(KU News, University of Kansas)
One of America's foremost election- and computer-security experts says he is gathering new evidence from a variety of sources that points to the 2024 presidential election being hacked. In an update at his Substack page, "And When You are a Hammer," Stephen Spoonamore says he is heartened by the outpouring of interest from followers who want to assist in the effort to unspool the mystery behind what appears to be an intentionally compromised election, one whose peculiar data wound up favoring Donald Trump at most every turn, making him (at this moment) president-elect. That leaves Spoonamore with this question: Did Trump win a fair and honest election or was Kamala Harris the real winner? Under the headline "Thanks. Apology. Correction. Tips. Update. Old Friends. IT Allies," Spoonamore writes:
Stephen Spoonamore
Nov 25, 2024
Monday.Thank you. I am overwhelmed by the voluminous and mostly positive, communications coming in from many sources.
For those in the not positive. Cool. No matter where you go, there you are.
I am also humbled, and a bit surprised by dozens of people subscribing to this Substack. When I first posted, I got a few somewhat baffled (and one borderline angry) response from people that I did not have a way to help subscribe. So I spent an hour enabling subscriber functions.
Honestly, I doubted anyone would actually subscribe, but I am always curious about how financial functionality features online work, and enjoy testing them.
Boy howdy. I was wrong. Boggled by the response. My humble apologies and I will do my best to return value to those who have subscribed. Thanks. For the duration of ballot-bounty hunting, I will post everything in the open. When we close this effort, I will put some thought into value stacks.
Second. I was also wrong to have used the term "bullet ballots" in my Duty to Warn (DTW) letter to Kamala Harris. I apologize. Again. The urgency to warn in the cyber environment is real. If you wait on an exfiltration, you lose. Unfortunately, the bullet-ballot hypothesis has caused a lot of discord and distraction. Been trying to clean that up in postings and now on multiple radio programs. Bullet ballots may be a part of the issues to investigate, but it is clear a very large set of irregularities exists in this election. In the light of my past experiences, the use of bomb threats against tabulation centers, and the shocking number of states declaring Trump won outside recount levels, while the down-ballot Democrats won, also outside of recount levels, remains in my view outside the realm of believability. But it appears something other than bullet ballots is at play. For now, I would recommend my audience on Substack drop that line of thinking. The under-votes, tabulator-code access, reasons for bomb threats all remain. And my tips line is showing more lines of concern to be covered below.
With the near completion of ballot counting, I find the results being certified more absurd, not less. When I wrote my DTW letter, Trump had 52% of the popular vote, and a 3.5% lead, yet was being declared the winner in 7 out of 7 states, all outside the margin for recount, even in the states where he trailed in the exit polling. As of this writing, he has 49.8% to Harris’ 48.4%. And while his margin of victory in all 7 swing states has narrowed, it remains outside the margin for recount in all 7. A perfect and bespoke outcome, perfectly tailored to shut down any substantive legal challenge, which would access the paper ballots underneath.
This laughably unlikely outcome, and the numerous other peculiarities that are present have brought a growing number of IT leaders out to call “Uhm. Nope.” Several dozen additional names demanding hand recounts, IT audits, and security breaches in tabulation machines. Notable among them is Jackie Singh (@hackingbutlegal.bsky.social). She worked for Biden and Harris. And yes, I have now been sent the sections of Ms. Harris 2019 book in which Singh herself expresses concern about our election security. Perhaps send her concerns to her, not me.
BALLOT BOUNTY TIPS
As of this morning, no one has come forward with a tip, or turn-in in the following four areas of most interest to me:
1 - Who managed the data from the millions of names and street addresses submitted to Elon Musk's $1M lottery, and did - as I am nearly certain - build a parallel private poll book of pledged Trump supporters organized by local precinct? Did the list have real-time update functionality against ePollBooks, either pull or push?
2 - Who did analysis of ESS and Dominion Tabulation software (at any level of the stack) and made vulnerability lists and/or wrote exploits against those lists?
3 - Who built the real-time turnout estimation app attributed to Musk, and what was it’s functionality, what real-time voter turnout access did it have, in what states, and which voter profiling system was it connected with? I am pretty sure it’s an extension of the lottery-built system detailed in target #1.
4 - If you were in a tabulation center during a bomb threat, who stayed behind and who left? And was there a functionality change in the system before and after?
I have reviewed a number of detailed submissions from VICTIMS that fit into the following categories of concern:
1 - People who were purged, and in some cases, have long lists of purged names which includes them. I don’t know who is compiling the scope and scale of this issue, but there are some very angry people who were prevented from voting for this reason.
2 - People who voted by mail, got confirmation their ballot was received, but their ballot is not marked as counted OR in some cases, their registration is now missing. They appear to have been registered and issued a ballot, then purged after they voted. Again, I don’t know the scale of this, but some people have submitted very detailed screenshots.
3 - “3% shave” using ESS Tabulation Machines. We have a lot of “Math can’t be right tips,” including one tip with a strangely specific vote-swap formula that has been claimed to affect three different places.
The claim is: The 2024 totals for Trump are inflated by adding 3% of Biden's 2020 number plus another 3% of 2020's total vote, and then reducing Harris by that same total. Here is reader "Math from the Tip," making this claim regarding Webb County Texas. (Note: Webb County has only voted Democratic since 1912).
The numbers
2020: Trump: 25,898 (38.24%)
Biden: 41,820 (61.76%)
Total: 67,718
Claimed shaved-number calculation:
3% of Biden's Vote: 1254.6 + 3% of 2020 Total Vote: 2031.54 = Shaved Number.
2024: Trump: 33,374 (51.10%) (Shave added)
Harris: 31934 (48.90%) (Shave reduced)
Total: 65,308
Take the claimed shave off and the result in Webb County would have been:
Harris: 35,220 (53.93%)
Trump: 30,088 (46.07%)
Turnout is the same either way: 65,308.
In Webb County, TX, local Democratic leaders do seem to have precinct-level understanding of their county and voter knowledge of the local community in minute detail. The tipster reports their internal numbers expected a Harris +8 result. Totals more than 10% off from detailed local knowledge is pretty odd.
If you know a particular county in detail, and have equally head-scratching results, could you determine if the same swap formula matches your published results vs. expected. This is a weirdly specific tip, claimed to have had an impact in three different places.
4th and Last -- iPAD doorbell-knocking groups who claimed you could either register, or if a person was already registered, claimed they could CAST their vote on the door knocker’s iPAD. We don’t need any tips of people who heard about this or something similar. We got enough to tell us it was real, BUT if you or someone you know participated in building or running the back end of this, that would be a tip I would very much like to see.
