88 Counties Flipped Red. None flipped Blue. Trump swept every Swing State,
each just above the mandatory recount thresholds. What are the odds? ZERO!

 

Legal Experts say Trump is an Illegitimate President Disqualified by the 14th Amendment, plus Data and Evidence suggest the 2024 Election may have been hacked & rigged;

• Constitutional law Professor John Bonifaz stated that Trump engaged in an insurrection and is barred from federal office by Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. Bonifaz stated that Trump has no legal authority and every action he takes could be challenged in court.
• Former Judge Michael Luttig and constitutional scholar Laurence Tribe stated that Donald Trump is ineligible to be president under the 14th Amendment for his role in the January 6 attack on the US Capitol.
• On Dec 5, 2023, an AP article reported “efforts to access voting system software and provide it to allies of Trump posing a serious threat ahead of the 2024 elections”.
• Cyber Security Experts sent letters to Kamala Harris on 11-13-24 & 11-15-24, in which they claimed the 2024 election may have been hacked & urged her to demand Recounts in Swing States. Cyber Security Expert Stephen Spoonamore stated; “You should reverse your concession, call for both a full investigation of criminal activity and demand hand recounts in all seven swing states”.
• In 2024, Pro V&V and the EAC quietly approved significant changes to voting systems, including new hardware components, software updates, and a revamped Electionware reporting module. These weren’t minor tweaks. They touched ballot scanners, modified audit files, and even affected machines flagged by CISA. But by calling them “de minimis,” they avoided full testing, public scrutiny, and transparency.
• Videos from SmartElections & Election Truth Alliance show the 2024 Election may have been hacked / rigged in Swing States for Trump due to abnormalities in Drop Off Votes and evidence of a “Russian Tail Hack”.
• Dr Beth Clarkson, a ASQ-Certified Quality Engineer with a PhD in Statistics has found patterns indicative of manipulation in voting machines which goes across multiple states and election cycles to 2010.
• Journalist / Investigator Greg Palast claims he found over 3.5 million voters were illegally disenfranchised by voter purges, challenges & suppression tactics.
• Trump admitted the 2024 election and future elections will be rigged when he said “I don’t need your votes”. “Get  out and vote just this time…. you won’t have to do it anymore… we’ll have it fixed so good, in four years you don’t  have to vote again”.
• Trump thanked Elon Musk at a rally on 1-19-2025 for help with Vote Counting Machines… Musk stated how easy computers are to hack. When his son was asked if Trump was going to win, he said; “Yeah, they’ll never know”. 
• Trump told outrageous to get elected such as “I know nothing about Project 2025”. He therefore engaged in fraud and deception to get elected and has been taking actions which is causing irreparable harm to our country and our quality of life.

DETAILS ABOUT ALL OF THE ABOVE ARE ON THIS PAGE

 

LEGAL NOTICE: The American people put up with Trump & his supporters claiming the 2020 election was rigged & stolen for over four years with no proof, so we have a right to express our opinion on why we believe the 2024 election was rigged & stolen.

 

Video clips of Trump saying he doesn’t need votes…. thanks Elon Musk at a rally on 1-19-2025 for help with Vote Counting Machines… Musk says how easy computers are to hack. When Tucker Carlson asks Musk’s 4 yr/old son if Trump is going to win, he says “Yeah, they’ll never know”.

 

MissChris on X (formerly Twitter): “Trump just admitted to rigging the election! WTAF? pic.twitter.com/GqxWbPP7XP / X”

Trump just admitted to rigging the election! WTAF? pic.twitter.com/GqxWbPP7XP

 

Cheri Jacobus, who worked in Republican politics for decades, was an RNC spokesperson & ran campaigns, a nationally recognized political strategist, pundit and writer says “Trump is an illegitimate President”.

Cheri discusses how Trump never legitimately won a Presidential election (2016 & 2024), how COVID and mail-in ballots derailed Republicans plans to rig & steal the 2020 election, why right before the 2020 election mail boxes were removed from minority neighborhoods & expensive high speed mail sorting machines were destroyed, and Putin & Elon Musk’s involvement in helping to put Trump in the White House.

 

IMO, the reason 57% of U.S. Adults disapprove of Trump and millions of people are showing up for protests nationwide is because the Majority didn’t vote for Trump and are outraged that he’s back in the White House.

 

Republicans Stole the 2024 Election – and No One Knows

 

70% of Voting Equipment Compromised

 

2024 Vote Manipulation Analysis Explained in Detail

 

Kamala Harris election result: Trump’s victory under scrutiny as lawsuit filed – here’s what could happen next

Kamala Harris election result is back in the spotlight as a fresh lawsuit questions Donald Trumps 2024 victory in New York. A new court case claims that voting machines in Rockland County didnt count several votes for Kamala Harris, raising big questions about accuracy and election transparency.

UPDATE: June 15, 2025: “Per the above article; Kamala Harris election result has come back into the spotlight after a major lawsuit was filed questioning the integrity of the 2024 presidential election—specifically Donald Trump’s victory. On June 10, 2025, a case brought by SMART Legislation, a legal advocacy group linked to SMART Elections, was allowed to move forward in New York’s Rockland County Supreme Court.

The plaintiffs are calling for a full hand recount of ballots from the 2024 election, claiming that votes for Kamala Harris and other candidates were not properly counted by voting machines. The court has scheduled the next hearing for September 22, 2025, which could reveal more about what really happened with the vote count.

The lawsuit is supported by election integrity experts, including Susan Greenhalgh, who pointed out the suspicious results where down-ballot races like Congress had votes, but the presidential column was blank—an extremely rare occurrence. This raised serious questions about whether the voting machines malfunctioned, were tampered with, or failed to register certain selections.

 

She Won. They Didn’t Just Change the Machines. They Rewired the Election.

How Leonard Leo’s 2021 sale of an electronics firm enabled tech giants to subvert the 2024 election.

Per the above article:

She Won. They Didn’t Just Change the Machines. They Rewired the Election

How Leonard Leo’s 2021 sale of an electronics firm enabled tech giants to subvert the 2024 election

(the following is from the above report by thiswillhold.substack)

The Dark Enlightenment Coup

The missing votes uncovered in Smart Elections’ legal case in Rockland County, New York, are just the tip of the iceberg—an iceberg that extends across the swing states and into Texas.

On Monday, an investigator’s story  finally hit the news cycle: Pro V&V, one of only two federally accredited testing labs, approved sweeping last-minute updates to ES&S voting machines in the months leading up to the 2024 election—without independent testing, public disclosure, or full certification review.

These changes were labeled “de minimis”—a term meant for trivial tweaks. But they touched ballot scanners, altered reporting software, and modified audit files—yet were all rubber-stamped with no oversight.

That revelation is a shock to the public. But for those who’ve been digging into the bizarre election data since November, this isn’t the headline—it’s the final piece to the puzzle. While Pro V&V was quietly updating equipment in plain sight, a parallel operation was unfolding behind the curtain—between tech giants and Donald Trump.

And it started with a long forgotten sale.

A Power Cord Becomes a Backdoor

In March 2021, Leonard Leo—the judicial kingmaker behind the modern conservative legal machine—sold a quiet Chicago company by the name of Tripp Lite for $1.65 billion. The buyer: Eaton Corporation, a global power infrastructure conglomerate that just happened to have a partnership with Peter Thiel’s Palantir.

To most, Tripp Lite was just a hardware brand—battery backups, surge protectors, power strips. But in America’s elections, Tripp Lite devices were something else entirely.

They are physically connected to ES&S central tabulators and Electionware servers, and Dominion tabulators and central servers across the country. And they aren’t dumb devices. They are smart UPS units—programmable, updatable, and capable of communicating directly with the election system via USB, serial port, or Ethernet.

ES&S systems, including central tabulators and Electionware servers, rely on Tripp Lite UPS devices. ES&S’s Electionware suite runs on Windows OS, which automatically trusts connected UPS hardware.

If Eaton pushed an update to those UPS units, it could have gained root-level access to the host tabulation environment—without ever modifying certified election software.

In Dominion’s Democracy Suite 5.17, the drivers for these UPS units are listed as “optional”—meaning they can be updated remotely without triggering certification requirements or oversight. Optional means unregulated. Unregulated means invisible. And invisible means perfect for infiltration.

 

A New Purpose for the Partnership

After the Tripp Lite acquisition, Eaton stayed under the radar. But in May 2024, it resurfaced with an announcement that escaped most headlines: Eaton was deepening its partnership with Palantir Technologies.

Let’s be clear, Palantir wasn’t brought in for customer service. It was brought in to do what it does best: manage, shape, and secure vast streams of data—quietly. According to Eaton’s own release, Palantir’s role would include:
– AI-driven oversight of connected infrastructure
– Automated analysis of large datasets
– And—most critically—“secure erasure of digital footprints”

The Digital Janitor: also known as forensic sanitization, it was now being embedded into Eaton-managed hardware connected directly to voting systems. Palantir didn’t change the votes. It helped ensure you’d never prove it if someone else did.

 

BallotProof: The Front-End for Scrubbing Democracy

Enter the ballot scrubbing platform BallotProof. Co-created by Ethan Shaotran, a longtime employee of Elon Musk and current DOGE employee, BallotProof was pitched as a transparency solution—an app to “verify” scanned ballot images and support election integrity.

With Palantir’s AI controlling the backend, and BallotProof cleaning the front, only one thing was missing: the signal to go live.

September 2024: Eaton and Musk Make It Official

Then came the final public breadcrumb:
In September 2024, Eaton formally partnered with Elon Musk.
The stated purpose? A vague, forward-looking collaboration focused on “grid resilience” and “next-generation communications.”
But buried in the partnership documents was this line:

“Exploring integration with Starlink’s emerging low-orbit DTC infrastructure for secure operational continuity.”

The Activation: Starlink Goes Direct-to-Cell

That signal came on October 30, 2024—just days before the election, Musk activated 265 brand new low Earth orbit (LEO) V2 Mini satellites, each equipped with Direct-to-Cell (DTC) technology capable of processing, routing, and manipulating real-time data, including voting data, through his satellite network.

DTC doesn’t require routers, towers, or a traditional SIM. It connects directly from satellite to any compatible device—including embedded modems in “air-gapped” voting systems, smart UPS units, or unsecured auxiliary hardware.

From that moment on:
– Commands could be sent from orbit
– Patch delivery became invisible to domestic monitors
– Compromised devices could be triggered remotely

This groundbreaking project that should have taken two-plus years to build, was completed in just under ten months.

Elon Musk boasts endlessly about everything he’s launching, building, buying—or even just thinking about—whether it’s real or not. But he pulls off one of the largest and fastest technological feats in modern day history… and says nothing? One might think that was kind of… “weird.”

 

 

Lasers From Space

According to New York Times reporting, on October 5—just before Starlink’s DTC activation—Musk texted a confidant:

“I’m feeling more optimistic after tonight. Tomorrow we unleash the anomaly in the matrix.”

Then, an hour later:

“This isn’t something on the chessboard, so they’ll be quite surprised. ‘Lasers’ from space.”

It read like a riddle. In hindsight, it was a blueprint.

Let’s review what was in place:

This wasn’t a theory. It was a full-scale operation. A systemic digital occupation—clean, credentialed, and remote-controlled.

 

 

The Outcome

Data that makes no statistical sense. A clean sweep in all seven swing states.
The fall of the Blue Wall. Eighty-eight counties flipped red—not one flipped blue.
Every victory landed just under the threshold that would trigger an automatic recount. Donald Trump outperformed expectations in down-ballot races with margins never before seen—while Kamala Harris simultaneously underperformed in those exact same areas.

If one were to accept these results at face value—Donald Trump, a 34-count convicted felon, supposedly outperformed Ronald Reagan. According to the co-founder of the Election Truth Alliance:

“These anomalies didn’t happen nationwide. They didn’t even happen across all voting methods—this just doesn’t reflect human voting behavior.”

They were concentrated.
Targeted.
Specific to swing states and Texas—and specific to Election Day voting.

And the supposed explanation? “Her policies were unpopular.”

Let’s think this through logically. We’re supposed to believe that in all the battleground states, Democratic voters were so disillusioned by Vice President Harris’s platform that they voted blue down ballot—but flipped to Trump at the top of the ticket?

Not in early voting.
Not by mail.
With exception to Nevada, only on Election Day.
And only after a certain threshold of ballots had been cast—where VP Harris’s numbers begin to diverge from her own party, and Trump’s suddenly begin to surge. As President Biden would say, “C’mon, man.”

In the world of election data analysis, there’s a term for that: vote-flipping algorithm.

 

Billionaires and Tech Giants Pulled Off the Crime of the Century

Why? There wasn’t just one reason—there were many.

Elon Musk himself hinted at the stakes: he faced the real possibility of a prison sentence if Trump lost. He launched his bid for Twitter—at $20 billion over market value—just 49 days after Putin invaded Ukraine. That alone should have raised every red flag. But when the ROI is $15 trillion in mineral rights tied to Ukraine losing the war and geopolitical deals Trump could green light, it wasn’t a loss—it was leverage.

 

It’s no secret Musk was in communication with Putin for over two years. He even granted Starlink access to Russian forces. That’s not just profiteering. That’s treason.

Then there’s Peter Thiel and the so-called “broligarchs”—tech billionaires who worship at the altar of shower-avoidant blogger Curtis Yarvin. They casually joke about “humane genocide for non-producers” and have long viewed democracy as a nuisance—an obstacle to their vision of hypercapitalism and themselves as the permanent ruling elite.

Well, what is the elimination of Medicaid if not “humane genocide”—and does anyone really wonder why his 40-year-old protégé and political rookie, JD Vance, is Vice President? With this technology in place, if the third-term legislation were to pass, it would hand Vance a minimum of twelve years at the helm of Thiel’s regime.

And of course, Donald Trump himself:  He spent a year telling his followers he didn’t need their votes—at one point stating,

“…in four years, you don’t have to vote again. We’ll have it fixed so good, you’re not gonna have to vote.”

 

Trump was facing eighty-eight felony indictments—he was desperate to avoid conviction and locked in a decades-long alliance with Vladimir Putin. An alliance that’s now impossible to ignore—look no further than his policy trail.

He froze aid to Ukraine and has threatened to place sanctions on them, while planning to lift sanctions off Russia. He openly campaigned for anti-EU candidates, and sided with Russia in multiple key United Nations votes related to the Ukraine conflict.

Let’s be clear:
Donald Trump pledges allegiance to a red, white, and blue flag—
It’s just not the American one.

What Happens Now?

We don’t need permission to enforce the Constitution. We need courage. While state attorneys general begin their investigations, it only takes one U.S. senator to initiate the disqualification proceedings against the unelected and unfit occupant of the Oval Office.

State Attorneys General and Investigators:
– Conduct independent audits of UPS firmware on Dominion and ES&S machines
– Subpoena communications between Eaton, Palantir, Starlink employees, and Pro V&V
– Audit Starlink satellite logs for the week of the election
– Freeze uncertified infrastructure updates
– Recount physical ballots—by hand

Now they’re rolling out the same technological toolkit abroad—forcing countries into Starlink contracts in exchange for tariff relief.

The U.S. election wasn’t their endgame. It was their litmus test.

(end quote from thiswillhold.substack)

 

The Machines Were Changed Before the 2024 Election. No One Was Told.

A private lab quietly altered voting machines used across the U.S. Then it vanished.

Per the above article:

“The Machines Were Changed Before the 2024 Election. No One Was Told”

A private lab quietly altered voting machines used across the U.S. Then it vanished.

(the following is from the above report by dissentinbloom.substack)

Dissent in Bloom

In the leafy suburbs of Rockland County, New York, democracy tripped on a loose wire and hit its head. What started as a small lawsuit over a few missing votes may be unraveling into one of the most damning election integrity scandals in years.
At the center of it all: missing votes, statistical anomalies, and a federally accredited testing lab called Pro V&V.
In 2024, voters in Rockland County, NY, filed sworn legal affidavits claiming they had voted for independent Senate candidate Diane Sare. But the machines told a different story. In one district, nine people said they voted for her. The machines recorded five. In another, five claimed to vote for her but only three were officially counted by the machines.

At the same time, In districts where voters clearly favored Democrats (evident by strong support for democratic Senate candidate Kirsten Gillibrand) Kamala Harris’s name either underperformed or seemed to disappear from the top of the ballot completely. They’d found that in some of the counties people where voted overwhelmingly for the Democratic candidate Kirsten, Kamala Harris somehow got no votes at all.

(Correction): Trump outperformed Republican Senate candidates by 2.1 million votes nationwide. In 33 states, over 750k more people voted for president than Senate, a drop-off that might be normal, or might mean votes vanished before they were counted. That data shows over 2.1 million people voted for him & skipped the rest of the Republicans on the same ballot?

My opinion? That kind of pattern doesn’t scream voter preference. It whispers something went wrong in the vote count itself.

That’s not split-ticket voting. That’s a mathematical anomaly.

SMART Elections, a nonpartisan watchdog group, uncovered serious discrepancies in New York, including a reported drop-off of over 314,000 votes between presidential and Senate contests, and filed suit. and filed a lawsuit. And on May 22, 2025, Judge Rachel Tanguay agreed: the allegations were serious enough to warrant discovery. The lawsuit, SMART Legislation et al. v. Rockland County Board of Elections, moves forward, with a hearing scheduled for September 22, 2025.

 

Everything after this point does not reflect SMART Elections. These are findings from the EAC found independently by DIB after learning of the lawsuit, and reflect this publication only. You can find SMARTElections information at the bottom of the page.

The Silent Middleman

Between March and September 2024, Pro V&V signed off on a series of hardware and software updates to ES&S voting machines. These updates were all waved through under the label “de minimis,” a technicality supposedly meant for small, insignificant tweaks. Replacing a cable. That kind of thing.

In 2024, Pro V&V and the EAC quietly approved significant changes to voting systems, including new hardware components, software updates, and a revamped Electionware reporting module. These weren’t minor tweaks. They touched ballot scanners, modified audit files, and even affected machines flagged by CISA. But by calling them “de minimis,” they avoided full testing, public scrutiny, and transparency.

These changes? I do not believe they qualify as “minimum” and the rules generally do not allow this. Software changes are not supposed to be considered minor. But Pro V&V Since they were filed as de minimis they were not subject to any independent external oversight, testing, and lacked any public-facing explanation.

These programs need more oversight. If the system can be changed in the shadows, marked simply as “DeMinimis” without any actual testing, even something as small as hardware, then every vote cast on those machines was at risk of miscount or manipulation.

The ES&S systems that received these shadow approvals are used in over 40% of U.S. counties. Pennsylvania, Florida, New Jersey, California, all rely on machines that Pro V&V signs off on. The ExpressVote XL, implicated in the Sare vote discrepancy (missing votes) is already being used in battleground states.

Even worse? There’s no independent watchdog in this process. No backup. No outside review. Two private companies (V&V & SLI Compliance) get to decide whether our national voting infrastructure is safe and they get to make that call in secret. What we’re left with isn’t quality assurance. It’s a rubber stamp masquerading as a security check.

PROV&V? The private company certified to change our voting system? Their website, once home to testing logs, certification documents, and contact information, collapsed into a hollow shell shortly after the 2024 elections.

As of June 2025, is still just a single barren page. One phone number. One generic email.

This is the lab responsible for certifying the very machines that count our votes. No one’s checking their math. No one’s checking their judgment. And when the heat turns up, right around the 2024 elections, they vanished from public view. A private company, backed by federal accreditation, with the power to alter national election infrastructure is operating in total darkness.

Behind this fog stands Jack Cobb, the elusive director of Pro V&V. He’s never run for office, never faced public questioning, and yet every major voting machine must pass through his private lab before it reaches a ballot box.

He is the unelected gatekeeper of election infrastructure, a man accountable to no one but his clients and the architecture that shelters him.

A Fatal Flaw In Our Voting System

Federal law all but guarantees labs like Pro V&V stay in power. Under the Help America Vote Act (2002), they’re accredited by the Election Assistance Committee (EAC) in conjunction with National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). But once a lab is in, it stays in.

There’s no built-in decertification path. No process for public challenge. Not even a hotline to flag concerns. So Cobb and his team continue operating under a veil of technical legitimacy, certifying changes to voting machines from inside a sealed chamber where no one can see what’s really going on.
The EAC is the federal agency that approves which voting systems can be used, while NIST helps write the technical rules those systems must follow. Together, they decide which labs get to test and certify the machines that count our votes.

They approve the labs, set the certification process, and are supposed to enforce standards. Nominations come from party leadership in Congress. So the President technically picks from a short list provided by House and Senate leaders.

Two of the four EAC commissioners were placed by Donald Trump during his first presidency: Benjamin W. Hovland & Donald L. Palmer.
So, this means, even if these companies commit blatant fraud, the federal rules offer no clear pathway to remove them. The EAC themselves has no teeth to revoke accreditation unless there’s proof of total failure or criminal wrongdoing and even then, the process is vague, bureaucratic, and opaque.

To remove a lab like Pro V&V, EAC has to first document “significant evidence” of noncompliance or misconduct. But the kicker is, they don’t have real-time oversight. There’s no routine audit. So unless someone files a formal complaint, and the EAC chooses to act, nothing moves.

If they do decide to investigate, they conduct an internal review: think paperwork, interviews, more paperwork. Then the EAC would have to initiate a formal vote to suspend or revoke the lab’s accreditation. That process can drag on for months, and there’s no public hearing requirement, no outside watchdog, and no clear timeline.
So, this means Cobb and his team continue operating under a cloak of legitimacy, quietly certifying election-altering changes while shielded by federal inertia & structural silence.

Now, knowing this I want you to remember:

Just when scrutiny was needed most, Pro V&V’s online presence vanished. Watchdogs looking for documentation found an empty shell. For months, there were no posted reports, no visible activity. The lab that certifies machines for national elections essentially evaporated from the internet.

And no one in federal government has intervened. Not the EAC. Not NIST. Not Congress.

So What’s Next?

This lawsuit won’t undo the 2024 election. That chapter is closed. Congress certified the results, and the machinery of power has already shifted into its next gear. But if what SMART Elections is uncovering turns out to be true, it could set off a political earthquake. Legal challenges. Demands to decertify voting systems. State-level probes. Mounting pressure on the EAC to finally do its job.

This wasn’t just a glitch in some sleepy county. It was a stress test of our entire system and possibly nation wide system fraud in the presidential election. And the real tragedy? Almost no one noticed.

(end of quote from dissentinbloom.substack)

 

2024 Election Result Defy Logic and Reason

 

Kamala Harris Robbed of 3,565,000 Votes

 

Illegal Attack on 364,000 Georgia Voters

Investigative reporter Greg Palast exposes a Republican scheme to challenge the ballots of 364,000 Georgia voters based on the state’s new law. Palast confronts a GOP committee members with photos of voters she falsely accused of voting illegally, a violation of the anti-Klan Act of 1871 and other federal laws — a criminal offense.

 

Data Expert Nathan Taylor from Election Truth Alliance appears on the Roland Martin show and explains in detail his organization’s investigations which shows abnormalities in Drop Off Votes, Bullet Ballots and evidence of a “Russian Tail Hack”.

 

Data from SmartElections and Election Truth Alliance: Bullet Ballot Inconsistency and Letters from Cyber Security Experts suggest the 2024 Election was Rigged for Trump.

“Russian Tail” In 2024 Voting Data Reveals Election Hack

Analysis of the ballot-level data from Clark County, Nevada, shows vote anomalies resembling the “Russian Tail Hack” theory, a method of algorithmic vote manipulation.

• Vote Pattern Anomalies: Analysis of early voting data shows an irregular shift in vote tallies processed by high-volume tabulators. Specifically, these machines displayed an increased share of votes for Donald Trump and a reduction in votes for Kamala Harris.
• Tabulator Correlation: The discrepancies were most pronounced in tabulators that processed larger batches of ballots, with results skewing closer to 60%+ for Trump and 40%- for Harris as the volume of ballots increased.

These anomalies mirror what election security experts have referred to as a “Russian Tail Hack” which suggests foreign actors used algorithms to subtly alter vote totals in key areas, maintaining overall statistical plausibility while targeting high-impact precincts.

 

Three County Pennsylvania Analysis 2024 Election

 

Experts find more than 30 U.S. voting systems connected to internet

A team of election security experts used a “Google for servers” to challenge claims that voting machines do not connect to the internet and found some did.

Per the above article: “It was an assurance designed to bolster public confidence in the way America votes: Voting machines “are not connected to the internet. So many government officials like Manfra have said the same thing over the last few years that it is commonly accepted as gospel by most Americans. Behind it is the notion that if voting systems are not online, hackers will have a harder time compromising them.

But that is an overstatement, according to a team of 10 independent cybersecurity experts who specialize in voting systems and elections. While the voting machines themselves are not designed to be online, the larger voting systems in many states end up there, putting the voting process at risk.

That team of election security experts say that last summer, they discovered some systems are, in fact, online. “We found over 35 [voting systems] had been left online and we’re still continuing to find more,” Kevin Skoglund, a senior technical advisor at the election security advocacy group National Election Defense Coalition, told NBC News”.

 

Jessica Denson & Nathan Taylor from Election Truth Alliance discuss data showing irregularities in the 2024 election

 

SMART Elections & Election Truth Alliance Nathan Taylor discuss data showing irregularities in the 2024 election

 

Hacking an Election is easier than you think, as discussed by Election Security Expert Susan Greenhalgh of Free Speech for People and Jessica Denson

 

Interview With CHIEF STATISTICIAN Dr. Elizabeth Clarkson, Linking Kansas 2010s and 2024 Election

Dr. Elizabeth Clarkson earned her Ph.D. in Statistics from Wichita State University. She was also a Certified Quality Engineer through the American Society for Quality. Dr. Elizabeth Clarkson served as the Chief Statistician at the National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR) at Wichita State University.

 

Dr Beth Clarkson, a ASQ-Certified Quality Engineer with a PhD in Statistics found patterns indicative of manipulation in voting machines which goes across multiple states and election cycles to 2010.

“Clarkson, a certified quality engineer with a Ph.D. in statistics, has analyzed election returns in Kansas and elsewhere over several elections that indicate “a statistically significant” pattern where the percentage of Republican votes increase the larger the size of the precinct.

While it is well-recognized that smaller, rural precincts tend to lean Republican, statisticians have been unable to explain the consistent pattern favoring the Republicans that trends upward as the number of votes cast in a precinct or other voting unit goes up. In primaries, the favored candidate appears to always be the Republican establishment candidate, above a tea party challenger. And the upward trend for Republicans occurs once a voting unit reaches roughly 500 votes.

“This is not just an anomaly that occurred in one place,” Clarkson said. “It is a pattern that has occurred repeatedly in elections across the United States. The pattern could be voter fraud or a demographic trend that has not been picked up by extensive polling, she said.

“I do not know why this trend is there, but I know that the pattern is there and one way to establish that it is or is not election fraud is to go and do a physical audit of paper records of voting machines,” she said.

Clarkson became more interested in the issue after reading a paper written by statisticians Francois Choquette and James Johnson in 2012 of the Republican primary results showing strong statistical evidence of election manipulation in Iowa, New Hampshire, Arizona, Ohio, Oklahoma, Alabama, Louisiana, Wisconsin, West Virginia and Kentucky.

Clarkson said she couldn’t believe their findings, so she checked their math and found it was correct and checked their model selection and found it appropriate. And then she pulled additional data from other elections they hadn’t analyzes and found the same pattern”. [source: cjonline.com/story/news/politics/state/2015/04/01/wichita-state-mathematician-sues-kris-kobach-sedgwick-county-elections-commisioner/16633765007]

 

In the above video, computer programmer (Clint Curtis) testified to a congressional committee that in October of 2000, he wrote a program for a prominent Florida Republican (Tom Feeney, who was Speaker of the House, per testimony in the above video) which could flip votes and be undetectable. In September 2006, Feeney was named one of the “20 Most Corrupt Members of Congress”.

This shows Republicans history of efforts to rig / flip elections so it would be undetectable.   Also, many voting machines and software is made by Republican owners.

 

Full testimony of veteran computer programmer Clint Curtis, at a U.S. Congressional Hearing in 2004 about being contacted by a Florida Republican to rig elections

 

RedShift: How The GOP Rigged Our Elections

Voter Suppression has been a Republican tactic for the last 50 years. Author Thom Hartman reveals one particular effect of their voter suppression, Redshift

 

Republicans have a history of voter suppression, voter purges, voter challenges, Gerrymandering and other unscrupulous anti-democratic tactics to ‘win’ elections.

 

On July 30, 2024, Rachel Maddow was the first national person to point out how Trump said; “I don’t need your votes…. get out and vote just this time…. you won’t have to do it anymore… we’ll have it fixed so good you’re not going to have to vote anymore.”  After the 2024 election, she never mentioned it again, which makes one wonder if there’s a ‘NEWS BLACKOUT’ in which everyone in the media is being told to not question or discuss the outcome of the 2024 election.

 

Constitutional law expert: Trump is an illegitimate President due to Sect 3 of the 14th Amendment

John Bonifaz–a constitutional law expert and President of Free Speech For People–explained to SiriusXM radio’s Dean Obeidallah that given Trump engaged in an insurrection, he is barred from federal office by way of Sect 3 of the 14th Amendment unless 2/3’s of Congress in each chamber votes to remove that bar.

 

Per the above video by Jessica Denson, Professor Evan Bernick of Northern Illinois University stated;

“We have an alarming State of Affairs in which we have an ongoing constitutional violation in the form of the current head of the executive branch. I would say that members of congress are constitutionally obliged by virtue of the oath that they take to the Constitution to do anything possible within the institutional powers that they have up to an including enacting legislation that specifically puts an issue the question of whether he is constitutionally capable of holding office which he isn’t or calling for his impeachment”.

Professor Bernick stated that Congressional Democrats should immediately hold a press conference on why Donald Trump is a constitutionally illegitimate president and initiate an Amnesty Vote.

 

Constitutional scholars say Trump is Disqualified by the 14th Amendment

Former judge J. Michael Luttig and constitutional scholar Laurence Tribe tell CNN’s Kasie Hunt that Donald Trump is ineligible to be president under the 14th Amendment for his role in the January 6 attack on the US Capitol.

 

Trump’s Illegitimate Presidency discussed by Jessica Denson

Every member of Congress who helped Trump to become President and Supreme Court Justice John Roberts who swore Trump in as President violated their own Oath of Office because Trump was disqualified by Section 3 of the 14th Amendment for inciting an Insurrection on J6, 2021. He also made it clear that he intended violate laws, the United States Constitution and Citizens Rights by threatening to lock up political opponents, go after people who criticized him, saying news outlets which criticized him should be shut down (proof he planned on violating the 1st Amendment), pursue revenge and retribution against those who held him accountable in the past and anyone who tries to hold him accountable in the future. Trump made more than 100 threats to prosecute or punish perceived enemies, therefore he should not have been sworn in as President [source: 100 Threats by Trump to prosecute enemies;  npr.org/2024/10/21/nx-s1-5134924/trump-election-2024-kamala-harris-elizabeth-cheney-threat-civil-liberties]

 

Trump lied to get re-elected by saying; “I know nothing about Project 2025”. Since taking office, he’s been checking off the list with his executive orders and hired people who were directly involved in formulating Project 2025. Since Trump lied to get elected, he defrauded the American people and therefore obtained the Presidency by fraud and deception.

 

Politifact debunked hundreds of false statements by Trump such as: “There is no evidence Joe Biden won”… “In 2020, the ballots that were counted were fake ballots”… “Eighty-two percent of the country understands that the 2020 election was rigged” , “The Harris-Biden Administration fraudulently manipulated Job Statistics”… “Kamala Harris wants to forcibly compel doctors and nurses to give chemical castration drugs to young children”… “Democrats used COVID to cheat in the 2020 election” , “A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution” , “You had (4,925) out-of-state voters in Georgia” , “All legal scholars, both sides, wanted, and in fact demanded” that Roe v. Wade be overturned” , “I’m not allowed to testify because of a gag order”, “tariffs and taxes saved the American auto industry from extinction” , “They are trying to make it illegal to question the results of a bad election” , “Haley’s plan cuts Social Security benefits for 82% of Americans”.

Trump accused Ted Cruz of “stealing” the 2016 Iowa Republican Primary and Ted Cruz’s father being involved in JFK’s assassination. In response, Ted Cruz calls Trump a “Pathological Liar who doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies” and claims Trump “is a narcissist at a level this country’s never seen”.

Dr. John Gartner stated; “If we could construct a psychiatric Frankenstein monster, we could not create a leader more dangerously mentally ill than Donald Trump. He is a paranoid, psychopathic, narcissist who is divorced from reality and lashes out impulsively at his imagined enemies“.

 

PROOF Trump LOST the 2024 Election w/Greg Palast

Hard data proves that Trump’s 2024 election victory is not legitimate. Investigative journalist for the Guardian, Rolling Stone and BBC Greg Palast joins Jessica Denson to report the massive scandal of voter purges behind Trump’s so-called victory, and the latest evidence that proves Trump actually lost.

 

Voting experts warn of ‘serious threats’ for 2024 from election equipment software breaches

Election security experts and computer scientists say an effort to access voting system software in several states and provide it to allies of Donald Trump as they sought to overturn the results of the 2020 election poses “serious threats” ahead of next year’s presidential contest.

Per the above article: An effort to access voting system software in several states and provide it to allies of former President Donald Trump as they sought to overturn the results of the 2020 election has raised “serious threats” ahead of next year’s presidential contest, according to a group of experts who urged federal agencies to investigate.

The letter sent by nearly two dozen computer scientists, election security experts and voter advocacy organizations asks for a federal probe and a risk assessment of voting machines used throughout the country, saying the software breaches have “urgent implications for the 2024 election and beyond.” The breaches affected voting equipment made by two companies that together count over 70% of the votes cast across the country, according to the letter.

“The multistate effort to unlawfully obtain copies of voting system software poses serious threats to election security and national security and constitutes a potential criminal conspiracy of enormous consequences,” the group wrote in a letter sent to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, special counsel Jack Smith, FBI Director Christopher Wray and Jen Easterly, director of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. “We must protect our most sacred tenet of democracy — the security of our vote.”

 

Computer Scientists: Breaches of Voting System Software Warrant Recounts to Ensure Election Verification – Free Speech For People

A group of computer security experts have written to Vice President Kamala Harris to alert her to the fact that voting systems were breached by Trump allies in 2021 and 2022 and to urge her to seek recounts in key states to ensure election verification.

Per the above article: “A group of computer security experts have written to Vice President Kamala Harris to alert her to the fact that voting systems were breached by Trump allies in 2021 and 2022 and to urge her to seek recounts in key states to ensure election verification. The letter to Vice President Harris argues that this extraordinary and unprecedented breach in election system security merits conducting recounts of paper ballots in order to confirm computer-generated tallies. The letter also highlights the fact that the post-election audits in many key states will be conducted after certification and after the window to seek recounts closes, and that therefore recounts should be sought promptly.

The letter states: “Possessing copies of the voting system software enables bad actors to install it on electronic devices and to create their own working replicas of the voting systems, probe them, and develop exploits. Skilled adversaries can decompile the software to get a version of the source code, study it for vulnerabilities, and could even develop malware designed to be installed with minimal physical access to the voting equipment by unskilled accomplices to manipulate the vote counts. Attacks could also be launched by compromising the vendors responsible for programming systems before elections, enabling large-scale distribution of malware.”

“In December 2022 and again in 2023, many of us, concerned by the security risks posed by these breaches, wrote to the Attorney General, FBI Director, and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Director outlining the security concerns and urging an investigation. Though there have been limited, localized investigations, there is no evidence of a federal investigation to determine what was done with the misappropriated voting software.”

The letter is signed by Professor Duncan Buell, Ph.D., Chair Emeritus — NCR Chair in Computer Science and Engineering, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, University of South Carolina*; David Jefferson Ph.D., Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory* (retired), Election Integrity Foundation*; Susan Greenhalgh, Senior Advisor for Election Security, Free Speech For People; Chris Klaus, Chief Executive Officer, Fusen World*; William John Malik, Malik Consulting, LLC*; Peter G. Neumann Ph.D., Chief Scientist, SRI International Computer Science Lab*; and Professor John E. Savage, Ph.D, An Wang Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, Brown University*.

 

Election Day bomb threats overwhelmingly targeted Democrat-leaning counties

Bomb threats sent to polling places in at least five battleground states Tuesday targeted mostly Democratic counties, an NBC News analysis has found.

Per the above NBC News article: “The FBI said in an emailed statement Tuesday that “many” of the threats “appear to originate from Russian email domains.” Some additional threats appeared to have been sent from a French service, a U.S. official briefed on the matter told NBC News”.

NBC News compiled a list of 67 locations in 19 counties, based on local news reports and state and local election officials’ statements, all of which appear to have received similar threats. Of the 67 locations, 56 were in 11 counties that voted for Joe Biden in the 2020 election, including the eight most populated. Those high-population Democratic counties include voting locations for Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Detroit, Michigan; Phoenix, Arizona; Atlanta, Georgia; and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

 

After the election was called for Trump, Computer Security Experts sent letters to Kamala Harris on November 13, 2024 and on November 15, 2024 detailing how the 2024 election could have been hacked and rigged by Trump operatives and recommended recounts in Swing States. They stated; ““You should reverse your concession, call for both a full investigation of criminal activity and demand hand recounts in all seven swing states”.  To the detriment of our country, Harris chose to ignore Computer Security Experts warnings and do nothing.

 

VP Harris kept saying during the 2024 election ‘When we Fight, We Win’. She proved those words were nothing more than a empty campaign slogan by failing to demand recounts in Swing States as recommended by Cyber Security Experts in their letters to her on 11/13/2024 & 11/15/2024.

 

Instead of ‘Fighting’ to save our country by ordering recounts as recommended, Harris retreated to a 7 million dollar estate in Hawaii @ $1,300 per night. By failing to order recounts in Swing States, she played right into the hands of Trump & Republicans, guaranteeing Trump would be sworn in with no investigations.

 

Also, Democrats should have objected to Trump’s certification on January 6, 2025 due to being disqualified by Section 3 of the 14th Amendment for his role in the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, but failed to do so.

 

HARRIS IGNORED POSTS LIKE THESE ALL OVER SOCIAL MEDIA

People are outraged that Kamala Harris and Democrats failed to get Recounts in Swing States

 

 

 

THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE BEEN SCREWED AND VICTIMIZED BY TRUMP, REPUBLICANS, RIGHT WING MEDIA OUTLETS, DEMOCRATS AND OUR GOVERNMENT

 

THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT IS RESPONSIBLE FOR TRUMP BEING PRESIDENT because the antiquated, anti-democratic Electoral College should have been eliminated years ago. It violates Democracy and the wishes of the majority of voters by allowing a candidate who receives the least votes, to be installed as President. The Electoral College made 2 unpopular Republicans President who the majority of Americans didn’t vote for;  George W. Bush who lost by 543,895 votes in 2000 and Donald Trump who lost by 2.8 million in 2016.  Their being installed President against the will of the majority by the Electoral College resulted in appointments of FIVE (5) Radical Right Wing ‘Justices’ by Bush and Trump, causing the Supreme Count to become overwhelming 6 to 3 – Right Wing, contrary to the will and values of the majority of Americans, resulting in horrible decisions by the court, incalculable damages to our country and harm to the American people.

In 2015, when Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died, President Obama chose Merrick Garland as Scalia’s replacement. Republicans violated their constitutional duty by refusing to provide “Advise & Consent” and held Scalia’s seat open for almost a year, blocking President Obama’s nominee (Merrick Garland). This was an outrageous and despicable power grab by Mitch McConnell & Republicans.

When Trump became President, he appointed Neil Gorsuch, who obtained his seat by theft, due to Republicans blocking Obama’s nominee, so Gorsuch is without question, an illegitimate “Justice”. Gorsuch seat rightly belongs to Merrick Garland. This is just one example of how ROTTEN and DESPICABLE Republicans are and how dysfunctional our Government is.

Merrick Garland would have made an excellent Supreme Court Justice, but he proved unfit for United States Attorney General, because he should have filed “Obstruction of Justice” charges as detailed in the Mueller Report immediately upon being appointed AG. Merrick Garland is further responsible by delaying filing charges against Trump, allowing him to run out the clock.

After inciting riots to overturn the 2020 election which caused 5 deaths and injuries of approximately 140 Capital Police, Trump should have immediately been arrested and jailed. There’s NO WAY Trump should have been allowed to run for President again.

Just a few examples of how the majority of Americans have been SCREWED by the United States Government and Republicans.

RNC REPUBLICANS ARE RESPONSIBLE due to enabling & sponsoring Trump as their Presidential candidate who Obstructed Justice on numerous occasions as detailed in the Mueller Report, who corruptly solicited the Government of Ukraine to publicly announce investigations into political opponent Joe Biden before Congressionally approved Aid would be released to Ukraine. Trump violated his Oath of Office by pressuring Georgia Election officials to “find 11,780 votes” to help him STEAL the 2020 election. Trump Incited Riots & Violence on J6 causing 5 deaths and injuries of numerous Capital Police by his brainwashed-with-lies mob of supporters. Trump was convicted on 34 Felony Counts of Falsifying Business Records to hide ‘Hush Money Payments’ to influence the outcome of the 2016 election and is a pathological liar who fact checkers say made over 30,000 false or misleading statements while President, from 2017 to 2021.  The RNC legitimized all of this corrupt and outrageous conduct by enabling & sponsoring Trump as their Presidential candidate.

CONGRESSIONAL REPUBLICANS ARE RESPONSIBLE because the majority refused to vote to impeach Trump when the evidence was overwhelming that Trump deserved to be impeached twice. Behind closed doors, it’s reported many knew Trump was guilty as charged but were too cowardly to do the right thing and chose to put their own interests above our country.

RED STATE REPUBLICANS ARE RESPONSIBLE due to Rigging Elections by Gerrymandering, purging minorities off of voter rolls and other anti-democratic, despicable voter obstruction tactics, which include making it a crime to give Food or Water to people having the wait in long lines they’re responsible for causing to discourage people from voting.

RIGHT WING MEDIA is responsible by lying to their viewers, promoting propaganda, constantly supporting Trump, and Republicans while FAILING to report their lies, lawlessness and outrageous behavior to their viewers.

DEMOCRATS ARE ALSO RESPONSIBLE because Kamala Harris and Democrats failed to get Recounts in Swing States as recommended by Cyber Security Experts.

House Democrats should have objected to Trump’s certification on January 6, 2025 due to being disqualified by Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, but failed to do so. As stated by Constitutional law Professor John Bonifaz, Trump engaged in an insurrection and is barred from federal office by Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. Trump also made it clear he was going to violate his Oath of Office, Citizens Rights and the United States Constitution, so Democrats should have taken every legal action available to prevent Trump from being sworn in as President on January 20, 2025.

 

When polls in 2023 showed 75% of Democrats didn’t want Joe Biden to run again for President, he should have respected the wishes of voters and put his country first by not running. Democrats should have demanded he not run so there could be Primaries in 2024, allowing voters to chose a Presidential candidate.

Republicans, who had no evidence of irregularities, did everything possible to overturn the 2020 election. Yet, with all of the evidence of irregularities in the 2024 election, Democrats are being complicit in allowing Trump & Republicans to destroy our country by turning it into a Radical Right Wing Authoritarian, Fascist Dictatorship Hell Hole, by not speaking out about the numerous issues raised on this page. Remaining silent and not calling Trump out, legitimizes Trump’s illegitimate Presidency.

The same goes for the News Media.; 88 Counties Flipped Red… None flipped Blue… Trump swept every Swing State, each just above the mandatory recount thresholds. What are the odds?

Millions of Americans knew in their guts there was something drastically wrong with the outcome of the 2024 Election, but the mainstream news media accepted the results without asking any questions and have continued legitimizing Trump’s Presidency by failing to report or discuss any of the issues raised by sources referenced on this page.

 

• Convicted Felon: 34 Counts Falsifying Business Records to hide ‘Hush Money Payments’ to influence the outcome of the 2016 Election
• Obstruction of Justice and Abuse of Executive Power: Denial of due process, unlawful deportations, defiance of court orders and misuse of the Department of Justice. Wants to completely eliminate Due Process by suspending Habeas Corpus
• Pathological Liar: Fact finders claim Trump made over 30,000 False & Misleading Statements while President. Invented the ‘Big Lie’ by claiming that he ‘Won the 2020 Election’ and the election was ‘Rigged’ & ‘Stolen’ without ANY Proof. Accused Democrats of ‘Stealing the Election’ when it was HE & REPUBLICANS who tried to STEAL the election & subvert the will of the people. Since Trump was sworn in as President in 2025, his executive orders enacting unpopular Fascist items in Project 2025 are proving that he LIED to the American people about “knowing nothing” about Project 2025 to get elected
• Tyrannical Overreach: Seeking to consolidate unchecked power, erode civil liberties, and defy constitutional limits on Presidential authority
• Creation of an Unlawful Office: By establishing the Department of Government Efficiency (“DOGE”) and unlawfully empowering Elon Musk to unilaterally violate the Constitution, permitted Musk to breach Federal servers, illegally copy citizens private data, fire federal government employees and obliterate Federal departments and agencies.
• Usurpation of Appropriations Power: For dismantling congressionally established agencies and impounding Federal funds
• Abuse of Trade Powers and International Aggression: Including imposing economically damaging tariffs and threatening military invasion against sovereign nations, threatened to annex Canada, Greenland and seize Panama Canal
• Bribery and Corruption: Involving dismissing criminal cases, soliciting foreign emoluments, and extortionate settlements for personal and political gain.
• Violations of First Amendment Rights: Through retaliatory actions against critics, media, and attorneys exercising constitutionally protected speech. Sued a pollster and News organizations for exercising their First Amendment Rights to Freedom of Speech. Wants to Limit First Amendment Rights to Freedom of Speech & section 230 Communications Act repealed so he can SUE Social Media Companies
• Wants to punish and shut down media outlets which have been critical of him
• Wannabe Dictator who wants the people to serve HIM instead of serving the people. Implementing plans outlined in ‘Project 2025’ to become a defacto Dictator by increasing the President’s authority over every part of the Federal Government. Trump stated regarding North Korea’s brutal dictator Kim Jong Un; “He’s the head of a country and he’s the strong head. He speaks and his people sit up at attention. I want my people to do the same.”
• Demands Federal Employees, Departments and Agencies be loyal to him instead of the Constitution. Insists Federal Employees lie that he won the 2020 election.
• After Chinese President Xi Jingping abolished term limits in his country, Trump said “we’ll have give that a shot some day”.
• Has suggested he should get a third term, perhaps more.
• Praises Dictators like Kim Jong Un who has critics & opponents jailed, tortured and murdered
• Threatened Retribution & stated he’d have ‘no choice’ but to lock up Political Opponents
• Promised to ‘root out’ those who he thinks are ‘communists, marxists and ‘the radical left’. This means anyone who opposes him
• Trump’s statements prove he intends to violate his Oath of Office, the United States Constitution and Citizens rights.
• Accused Democrats of “Treason” for not standing & clapping at the 2018 State of the Union address.
• Appears compromised by Putin because he refuses to say anything negative about him. Sided with Russia, claiming Ukraine started the war & is helping “Make Russia Great Again”
• Refused to call out Putin at the Helsinki Summit for 2016 Election Meddling
• Had Secret Meetings with Putin in which Trump demanded no notes or records be kept
• Incited Riots & Violence causing 5 deaths by his brainwashed mob of supporters to stop the certification of democratically Elected Joe Biden.
• Demanded Georgia Election Officials “find 11,780 votes” to help him STEAL the 2020 election
• Campaign Finance Violations: Paid Hush Money to keep the American people from finding out about his adulterous affairs to influence the outcome of the 2016 election
• Stole Top Secret Documents and took them to Mar-a-Largo violating the Presidential Records Act and Espionage Act
• Obstructed & Blocked Congressional Investigations to prevent the American People from learning how he Violated his Oath of Office using unjustified claims of Executive Privilege and ordered Witnesses & Federal Employees not to comply with Congressional Subpoenas
• Mob Boss Style Quid Pro Quo: Engaged in a corrupt & illegal smear tactic to destroy Joe Biden as a potential 2020 Democrat candidate by demanding the Government of Ukraine publicly announce investigations of Biden before Military Aid would be released
• Mob Boss Threats: ‘If you come after me, I’m coming after you’. Threatened ‘death and destruction’ if he was charged in New York case for paying hush money to influence the outcome of the 2016 election. Promoted a video of a close-up of his face in black and white: “If you  f— around with us, if you do something bad to us, we are going to do things to you that have never been done before.”
• Wanted Staff to be Executed: White House Director of Strategic Communications claimed Trump wanted to have a member of his own staff ‘executed’ for leaking a story about him going to the bunker during the George Floyd protests. Implied General Mark Milley should be ‘executed’.
• Falsely Accused Georgia Election Workers of stealing votes causing them to receive death threats
• Attacked & Threatened Whistleblower who overheard & reported Trump’s phone conversation with Ukrainian President Zelensky, calling him/her a “Spy” and implying he/she should be executed
• CDC Hijacked by Trump Cronies who forced the Agency to “tow the line” with Propaganda consistent with Trump’s messaging instead of Scientific Data.
• Impeachable Conduct: More than 500 legal scholars from top universities stated in an open letter there’s overwhelming evidence” Trump engaged in “impeachable conduct” in his dealings with Ukraine
• Vindictive, Pay-back Firings such as the dismissal of Intelligence Inspector General who alerted Congress of an “urgent” whistleblower complaint… the firing of National Intelligence Director for allowing the House Intelligence Committee to be Informed about Russia’s Plans to Interfere in the 2020 Election and the firing of Colonel Vindman for testifying against Trump
• Emoluments Violations: Received tax payer and foreign money at properties he owns while President, violating the Emoluments Clause
• Corrupt Pardons: Used his pardon powers to reward political allies, corrupt public officials, accused war criminals, 1,500 J6 Rioters and other controversial figures.
• Couldn’t accept that he LOST the 2016 Election by almost 3 million votes so he LIED by claiming it was due to ‘People who voted illegally’
• Everything Trump LOSES Is ‘Rigged’, from the Mueller probe to mail-in voting. When he’s beaten, he claims he was cheated as he did during the 2016 election, accusing Ted Cruz of Stealing the Iowa Primary Election.
• Attempted to Eliminate Affordable Health Care causing Millions to no longer have any Healthcare
• Calls the Press “The Enemy of the People” & News he doesn’t like or which exposes his LIES “Fake News”, a tactic used by Dictators
• Vengeful, Childish, Outrageous UN-Presidential Conduct and Insane Social Media Tirades – Uses Social Media to BULLY, BERATE, INTIMIDATE and HARASS those who criticized him. Names people, including judges, he wants his base to harass and threaten
• Attacked Judges who didn’t rule his way & attacked Law Enforcement which investigated alleged crimes & misconduct
• Narcissistic Sociopath: Mental Health professionals claim Trump is a ‘Clear and Present Danger’, unfit to be President. Says and does things which are INSANE
• Unfit to be President: Trump embodies the worst traits a human being is capable of possessing; Liar, Lawless, Vile, Evil, Vindictive, Hateful, Mean Spirited, Spoiled, Selfish, Stupid, Immature, Delusional, Gullible, Know-it-all Braggart, Lacks Empathy, has No Humility, never Apologies, blames others, thinks he’s always right and never admits making a mistake.

A book called “The Toddler in Chief” details more than 1,000 documented reports by Cabinet members & Staff about Trump having a childlike behavior and temper tantrums. Staffers claim Trump was unable to stay focused, had a 2 minute attention span. Reported to have required a ‘Special Folder’ with flattering news and photos about himself Twice a Day. White House officials described Trump as; ‘a f***ing moron’, ‘he tries to divide us’, ‘he’s an Idiot’, ‘a professional liar’, ‘thinks he God’, ‘like an 11 year old child’, ‘dumb as shit’, ‘dope with the intelligence of a kindergartner’ & ‘I don’t think he’s fit for office’. Former DHS official Miles Taylor stated Trump was “Incandescently stupid”, that he had to “dumb down” classified memos so Trump could understand them and what he saw firsthand terrified him. National Security Advisor John Bolton stated World Leaders considered Trump to be a “laughing fool”.

 

Trump’s ambitions of wanting to be a Dictator has been clear for years. He once stated regarding North Korea’s brutal, murderous Dictator Kim Jong Ug; “He’s the head of a country and he’s the strong head. Don’t let anyone think anything different. He speaks and his people sit up at attention. I want my people to do the same.” 

It defies logic and reason that a majority of Americans would have voted to put Trump back in the White House after all of his past behavior and promising to be a ‘Dictator on day one”. It’s impossible to believe the majority of Americans are that stupid.

It’s clear that the 2024 Election was Rigged for Trump as described in the report “She Won. They didn’t just change the machines, they rewired the Election”, and in the letters Security Experts sent letters to Kamala Harris on 11-13-24 & 11-15-24 urging her to get recounts in Swing States, and by Investigator Greg Palast who claims he found over 3.5 million voters were disenfranchised by voter challenges & suppression tactics, and in Videos from SmartElections & Election Truth Alliance showing the 2024 Election may have been hacked / rigged in Swing States for Trump due to abnormalities in Drop Off Votes and evidence of a “Russian Tail Hack”.

Trump admitted the 2024 election and future elections will be rigged when he said “I don’t need your votes”. “Get out and vote just this time…. you won’t have to do it anymore… we’ll have it fixed so good, in four years you don’t have to vote again”.  Plus Trump told outrageous lies to get elected such as “I know nothing about Project 2025”, so he obtained the Presidency by fraud and deception.

 

 

ALL RESPONSIBLE FOR TRUMP BEING IN BACK IN THE WHITE HOUSE SHOULD HAVE TO PAY RELOCATION COSTS OF 1 MILLION DOLLARS TO EACH AMERICAN CITIZENS WHO WANTS TO LEAVE THE UNITED STATES, because Trump and Republicans are destroying our country and turning it into an unlivable, restrictive, lawless, Fascist, HELL HOLE, where people are being illegally abducted and sent to prison camps without due process and our Constitutional Rights and laws are being violated with impunity by the worst and most LAWLESS President in History, who’s primary objective is being a DICTATOR like Putin and Kim Jong Un, who expects everyone to kiss his ass or suffer the consequences (while Republicans do nothing and allow Trump to get away with everything and anything).

 

Trump and Republicans are also taking away Healthcare and destroying safety-net programs for millions of Americans to pay for tax cuts for billionaires while recklessly increasing the National Debt. This is why MILLIONS of people are FED UP and protesting.

 

 

New York, New York – As electors in each state are voting for President and Vice President today, SMART Elections, a nonpartisan organization focused on security and public oversight of U.S. elections, is releasing a comprehensive analysis of the 2024 Presidential election phenomenon commonly referred to as “drop-off”. The detailed study includes six swing and eleven non-swing states and confirms what has been widely discussed on social media, Substacks, Reddit forums and among political advocates on both the left and right: in six of the seven swing states, and in all but four of the non-swing states they examined, there are considerably more votes for the Republican presidential candidate than for the next down-ballot race. The study calls this pattern “drop-off” and tracks the percentage of the drop-off and the number of votes involved, county by county, in all 17 states. The analysis for each state is available at SMARTelections.us

Drop-off: Democratic vs. Republican

By contrast, there is no large drop-off between the Democratic presidential candidate and the next down-ballot race. On the SMART Elections Substack, they post, “Instead, on the Democratic side, we find an opposite phenomenon. There are a large number of votes for the Democratic Senate candidate (or major down-ballot race) where there is no vote for the Democratic presidential candidate (Harris).”Drop-off Leaves Democrats and Republicans Both Asking QuestionsIn a press conference on December 11th, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries called attention to the strange drop-off phenomenon. He opened the press conference by saying, “The elections are over and the American people have spoken. Former President Trump will be the next President of the United States of America.” However, Jeffries ended his press conference on a different note, pointing out the odd contrast that in five of the seven swing states where election results show Donald Trump as the victor, the Senate races and sometimes the majority of
down-ballot races were swept by Democrats. “What happened in the other five?” he demanded. (24:24) “In North Carolina,” he continued, “notwithstanding the fact that Donald Trump won at the presidential level, Democrats won the Governor’s race, the Lieutenant Governor’s race, the Attorney General race, the Secretary of State race, and the State Supreme Court, in North Carolina, on that very same day that Donald Trump won the presidential election.”

Republicans have also taken note of the drop-off figures, wondering conversely why the large Republican vote for president is somehow not reflected in their Senate and other down-ballot races.
Number of Votes Involved is Larger Than Margin of Victory

The number of votes contained in these drop-off margins are startling. In five of the six swing states that are included in the analysis, the margin of drop-off votes is greater than the margin of victory.

● Arizona
○ Drop-off margin = 267,956
○ Margin of victory = 187,382
○ Drop-off is 80,574 votes more than the margin of victory
● Michigan
○ Drop-off margin = 99,109
○ Margin of victory = 80,103
○ Drop-off is 19,006 votes more than the margin of victory
● Nevada
○ Drop-off margin = 70,067
○ Margin of victory = 46,008
○ Drop-off is 24,059 votes more than the margin of victory
● North Carolina
○ Drop-off margin = 341,949
○ Margin of victory = 183,047
○ Drop-off is 158,902 votes more than the margin of victory
● Wisconsin
○ Drop-off margin = 58,178
○ Margin of victory = 29,397
○ Drop-off is 28,781 votes more than the margin of victory

Methodology of the Study

In order to accomplish the analysis, SMART Elections assembled a team of data scientists to gather and analyze 2024 election results. The team meticulously extracted and cross-checked election data. Each analysis was done independently by two separate data analysts. The results were then compared and confirmed to
be identical before publishing. In most states the analysis compares presidential votes to Senate votes in the same party. When there is no Senate race, the Attorney General or Governor’s race was used in the comparison instead.

Different Demographics, Similar Drop-off

The most unusual aspect of the drop-off is its consistency. Statistical oddities are usually explained by specific demographic realities. Certain populations with their idiosyncratic voting behavior patterns create specific data sets that can be unique. However, with regard to the drop-off numbers, states with vastly different demographics are exhibiting the same patterns. Arizona and North Carolina would seem to be quite removed from each other demographically. However, Harris has 6% fewer votes than the next down-ballot race in both states.

Causes of the Drop-off Remain a Mystery

What specifically is causing the drop-off is unclear. Possible explanations include:

● Democratic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. supporters may have supported Trump in the presidential race due to Kennedy’s endorsement, but voted with the Democratic Party on down-ballot races.

● Pro-Palestinian voters, especially young voters, may have chosen not to vote for president, or split their ticket.

● Split-ticket voters may have chosen to cast a ballot for Trump while voting for down-ballot Democratic candidates

.● New Republican voters were possibly excited for Trump and not other candidates.

● Racial and gender bias against Vice President Harris may have contributed to her low numbers.

● All of these may have been factors in the election results. Some Explanations Don’t Add UpThe numbers for some of these explanations do not pan out. For example, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s poll numbers in Nevada, according to FiveThirtyEight, had fallen to 5% by late August when he dropped out and endorsed Trump. The SMART Elections Data Team has calculated the drop-off by political party, but it can easily be calculated for all voters as well. The Republican drop-off was approximately 5% of all presidential voters (1,484,840 votes) in Nevada. Kennedy withdrew from the ballot in Nevada and threw his support to Trump in late August. In theory, the 5% of Nevada drop-off (calculated from the number above of all presidential voters) could be a result of Kennedy voters supporting Trump and then voting Democratic in the down-ballot races. But it is highly
implausible that Trump received 100% of Kennedy’s 5% support and that 100% of those voters then voted for a split ticket.

By comparison, a study by Yale, Harvard, Columbia and MIT scholars found split-ticket voting by Democrats in 2020 was 1%. Furthermore, there was not a single state where Kennedy actually received 5% of the vote. In states where he remained on the ballot, he generally received less than 1% of the vote. Nationally he received 0.5%.

The number of young people voting in 2024 is also insufficient to solely account for the drop-off. Exit poll data from the National Election Pool found that voters ages 18 to 29 made up just 14% of all ballots in the 2024 election. According to the same exit polls, Trump had 46% support among those young voters. So Trump’s 46% of the 14% of young voters equals a 6.4% conservative voting block nationwide. Using Nevada again as an example, in this case, we’ll compare the percentage of these young conservative Trump voters to the 9.87% Republican drop-off in Nevada. Clearly, a 6.4% voting block cannot create a 9.87% drop-off effect. If Harris’ negative support in some states is due to young people, angered by her position on Gaza, not voting for president; then why in Michigan, with its high Muslim population and active don’t vote for president campaign, is her drop-off still positive—even normal— (0.87%)? But in Montana, a state with a much smaller pro-Gaza movement (100 – 150 protestors at this rally), Harris’ drop-off rate is negative -19%. Possibly, some combination of the various explanations have combined to create these drop-off numbers, but the consistency of the drop-off across a vast array of demographic landscapes remains surprising.

Error or Manipulation Cannot Be Ruled Out

The possibility that the drop-off is connected to some type of error or manipulation cannot be ruled out. There is no concrete evidence of foul play, and Vice President Harris chose not to request recounts, but public confidence would benefit from further scrutiny of the election results. SMART Elections recommends that all states conduct a transparent, public review of voting machine source code, audit logs, ballots, voter sign-in files, and election records, such as poll tapes, to generate confidence in the election results. This type of robust investigation would go a long way to reassure voters, especially if the process was open and inclusive. Co-founder and Executive Director Lulu Friesdat says, “Voters don’t want to wonder if their votes are counted correctly. They want to know.”

There are a number of well-established vulnerabilities to the U.S. voting machines in this election.

● The hard-wired password to Dominion’s voting machines was well known and even published on t-shirts. Dominion is one of the two major U.S. voting machine vendors.
○ The Dominion password and alleged exploits were advertised prominently on an internet forum. ○ On November 18th, @RedBear331 with the handle “Hacking Democracy” makes multiple claims of accessing voting machine totals:

■ “What did we do? Added, switched, & deleted votes with SQL. No logs. No trails. Democracy? More like democracy, unplugged.”

■ “ SQL Democracy – Mission Accomplished Democracy Suite EMS relies on duct tape & a backdoor password: “dvscorp08!” .This hardcoded “security” + SQL commands = Trump’s victory. We started in AZ, GA, PA… but didn’t stop there.Your democracy is a house of cards. ”

■ “SQL database from a local EMS system (now Patriot County). Hardcoded backdoor password: “dvscorp08!”, still live in systems across the country. Default Super Admin account Detailed exploit guide to replicate our methods. Screenshots of tampered registries”

● A 2023 letter from top election security experts warned the Department of Justice that the majority of voting software used in the U.S. had been stolen and released on the internet. “The conspirators sought and obtained copies of voting system software from both Dominion Voting Systems and Election Systems & Software (ES&S), which together count over 70% of U.S. votes.” The experts convey urgency, even a sense of panic, saying, “democracy is literally on the ballot.” The letter was covered by PBS.
● A more recent 2024 letter also to the Department of Justice by security advocates requests that “the Department of Justice (DOJ) initiate an investigation into the 2024 presidential election in light of reports of bomb threats, voter intimidation, voting system theft, documented “back doors”
in that equipment that can be used to maliciously alter the results, and related concerns.”

Citing a Public Affairs Council study, Friesdat says, “Prior to the 2024 election, only 37% of Americans told researchers they believed the election would be both honest and open. The percentage of voters with complete confidence is likely even less now.”

 

Cyber Security Expert Stephen Spoonamore’s Letter to Kamala Harris about the 2024 Election

November 15, 2024

Honorable VP Kamala Harris
The White House
Office of the Vice President
1600 Pennsylvania Ave
Washington DC 20500

Dear Madam Vice President.

This is my second Duty to Warn Letter regarding hacking of the 2024 Presidential Election. The first letter on November 7 was directed to Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Officials. Both warnings are made per DNI Clapper’s 2015 directive to all agencies and contractors associated with intelligence and financial agency technologies to warn of suspicions of hacking.

Professionally I have worked as the CEO or CTO at seven high technology firms including two which specialized in hacking and counter-hacking operations. My clients have included numerous governments DoD, DHS, Dept. of State, F100 Financials and F500 Industrials.

I am a lifelong Republican who has long placed service and participatory democracy over party. In government, I have twice been invited to SoCom to give lectures on electronic warfare and techniques to find terrorist money laundering and gave a keynote speech of the National Counterintel Summit on this same topic. I served as an after-action reviewer of communications and data failures on 9/11 under the direction of Jim Woolsey and FDNY Commissioner Scopetta, and later co-wrote multiple hacking risk analysis of Smart Grid technologies for the Obama administration.

You should reverse your concession, call for both a full investigation of criminal activity and demand hand recounts in all seven swing states.

In my professional view there are multiple and extremely clear indications the Presidential vote was willfully compromised.

I wholly agree with the public letter of Duncan Buell, et. al. of Nov. 13th stating they believe there is a possibility of hacking and calling for hand-recounts.

This letter’s clear call to action is commendable, but its cautious tone may belie the severity of what I believe has happened. In my view it is a near certainty the results have been changed at a scale which reversed the US Presidential Election. They imply there is a chance a hand-recount will show you won more votes. I am stating a hand recount will most likely show you did win. Both letters call on you to act.

In my view, a capable and skilled series of exploits, electronic tools and hacks were used to change the Presidential vote in all seven swing states. These activities have reversed the outcomes in at least Arizona, Michigan, North Carolina, and Wisconsin. I will lay out the basics of the attack, starting with unusual elements within the results. I will then outline two processes which could have been followed to insert these false results into the system. Finally I will outline how I would recommend investigating.

Unusual elements within the results.

The results of the attack are improbable in the extreme and well tailored to the sole benefit of your opponent.

Approximately 600,000 votes are for Donald Trump but with no down ballot choices. These are either inserted “bullet ballots” for the Presidential race or manipulated data fields. They are surgically added to totals in limited jurisdictions and within only the seven swing States. This historically unprecedented set of numbers found in the 2024 swing states is absent in every other state. In AZ, MI, NC and WI the effect of these drop-off votes reverses the voters’ will and even more improbably always pushes the winning margin beyond the mandatory recount numbers.

It is a result too perfect for belief. It is a bespoke and programmed outcome. In other states including PA and NV, removing these strange and bespoke added votes, it appears Donald Trump may have won the cast votes but within a margin which would force recounts. The inserted votes raise his totals, to avoid any scrutiny during mandatory recount results which would have slowed his claim on the Presidency. In GA and FL the same pattern exists with unclear impact on the results.

This attack is not technically difficult. It is modest in scale. It would require:

Modest and common computer programming skills.

Access to 10-100 tabulators or to the handful of facilities programming them in advance.

A credible database of voter IDs of non-voters around which to create false ballots.

Perhaps as few as 1, but more likely 3-5 human program managers.

Access to eBollBook Data during the election to determine who had not voted.

(Possibly) Human access to some tabulators during counting.

If I was asked to lead this hack, I would expect to have a core team of 6-10 people, and operating costs under $10M with a timeline of 3-12 months.

The tell: A historically absurd number of Trump-only bullet ballots or undervote ballots.

There are always a handful of voters who cast a vote in one race which they care about, and do not make other selections on the ballot. These are called bullet ballots. In Presidential Races since 1980, these bullet ballots rarely account for more than 1% of the total votes including in Mr. Trump’s winning 2016 election and losing 2020 election, and when they do it warrants further investigation. In 2024 in the 43 non-swing states, bullet ballots make up a nominal >1%. In the seven swing states the numbers are so high to be unbelievable, unprecedented and demanding of further investigation. Here is analysis from totals as of late Nov. 12th

Here are the unprecedented results of drop-offs in the two western swing states:

AZ – 123K+ 7.2%+ of Trump’s total vote. Enough to reverse the outcome.
NV – 43K+ 5.5%+ of Trump’s total vote. Enough to exceed recount threshold.

It is my belief these two states have illegally added votes.

For comparison, examine Trump’s 2024 results in three states which border AZ and NV. They have equally passionate Trump supporters, but have the normal levels of drop off or bullet ballots.

ID <2K 0.03% of Trump’s total.
OR <4K 0.05% of Trump’s total
UT <1K 0.01% of Trump’s total.

In the case of Idaho and Utah, Mr. Trump was a run-away winner and had no need to add votes. In the case of Oregon, Ms. Harris was a run-away winner and adding votes to Trump’s total would add risk without adding value.

The same pattern of large numbers of drop-off votes or bullet ballots exists in the totals of MI, NC, PA, WI.

North Carolina is the most extreme. The public results indicate over 350K voters cast a ballot for Trump and no other race making up over 11% of Trump’s voters in NC drop off votes or bullet ballots.

Hack Part 1: Creating the pool of bullet ballot voters.

There are two possible methods to execute this attack. The simple version would only manipulate electronic totals and hand-counting the target precincts would discover this. The second involved ePollbook hacking and introducing bullet ballots. This would add the need to compare the ePollBook timestamps to find possible bad actors or other sources for these anomalous votes.

When Mr. Musk announced his $1M lottery for people to go online and sign a pledge to vote for Trump, I became personally suspicious of why such a promotion would be done. I signed up to see what information he wanted and what the pledge actually stated. He did not want to know people’s socials or send them texts. To sign up you had to provide your street address. That was all they cared about. Once they had the people’s names, and street address this would allow for building a pool of ghost voters who could logically be marked for fake ballots, structured in a manner which matched ePollBook and precinct data. You, as a member of law enforcement, understand criminals need certain pre-conditions to act. A database of pledged supporters with street addresses is required for this hack. Law enforcement should immediately find the team of programmers who pulled the lottery data capture. They will find those programmers immediately parsed the data into a system based on voting precincts and created macros to constantly update the pledged lists of who had cast a vote, and who had not. The programmers likely did not know they were working on a system to be used to steal the election. When confronted with that fact, law enforcement would likely gain cooperating witnesses.

Musk’s team used this system to build a list of voters pledged to vote for Trump. This list could also be used to make a ghost-ballot voter list. ePollBook data is nearly always linked to the internet, and in many jurisdictions this link was being made in real time via Mr. Musk’s Starlink or any available wireless network. Throughout the day, Musk’s team could compare existing turnout models to likely outcomes, based on well established voter profile databases vs. the actual voter turnout coming in from the ePollBooks. They would have been able to have a very good estimation in the closing hours of polls how many votes short Trump would likely be at the tabulation level. They would also have exact lists of the pledged voters for Trump and would know who had not shown up. The pledged voters who did not vote, became the bullet ballots. With any network connection to the ePollBooks, or via other compromised connectivity, they could be marked as voted.

Hack Part 2: Matching the tabulation to the ePollBooks.

The exact number of added voters to the ePollBooks as having voted would have to match the tabulation process. This attack could have been done in at least two different ways.

The easiest method to execute phase two, is also the easiest to discover by hand-recount. In a few jurisdictions where the tabulators either had network connectivity, approved or otherwise, or where a person on the team had physical access to the tabulation machine, the Trump votes that were added to the ePollBooks, would need to be added to the tabulators. At which point the ePollBooks and the tabulation totals would match, having been digitally stuffed with demographically credible voters for Trump. But there will be no paper ballot for these votes. A hand-recount will quickly discover the fraud.

As I write this letter, several hundred people are self organizing on Reddit and other forums. They include: data scientists, statisticians, and legal experts. They are examining the precinct level data of every swing state, and by Monday these teams will have lists of many precincts where these historically unprecedented Trump bullet ballots occur. The highest likelihood is that those ballots don’t actually exist. Those votes were electronically created but have no paper. This would be easily proven with a hand recount.

A second possibility involves the same compromise as described above, but is then combined with human ballot stuffing, or ballot substitution, at tabulation to match the epollbook numbers. This possibility is raised as it appears these historically unprecedented bullet ballots fall heavily in a few counties. Maricopa County AZ, seems to be the source of the vast majority, perhaps nearly all, of the AZ bullet ballot voters for Trump. If these ballots were introduced it would require co-conspirators working inside the tabulation center.

I appreciate that many people, even sophisticated people outside this field, think this hack is an impossible task. It is not. Just 8 weeks ago the world watched a vastly larger and more complicated one. Unknown hackers intercepted over 3000 communications devices over 24 months destined for use by Hamas across the entire Mideast. The devices all had additional software, hardware and explosives inserted. The devices were then delivered to users and functioned normally for months until the hackers triggered the inserted series of exploits and explosions.

This hack, the entire world witnessed, was orders of magnitude more complicated than introducing Trump bullet ballots into – at most – 100 tabulation locations. I have personally managed full year long operations in which hundreds of credit card point of sale devices were rebuilt with added hardware and software and inserted in order to discover fraudsters and money laundering. No one knew we were there. The users never were aware. The devices did their normal job processing credit cards for merchants. While they also did a hacked job and helped my team and I root out criminals. The access, technical difficulty, and scale of the election hack I am describing is less than either of these. But the effect is vastly greater, and the FBI has excellent people who could address this very quickly.

Lastly, this hack methodology may or may not have some correlation with the series of Bomb Threats called in by Russian affiliated assets. The use of distraction or diversion of this kind is common. My first thought was, and my thinking remains, these bomb threats were called into tabulation centers and precincts where the hackers had already planned to conduct ghost bullet ballot introductions. I believe they wanted a disruption in the chain of custody, so lawyers could claim after the hacking events that the chain of custody on the ballots was flawed. The creation of the false-argument of a broken custody chain would be used as a pretext to prevent hand recounting, as hand recounting would not match the Trump favorable result. However, by a reverse of that logic, any jurisdiction which was subject to a bomb threat was forced to break standard operating procedure. This alone should be grounds for you to ask for a hand-recount.

Lastly, I have been advised by an attorney that Arizona and Georgia have mechanisms in place for members of the public to demand a recount, but only you have the ability to demand a recount across all the jurisdictions of concern.

A final formal note. This is principally a Duty to Warn letter. It is also a fulfillment of my constitutional oath of office as possibly the lowest level sworn office of public trust in America. I was appointed by my township to serve as a local Parks Commissioner. I am the public appointee to the Mt. Nittany Conservancy, a nature reserve. I have spent the last four years variously overseeing how public funds are spent on sports fields, kids playgrounds, hiking trails, and bike paths. To do this, I must make annual conflict and financial disclosures and I must swear nearly the same oath you did. I am under the sworn obligation to defend our nation against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Which, I am honored to do.

I will continue to investigate with a growing group of volunteers. We are also planning to offer rewards for information. But our efforts to preserve the integrity of this election can not take this to completion. You, and only you, can call for a full hand-recount and engage the vast public resources at your disposal. I can’t. This is all I can do.

Let me know how I can help.

Sincerely,

ESignature – Stephen R. Spoonamore

College Township PA

Former CEO or CTO of multiple Technology Firms

https://www.linkedin.com/in/spoonamore/

CC: Secretary. of States and Governors of AZ, FL, GA, MI, NC, NV, PA and WI. Additional PA representative Chris Dush (PA State Sen.), Paul Takac (PA State Rep.), Dustin Best (PA College Township Supervisor), and Robert Ziegler (PA Milhiem Township Supervisor.)

 

COPY OF LETTER TO PA GOVERNOR JOSH SHAPIRO FROM CYBER SECURITY EXPERT STEPHEN SPOOMAMORE ABOUT THE 2024 ELECTION

Gov. of Pennsylvania J. Shapiro. et. at Nov. 7th 2024

This is a formal Duty to Warn Letter. Per DNI Dir. Clappers 2015 directive to all agencies and contractors associated with intelligence and financial agency technologies I have a Duty to Warn of suspicions of hacking and have done so for my customers including Govt Agencies.Dept of Defense, F100 firms and numerous banks. l do so here as a directly affected voter. Nearly all my investigations begin for one of two reasons. The hackers make a mistake triggering a system issue and/or the aggregate effects of the hacking creates results outside nominal expectations There is a third and less common flag; an unrelated distraction to draw attention away from the hacking.

All three of these indicators are present in the election of Nov. 5th 2024.

Element three: distraction via bomb-threats is confirmed coming from Russian agencies. Element one is the inexplicable mismatch of reported votes vs voter turnout Here in Centre County initial tabulation was an absurdly low 67K votes when over 80K voters participated. Element two is also present. Our local scanner systems worked in testing but were unable to communicate properly with tabulation systems after the bomb-scare. I note from experience – the failure of a scanning systems to properly load a database is an extremely common development when a system is changed without notice to the users. l have personally worked on similar issues where sudden scanner configuration failures were the first symptoms of system hacking.

With these three elements present, l suggest immediately doing a relatively simple set of preliminary checks First, randomly selected precincts require manual comparisons of the number of voters who took ballots vs the scanned output of vote totals. Those did not match here in Centre County by apx 13K votes. Once added. those votes substantially changed outcomes and led to the outright reversals in multiple Centre County races.

Centre County BOE now shows vote totals over 80K votes. Apx. 6% above 2020 turnout. In my professional opinion every county in PA as well as many in Wt, Ml and GA currently reporting lower vote totals vs. 2020 and/or also experienced a distraction bomb threat should undertake the same process My professional opinion is: many thousands of voters are being disenfranchised. likely by a malicious actor via errors in tabulation software. My concern has been proven correct and warranted here in Centre County PA.

Esignature — Stephen R. Spoonamore

Stephen Spoonamore (Resident of Centre County PA)

 

TEXT OF LETTER SENT TO VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS BY COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

November 13, 2024

The Honorable Kamala Harris
The White House Office of the Vice President
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20500

Dear Vice President Harris,

We write to alert you to serious election security breaches that have threatened the security and integrity of the 2024 elections, and to identify ways to ensure that the will of the voters is reflected and that voters should have confidence in the result. The most effective manner of doing so is through targeted recounts requested by the candidate. In the light of the breaches we ask that you formally request hand recounts in at least the states of Michigan, Nevada, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. We have no evidence that the outcomes of the elections in those states were actually compromised as a result of the security breaches, and we are not suggesting that they were. But binding risk-limiting audits (RLAs) or hand recounts should be routine for all elections, especially when the stakes are high and the results are close. We believe that, under the current circumstances when massive software breaches are known and documented, recounts are necessary and appropriate to remove all potential doubt and to set an example for security best practices in all elections.

In 2022, records, video camera footage, and deposition testimony produced in a civil case in Georgia1 disclosed that its voting system, used statewide, had been breached over multiple days by operatives hired by attorneys for Donald Trump. The evidence showed that the operatives made copies of the software that runs all of the equipment in Georgia, and certain other states, and shared it with other Trump allies and operatives.

Subsequent court filings and public records requests revealed that the breaches in Georgia were part of a larger effort to take copies of voting system software from systems in Michigan,5 Pennsylvania,6 Colorado7 and Arizona,8 and to share the software in the operatives’ network. According to testimony and declarations by some of the technicians who have obtained copies of the software, they have had access for more than three years to the software for the central servers, tabulators, and highly restricted election databases of both Election Systems & Software (ES&S), and Dominion Voting Systems, the two largest voting system vendors, constituting the most severe election security breach publicly known.

Combined, their equipment counts nearly 70% of all votes nationwide. Ninety-six percent of Arizona voters use Dominion and ES&S equipment; 100% of Georgia voters vote on Dominion machines; 98% of Nevada votes on Dominion voting machines and the remainder uses ES&S; 69% of Michigan voters’ ballots are counted on Dominion or ES&S equipment; 89% of Pennsylvania voters ballots are counted on Dominion or ES&S equipment; ES&S counts 92% of North Carolina ballots; and either ES&S or Dominion counts 97% of Wisconsin votes.

Possessing copies of the voting system software enables bad actors to install it on electronic devices and to create their own working replicas of the voting systems, probe them, and develop exploits. Skilled adversaries can decompile the software to get a version of the source code, study it for vulnerabilities, and could even develop malware designed to be installed with minimal physical access to the voting equipment by unskilled accomplices to manipulate the vote counts. Attacks could also be launched by compromising the vendors responsible for programming systems before elections, enabling large scale distribution of malware.

In December 202212 and again in 2023,13 many of us, concerned by the security risks posed by these breaches, wrote to the Attorney General, FBI Director, and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Director outlining the security concerns and urging an investigation. Though there have been limited, localized investigations,14 there is no evidence of a federal investigation15 to determine what was done with the misappropriated voting software.

Other relevant parties have pointed to the serious risks posed by the misappropriation of the voting software. Before it was known that partisan operatives had taken the software, Dominion Voting Systems objected vehemently to providing its software to the same partisan actors who ultimately got copies through voting system breaches, stating that to give its software to biased actors would cause “irreparable damage” to the “election security interests of the country.”

Before the breaches in Georgia had been confirmed, the Georgia Secretary of State’s chief information officer testified that having copies of the software would provide a “road map” to the ways the system could be accessed. The Georgia Attorney General opposed providing copies of the software to lawyers for the Trump campaign in a late 2020 election challenge, arguing that images of the voting system software would provide “the keys to the software kingdom.”

Notably, U.S. elections are potentially resilient because there are paper ballots recording the voters’ intent in most states, meaning that even if the voting system is at risk, the will of the voters can be determined reliably by recounting the paper ballots by hand (although we are aware that not all paper ballots are verified by the voter, and not all states take adequate care to protect the ballot chain of custody.)

Audits will be conducted in some of the most scrutinized states, but in key states they will not be conducted in a timely way that could reveal any concerns with the vote count. In addition, in most states the audits are insufficiently rigorous to ensure any potential errors in tabulation will be caught and corrected, and they cannot be considered a safeguard against the security breaches that have occurred. Specifically, Georgia’s audits are non-binding, and Michigan, Nevada and Wisconsin laws do not provide that the audit be conducted before certification. Therefore, it would be impossible to know for these critical states if the audits uncovered errors or miscalculations before the state deadlines to seek recounts.

Among swing states, only Arizona’s audit laws ensure that, if enough discrepancies are identified, the audit hand count will be expanded to correct a potentially incorrect result. In other words, aside from Arizona, in contested states, there is no legal mechanism for the audit to correct the outcome, no matter how much error the audit uncovers. Given these facts, the only guarantee for rigorous, effective audits of the vote in the swing states will be through candidate-requested statewide hand recounts.

The facts around the voting system breaches are not disputed; it is well-documented that there were severe, multiple voting security breaches before the 2024 election. To ensure that voters can have confidence that the breaches in security did not taint the results of the 2024 election, we recommend pursuing hand recounts in, at minimum, Michigan, Nevada, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania as they will provide insufficient safeguards against threats posed by the breaches of the election software and will not provide important information in a timely way.

Thank you for your time and consideration of this important matter.

Sincerely,

Duncan Buell Ph.D.
Chair Emeritus — NCR Chair in Computer Science and Engineering
Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering
University of South Carolina*

David Jefferson Ph.D.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory* (retired)
Election Integrity Foundation*

Chris Klaus
Founder
Internet Security System*

Susan Greenhalgh
Senior Advisor for Election Security
Free Speech For People

William John Malik
Malik Consulting, LLC*

Marilyn Marks
Executive Director
Coalition for Good Governance

Peter G. Neumann Ph.D.
Chief Scientist,
SRI International Computer Science Lab*

John E. Savage
An Wang Professor Emeritus of Computer Science
Brown University*

 

https://www.youtube.com/live/VrFb-rLVF10

Jessica Denson speaks with Duncan Buell PhD, Chair Emeritus of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of South Carolina, who penned a letter with other top election security experts to the White House alerting VP Harris that she should request recounts in swing states.

 

Trump’s “VICTORY” was Rigged Through Voter Suppression – Part 1

 

Trump’s “VICTORY” was Rigged Through Voter Suppression – Part 2

 

Trump’s “VICTORY” was Rigged Through Voter Suppression – Part 3

 

America needs an official forensic audit into the US presidential election to save its democracy

In the aftermath of the US presidential election, growing questions about the integrity of the results have led to calls for a forensic audit

Per the above article: “In the aftermath of the 2024 US presidential election, growing questions about the integrity of the results have led many to call for a forensic audit.

From bomb threats which appear to have originated from Russian domains, to voter roll purges with concerns being raised about the removal of eligible voters, to widespread reports of rejected mail-in ballots, these issues suggest that the election outcome might not accurately reflect the will of the people. For those questioning whether a forensic audit could change the results, the answer is yes – an audit could reveal critical discrepancies and restore trust in the election process.
Unprecedented challenges: the case for a forensic audit

Reports of bomb threats targeting polling sites, particularly in battleground states like Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin, emerged in the days following the election. The FBI linked these threats to what appeared to be Russian sources, and they briefly halted voting in key precincts, potentially reducing voter turnout in these crucial areas.

At the same time, voters are reporting an uptick in rejected ballots. Many of these ballots were disqualified for technical reasons – missing signatures or incorrect addresses – that would likely not have invalidated a voter’s intent. Given the closeness of the election in some states, these irregularities could have significant implications on the final count.

In addition, a group of prominent computer scientists and election security experts has raised the alarm over breaches of voting system software, urging immediate action to ensure the integrity of the 2024 election.

In a letter to Vice President Kamala Harris, these experts – leaders in cybersecurity and computer science – called for recounts of US presidential election paper ballots in key states, citing unprecedented security vulnerabilities stemming from unauthorised access to voting software by Trump allies in 2021 and 2022. The breaches, they warn, enable malicious actors to replicate voting systems, probe for weaknesses, and potentially deploy malware to manipulate vote counts.

Their concerns, outlined in meticulous detail, reflect decades of collective expertise, including affiliations with institutions like Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, SRI International, and leading universities. They argue that recounts are essential to validate computer-generated tallies, particularly in an election where trust in the democratic process hangs in the balance.

The stakes are underscored by their dire warning:

Skilled adversaries can study this software for vulnerabilities and develop exploits capable of large-scale disruption.

Despite appeals to federal agencies in prior years, they note a troubling lack of comprehensive investigation into the breaches, further highlighting the need for immediate forensic audits to protect the nation’s electoral integrity.

A forensic audit: what it could uncover

The experts emphasise the urgency of their call, noting that post-election audits in many states occur after certification, leaving a narrow window for recounts.

A forensic audit involves more than just a recount. It’s a comprehensive investigation that reviews every aspect of the election process to uncover any tampering or errors. Here’s what such an audit could reveal:

Verification of rejected ballots

A core part of any forensic audit would be re-examining the millions of rejected mail-in ballots. If patterns of misapplication of rejection criteria were found, ballots could be restored, particularly in states with narrow margins.

Digital security analysis

Cybersecurity experts would examine the voting infrastructure for signs of digital tampering. Given the bomb threats linked to Russian sources and known attempts to influence U.S. elections in 2016, any signs of hacking or manipulation of tabulation software could be uncovered through such an audit.
Examination of paper ballots

In states where both electronic and paper ballots are used, a forensic audit could compare digital and paper records to identify discrepancies. This could reveal whether the digital tabulation was accurate, or whether machine errors or tampering led to inaccurate results.

 

Sign the Petition

Election integrity is the foundation of our democracy, independent of political party.Politicians from both sides of the aisle have voiced concerns about voting machines and election security.Suspicious statements (“vote counting computers”), statistical anomalies, and vulnerabilities in Pennsylvania further highlight election integrity concerns.

Sign Petition demanding a Hand-Count Audit of Pennsylvania’s 2024 Presidential Election

 

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Locked Out 2024: Four Million Denied Voting Rights Due to a Felony Conviction – The Sentencing Project

Four million Americans will be unable to vote in the upcoming 2024 election due to felony disenfranchisement laws.

Per the above article: An estimated 4 million people are disenfranchised due to a felony conviction, a figure that has declined by 31% since 2016, as more states enacted policies to curtail this practice and state prison, probation, and parole populations declined. Previous research finds there were an estimated 1.2 million people disenfranchised in 1976, 3.3 million in 1996, 4.6 million in 2000, 5.1 million in 2004, 5.7 million in 2010, 5.9 million in 2016, 4.9 million in 2020, and 4.4 million in 2022.2

• One out of 59 adult citizens – 1.7% of the total U.S. voting eligible population – is disenfranchised due to a current or previous felony conviction.
• Seven out of 10 people disenfranchised are living in their communities, having fully completed their sentences or remaining supervised while on felony probation or parole.
• In two states – Florida and Tennessee – more than 6% of the adult population, one of every 17 adults, is disenfranchised.
  Florida remains the nation’s disenfranchisement leader in absolute numbers, with over 961,000 people currently banned from voting, often because they cannot afford to pay court-ordered monetary sanctions. An estimated 730,000 Floridians who have completed their sentences remain disenfranchised, despite a 2018 ballot referendum that promised to restore their voting rights.
• One in 22 African Americans of voting age is disenfranchised, a rate more than triple that of non-African Americans. Among the adult African American population, 4.5% is disenfranchised compared to 1.3% of the adult non-African American population. In 15 states, 5% or more of the African American adult population is banned from voting due to a felony conviction.
• More than one in 10 African American adults is disenfranchised in five states – Arizona, Florida, Kentucky, South Dakota, and Tennessee.
  Although data on ethnicity in correctional populations are unevenly reported and undercounted in some states, a conservative estimate is that at least 495,000 Latino Americans or 1.5% of the voting eligible population are disenfranchised.
• Based on available correctional data that records an individual’s sex, approximately 764,000 women are disenfranchised, comprising about 0.6% of the female voting eligible population and approximately one-fifth of the total disenfranchised population.3 We estimate that approximately 3.2 million men or 2.7% of the male voting eligible population is disenfranchised, consistent with the over-representation of men in the criminal legal system.

 

Republican Party efforts to disrupt the 2024 United States presidential election – Wikipedia

The Republican Party’s efforts to disrupt the 2024 United States presidential election involve a series of coordinated actions intended to influence election outcomes at both federal and state levels.

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“The Republican Party’s efforts to disrupt the 2024 United States presidential election involve a series of coordinated actions intended to influence election outcomes at both federal and state levels. These efforts, which were preceded by Republican efforts to restrict voting following the 2020 presidential election, are characterized by legislative, legal, and administrative strategies that sought to affect voter access, election oversight, and post-election certification processes. This initiative grew out of widespread claims within certain Republican Party circles about election integrity, many of which trace back to the 2020 United States presidential election and Trump’s false claims of a stolen election, including the election denial movement in the United States, despite a lack of substantial evidence supporting these allegations.

Key elements of these strategies include attempts to modify voting laws, with a focus on restrictions that could disproportionately impact demographics more likely to vote for the Democratic Party. Additionally, Republican-led states saw a push to place partisan figures in election oversight positions, which may influence how election laws are interpreted and enforced. There is also a significant legal component, with numerous court cases challenging aspects of the voting process and aiming to set precedents for handling election disputes. These efforts sparked intense debate across the political spectrum, with proponents arguing that the measures “are necessary to ensure election security”, while critics contend that they could undermine democratic processes by restricting voter access and eroding public trust in election fairness”.

“For decades, Republicans sought evidence of what they allege is rampant voting fraud in the United States. Multiple studies during this time found that election fraud is extremely rare. In 2024, an election fraud database maintained by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, showed evidence of 1,513 instances of fraud over the preceding 42 years, although many of those instances have been challenged as dubious. After Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, he falsely asserted the election had been rigged and stolen from him; the false allegations came to be known as his big lie. Many of his followers developed an election denial movement to advance this false narrative. As of August 2023, a large majority of Republican voters and Republican-leaning independents continued to believe Joe Biden was not legitimately elected in 2020”.

“In a 1980 speech, Paul Weyrich, co-founder of the Heritage Foundation said, “I don’t want everybody to vote … our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.” As president, Trump falsely claimed that millions of undocumented migrants illegally voted for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 United States presidential election, depriving him of the popular vote victory”.

“As a result, Trump established the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity in May 2017; the commission was disbanded several months later, with member Matthew Dunlap, the Maine secretary of state, writing to commission chair Mike Pence and vice chair Kris Kobach that, contrary to public statements by Trump and Kobach, the commission did not find “substantial” voter fraud.” Critics said the commission’s intent was to disenfranchise or deter legal voters. Kobach, then the Kansas secretary of state, had a history of making false or unsubstantiated allegations of voting fraud to advocate for voting restrictions. The commission did not find a single instance of a noncitizen voting”.

“The Conservative news outlets Fox News, Newsmax, and OANN promoted false election fraud allegations in the weeks following the 2020 election, including conspiracy theories that voting machines had been rigged to favor Biden; in response, voting machine companies Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic filed defamation lawsuits against those three networks, some of their employees and others. Fox News agreed to pay a $787.5 million settlement to Dominion in April 2023 after it was revealed that top on-air personalities and executives knew the allegations were false but continued to promote them anyway. The 2022 Dinesh D’Souza film 2000 Mules falsely alleged that Democratic Party operatives engaged in an illegal ballot harvesting operation across five swing states during the 2020 election”.

“By April 2024, dozens of Republicans in four states were under indictment for their alleged involvement in the Trump fake electors plot and related Pence Card conspiracy, parts of wide-ranging efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Those indicted included Trump and several of his close associates, including Christina Bobb who leads the Republican National Committee (RNC) election integrity legal efforts in the 2024 presidential election. In September 2024, Hanna Rosin published an article about the aftermath of the January 6 attack in the lives of the insurrectionists, which mentions how they have created “a new mythology on the right”, which could lead to a new attempt at overturning the election should Trump lose it. The Justice Department planned to monitor compliance with voting rights laws on Election Day in 27 states. Since at least 2003, journalists, election security experts, and activists have repeatedly warned about security vulnerabilities and other flaws in the election infrastructure of the United States”.

Historical allegations of cheating by the Republican Party

“Commentators have repeatedly accused the Republican Party of applying deceptive methods in order to win elections. The New Republic alleged that Republican Party political campaigns have a history of applying “voter intimidation techniques, more direct threats of violence, foreign disinformation, and super PAC and dark money skullduggery” as strategies, citing the possible sabotage of Vietnam War peace talks during the 1968 election; the Watergate scandal during the 1972 election; the 1980 October Surprise theory; the tactics of Lee Atwater during the 1988 election; the “butterfly ballots”, actions of Katherine Harris, Brooks Brothers riot, and Bush v. Gore Supreme Court case during the 2000 election; the 2002 New Hampshire Senate election phone jamming scandal; and the swiftboating of John Kerry during the 2004 election. Truthout cited the Volusia error during the 2000 election; voter roll purges during the 2000 and 2004 elections (in Florida and Ohio, respectively); false information about voting logistics by election boards controlled by Republicans; voter intimidation; and voter ID laws. Truthout also cited “voter irregularities” in Ohio during the 2004 election involving a Republican-connected company SMARTech, and also noted that Anonymous claimed without evidence that Karl Rove unsuccessfully attempted to use Mitt Romney’s ORCA get-out-the-vote system to rig the 2012 election in Ohio in a similar fashion as alleged to have occurred in 2004″.

“In Al Jazeera America, Greg Palast warned in 2014 of the impact that the Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck Program, which he accused of over-representing Black, Asian and Hispanic voters in its efforts to purge potentially millions of names from voter rolls, could have on the 2014 and 2016 elections. Palast assessed that 1.1 million voters were removed from voter rolls by the 2016 election, while the Brennan Center determined that nearly 16 million voters were removed by states between 2014 and 2016. Crosscheck had been criticized by journalists and researchers for poor accuracy”.

Historical connections between Russia and the Republican Party

“Craig Unger documented ties between the Republican Party and the Russian government dating back to at least 1997, including Tom DeLay visiting Moscow to meet Viktor Chernomyrdin, Ed Buckham’s U.S. Family Network being funded $1 million by Russians to influence DeLay’s vote on bailing out the Russian economy, and Paul Manafort’s ties to Russia (among others). Manafort had given polling data to a Russian intelligence officer in 2016. The Washington Spectator traced these ties back to a 1995 visit to Russia by Allan C. Carlson, who subsequently formed the World Congress of Families after observing commonalities between American and Russian conservatives. Nafeez Ahmed has also noted the ties between the Heritage Foundation and the Danube Institute, which is funded by the government of Viktor Orbán and is supportive of the Russian government. Paul Dans, the former leader of Project 2025, appeared on a podcast from Tenet Media, which was accused by the Department of Justice of being operated by Russian agents”.

“Tom Nichols theorized that the Republican Party’s overall affinity for Russia and Vladimir Putin in particular may be due in part to questions about the party’s long-term viability which could be addressed by “nationalist appeals, combined with electoral fraud and selective use of the prison system” that were modeled by Putin”.

Republican Party and the International Democratic Union

“The Republican Party is a member of the International Democratic Union (IDU), which The Tyee described as a global group that is “dedicated to electing right-wing governments around the world”. According to a 1985 CIA memo, the Republican Party and the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan had provided half of all funding for the organization at the time. Other members include the Conservative Party of Canada, the Conservative Party of the United Kingdom, Fidesz in Hungary (led in 2025 by Viktor Orbán), Likud in Israel (led in 2025 by Benjamin Netanyahu) and (until 2023) the Bharatiya Janata Party in India. Several of their leaders had gained political power with help from Arthur J. Finkelstein, such as Orbán, Netanyahu and Trump. The IDU shares resources with its members on “campaign technology, fund-raising techniques, opinion polling, advertising and campaign organization”. The Conservative Party of Canada and the Republican Party had closely collaborated on resources and strategy during the 2000s and 2010s”.

“Under the leadership of Stephen Harper, Mike Roman was the treasurer and then assistant chairman of the IDU until Roman was indicted for allegedly participating in attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election. During the 2008 United States presidential election, Roman had shared a video of the New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case, which Richard Hasen had alleged to be an example of a false or exaggerated claim of voter fraud. Roman had written in a 2008 blog post, “If an election is worth winning, then there is someone willing to steal it.”

 

Allegations of rigged elections

“To sow election doubt, Trump escalated use of “rigged election” and “election interference” statements in advance of the 2024 election compared to the previous two elections—the statements described as part of a “heads I win; tails you cheated” rhetorical strategy.”

“During the 2024 campaign, Trump often referred to “election integrity” to allude to his continuing claim that the 2020 election was rigged, as well as predictions of future mass election fraud. As he did during the 2020 election cycle, Trump claimed that Democrats would try to rig the 2024 election. Many Republicans reported to believe that Democratic Party have and continue to engage in systemic election fraud, with some being concerned regarding election integrity. By 2022, Republican politicians and conservative talk radio cable news outlets echoed the statement of former Trump advisor Steve Bannon that “if Democrats don’t cheat, they don’t win”.

“The Heritage Foundation has been closely aligned with the Republican Party since its founding in 1973. In 2023, the foundation published Project 2025, a blueprint for Trump’s second presidency. In July 2024, Mike Powell, the group’s executive director for its Oversight Project, said that “as things stand right now, there is a zero percent chance of a free and fair election in the United States of America”, adding, “I’m formally accusing the Biden administration of creating the conditions that most reasonable policymakers and officials cannot in good conscience certify an election.” Heritage released a report predicting without supporting evidence that Biden might try to retain power “by force” if he were to lose in November. Election law expert Rick Hasen remarked that “this is gaslighting and it is dangerous in fanning flames that could lead to potential violence.”

“The Heritage Oversight Project produced videos for distribution on social media and conservative media outlets that made false or misleading claims about the extent of noncitizen voting registrations. In one video that was sent viral by an Elon Musk repost, Heritage falsely claimed that 14% of noncitizens in Georgia were registered, concluding that “the integrity of the 2024 election is in great jeopardy”. Heritage based their findings on an extrapolation of hidden camera interview responses from seven residents in a Norcross, Georgia, apartment complex. State investigators found the seven people had never registered. During the closing weeks of the campaign, Trump’s campaign and its allies revived allegations from 2020 that voting machines were rigged. The claims were widespread on social media and were frequently mentioned in lawsuits filed by Republicans. Trump and Musk repeated baseless claims of fraud and “cheating” in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, in the days before Election Day”.

“Claims by Trump and Republican allies of election fraud persisted up to Election Day on November 5. After Trump was declared the winner, these claims had largely stopped, with his “election integrity” allies crediting his victory to their efforts”.

Seeking vulnerabilities in the election system

“The New York Times reported in July 2024 that “the Republican Party and its conservative allies are engaged in an unprecedented legal campaign targeting the American voting system” by systematically searching for vulnerabilities. The effort involves a network of powerful Republican lawyers and activists, many of whom were involved in the attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. It involves restricting voting and short-circuiting the certification process should Trump lose. The Republican strategy involved first persuading voters that the election is about to be stolen by Democrats, despite lacking evidence. After the election, if Trump were to lose, lawyers would attempt to challenge decades of settled law as to how elections are certified. The New York Times reported the efforts had “been quietly playing out in courts, statehouses and county boards for months, and is concentrated in critical battlegrounds”. In October 2024, The Washington Post identified as vulnerabilities leading to a possible attempt at overturning the election’s results the following: widespread false information, weeks-long recounts, lawsuits delaying final results, breakdown in certifying results, disruptions at elector meetings, Congress stalling the certification, and a wild card (“something new could be tried that attorneys and election officials haven’t yet gamed out”)”.

“Nebraska is one of two states that does not have a winner-take-all system of awarding electoral college votes but rather allocates the votes by its three congressional districts. One district contains the Omaha metro area, which can tend to lean Democrat (Obama won the district in 2008, as did Biden in 2020), while the other two are more rural and vote solid Republican. During 2024, some Nebraska Republicans sought to change the state’s 1991 law that created its electoral college allocation system to winner-take-all and remove the likely elector for Kamala Harris. The proposal was blocked by Republican state senators; by September 2024, it was revived with pressure brought by Trump, all of the state’s Republican representatives, and South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham”.

“During the 2024 Donald Trump rally at Madison Square Garden, Trump revealed that he and House Speaker Mike Johnson had a “little secret”, stating: “I think with our little secret we are gonna do really well with the House, our little secret is having a big impact, he and I have a little secret, we will tell you what it is when the race is over.” Johnson confirmed the existence of the plan. Commentators speculated that they were referring to a contingent election, in which the United States House of Representatives elects the president; or a plot to convince Republican state legislatures or Republican governors in states that Trump would lose to not certify the results or submit slates of electors before the deadline, reducing the number of electors needed to win the electoral college vote”.

Breaching and attempted breaching of voter machines

“At an August 2021 event organized by Mike Lindell, copies of software from Dominion Voting Systems equipment in Colorado and Michigan were distributed and posted to the public Internet. Election security experts warned that the release undermines trust in election security and allows for hackers to conduct vulnerability assessments, counter defenses, “sabotage the system, alter ballot design or even try to change results”. Three vendors dominate election technology in the United States, limiting the ability for election officials to replace an existing system. Mike Lindell stated that his goal is to remove voting machines entirely and switch to paper ballots, a process that election officials warned would be tedious, time-consuming and prone to errors”.

“CNN reported that in text messages to Doug Logan, the CEO of Cyber Ninjas, which conducted the 2021 Maricopa County presidential ballot audit, Michael Flynn expressed a goal to “fundamentally change the way votes are counted at the state level”.

“In August 2023, Matthew DePerno, the former Republican nominee for the 2022 Michigan Attorney General election, and former Republican state representative Daire Rendon were charged with “undue possession of a voting machine, willfully damaging a voting machine and conspiracy”. DePerno spread false claims about the 2020 United States presidential election”.

“Election denial activists had spread a password that they alleged to be used in Dominion voting machines in Georgia, including wearing the alleged password on t-shirts”.

“In 2020, J. Alex Halderman, a computer science and engineering professor, discovered a software vulnerability in Georgia’s voting machines which made it possible for hackers to change votes. While Dominion developed a patch to address these vulnerabilities, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said that the machines would be updated after the 2024 election, dismissing Halderman’s findings as “theoretical and imaginary.”

“In December 2022, election experts sent a letter to the United States Department of Justice that described a “multi-state conspiracy to copy voting software” that was at least partially funded by notable Trump supporters such as Sidney Powell and asking for a federal investigation. In December 2023, a follow-up open letter from computer scientists, election security experts and voter advocacy organizations listed repeated attempts by allies of Donald Trump to access voting system software in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Nevada and Colorado, again calling for a federal investigation, noting that the software is used nationwide. Entire election databases from multiple counties were also copied. Electronic pollbooks, ballot scanners, servers for vote counting, USB flash drives, and memory cards were also copied in Coffee County, Georgia. At least one breach had also occurred in North Carolina. In at least four cases, election officials had to decertify or replace voting equipment. Voting experts expressed alarm over the breaches due to their breaking of the chain of custody over ballots and tabulators; as well as invasion of voter privacy. On November 13, 2024, a third open letter was sent by the same organization, Free Speech for People, to Kamala Harris, warning her of “serious election security breaches that have threatened the security and integrity of the 2024 elections” and urging her to request hand recounts in at least four swing states. The letter noted that voting system breaches have allowed for access to main servers, tabulators and election databases for both Dominion Voting Systems and Election Systems & Software, election vendors which collectively count approximately 70% of votes across the United States”.

“Between at least June and October 2024, partial passwords for election machines were exposed in a hidden tab in a spreadsheet on the Colorado secretary of state’s website. According to the secretary of state’s office, the machines are still protected by requiring two distinct passwords for each system, which are stored separately, by not connecting the machines to the Internet, and by storing the machines in rooms that can only be accessed with ID badges and are continuously monitored by video cameras. An investigation by a law firm concluded that the hidden tab was created by an employee who worked in the office between 2020 and 2023. A second employee, who, according to the office, was unaware of the hidden tab, posted the spreadsheet online. As a witness in a lawsuit by the Libertarian Party of Colorado, a co-founder of election vigilante group U.S. Election Integrity Plan (see Election vigilante groups below) testified that he had viewed the hidden tab three times between August and October 2024, before the state was aware of the breach”.

“In October 2024, Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson announced that voter access terminals (VAT) from Dominion, which assist persons with disabilities with ballot marking, had an issue with split ticket votes. She said that this issue affected Dominion machines nationwide”.

“The Voting Machine Hacking Village (a hacking event co-founded by Harri Hursti) at DEF CON 32 in 2024 discovered “new vulnerabilities … in several widely-fielded ballot-marking and DRE voting machines.” Due to the complexities of upgrading election equipment, election and cybersecurity experts found it unlikely that vulnerability findings from the conference would have been fixed prior to Election Day”.

“SMART Elections (a nonpartisan election integrity advocacy group that includes academics and activists) noted that Pro V&V, a voting system test laboratory, had approved software and hardware updates for Dominion and Election Systems & Software voting systems between March and September 2024, categorizing those updates as de minimis, which do not require testing. SMART Elections argued that this lack of testing for what it described as comprehensive updates risked malware entering the voting systems”.

Vulnerabilities from ES&S

“Election Systems & Software (ES&S) was founded by Republicans, was financed by the families of Howard Ahmanson Jr. and Nelson Bunker Hunt, is owned by a private equity firm, McCarthy Group and its investors are unknown as of December 2019. Chuck Hagel was chairman of a predecessor company to ES&S, and the treasurer for Hagel’s campaign during the 1996 United States Senate election in Nebraska, Michael McCarthy, was the founder of McCarthy Group. According to Bev Harris’ book on black box voting, ES&S is tied to Kiewit Corporation, which as of 2004 was involved in a number of bid rigging scandals; advocated for privatization of highways in the United States; owned CalEnergy, and was heavily involved in telecommunications via its ties to Level 3 Communications and installations of fiber-optic cables underneath highways and video surveillance cameras on roads.The Omaha World-Herald newspaper owned a stake in ES&S between 1986 and 2011. The Peter Kiewit Foundation in turn owned the Omaha World-Herald as of 2004.”

“As of October 2019, ES&S controls about 50% of the election system market of the United States; makes most of its money from long-term maintenance contracts; has filed lawsuits when it fails to win contracts or has them taken away; hired former election officials as lobbyists; donated to political campaigns and lobbied politicians; and threatened lawsuits against voting rights activists and security researchers.Between 2013 and 2020, ES&S has donated at least $30,000 to the Republican State Leadership Committee.”

“Various issues with ES&S systems have been reported since at least 1998, including missing votes potential duplicate votes, poor calibration of touch screens leading to misinterpreted votes, names missing from voter rolls, incorrectly printed ballots and outdated technology. Concerns have also been raised by Ron Wyden about the security of its supply chain, as many parts were made in China and the Philippines.ES&S claimed that they had worked with Idaho National Laboratory for vulnerability testing, but as of December 2019, those findings have not been made public. In August 2018, Kamala Harris, Mark Warner, Susan Collins and James Lankford sent a letter to ES&S asking about their stance on independent security research after the company dismissed and discouraged such research on their systems. After the 2016 election, Jill Stein alleged that ES&S machines were vulnerable to hacking and difficult to audit, points supported by researchers. Issues with ES&S machines have also been reported during elections in 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024.”

“For example, during the 2024 elections, ES&S voting machines in Cambria County, Pennsylvania had issues scanning ballots due to a “ballot printing error”, “[causing] voter confusion, long lines of voters, and many individuals [leaving] the polling locations without casting a ballot”. The county’s election director had retired on the same day that the election results were certified. State Representative Frank Burns called for an investigation by the Pennsylvania Department of State, and had asked for records about the ballots, voting machines, testing and internal communications, but his right to know request was denied by county election officials. By April 2025, the new county elections director had found a certification document stating that pre-election tests on voting machines were successfully completed in September 2024. Burns expressed concern why election officials were not aware of this document.”

“The Navajo Nation in Apache County, Arizona reported issues with voting machines and ballot printers on Election Day, leading to long lines that resulted in some voters being turned away. According to the Verified Voting Foundation, all voting equipment used in that county on Election Day 2024 was manufactured by ES&S. Similarly, there were issues with voting machines on Election Day in Queens, New York, a county that also used ES&S at the time.”

“In January 2020, NBC News reported that election security experts found at least 35 voting machines that were connected to the Internet as of the summer of 2019. While ES&S, Dominion Voting Systems and Hart InterCivic have all admitted to adding modems in some of their tabulators and scanners (for the purpose of quickly sharing unofficial election results), all of the voting machines that were accessible online were manufactured by ES&S and located in 11 states (including Florida, Wisconsin and Michigan) and Washington D.C. Some of these machines have been connected for months or possibly years at a time. Critical systems connected to the Internet via a firewall include vote tabulators and “the election-management system that is used in some counties to program voting machines before elections.” Other security vulnerabilities – including missing firewall security patches, outdated SFTP server software, remote-access software, outdated operating systems, exposed passwords, exposed data of registered voters, no logging of some events, hash verification issues (noting that the hash verification was performed by ES&S instead of its customers), ballot marking device/scanner “hybrid” systems that can be changed with fake votes on machine-marked ballots after those ballots are cast, accessible SD and USB ports, plain text encryption keys for voter data, no set BIOS passwords, disabled Secureboot, presence of bloatware, no tamper-evident seals, immediate root access, unencrypted hard drives, use of simple default passwords, immutable passwords set such that “the same two passwords were used for every machine manufactured”, susceptibility of central scanners to vote flipping, and “poor physical security protections that could allow undetected tampering” – were also reported. Free Press also warned of multiple vulnerabilities from electronic pollbooks manufactured by ES&S, including the possibility of compromised network infrastructure, voting machines, registration servers, voter data and/or the privacy of votes, as well as the risk of voter suppression.”

“A December 2020 investigation by DCReport found that the 2020 re-elections of Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham and Susan Collins had all occurred in states where votes were primarily tabulated by ES&S, arguing that their wins were improbable due to low or close pre-election polls. In the case of McConnell, DCReport found large vote leads in counties that had typically voted for Democrats (including in counties in which he had not previously won); discrepancies related to split-ticket voting; and issues with Kentucky voter records. McConnell had blocked legislation in the Senate for election security in 2019, the same year that his campaign committee received at least $2,000 from ES&S. A further investigation by the same outlet later that month found that multiple ES&S executives and lobbyists are connected with Republican party politicians and election officials (such as Sandra Mortham, Marci Andino and the office of Brian Kemp); that Chris Wlaschin, the former chief information security official at the United States Department of Health and Human Services during the Trump administration, had joined ES&S to lead their security team; that 40 out of 50 states partially use ES&S for casting and counting votes; and that during the 2020 election, all but three of the 25 states that Trump had won had partially or fully used ES&S voting machines. A 2021 article also noted that several Republican officials had refused to purchase equipment from Dominion due to false claims of fraud during the 2020 United States presidential election, alleging that ES&S would benefit by increasing its market share. Similarly, The Daily Dot reported that election security advocate Jennifer Cohn accused Republicans who falsely alleged that Dominion had helped commit fraud in the 2020 election of attempting to put Dominion out of business.”

“The Institute for Southern Studies reported that, during the 2000 Venezuelan general election, Hugo Chávez and Venezuelan election officials accused ES&S of interference due to widespread issues with the company’s voting machines.”

“Beth Clarkson, a Wichita State University statistician, filed an open records lawsuit for paper tapes from electronic voting machines in Sedgwick County, Kansas from the 2014 election, naming then-Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach as a defendant. She alleged that there were statistical anomalies that favored Republican politicians in vote counts in large precincts in multiple elections across the United States, assessing that this pattern was due to either voter fraud or a demographic trend unexplained by polling. According to the Verified Voting Foundation, all voting equipment used in that county on Election Day 2014 was manufactured by ES&S.”

“Between February 26, 2024 and February 24, 2025, Chris Wlaschin was appointed as a member of the Technical Guidelines Development Committee as a technical expert.”

Vulnerabilities of electronic pollbooks

“Journalists have noted security vulnerabilities with electronic pollbooks (e-pollbooks) in the lead-up to the 2024 election, such as many being designed to be connected to the Internet, the lack of national standards for security and reliability, the lack of a system that tracks incidents with e-pollbooks, past efforts by hackers from Russia and Iran to obtain voter data, and the subsequent risk of voters being deleted from the voter rolls by unauthorized users.”

“They have also been blamed for delays in the voting process. As of 2018, they are used by 36 states. ES&S is one of the main manufacturers of e-pollbooks and they, along with Diebold Election Systems, had lobbied for election officials to use them after the Help America Vote Act was passed in 2002. Free Press reported that some ES&S e-pollbooks could communicate via Bluetooth to voting machines.”

Vulnerabilities in mail-in voting

“Louis DeJoy, the postmaster general since June 2020, has donated at least $685,230 to the Republican Party between 2018 and 2020, has donated $1.2 million to Trump, and implemented policies that were primarily responsible for the 2020 United States Postal Service crisis.”

“Between 2020 and 2024, the United States Postal Service (USPS) changed its goals for first-class mail delivery from a three-day maximum to a five-day maximum, and had raised the price of first-class postage by 33%. The Washington Post stated that these changes had little impact on the service’s finances, which included a $2.1 billion net loss during the first quarter of fiscal 2024. Gerry Connolly stated in response to these changes that “any effort to degrade service while raising prices is a recipe for a death spiral at the Postal Service”.

“In July 2024, the USPS inspector general published a report noting that some service workers were not following proper procedures for mail-in ballots in some places, and that some mailed ballots were missing postmarks, which are required in many states. The report further warned that some ballots were at risk of not being counted due to both current USPS policies for processing mail as well as changes by DeJoy’s Delivering for America plan. Some changes were made within days of the 2024 primary elections in Georgia and Virginia.”

“Lawmakers such as Mark Pocan were concerned about plans by the USPS to consolidate regional hubs, arguing that mail delivery would slow down. Significant slowdowns had been observed throughout the United States as of April 2024. Some of these regional hubs were located in states such as Virginia, Oregon, Texas and Missouri as well as swing states Georgia, Nevada and Wisconsin. These consolidations have been paused until January 2025, following criticism from lawmakers.”

In September 2024, the National Association of State Election Directors and National Association of Secretaries of State sent an open letter to DeJoy supporting the inspector general report, warning that the USPS has marked election mail to voters as undeliverable at “higher than usual rates, even in cases where a voter is known not to have moved” and that ballots that were processed in some places arrived at election offices 10+ days after the postmark date. In some states such as Utah dozens or hundreds of ballots for 2024 primary elections had arrived over 10 days after being postmarked. Other problems highlighted in the letter include “lost or delayed election mail, and front-line training deficiencies impacting USPS’s ability to deliver election mail in a timely and accurate manner”. These issues have been described as “systemic”. There is the risk that, if mail is returned to the original sender, voters may miss their mail-in ballots or removed from voter registration rolls.

“Republicans have filed lawsuits to stop states from counting postmarked mail-in ballots that are received by election officials after Election Day. About 20 states, plus Washington, D.C., accept and count mail-in ballots received after Election Day as long as they are postmarked on or before that day. As of August 2024, these lawsuits have been filed in Nevada, Illinois, North Dakota and Mississippi. Plaintiffs include the Republican National Committee, Mark Splonskowski (the Burleigh County Auditor who is supported by Public Interest Legal Foundation) the Mississippi Republican Party and a county election commissioner.”

“Several issues were reported during the 2024 election with mail-in ballots, including discarded ballots, stranded or delayed ballots, undated ballots (which were not counted in Pennsylvania following lawsuits by the Republican National Committee, the Pennsylvania Republican Party and David McCormick), stolen and/or forged ballots,ballots misdirected between and within states, unprocessed ballots, and destroyed ballots.”

“Issues had also occurred with voter registration forms, including damaged or incomplete forms and potentially fraudulent forms or mail-in ballot applications.”

Challenging registrations, ballots and certifications

“Following Trump’s 2020 loss amid his false allegations of fraud, Republican lawmakers initiated a sweeping effort to make voting laws more restrictive in several states across the country and to take control of the administrative management of elections at the state and local level. By 2023, organizations funded by dark money had met quietly with officials in Republican-controlled states to create an incubator of policies that would restrict ballot access and amplify false claims that fraud is rampant in elections. Led by the Heritage Foundation, the groups include the Honest Elections Project, which is among a network of conservative organizations associated with Leonard Leo, a longtime prominent figure in the Federalist Society.”

“The Washington Post reported in June 2024 on indications that county-level Republicans in swing states might be preparing to challenge and delay their certifications of voting results in 2024. Such delays might cause a state to miss deadlines that ensure its electoral college votes are counted in Washington on January 6, 2025. In four state elections since 2020, county election officials withheld certifications, citing mistrust in voting machines or ballot errors, though they could not produce evidence of actual voting fraud; the certifications proceeded after state interventions, which included warnings of potential criminal charges. Two Cochise County, Arizona, officials were criminally charged for refusing to certify, not because of doubts about Cochise results but as a protest against other counties voting for Democratic state candidates. Project Democracy found that since 2020 members of state and local election boards had voted against certification more than twenty times in eight states. Voting rights activists were concerned that the continuing false allegations of election fraud since 2020 might lead to social unrest if efforts to delay certifications at the local level were overruled by state officials or courts. The failure of a state to have its electoral college votes counted on January 6 could result in neither presidential candidate reaching the minimum 270 electoral votes, causing the election to be thrown to the United States House of Representatives. In that scenario, the election outcome would be determined by a simple majority count of state delegations; Republicans hold a majority in 28 of 50 delegations in the 118th United States Congress and thus Trump would win in such a scenario. The Guardian confirmed that “experts have been particularly alarmed by efforts to try and halt certification at the local level – something that could cause delay and chaos after the presidential vote in November.”

 

Cleta Mitchell speaking at the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference

“Cleta Mitchell was a key figure in Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election results, participating in the January 2021 Trump–Raffensperger phone call that attempted to change the certified 2020 presidential election results in Georgia That year, in association with the RNC, she launched the Election Integrity Network (EIN) to recruit, train and deploy election deniers as poll workers in eight key states for the 2024 presidential election. In recordings of spring 2022 organizing meetings obtained by Politico, RNC National Election Integrity director Josh Findlay, referencing EIN, was heard to tell others that the RNC would support efforts to provide staff, organization, and “muscle” in key states The New York Times reported that the EIN “has done more than any other group to take Mr. Trump’s falsehoods about corruption in the democratic system and turn them into action”. Gaining access to over 400 hours of Zoom meetings, The New York Times reported that EIN had closely coordinated with the RNC, four Republican secretaries of state, and a dozen state legislatures. The group was funded by multiple Republican megadonors associated with Trump, and had successfully spread conspiracy theories about voting with several right-wing media outlets and had installed activists on election boards and thousands as poll monitors and workers. EIN has also been collaborating with other groups to challenge voter rolls, including VoteRef (run by Gina Swoboda and funded by Restoration PAC, a Super PAC predominantly funded by Richard Uihlein) and Check My Vote. EIN has also been collaborating with the Election Transparency Initiative, headed by Ken Cuccinelli. The Pennsylvania Department of State described these voter registration challenges as “an attempt to circumvent the list maintenance processes that are carefully prescribed by state and federal law,” which would result in “disenfranchisement, unnecessary litigation, and a harassing diversion of already-stretched county resources.”

“The Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) is a bipartisan nonprofit that helps elections officials in some 30 states manage their registration rolls with the use of software to maintain election integrity. In 2022, ERIC faced criticism from election deniers and right-wing media after the far-right blog The Gateway Pundit published a series of stories falsely suggesting it is part of a left-wing election conspiracy funded by George Soros to register Democrats. Several Republican-controlled states soon severed their association with ERIC. Members of the EIN had lobbied to have the system removed, and their activism was publicized by The Gateway Pundit and other right-wing media outlets. To supplant ERIC, Mitchell led an effort to deploy the EagleAI NETwork election software in the 2024 presidential election. NBC News reported in August 2023 that “election experts and voting rights advocates warn that an activist-led strategy risks overwhelming election workers with reports of problem registrations generated by amateurs using unreliable data. And those reports may, in turn, intimidate voters or require them to jump through hoops to maintain their voting rights.” After months of testing, by July 2024 some conservative activists found the EagleAI system was unreliable. The Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law called EagleAI “a vehicle to disenfranchise voters and spread disinformation”. The Associated Press reported in June 2024 that EagleAI “is funded and used by supporters of Trump, some of whom worked to overturn the 2020 vote, and entwined with the Republican’s campaign.” AP reported EagleAI was pursuing deployment in several states, including Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Nevada and Ohio. During an internal meeting about the system, Cleta Mitchell said, “The left will hate this — hate this. But we love it.” Despite its name, the software does not employ artificial intelligence, and though it is pronounced “eagle eye”, its creator denied it was named after Operation Eagle Eye, a 1960s Republican Party voter suppression effort. As of July 2024, at least one county in Georgia signed a contract to use EagleAI for voter roll maintenance.”

“EagleAI is funded by Ziklag, an American Christian organization which includes the Uihlein family and whose goals include as part of “Operation Checkmate”: “[securing] 10,640 additional unique votes in Arizona (mirroring the 2020 margin of 10,447 votes), and [removing] up to one million ineligible registrations and around 280,000 ineligible voters in Arizona, Nevada, Georgia, and Wisconsin.” Citizen AG, a group self-described as part of Operation Checkmate, announced its intention to file lawsuits against counties that do not accept voter challenges from EagleAI. Ziklag also funded an effort by the American Legislative Exchange Council to share talking points about “election integrity” with Republican party state lawmakers in 2022. Ziklag has also funded right-wing Christian groups and televangelists such as Lance Wallnau to increase turnout of evangelical voters for Trump, especially in swing states.”

“Julie Adams, an EIN regional coordinator, sits on the Fulton County, Georgia, elections board and has promoted the use of EagleAI in Georgia. In May 2024, she abstained from certifying the recent county primary results, though no issues of error or misconduct had been raised. State law says that election boards “shall” certify elections if no problems were identified; the four other board members voted to certify. Adams started a lawsuit, backed by the Trump-aligned America First Policy Institute (AFPI), seeking a court ruling to grant election board members more discretion in certifications. Congresswoman and Georgia Democratic Party chair Nikema Williams alleged that Adams was attempting to set the stage to block certification of results in the November presidential election. Fulton is the most populous county in Georgia with a plurality of Black residents. A Fulton County superior court judge ruled against Adams in October 2024, finding that her actions were unconstitutional and violated state law. The legal arm of AFPI was led by former Florida attorney general and Trump attorney Pam Bondi who filed voting lawsuits in battleground states.”

“Omega4America, initially funded by Mike Lindell, has been promoted by election denial activists as a potential replacement for ERIC. The program has been touted by those activists as being computationally faster, but election experts have cautioned that, without motor vehicle department data, its reliability would be compromised.”

“In August 2024, the Trump-aligned majority of the Georgia State Election Board approved a new rule allowing county election boards, before certifying their election results, to conduct a “reasonable inquiry” to verify the results are “a true and accurate accounting of all votes cast in that election”; another vote days later required that county election officials be given “all election related documentation” before certification. Opponents asserted the new rules violated state law and more than a century of state court precedent, and might lead to post-election delays or rejections of certifications in an important swing state. During a campaign rally three days before the board vote, Trump called out by name the three board members who later approved the rule, describing them as “pit bulls fighting for honesty, transparency and victory”. One of them was in the rally audience and stood for recognition of Trump’s praise. On August 26, Republican Georgia governor Brian Kemp said he had asked Republican Georgia attorney general Chris Carr if the governor had the authority to remove election board members, citing ethics concerns expressed by some. That same day, national and state Democrats filed a suit alleging the rules changes were illegal and would create chaos. The board majority also approved a rule in September requiring all counties to hand-count their ballots for comparison to machine counts, which critics said might cause errors and confusion while also disrupting the custody of ballots, which typically remain sealed unless a recount is demanded in a challenged election. The recounts could also significantly delay the reporting of election results. In October 2024, a Fulton County superior court judge temporarily blocked the board’s hand counting rule, finding it was “too much, too late” to implement in the 2024 election. The next day, another Fulton County superior court judge found that seven new rules established by the State Election Board were “illegal, unconstitutional and void”, ordering the Georgia State Election Board to inform all state and local election officials that the rules were to be disregarded. An appeal of the latter ruling by the RNC was unanimously rejected by the Georgia Supreme Court days later.”