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A former IT worker for Dominion Voting Systems has said poll workers manipulated the machines on Election Day. 

Dominion Voting Systems is the second largest producer of voting machine equipment in the country. 

Melissa Carone, an IT worker in Detroit who does contractual work for Dominion Voting System was tasked with overseeing the ballot-counting machines on Election Day. Carone said she witnessed poll workers at the TCF Centre running the same batches of 50 ballots through counters multiple times, sometimes up to 10 times. 

Carone also said she saw two unmarked vans pull in that were said to be bringing food for approximately ⅔ of the poll workers. However, the vans didn’t appear to be large enough to be transporting food, she said.

“I never saw any food being brought out of them,” she testified.

While she was not permitted to touch any ballots or stand close to the machines, Carone said she was able to see some of the ballots, and that during her 24-hour shift, none of the ballots she saw were cast for President Trump, all were for Biden. 

“Not a single ballot. I did see not a single...not even one ballot for Trump. Not even one...the whole time I was there,” she said.

In addition, Carone said that there was no legal oversight with Democrats being overseen by Democrats. She also said she observed some poll workers duplicating ballots and changing the votes on some ballots, she said.

Dominion’s voting machines have been the source of controversy. In at least Michigan county, the voting machines have reportedly altered the vote count. 

The voting machines were first investigated after results in Michigan’s Antrim County showed that Biden had won the county, which is largely Republican. Dominion’s voting machines are used in other states where Trump has filed lawsuits – Michigan, Georgia and Nevada.

Another issue of concern was reported by Detroit City Employee Jessy Jacob, who claimed in an affidavit that she was instructed by election authorities to improperly predate absentee ballots - something she claims was done to thousands of votes, according to Detroit City Wire.

Jacob said she also saw election workers and employees trying to coach voters to vote for Biden.

“I witnessed these workers and employees encouraging voters to do a straight Democrat ballot,” she told Detroit City News.