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A Message from Alan Hays

Lake County's Supervisor of Elections

The judge has rendered his verdict in the Baker v. Jordan case. I purposefully delayed this posting until the court process had been completed. Our policy is to not comment on legal matters until they are closed. I am told that an appeal of the decision has been filed but nothing I say, or post now will be considered by the appeals court if they decide to rule on the matter, so I want to make sure everyone has the opportunity to hear the whole story. Therefore, I offer the following:

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, in this case the only opinion that really matters is that of the judge. The judge forms his opinion based on the facts of the case as presented by the lawyers for those involved, and the laws of Florida.

 Friday, June 14th was the deadline for candidate qualifying for Lake County. Our office had been notified there would likely be many people filing for positions on the deadline date. To accommodate the expected high volume of paperwork, the SOE team arrived at a method that would provide the best level of service possible on that Friday morning. We consulted with the Florida Division of Elections to ensure that we were abiding by the law and the rules of the handbook published by the Division. The Division assured me that plan I related to them was well within the law and that the handbook was correct.

Our designated process was designed to make certain that everyone who was “in line” to qualify for an office by the noon deadline, would be given a fair opportunity to qualify even if the volume of paperwork prevented us from completing the paperwork before the noon deadline. The Division clearly stated they follow the same process in Tallahassee if candidates are in line to qualify when the deadline arrives.

To address the expected volume, we doubled the number of staff normally assigned to handling the qualifying paperwork. We also added a Notary if documents needed to be notarized. An additional time/date machine was purchased for processing the paperwork.  We provided each person arriving after 11:30 AM on Friday with a time-stamped document to prove they were in the building before the noon deadline. At noon, a notice was placed on the front door of the office, stating qualifying is now closed.

Staff persons continued to process the candidate paperwork after 12:00 PM for those individuals who were present before noon.

Mr. Baker had arrived at the SOE office before 11:30 AM and handed in some of his paperwork but intentionally withheld one of the documents to be handed over at the last possible moment. He later handed in that last document, and it was stamped at 12:01 PM. Mr. Baker then departed our premises.

Mr. Jordan arrived after 11:30 AM and properly completed the form indicating he was present before the noon deadline. He then waited, as instructed by staff, for his turn to have his paperwork processed. Staff called him to complete the process of qualifying at 12:16 PM. While some individuals may disagree with these facts, they are indeed the facts. 

The judge concluded that no statutes were broken. He concluded that the SOE process was the correct procedure to follow so that everyone desiring to qualify for an office who was present before the noon deadline with completed paperwork, would be able to qualify.

Where do we go from here? Mark Jordan’s name will be printed on the 2024 General Election ballot. Right under his name you will find a blank line with a blank oval beside it.  On that line, since only one person is a qualified write-in candidate, ONLY ONE name will be counted and that is the name of Carey Baker.

Those who wish to vote for Mark Jordan should darken the oval beside his name. Those wishing to vote for Carey Baker, should darken the oval beside the blank line AND write the name Carey Baker on the line. The canvassing board will examine individually, each ballot to determine if the name written on the line is for Carey Baker. The final results for that race are likely to be delayed until the following day for publication.

I thank you for reading this far but now you know the whole story. I would urge everyone who is interested in the further details of the law to read the opinion handed down by the judge. That opinion is replete with references to the applicable statutes and regulations of the Division of Elections.

You can find the opinion by visiting this link: CA 1239 Final Order

Respectfully yours,

 

Alan Hays
Supervisor of Elections
Lake County, FL 

 

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Attacking the Foundation of Freedom: An OP ed from the desk of Supervisor Hays

Friday, October 8, 2021
Attacking the Foundation of Freedom

Our republic has weathered many storms. Typically, these storms come from outside our country 
(enemy attacks, weather, and more recently the internet). External assaults bring us together, 
promote a united response, and bring out the best of who we are as a people. However, when we are 
attacked internally (riots, social degeneration, rewriting of our history, and now the erosion of 
trust in our institutions and our elections), our ability to unite becomes so frayed that we are 
unable to overcome the division and hatred permeating our current society.

We are subjected to manufactured news, online editorial bias, and political leaders determined to 
destroy our capitalistic economy. A current effort to manipulate a political party to the extent of 
being subjugated as pawns to a conspiracy which belittles and uses them, and actually affects the 
purveyor’s prescribed outcomes through their deception. Today, many Americans ascribe to the belief 
that an election was stolen. Much of this is promoted through a continuous false narrative 
supported by flimsy arguments and even weaker statistical analysis. This purpose is to secure a 
“forensic audit” to validate the election results as they believe them to be.

One of the stolen elections theories is a belief that election equipment has been modified to 
incorrectly report tabulation of votes contrary to the voted ballot. This latest ruse was developed 
through the promulgating of sloppy analysis of population growth, coupled with voter registration 
data and voting trends to persuade the belief that the presidential election of 2020 was stolen, 
with the claim that the “proof is in the numbers.” Rather than test the theory and verify the 
statistical modeling and analysis, and ultimately the facts of election data, the promoters demand 
a hand recount of the ballots for proof.  Proof has two aims - firstly to convince, and secondly to 
explain the proposition through peer and public review (see; Gold, B. Simons, R.A. (2008) Proof and 
other dilemmas: mathematics and philosophy).

Many have been convinced without the need to explain or review.  They have been convinced without 
inquiry to the office, or a request of any data from the same, that Lake County was a “red zone” on 
the “heat map” of voting outcomes, and therefore something was wrong.

The theory claims that during the 2020 Presidential election, over 17,000 votes in Lake County were 
removed from Donald Trump's vote total and placed into Joe Biden's vote totals. This supposed 
modification was done purportedly through software manipulation via outside nefarious agents. 
Neither our voter demographics, nor operational procedures, support this fallacy.

All tabulation equipment authorized for use in Florida elections undergoes vigorous testing and is 
certified by the Florida Bureau of Voting Systems Certification. None of Lake County's voting 
equipment utilizes the internet, nor does any outside agency have contact with equipment during any 
election. This has been explained to those trying to lead others to believe their statistical 
models. Our equipment is stored in our warehouse under constant video surveillance, monitored by 
our professional staff.

Our office completely complies with Florida Statutes, which require us to test tabulation equipment 
at a publicly noticed Logic and Accuracy test. Those same statutes also require us to test 100% of 
the tabulation devices to be used in the upcoming election. Upon completion of the election, the 
machines are tested again to verify the results previously reported.

Each election is audited by randomly selecting a contest to audit then randomly choosing the 
prescribed number of precincts for the audit. Then ballots are hand counted in those precincts 
related to the selected contest. We have a long-running record of 100% accuracy!

Let us use our time, effort, and money to promote confidence in a system that has proven its 
accuracy, authenticity, and reliability. Lake County has such a system. We believe Lake County 
deserves nothing less. More information on election security can be found at www.lakevotes.gov.

D. Alan Hays, D.M.D., MFCEP
Lake County Supervisor of Elections

 

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