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Mellisa Carone, who was contracted by Dominion Voting Systems as an IT assistant during the election, has come forward with an affidavit that alleges fraud in mail-in ballots.

Carone stated that the staff at the TCF Centre in Michigan, where she was working on Election Day and the day after, would count the same batches of ballots more than once.

“The counters (which were trained very little or not at all), were handed a "batch" (stack of 50) of mail-in ballots in which they would run through the tabulator. The tabulators would get jammed 4-5 times an hour, when they jammed the computer would put out an error that tells the worker the ballot number that was jammed and gives an option to either discard the batch or continue scanning at which the counter should discard the batch, put the issue ballot on top of the batch and rescan the entire batch. I witnessed countless workers rescanning the batches without discarding them first which resulted in ballots being counted 4-5 times,” she wrote in the affidavit.

She claims when she reported this to her immediate superior, she was brushed off and told to do the job she was there to do, assist with IT work.

Furthermore, Carone noted that the adjudication process was not bi-partisan. She said around 20 machines were manned by two Democrats judging the results.

“The adjudication process, from my understanding there's supposed to be a Republican and a Democrat judging these ballots. I overheard numerous workers talking during shift change in which over 20 machines had two Democrats judging the ballots, resulting in an unfair process. When a worker had a ballot that they either could not read, or it had something spilled on it, they would go to a table that had blank ballots on it and fill it out. They were supposed to be filling them out exactly like the one they had received but this was not the case at all. The workers would also sign the name of the person that the ballot belonged to, which is clearly illegal,” she added.

Carone’s statement was one of the first to be submitted in a Republican bid to uncover misconduct and ballot manipulation in this year’s election.