EXHIBIT K

BOB HUGHES
2504 N 61st Street, Scottsdale, Arizona, 85257 | 480-340-2271 | [email protected]

EDUCATION

Arizona State University

TEACHING
Arizona State University
Classes taught: Plant Engineering, Production Management, Cost Estimating, 1978-1989

Loyola Marymount University

EMPLOYMENT

Organization
Hughes Marketing – Marketing Resources 2005-
President
Pacific Printing Industries 2000-2005
Executive Vice President
World Color Press 1995-2000
Major Account Marketing
Continental Graphics 1994-1995
President – Franklin Press
California Offset Printers 1989-1994
Executive Vice President
Messenger Graphics Corporation 1972-1989
Executive Vice President – General Manager 1977-1989
Vice President Sales Manager 1976-1977
Account Executive 1973-1976

HONORS AND AWARDS

Nominated - United States Public Printer 1988 - President George Bush and VP Dan Quayle
Induction – Soderstrom Society - National Association of Print Leadership
SAPPI Award – 1995 Printer of the Year
Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society

MEMBERSHIPS / OFFICES
Printing Industries Association of Arizona -President 1980 -1989
Direct Marketing Association of Arizona - Board of Directors, Committee Member, Speaker
Printing Industries of Southern California / Arizona – Board of Directors 1980 to 1995.
Printing Industries of America – National Board of Directors 1987-1994
Printing Industry Presidents Conference – Chairman / Vice Chairman 1988,1989,1990
National Association of Print Leadership – Board of Directors 1989-1994
Direct Marketing Association of Los Angeles – President 1998 - 2000
The following is a declaration made by Bob Hughes, under penalty of perjury, about the printing of the
ballots on-demand and their tabulation at the voting centers of Maricopa County used in the 2022
election.

I have 50 years of experience in the printing industry and more specifically 16 years of experience
printing ballots for Maricopa County Elections. In 20211 also helped establish the auditing criteria for
the printing and paper portion of the 2020 Maricopa County ballot audit. I also helped select and setup
the equipment used during the audit to do the ballot counting.

On March 6, 2023 I led a team in reviewing and copying the Logic and Accuracy reports for the 2022
Maricopa County Election. I physically inspected the ballots at MCTEC that were used in the testing of
the election tabulators. I also reviewed the certification reports for each Maricopa County Voting Center
used in the 2022 Election. I also was able to review the Tabulator reports that are printed by the
machines during their testing.

The most important and notable finding is that every machine and every voting center report showed
that every test was passed without any failures.

The following report is a summary of what was learned during the March 6, 2023 visit to MCTEC.

INTRODUCTION

Unlike I originally believed, that ballots were constructed on-demand at the Voting Center, I learned the
ballot styles are prepared for each election at MCTEC. As soon as candidates are determined, software
is used to pull together the elements of each voter's personalized ballot. A different ballot was created
for each precinct. They refer to these combinations as "ballot styles". Then the ballot style is attached
to each voter in that precinct.

DAY OF VOTING

When a voter arrives at a Voting Center their identity is verified by a poll worker using their Driver's
License or other acceptable form of ID. The Counties e-poll book system is then used to verify they have
not returned a mail-in ballot. Once their eligibility to vote is determined a ballot style is sent to the Print
On-Demand printer at the Voting Center. This requires that the E-poll book is online to MECTEC while
the printer is networked with the E-poll book.

Because mail-in ballots can be dropped off at a polling center, it is possible that the e-poll book system
would not be aware of the return of a mail-in ballot at the time of log-in at the Voting Center.

Two required pieces of equipment are needed to make Voting Centers possible: Electronic poll books
and ON-DEMAND ballot printers. Both need to be networked and online at the same time.

E-Poll Books are tablet computers that must connect to a Wi-Fi for access to an up-to-date copy of the
County Recorders and MCTEC records. This is required to allow the e-poll book to verify that a mail-in
ballot was not returned prior to issuing a new Day of Ballot.

Ballot STYLES are built ahead of each election and are stored as PDF's for each ballot style. PDF's are
locked style formats that cannot be revised on the fly. It has been argued that a wrong ballot format
was used to print ballots of the wrong size on the day of the election. It was suggested a 19 inch format
was incorrectly used by mistake. However, during the review of the L&A reports at MCTEC I was told
only 20 inch formats were created and no 19 inch format ballots were created for the 2022 election.
This indicates that it was not possible that a BALLOT STYLE other than a 20" PDF could have been used,
even by accident for the 2022 Election. Yet, on Election Day a substantial number of wrong sized ballots
were printed. This clearly indicates that the interference caused by 19" ballots had to have been by
someone from MCTEC or by someone hacking into the MCTEC system. Since no failures occurred during
even one test of the system and since all the machines were made tamperproof and held in security
until used, no other possible reason is plausible. The assertion that random accidents occurred on
Election Day is impossible. A large number of printers, all printing ballots of the wrong 19 inch size on
Election Day, is not a random accident.

This also indicates that since many ballots failed the scanning by the tabulators due to size, the issue
was with the Voting Center on-demand printers. It is also not plausible that the exact same random
accident occurred multiple times with independent printers in different locations.

Conclusion: Because the L&A tests showed no errors, the errors had to be introduced after the testing.
Because the printer's command module is not available to the poll workers, the interference had to
come through the online E-poll book and then to the printers. Because so many printers were affected
in so many locations, it shows that it was not happenstance but an orchestrated attack on the election.
Further, since the precincts effected showed a high correlation with highly Republican precincts it
shows an intentional purpose for the attacks.

On Election Day, I was called by my wife who was experiencing a rejection issue with her ballot. I went
to the voting center to see the problem first hand. I witnessed long lines waiting as ballots from two
tabulators were repeatedly rejected after multiple attempts. Voters were irritated and Poll workers
were confused. The Poll Workers instructed voters to let them take their ballot for "Drawer 3"
designated as "Provisional". If the voter was unwilling, they instructed them to "SPOIL" their ballot
and begin the process over, including marking a brand new ballot. I personally saw voters with obvious
reservations agreeing to reluctantly "Spoil" their ballot to begin again, others allowed their ballot to go
into Drawer 3, and still others became frustrated and walked out.

Several people allowed me to view their unreadable ballots. It was easily seen that unreadable ballots
were printing with a larger margin at the top and bottom of the page. However, the complete image of
the entire ballot was printed, only photographically reduced.

A few of the possible ways this could have occurred would be:

a. A command changing the printer to "print to fit" with a ½" top and bottom margins.
b. A change in paper settings to 19" paper resulting in a reduced image.
c. A change in the paper tray to smaller paper resulting in a reduced image.

At MCTEC, I was told there was one main ballot style per precinct. However, because some precincts
have opposing jurisdictional boundaries, those precincts have what are called "SPLITS. A "SPLIT" allows
one race to be different within a precinct. Example: School Districts are a common cause for a "SPLIT"
within a precinct has residents attending schools in two different school systems. This results in
differing School Board Candidates on the ballot. "Split" ballots are identified by adding a designating
color.
LOGIC AND ACCURACY TESTING PRIOR TO ELECTION DAY

Logic and Accuracy Tests are REQUIRED to perform at a 100% accuracy rate. L&A tests are intended to
verify that voting tabulators accurately read a test deck of ballots and assign all of the corresponding
voting marks to the correct candidate, and that they count and report the totals correctly.

I was told that the October 11, 2022 test decks were printed at MCTEC.

Though I was not told this, it is assumed the DAY OF Election test decks were printed at each voting
center. Several factors make that clear.

A. Testing preprinted ballots would invalidate testing because the actual equipment is not tested.
B. Attached to each tabulator test tape is a completed form. These show voting location and are
signed by precinct workers along with questions to be completed on the DAY OF Election. The
sheet instructs the precinct workers to immediately notify officials of failed tests.

Conclusion:

An intentional change was made to the printers affecting the DAY OF Election ballots.

1. It was not coincidental that so many printers failed to print readable ballots
2. It occurred too many times to be random or accidental.
3. The actual cause of the problem has not been addressed by MCTEC.
4. It occurred at voting centers that corresponded to a high concentration of Republican voters.
5. Due to past elections widespread reports of irregularities with early voting, most people
recognize and accept the likelihood more Republican voters would wait to vote in person
than Democrat voters who were more likely to mail-in their ballots.
6. Unreadable ballots provide a perfect opportunity for interference in the election.
a. Large numbers of ballots could be adjudicated electronically and potentially
corrupted by being assigned to any particular candidate.
b. Large numbers of ballots could be removed and replaced with any "readable" pre­
printed ballot that had been electronically voted.
c. Large numbers of ballots could be taken from Drawer 3 and never tabulated. It is
possible and even likely poll workers pulled the separator for Drawer 3 and
comingled them with tabulated ballots.
d. Because ballots were run through tabulators multiple times, reportedly as many as a
half-dozen times, the tabulator counter varies widely from the number of actual
ballots voted.

It was reported by MCTEC on their website that only 16,724 ballots cast on the DAY OF Election were
not counted by a Voting Center tabulator. That is an extremely small number of ballots considering the
massive disruption that was caused. Because ballots are strictly controlled and a limited number of
ballots were reported taken to be counted following the election, it is not plausible that the number of
ballots left to be counted was off by such a large number, as actually occurred in 2022.

Robert Hughes Signature Date