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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Unfortunately, it makes sense to me. I would expect typical Trump voter wouldn’t have the knowledge to fill out an entire ballot.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>From: </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Friam <friam-bounces@redfish.com> on behalf of _ Bruno W <wbruno@gmail.com><br><b>Date: </b>Wednesday, November 20, 2024 at 2:31 PM<br><b>To: </b>The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com><br><b>Cc: </b>Juniper <scopulorum@gmail.com><br><b>Subject: </b>[FRIAM] Election theft conspiracy theory<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'>Anyone interested in double checking any of this or look at different statistics.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'>I think it would be good to check that voter preference does correlate with voting machine vendor.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'>I was able to get data from Michigan, have not looked beyond there yet.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'>But the data will need to be reformatted to be useful...<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#363737'>Cyber-security experts across America are raising the alarm of wide-scale election fraud securing Trump’s victory — and the data is compelling.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></blockquote><div><div style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:15.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:19.5pt;text-align:initial'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#363737'>Two open letters penned by computer scientists and hacking experts have detailed how the USA’s election software was compromised and the relatively simple hack which could have then been used to fix the results in the seven swing states. They are calling for an immediate hand recount in key precincts which, they say, should swiftly show that a number of these ballots never existed.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;line-height:19.5pt;text-align:initial'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#363737'>There are already numerous <u><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/8281527d-2011-4857-be22-9704800abb5c?j=eyJ1IjoiM3Jmd3UifQ.GFXr_WhfU7FZ7_-CQEYLN1wbMAZPTUJCjxTmpBXYii8" target="_blank"><span style='color:#363737'>articles</span></a></u> online stating that this is a left wing conspiracy, and Elon Musk himself has warned that those raising concerns about the “hoax” will face <u><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/265b723d-31db-44b7-80bc-f356d4c1793e?j=eyJ1IjoiM3Jmd3UifQ.GFXr_WhfU7FZ7_-CQEYLN1wbMAZPTUJCjxTmpBXYii8" target="_blank"><span style='color:#363737'>“the hammer of justice”</span></a></u>. However, the articles debunking these concerns have only focused on the claim that Musk used his internet service Starlink to steal the election. As detailed below, this is not what the cyber security experts are warning of — although Starlink may have played a role.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align=center style='margin:0in;text-align:center;line-height:19.5pt;border-radius:4px'><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:white;background:#FC244C'><a href="https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication_id=265792&post_id=151822919&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&utm_campaign=email-share&action=share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true&r=3rfwu&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo2MzE5MTgyLCJwb3N0X2lkIjoxNTE4MjI5MTksImlhdCI6MTczMjAzNTkxNiwiZXhwIjoxNzM0NjI3OTE2LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMjY1NzkyIiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.fy8i85d1YQQIDv-AHcvtT2uYTF0fpda659S-4TnwNFc" target="_blank"><span style='color:white;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>Share</span></a></span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#363737'><o:p></o:p></span></p><h3 style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in;mso-line-height-alt:13.9pt;text-align:initial'><span style='font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#363737'>The Data<o:p></o:p></span></h3><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:15.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:19.5pt;text-align:initial'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#363737'>The key data raising concerns that a hack may have been deployed is the number of bullet ballots which exist for Trump in swing states. Bullet ballots are when voters vote for one candidate—in this case the President—and don’t fill out the rest of the ballot. Every year, in every state—including in the past two elections Trump ran in—the percentage of bullet ballots is around 1%. This trend has stayed consistent in the 43 non-swing states in the 2024 election. However, the percentage of bullet ballots is not just anomalous in swing states for Trump this year—it is off the charts.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;line-height:19.5pt;text-align:initial'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#363737'>According to <u><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/e649f28b-19ee-4dc8-984e-8b03d2231080?j=eyJ1IjoiM3Jmd3UifQ.GFXr_WhfU7FZ7_-CQEYLN1wbMAZPTUJCjxTmpBXYii8" target="_blank"><span style='color:#363737'>one of the open letters</span></a></u>, in Arizona, Trump’s percentage of bullet ballots totaled 7.2%. In Nevada, 5.5%. In comparison, bullet ballots for Trump in Oregon, Utah and Idaho—the three states which border Arizona and Nevada, with equally fervent Trump voters—count for less than 0.05% in each state.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:15.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:19.5pt;text-align:initial'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#363737'>The same pattern continues across the other swing states, with an astonishing 11% of votes for Trump in North Carolina being bullet ballots.<o:p></o:p></span></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #FC244C 3.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;margin-left:0in;margin-top:15.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:15.0pt'><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:15.0pt;line-height:19.5pt;text-align:initial'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#363737'>“The numbers are so high to be unbelievable, unprecedented and demanding of further investigation,” <u><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/e649f28b-19ee-4dc8-984e-8b03d2231080?j=eyJ1IjoiM3Jmd3UifQ.GFXr_WhfU7FZ7_-CQEYLN1wbMAZPTUJCjxTmpBXYii8" target="_blank"><span style='color:#363737'>writes Stephen Spoonamore</span></a></u>, hacking and counter-hacking expert, cyber-security adviser, and government contractor.<o:p></o:p></span></p></blockquote><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:15.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:19.5pt;text-align:initial'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#363737'>Even more bizarrely, the bullet ballots are not widely spread out across the swing states, but targeted in a handful of counties. In Arizona, for example, Maricopa County accounts for almost all of the historic number of bullet ballots.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:15.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:19.5pt;text-align:initial'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#363737'>Critically, only 400,000 votes would be need to be added in strategic precincts in swing states in order to secure Trump’s victory. In each of these swing states, too, the number of votes for Trump takes the count just over the margin which necessitates a legal hand recount. If anything, experts say, the numbers are too good to be true.<o:p></o:p></span></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #FC244C 3.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;margin-left:0in;margin-top:15.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:15.0pt'><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:15.0pt;margin-left:15.0pt;line-height:19.5pt;text-align:initial'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#363737'>“This is not scattershot. It's their big mistake—if they've made a mistake, it's that it’s just too perfect,” Spoonamore told me.<o:p></o:p></span></p></blockquote><p style='margin:0in;line-height:19.5pt;text-align:initial'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#363737'>Finally, the other piece of data raising eyebrows is the fact that Trump won all seven swing states—the first candidate to sweep the board in four decades—without record voter turnout. <u><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/bfa9974b-4a9a-424a-bd38-d97c1f410d5c?j=eyJ1IjoiM3Jmd3UifQ.GFXr_WhfU7FZ7_-CQEYLN1wbMAZPTUJCjxTmpBXYii8" target="_blank"><span style='color:#363737'>Less than 50% of voters chose Trump</span></a></u>, with Harris less than 1.7% behind him. One data scientist crunched the numbers:<o:p></o:p></span></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #FC244C 3.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;margin-left:0in;margin-top:15.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:15.0pt'><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:15.0pt;margin-left:15.0pt;line-height:19.5pt;text-align:initial'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#363737'>“It’s north of a 35 billion to 1 probability that you could win seven out of seven outside of recount range with less than 50% of the vote.”<o:p></o:p></span></p></blockquote><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:15.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:19.5pt;text-align:initial'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#363737'>Here’s what the experts say happened.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align=center style='margin:0in;text-align:center;line-height:19.5pt;border-radius:4px'><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:white;background:#FC244C'><a href="https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication_id=265792&post_id=151822919&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&utm_campaign=email-share&action=share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true&r=3rfwu&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo2MzE5MTgyLCJwb3N0X2lkIjoxNTE4MjI5MTksImlhdCI6MTczMjAzNTkxNiwiZXhwIjoxNzM0NjI3OTE2LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMjY1NzkyIiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.fy8i85d1YQQIDv-AHcvtT2uYTF0fpda659S-4TnwNFc" target="_blank"><span style='color:white;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>Share</span></a></span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#363737'><o:p></o:p></span></p><h3 style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in;mso-line-height-alt:13.9pt;text-align:initial'><span style='font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#363737'>Election Software Compromised<o:p></o:p></span></h3><p style='margin:0in;line-height:19.5pt;text-align:initial'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#363737'>The <u><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/a5d01063-06ea-4349-a2d7-570d0e801fb7?j=eyJ1IjoiM3Jmd3UifQ.GFXr_WhfU7FZ7_-CQEYLN1wbMAZPTUJCjxTmpBXYii8" target="_blank"><span style='color:#363737'>first open letter to VP Harris</span></a></u> signed by a number of eminent computer scientists details how, after the 2020 election, a number of Republican activists broke into election polling booths and downloaded copies of the software used to count the votes. These security breaches were reported on by <u><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/4adc6aed-41aa-49d3-9d0d-06df0f27c4c8?j=eyJ1IjoiM3Jmd3UifQ.GFXr_WhfU7FZ7_-CQEYLN1wbMAZPTUJCjxTmpBXYii8" target="_blank"><span style='color:#363737'>The Washington Post</span></a></u> and the <u><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/b5107b05-f739-43a5-afd9-309083eefbb0?j=eyJ1IjoiM3Jmd3UifQ.GFXr_WhfU7FZ7_-CQEYLN1wbMAZPTUJCjxTmpBXYii8" target="_blank"><span style='color:#363737'>Associated Press</span></a></u>. Prison sentences were handed down, but not before the software was uploaded onto the internet, now easily accessible on Github, a well-known and legal site used by coders to access and modify software.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;line-height:19.5pt;text-align:initial'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#363737'>In 2022, the civil case in Georgia about these security breaches brought to light that <u><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/d58fd8ea-c3cd-44bd-8b38-d1a571d295be?j=eyJ1IjoiM3Jmd3UifQ.GFXr_WhfU7FZ7_-CQEYLN1wbMAZPTUJCjxTmpBXYii8" target="_blank"><span style='color:#363737'>the operatives had been hired by Trump’s lawyers</span></a></u>. They successfully accessed all of the software used in Georgia and shared it with others in the Trump campaign. Subsequent court filings show these operatives deliberately targeted swing states</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;color:#363737'>¹²³⁴</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#363737'>, and 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 <u><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/a5d01063-06ea-4349-a2d7-570d0e801fb7?j=eyJ1IjoiM3Jmd3UifQ.GFXr_WhfU7FZ7_-CQEYLN1wbMAZPTUJCjxTmpBXYii8" target="_blank"><span style='color:#363737'>the most severe election security breach publicly known</span></a></u>.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:15.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:19.5pt;text-align:initial'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#363737'>Together, ES&S and Dominion are used to count nearly 70% of the votes nationwide, including the following percentages in the swing states:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:60.0pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:19.5pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-align:initial'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#363737'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#363737'>Arizona: 96% use Dominion and ES&S equipment;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:60.0pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:19.5pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-align:initial'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#363737'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#363737'>Georgia: 100% of voters vote on Dominion machines;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:60.0pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:19.5pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-align:initial'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#363737'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#363737'>Nevada: 98% vote on Dominion voting machines and the remainder uses ES&S<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:60.0pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:19.5pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-align:initial'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#363737'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#363737'>Michigan: 69% of voters’ ballots are counted on Dominion or ES&S equipment<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:60.0pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:19.5pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-align:initial'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#363737'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#363737'>Pennsylvania: 89% of voters ballots are counted on Dominion or ES&S equipment<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:60.0pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:19.5pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-align:initial'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#363737'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#363737'>North Carolina: 92% of ballots are counted by ES&S<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:60.0pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:19.5pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-align:initial'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#363737'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#363737'>Wisconsin: 97% of votes are counted by either ES&S or Dominion<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:15.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:19.5pt;text-align:initial'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#363737'>With copies of the software, hackers could then relatively easily develop their own working replicas which both do as they were originally programmed <i>and, </i>unseen, perform a secondary function — like tabulating fake votes. Once the software was updated with this secondary function, it would merely have to be reinstalled on the machines, either physically or when the machines are connected to the internet to be serviced with any necessary updates.<o:p></o:p></span></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #FC244C 3.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;margin-left:0in;margin-top:15.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:15.0pt'><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:15.0pt;margin-left:15.0pt;line-height:19.5pt;text-align:initial'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#363737'>“They're just computers. You can teach computer to do anything you want,” said Spoonamore.<o:p></o:p></span></p></blockquote><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:15.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:19.5pt;text-align:initial'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#363737'>Election officials across multiple states have already dismissed the claims that tabulating machines are connected to the internet, insisting, then, that adding fake votes would have been impossible. However, Spoonamore, who has run hacks like this in the past, told me that the fact the software was compromised means these machines could have been connected to the internet without the election officials even knowing.<o:p></o:p></span></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #FC244C 3.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;margin-left:0in;margin-top:15.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:15.0pt'><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:15.0pt;margin-left:15.0pt;line-height:19.5pt;text-align:initial'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#363737'>“It’s a lie that these machines aren’t connected to the internet. They're not <i>supposed</i> to be connected to the internet while they're doing tabulation—but you don't know what was loaded in there for the software.”<o:p></o:p></span></p></blockquote><div style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><p align=center style='margin:0in;text-align:center;line-height:19.5pt;border-radius:4px'><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:white;background:#FC244C'><a href="https://substack.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.VloJ_p3SBFbxawFh_HLXBJ09iJQTo2aIjbTkv3-XKUY?&utm_medium=email&utm_source=subscribe-widget&utm_content=151822919" target="_blank"><span style='color:white;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>Upgrade to paid</span></a></span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#363737'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><h3 style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in;mso-line-height-alt:13.9pt;text-align:initial'><span style='font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#363737'>The Hack<o:p></o:p></span></h3><p style='margin:0in;line-height:19.5pt;text-align:initial'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#363737'>You can’t create votes out of nothing. You need to vote on behalf of people registered to vote who didn’t show up to the polling booth, wrote Spoonamore in his <u><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/e649f28b-19ee-4dc8-984e-8b03d2231080?j=eyJ1IjoiM3Jmd3UifQ.GFXr_WhfU7FZ7_-CQEYLN1wbMAZPTUJCjxTmpBXYii8" target="_blank"><span style='color:#363737'>open letter to Harris</span></a></u>. This is where Elon Musk comes into the picture.<o:p></o:p></span></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #FC244C 3.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;margin-left:0in;margin-top:15.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:15.0pt'><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:15.0pt;margin-left:15.0pt;line-height:19.5pt;text-align:initial'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#363737'>“I think he’s guilty as fuck,” said Spoonamore.<o:p></o:p></span></p></blockquote><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:15.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:19.5pt;text-align:initial'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#363737'>In October, Musk announced a $1 million daily sweepstake to those pledging to vote for Trump in the swing states. Curiously, the only information requested on the pledge website was the name and address of the would-be voter: no email, no telephone number. Spoonamore claims this was how Musk built a list of voters with the details necessary to cast a vote in the USA in the correct precinct. In short, he built a second pollbook.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;line-height:19.5pt;text-align:initial'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#363737'>ePollbooks are used in every polling station in the USA and <i>are </i>connected to the internet. Volunteers sign voters into the polling station to double-check they are in the correct precinct and ensure they haven’t cast their paper ballot elsewhere. Strangely, given the owner’s virulent campaigning for a candidate, Starlink was used to connect the election services to the internet in <u><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/aed7a40b-ca28-42f6-a0ac-8f5b2f708ccd?j=eyJ1IjoiM3Jmd3UifQ.GFXr_WhfU7FZ7_-CQEYLN1wbMAZPTUJCjxTmpBXYii8" target="_blank"><span style='color:#363737'>certain counties</span></a></u>. Spoonamore also claims that Musk supplied all seven of the swing states with free Starlink service to make their ePollbooks work faster.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:15.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:19.5pt;text-align:initial'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#363737'>However, this hack could be deployed using any network connection. With the ePollbooks connected to the internet, it would have been possible to hack into the system and, using voter profiles of each registered voter who had been checked into a polling station, determine which candidate was gaining in each state. In the final hours, it would have then been possible, using the secondary pollbook created by the $1 million sweepstake, to determine which Trump voters had not shown up and mark enough of them on the ePollbook as having voted. These become the bullet ballots. Only 400,000 of them were necessary to tip this election—at one point Musk tweeted that millions had signed up to his pledge.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:15.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:19.5pt;text-align:initial'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#363737'>Spoonamore explains that with the ePollbook data updated to reflect the desired result, votes would then need to be added to the tabulation machines to match the ePollbook. The machines could have been “digitally stuffed” either over a network connection (facilitated by the compromised software on these machines) or via physical access to the tabulation machine. A second possibility involves the same compromise as above plus “human ballot stuffing”. He notes this could be the reason bullet ballots fall heavily in just a few counties.<o:p></o:p></span></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #FC244C 3.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;margin-left:0in;margin-top:15.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:15.0pt'><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:15.0pt;margin-left:15.0pt;line-height:19.5pt;text-align:initial'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#363737'>“It's actually a pretty standard hack,” he said.<o:p></o:p></span></p></blockquote><p align=center style='margin:0in;text-align:center;line-height:19.5pt;border-radius:4px'><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:white;background:#FC244C'><a href="https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication_id=265792&post_id=151822919&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&utm_campaign=email-share&action=share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true&r=3rfwu&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo2MzE5MTgyLCJwb3N0X2lkIjoxNTE4MjI5MTksImlhdCI6MTczMjAzNTkxNiwiZXhwIjoxNzM0NjI3OTE2LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMjY1NzkyIiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.fy8i85d1YQQIDv-AHcvtT2uYTF0fpda659S-4TnwNFc" target="_blank"><span style='color:white;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>Share</span></a></span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#363737'><o:p></o:p></span></p><h3 style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in;mso-line-height-alt:13.9pt;text-align:initial'><span style='font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#363737'>Is this just “BlueAnon”?<o:p></o:p></span></h3><p style='margin:0in;line-height:19.5pt;text-align:initial'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#363737'>Is this just the Left’s version of right-wing conspiracy theories that have played an outsize role in destabilising our institutions? Perhaps. But the alleged fraud here is linked to men like Trump who <u><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/b65752e4-0b2d-4bce-bf0b-217ad9d16c71?j=eyJ1IjoiM3Jmd3UifQ.GFXr_WhfU7FZ7_-CQEYLN1wbMAZPTUJCjxTmpBXYii8" target="_blank"><span style='color:#363737'>outright deny democracy</span></a></u> and men like Musk who has seen fit to <u><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/61b7ecee-49fd-4687-b9c9-317d65c49f4a?j=eyJ1IjoiM3Jmd3UifQ.GFXr_WhfU7FZ7_-CQEYLN1wbMAZPTUJCjxTmpBXYii8" target="_blank"><span style='color:#363737'>meddle directly in international warfare and sovereign military strategy</span></a></u>. Self-organising online communities are <u><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/67bd2631-3b43-4de8-b050-f3f824d73089?j=eyJ1IjoiM3Jmd3UifQ.GFXr_WhfU7FZ7_-CQEYLN1wbMAZPTUJCjxTmpBXYii8" target="_blank"><span style='color:#363737'>mining the election data</span></a></u>, compiling compiled plenty of suggestive content, such as Trump telling his followers this summer that <u><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/7dde0c5c-4716-4036-b255-758ae23856fd?j=eyJ1IjoiM3Jmd3UifQ.GFXr_WhfU7FZ7_-CQEYLN1wbMAZPTUJCjxTmpBXYii8" target="_blank"><span style='color:#363737'>he didn’t need their vote</span></a></u>s, and Joe Rogan <u><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/f1b34d7c-f6ec-4547-8818-a3c5712dde5c?j=eyJ1IjoiM3Jmd3UifQ.GFXr_WhfU7FZ7_-CQEYLN1wbMAZPTUJCjxTmpBXYii8" target="_blank"><span style='color:#363737'>letting slip on his podcast</span></a></u> last week that Musk knew the results of the election four hours before anyone else via “an app” on his phone.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;line-height:19.5pt;text-align:initial'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#363737'>Even without these suggestions, the data is stark. Legal teams working with <u><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/d5d18f30-bec1-4e8c-8d35-5fd134121ae1?j=eyJ1IjoiM3Jmd3UifQ.GFXr_WhfU7FZ7_-CQEYLN1wbMAZPTUJCjxTmpBXYii8" target="_blank"><span style='color:#363737'>SmartElections</span></a></u> are currently racing to meet the deadline to challenge the Presidential result, successfully inviting a handful of voters around the country to challenge the vote in their precinct and demand a hand recount. Hand recounts would prove that these bullet ballots did not exist in the numbers recorded by the tabulator machines.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:15.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:19.5pt;text-align:initial'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#363737'>The deadline for calling for a recount differs in every state. In North Carolina, which saw 11% of votes for Trump cast as bullet votes, the deadline is this Friday. One voter has allegedly come forward in a Pennsylvania precinct to demand a hand recount. However, even if every county in the nation recounted their votes by hand, the only person who can challenge the result in Kamala Harris—as the aggrieved party. There is almost no historical precedent for such a challenge and, even if she were to take this to the Supreme Court, with the judges stacked for Trump it is highly likely they would order to stop the recount—as they did for the 2000 Gore v. Bush election.<o:p></o:p></span></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #FC244C 3.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;margin-left:0in;margin-top:15.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:15.0pt'><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:15.0pt;margin-left:15.0pt;line-height:19.5pt;text-align:initial'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#363737'>“For 20 years, I’ve been saying the same thing,” said Spoonamore. “The elections are being hacked, here's how they're being hacked. And every time, people take a few recommendations after each hacked election, implement some of it—but then you sit there going, that's still not secure.”<o:p></o:p></span></p></blockquote><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:15.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:19.5pt;text-align:initial'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#363737'>Online, however, American social media users are exhausted by more calls of election fraud—even those who voted for Harris. Trump’s repeated—and repeatedly unfounded—claim of a stolen election in 2020 seem to have laid the groundwork for disbelief on both sides of the political aisle that voter fraud could have taken place this time around.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:15.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:19.5pt;text-align:initial'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#363737'>Yet, voter fraud has a history in the United States, well beyond Trump’s claims. Thanks to the Supreme Court, the public still does not know the result of the 2000 election. The 2004 Presidential election and a 2002 Senate election were also decried as fraudulent by experts, including Spoonamore—to no avail.<o:p></o:p></span></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #FC244C 3.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;margin-left:0in;margin-top:15.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:15.0pt'><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:15.0pt;margin-left:15.0pt;line-height:19.5pt;text-align:initial'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#363737'>“I don't know why John Kerry refused to engage nor why Max Cleland refused to engage. This is the third time I've walked into the public square, poured kerosene on myself and set myself on fire saying, ‘Hey, this election was defrauded.’ And all three times the same thing has happened. People just run around going, ‘Oh my God, don't question elections. Oh my God.’ They keep questioning integrity. 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Available at: <a href="https://penncapital-star.com/government-politics/group-led-by-kraken-lawyer-sidney-powell-hiredthe-firm-recounting-azs-election-to-probe-a-pa-election/" target="_blank">https://penncapital-star.com/government-politics/group-led-by-kraken-lawyer-sidney-powell-hiredthe-firm-recounting-azs-election-to-probe-a-pa-election/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style='margin-right:4.5pt;text-align:initial;min-width:24px'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:19.5pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>3<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:15.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:19.5pt;text-align:initial;min-width:10px'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#363737'>Christina A. Cassidy, “Georgia election indictments highlights wider attempts to illegally access voting equipment,” Associated Press, (August 15, 2023). 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