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Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai, former US Senate candidate and inventor of Email, is claiming the Massachusetts Election Commission has committed Election Fraud. Ayyadurai claims that election officials In Massachusetts have destroyed over one million ballots from the US Senate Primary in which he was a candidate.
“[A]ppropriate state or local authority MUST PRESERVE ALL RECORDS to detection & prosecution of election crimes for 22-month federal retention period, if records were generated in connection w election that was held in whole or in part to select federal candidates.”
-USC Title 42— Dr.SHIVA Ayyadurai, MIT PhD. Inventor of Email (@va_shiva) September 24, 2020
Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai
Federal Law says that ballot records must be kept for 22 months. An unnamed lawyer for Ayyadurai said they are nowhere to be found. Ayyadurai claims this election fraud.
Federal Law says at 52 USC 20701:
§20701. Retention and preservation of records and papers by officers of elections; deposit with custodian; penalty for violation
Every officer of election shall retain and preserve, for a period of twenty-two months from the date of any general, special, or primary election of which candidates for the office of President, Vice President, presidential elector, Member of the Senate, Member of the House of Representatives, or Resident Commissioner from the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico are voted for, all records and papers which come into his possession relating to any application, registration, payment of poll tax, or other act requisite to voting in such election, except that, when required by law, such records and papers may be delivered to another officer of election and except that, if a State or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico designates a custodian to retain and preserve these records and papers at a specified place, then such records and papers may be deposited with such custodian, and the duty to retain and preserve any record or paper so deposited shall devolve upon such custodian. Any officer of election or custodian who willfully fails to comply with this section shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.Codification
Section was formerly classified to section 1974 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.
It is certain that more on this will surface.
Michael Reed is Editor of The Standard.
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