County board told voter rolls are corrupt

An Ohio scientist and election data analyst advised county commissioners Monday that he has studied Hamilton County’s voter election rolls and found them to be “dramatically corrupted,” launching an effort by grassroots local citizens to urge the county to do away with electronic voting machines and go back to paper only ballots counted by hand.
Doug Frank spoke to commissioners for about 15 minutes during Monday’s meeting, which was moved to the third-floor courtroom to accommodate a crowd of approximately 25 people. Among those attending was Greg Epp of Giltner, chairman of the Hamilton County Republican Party, who requested that Frank be placed on Monday’s agenda.
“This is not a matter of distrust of (county clerk) Jill DeMers or any of the other very faithful staff in her office,” Epp explained in a later interview. “Control of our voter rolls and our elections and the security of them has been taken over by the Secretary of State. We want to go back to in-person voting in all of our county precincts and use paper ballots, hand counted by local citizens where we have a verifiable audit trail and where control of elections is returned to our local county. We also want Jill’s office to have complete control of the voter rolls.”
Rich Nelson, county board chairman, welcomed Frank and other guests in attendance, beginning with a question.
“What is your objective today?” Nelson asked. “What are you asking us to do?”
Frank first introduced himself as an unpaid volunteer who has spent the last three years studying election results at the county level in numerous states. He started in Pennsylvania after the 2020 election, he explained, where he said he was given unlimited access to voter rolls and election results.
“I had full access to everything as part of a team of six people and we exposed a lot of problems, so a lot of what I’ve learned about how elections work started there,” he began. “Then I began going after other states at their invitation and I’ve testified formally before several legislatures. I tend to be kind of a trouble-maker in that respect, because I don’t come in and say, ‘Look, everything is perfect.’ I come in and say ‘Here’s your problem.’”
As for the problems he said he discovered in Hamilton County, Frank said the root cause of the problem is the county’s use of the state-mandated electronic voting system, which he said he has proven in multiple states to be corrupted.
“When I study your county, your county rolls are corrupted, dramatically corrupted,” he said. “And when I say that, I’m not saying anything bad about Jill. Zero. But she’s using a system that exposes you to a lot of vulnerabilities.”
Frank’s advice was to “cut the umbilical cord to the state and let Jill run your elections,” he said. “I trust your person here in town more than I trust some system that’s being run remotely. So there you go. That’s my objective.”
Frank noted that he had been told a group of 700 local residents signed a petition asking that county commissioners do something about growing election concerns, though to date no action has been taken.
“Wouldn’t it be nice to have a paper trail on our elections,” he continued. “Right now she (DeMers) doesn’t have the ability to do that; no way to demonstrate the integrity of your election. She only has electronic systems which can be manipulated, so that’s a huge problem and your citizens no longer trust the elections.”
Nelson interjected at that point that the county is required by state law to use the state’s electronic voting system, which drew this response from Frank.
“You are not required to follow any law, any policy, that violates the constitutional rights of your people,” he said. “And these systems do violate the constitutional rights of your people. We can prove it, and we’re about to. I accept the premise that, yes, we follow the laws, insofar as they do not violate our constitutional rights.”
Nelson then asked Frank why he is addressing the Hamilton County Board of Commissioners, rather than the Nebraska Legislature, which has the authority to change state law. Frank said he has met with the Nebraska Attorney General and other state officials, reporting that he has been told a proposed election integrity bill is stuck in committee.
“So if we’re waiting for the Legislature to fix the problem, all that time in the interim your elections are being corrupted,” he said. “Until the Legislature catches up, which we’re working on, do you need to protect yourself in the meantime?”

Voter rolls
Frank presented several graphs to county commissioners Monday, pointing out what he said is suspect information. For example, he reported that the number of registered voters in the county appeared relatively flat, but noted unconfirmed data which he said showed that more than 1,100 voters were removed from the rolls and later put back in.
“So it looks like there’s no change in your rolls,” he said. “But actually what happened is your roles have changed 31 percent in three years. That’s a massive change, and I don’t think your resident population changed by 30 percent. So that is very suspicious.
“This is four times the national trend,” he added. “So you have a huge variation. It’s reason to suspect.”
Without listing specific numbers, Frank also said he compared voter trends among various age groups across the state, and found them all to be alarmingly consistent.
“What I’m saying is it’s identical in every county in your state,” he said. “It doesn’t matter whether you’re a big city. Doesn’t matter if you’re urban, rural, black, green, Mexican, Chinese, it doesn’t matter. You’re voting in this county identically to all the other counties. That is a huge suspicion, and when I find these symptoms around the country … we always find fraud and illegal voting, so I’m expecting to find fraud and illegal voting here.”
Frank advised commissioners that a local team of volunteers has been given voter rolls with a promise to report back any evidence of fraud or illegal voting.
“We’re not your enemy,” he concluded. “We want to help you comply, but at the same time we want to protect your elections. So I think it’s going to heat up, but it’s important that you know you’re not our target.”

‘Grassroots’ effort
Monday’s presentation to the county board came a day after Frank met with a group of local citizens, according to Nick Faller of Hampton, who described the earlier communication. Faller reported that Frank began meeting with a group of citizens in York back in 2021, which later led to connections in Henderson and eventually Hamilton County.
“This is really not an affiliated organization,” Faller said. “I’m just a grassroots patriot who wants our country to go in the right direction, especially for my family. We’re really just grassroots citizens who care about our freedoms and our constitution. It just so happens that most of us are Republican. We’re not fighting for the GOP, but we need people like us in that group and in those positions to hopefully make a difference later on and that way we have these grassroots people who are the ones that are actually representing us up in the Legislature.”
Asked about the group’s goals, Faller had this to say.
“Our goal is to take our elections back, to make them free and fair, that is our long-term and hopefully our short-term goal,” he said. “We want to get rid of anything that’s online, anything that can be manipulated. Any time somebody puts a ballot in and the machine reads it, that can be manipulated. So what we want is for our elections to be true and we want everybody’s vote that voted to count.”
County board members took no action after Monday’s presentation.
Frank later shared that more information about his election studies is posted on Facebook at Douglas G Frank follow the data.