breaches were specifically planned at times when an update was set to wipe the systems, and were only discovered because they told on themselves..
The DS450 may not have been named in the breach reports, but it shares a software and security ecosystem with systems that were. And if the machine in Cambria County was vulnerable, untested, and unmonitored… when the real question is not whether it was breached, but how we would even know.
Because what hasn’t been disclosed may matter more than what has.
The Pennsylvania Election Discrepancies Grow Everyday
If this sounds familiar, it should.
In my last report on PA, we saw a forensic election model flag over 210,000 suspicious votes in Pennsylvania alone…votes that broke the rules of math, probability, and reality. Precincts with more ballots than voters.
Zero registered voters, but hundreds of votes anyway.
This report was part of the overarching efforts of the Election Truth Alliance. They have a petition requesting a hand-count of the PA votes here:
https://www.change.org/p/demand-a-hand-count-audit-of-pennsylvania-s-2024-presidential-election
They have 39,868 at the time I posted this. Can you make it 39,869?
Now we find out that one county, Cambria, used an untested machine to count more than 15,000 of those ballots, then signed a form saying everything was fine.
The official who signed it retired quietly. The document was lost, then found. And the state certified it all without blinking.
When you stack this story next to the last one, it stops looking like random failure and starts to look like a system built to hide its own tracks.
What we’re seeing isn’t just glitchy paperwork or lazy oversight.. it’s a method. A process. A ritual of certification where no one checks if the foundation is even real.
We used to call this kind of thing election interference when it happened in Belarus or Venezuela. Now we call it Tuesday in Pennsylvania.
And maybe the outcome was never in question, because the process made sure of it long before the first ballot was scanned.
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For all the Republican voter fraud shouting, Democrats should have been louder.