Trump’s Tariffs Prove He’s an IDIOT Unfit to be President

 

‘Buffoon of a president’: Trump exposes ignorance of U.S. farming in speech to Congress

Michelle Norris, MSNBC senior contributing editor, joins an MSNBC panel to discuss the effects of Donald Trump’s trade war and tariffs on American farmers and the degree to which Donald Trump does not appear to understand the necessity of foreign markets for U.S. agriculture.

 

Trump tariffs will likely hurt U.S. consumers, negatively impact political relations

 

Robert Reich compares Trump’s presidency to the worst presidents in American history.

 

 

Trump ranked dead last as worst president ever in U.S. history

Trump has been ranked the worst president in U.S. history in a new poll of historians and scholars. NBC News presidential historian Michael Beschloss joins Joy Reid to discuss.

 

According to news reports & various sources, White House Staffers & Cabinet Members claimed Trump is “an Idiot”, “a f***ing moron”, “dumb as shit”, “dope with the intelligence of a kindergartner”, “like an 11 year old child”, “a professional liar”, “thinks he God”, “he tries to divide us”, “don’t think he’s fit for office”, was unable to stay focused, had a 2 minute attention span and required a ‘Special Folder’ with flattering news and photos about himself twice a day. Former DHS official Miles Taylor stated Trump was “Incandescently stupid” and had to “dumb down” classified memos so Trump could understand them. National Security Advisor John Bolton stated World Leaders considered Trump to be a “laughing fool”. .

A book called “The Toddler in Chief” details more than 1,000 reports by Cabinet members, Oval Office advisers and Republican Party officials describe Trump engaging in childlike behavior and temper tantrums. Reports claim White House aides had to treat Trump like a child in order to placate him.

 

Numerous mental health professionals claim Trump is a Malignant Narcissist. 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.”

During the 2016 GOP primaries, Ted Cruz called 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”.

Even ex-Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan referred to Trump as an ‘Authoritarian Narcissist’. No normal person would lie with impunity like Trump has (over 30,000 times while President), refuse to admit he lost the election, claim he won after he lost, then instigate a coup and insurrection to overturn the election after he lost.

With opinions such as these being expressed by former Staff & Mental Health Professionals, it’s clear Trump is UNFIT and Incapable of making ANY rational decisions.

 

Trump Admits He’s Not In Charge And Other People Are Directing Him

While talking with reporters on Friday, Donald Trump admitted that he’s not actually the guy in charge and that other people were apparently calling the shots. This was revealed when he said that HE wasn’t actually the one who invoked the Alien Enemies Act, which he said was done by other people. This comes as quite a shock seeing as how his signature is on the order – and it comes just days after he wanted an investigation into President Biden for allegedly using an “autopen” and not knowing what he’s signing.

 

White House Aides Admit They Treat Trump Like A Child

 

A book called “The Toddler in Chief” details more than 1,000 documented reports by Cabinet members, Oval Office advisers, Republican Party officials and the President himself having childlike behavior and temper tantrums.

 

Former DHS official claims classified memos had to be ‘dumbed down’ so Trump could understand them

 

Required a ‘Special Folder’ with flattering news and photos about himself Twice a Day

 

Staffers claim Trump was unable to stay focused & had a 2 – 4 minute attention span

 

TRUMP TWO MINUTE ATTENTION SPAN

The Washington Post citing inside sources say Trump has the short attention span of a child of 2 to 4 minutes

 

Video Title: Donald Trump’s daily ‘propaganda document’

Not only does Trump have a limited attention span of about 2 minutes, it’s reported that he requires a folder of positive news about himself twice a day.

 

White House Aides Say Trump Acting Like Spoiled, Clueless Child

 

Sportscaster Bob Costas Explains why Trump is the Worst President in History

“Trump is by far the most disgraceful figure in modern presidential history. He’s only become more disgraceful since 2016. he is a bubbling cauldron of loathsome traits and it’s only those who are suffering from Trump derangement syndrome which is the way they and Fox News and all the rest of MAGA media try to brush aside all the legitimate criticisms of trump you have to be in delusion in an a toxic cult to believe that Donald Trump has ever been in any sense emotionally psychologically intellectually or ethically fit to be president of the United States but his supporters are locked in on that.

Chief of Staff John Kelly said: the depth of his dishonesty is astonishing. He is a person who has no idea what America is all about. A person who has nothing but contempt for our Democratic institutions our constitution and the rule of law. God help us all. The Trump delusion is not going away on the right

 

National Security Advisor John Bolton says World Leaders considered Trump to be a “laughing fool”

 

Former Republican Strategist Steve Schmidt calls Trump an Imbecile and Worst President in History

 

Trump Regularly ‘Can’t Remember What He’s Said,’ White House Insider Says

“Behind closed doors his own top officials deride him as an ‘idiot’ and a ‘moron,'” an anonymous senior Trump official says in a new book.

The above article claims “White House Insider Says Trump Regularly ‘Can’t Remember What He’s Said or Been Told”

 

Miles Taylor served as the Chief of Staff of Trump’s Department of Homeland Security. What he saw firsthand terrified him.

 

Republican Campaign Manager Steve Schmidt calls Trump an ‘Imbecile’ and ‘The Worst President The Country’s Ever Had

 

‘God help us’: John Kelly issues scathing statement on Trump

John Kelly, the longest-serving White House chief of staff for Donald Trump, offered his harshest criticism yet of the former president in an exclusive statement to CNN. CNN’s Jake Tapper discusses with former Trump administration national security advisor John Bolton.

 

Trump Wanted to Launch Missiles into Mexico

Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper said in his new memoir “A Sacred Oath: Memoirs of a Secretary of Defense During Extraordinary Times”, that President Trump suggested to him at least twice during the summer of 2020 that the United States could “shoot missiles into Mexico to destroy the drug labs,” and that it could be done secretly. Trump even said the operation could be conducted “quietly” and that the U.S. could simply deny it had anything to do with it. “No one would know it was us,” Trump said, according to Esper.

Trump also suggested shooting migrants trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border and shooting Black Lives Matter protesters demonstrating outside of the White House. “Can’t you just shoot them?” Trump asked, according to Esper.

 

Axios reporter Jonathan Swan describes a December 18 meeting between President Donald Trump, White House officials and conspiracy theorists that ended in a profanity-laced shouting match. Swan, who has covered Donald Trump’s presidency for years, called it one of the most dark and demented meetings of the administration.

 

Former White House chief of staff, retired Marine Gen. John Kelly, has told friends that President Donald Trump “is the most flawed person” he’s ever known. “The depths of his dishonesty is just astounding to me. The dishonesty, the transactional nature of every relationship, though it’s more pathetic than anything else. He is the most flawed person I have ever met in my life,” the retired Marine general has told friends.

 

Ex-DHS Official: Trump Wanted To Trade Puerto Rico For Greenland

 

Ex-Trump Official Endorces Biden, Calls Trump Terrifying

 

Trump’s sister, Maryanne Trump Barry, is heard criticizing her brother in private, saying the president “has no principles.” CNN’s Jake Tapper discusses the audio, first reported by The Washington Post, which was secretly recorded by President Trump’s niece, Mary Trump.

 

Foreign Diplomats Call Trump A Laughing Stock Who Is Obsessed With Obama

 

Trump is not a ‘super genius,’ but rather he is an unstable incompetent narcissist who conned his way into the White House with help of foreign interference.

 

Ex-Pence aide details task force struggles with White House

 

Former Assistant Secretary for Threat Prevention in Trump’s DHS discusses her experience with the president and why she’s ad .

 

Had enough of Trump?

 

This is who Trump is

 

Nothing Else Like Trump’s ‘Cavernous Stupidity’ In U.S. History

Historian and presidential biographer Douglas Brinkley and Eugene Robinson of The Washington Post react to the wild speculation we have seen from the president amid his response to the coronavirus pandemic.

 

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders called President Trump the ‘worst and most dangerous president in the history of our country’ and blasted him as not being a friend of the working class.

 

4-Star U.S. Army General Barry McCaffrey say Trump is a “Serious Threat to our National Security”

 

Trump Exaggerating Economic Success

 

 

 

Tesla has reportedly stopped Cybertruck deliveries because the vehicles are falling apart as they drive around.

 

Hummer V. Tesla.

Telsa “Cybertrucks” don’t even look like trucks. They are the stupidest, ugliest, most RETARDED looking vehicle I’ve ever seen.

 

‘$5k STOLEN!’: Elon TERMINATES Social Security To “Dead” Man Who’s Alive

REPUBLICANS Elon Musk & DOGE prove they’re Incompetent, Heartless BASTARDS by claiming an 82-year-old man in Seattle was dead, took more than $5,200 in past Social Security payments from his bank account, and ended both his Social Security and Medicare benefits. Despite being very much alive and lodging complaints with the Social Security Administration, he is still not receiving his benefits. This is an outrage and I think he should be compensated 1 million dollars for the hardship he’s had to suffer due to Musk & DOGE’s incompetence

 

They are trying to break it’: Elon Musk’s Social Security changes putting payments at risk

Martin O’Malley former Governor of Maryland joins Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House to discuss the work being done by Elon Musk and his army of DOGE bros who are actively working to undermine Social Security, and what can be done to stop these changes before benefits and payments are interrupted.

 

Outrage and exposure halts Trump’s plans for Social Security service cuts

Video of Rep. John Larson channeling the outrage of his constituents at the anticipation that Donald Trump’s top donor, Elon Musk, is intending to destroy Social Security in order to privatize it. The Washington Post reported early Wednesday that Musk was planning cuts to Social Security’s telephone customer service, but by the end of the day those plans had been cancelled. Between the public outcry and the exposure in the media, the pushback on Social Security cuts appears to have worked.

 

Elon and DOGE Screw Up Could Mean Your Livelihood

 

Fierce backlash against Trump’s agenda seen in sweeping, nationwide protests

From small towns to the largest cities, Rachel Maddow reports on the wide diversity of issues being protested in demonstrations across the United States on Saturday, as hundreds of thousands of Americans took to the streets to make their objections to Donald Trump’s agenda heard.

 

Elon Musk’s DOGE Staffers Are Dangerously Stupid

Multiple stories over just the last few days have proven that the team that Elon Musk has assembled at DOGE (and that includes Musk, himself) are actually worse than just being incompetent – They are stunningly, and dangerously, stupid. They ended up sending an email about a lawsuit to EVERY federal judge in the country instead of the judge overseeing the case, and reports also say that they are just feeding sensitive agency data into AI programs to then be told where to make cuts.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Elon Musk, Twitter and Meme-Inspired Conspiracy Theories

Elon Musk has proven to be Conspiracy Theories NUT who believes, posts and espouses baseless Conspiracy Theories and falsehoods

 

Elon Musk DELETES Tweet Linking To CONSPIRACY That Paul Pelosi KNEW His Attacker

 

Digging into Elon Musk’s claims that people over 150 years old are collecting Social Security

 

Elon Musk spreads debunked conspiracy theories about voter fraud

At a rally last weekend, tech billionaire Elon Musk promoted debunked conspiracy theories about voting machines and encouraged voters to share any potential signs of fraud on social media. CBS News election law contributor David Becker joins to discuss the new efforts to sow doubt on the integrity of the 2024 election.

 

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/08/elon-musk-hurricane-disinformation-trump-00182769

 

Elon Musk is now boosting the ‘Pizzagate’ conspiracy theory | CNN Business

Elon Musk on Monday boosted the dangerous, years-old “Pizzagate” conspiracy theory in a post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, just days after being roundly criticized and facing an advertiser exodus over his embrace of an antisemitic conspiracy theory.

 

A day in Elon Musk’s mind: 145 tweets with election conspiracies and emojis

A controversial tweet may make it to the news, but reading every post from the world’s richest man shows how frenzied and extreme he really is

 

IMO, Trump is a Illegitimate President disqualified by the 14th Amendment and the 2024 Election appears to have been RIGGED so he could stay out of Prison

 

 

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 the 14th Amendment for inciting an Insurrection on J6, 2021. He’s also made it clear that he intends violate Citizens Rights and the United States Constitution by pursuing revenge and retribution against anyone who’s held him accountable in the past and anyone who tries to hold him accountable in the future.

 

 

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. That means if Trump is sworn in without such a vote, he will be an illegitimate President and all of his actions in the White House will be legally invalid.

 

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 his son is asked if Trump is going to win, he says “Yeah, they’ll never know”.

 

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 and evidence of a “Russian Tail Hack”.

 

New 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.

 

Dr Beth Clarkson, a ASQ-Certified Quality Engineer with a PhD in Statistics, stated she found patterns indicative of manipulation in elections and voting machines; “not just an anomaly that occurred in one place, but a pattern that has occurred repeatedly in elections across the U.S.”

 

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

 

POSTS LIKE THESE ARE ALL OVER SOCIAL MEDIA

 

 

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”.

 

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

 

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.

 

Kamala Harris Robbed of 3,565,000 Votes

 

As motivated as Americans were about this being ‘the most important election in the history of the United States, with reports of ‘Record new Voter Registrations’, including 337,000 attributed to Taylor Swift, stadiums full of supporters at rallies never seen by Joe Biden, Republican voters crossing party lines to vote for Harris, a record number of women voting for Abortion Rights, concerns of Republicans cutting Medicare, Medicaid & Social Security, concerns about Project 2025, it defies logic that more people voted for Trump than Harris.

 

The ‘official’ vote count showing less people voted in 2024 than 2020 should sound Alarms

 

Trump saying he was going to be a ‘Dictator on day one’, warnings from military leaders and previous staff that re-electing Trump poses a significant danger & could be the “End of Democracy as we have known it”, saying he was going to lock up opponents who criticized him, saying news outlets which criticized him should be shut down, saying people who criticized the Supreme Court should be jailed, a pathological liar who fact checkers claim made over 30,000 false statements while president, his inciting an insurrection which caused 5 deaths and injuries of countless Capitol Police; it’s beyond belief that a majority of Americans actually voted for Trump, including all 7 Swing States.

To believe that Trump legitimately won the 2024 election, you have to believe women doesn’t care about reproductive rights, the majority of Americans are stupid, unformed, aren’t aware of and/or don’t care about his pathological lying and his vile, vindictive, outrageous behavior.

 

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”.

 

 

Rachel Maddow points out in this video how Trump kept saying “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 have to vote anymore.”

After Trump supposedly “won” the 2024 election, she never mentioned a word about her previous concerns which makes one wonder if there’s a ‘NEWS BLACKOUT’ in which everyone in the media is being told to not question the outcome of the 2024 election.

 

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

 

Rolling Stone investigative reporter Greg Palast busted Jeb Bush for stealing the 2000 election by purging Black voters from Florida’s electoral rolls. Now Palast is back to take a deep dive into the Republicans’ dark operation, Crosscheck, designed to steal a million votes by November.

Crosscheck is controlled by a Trump henchman, Kris Kobach, Kansas Secretary of State who claims his computer program has identified 7.2 million people in 29 states who may have voted twice in the same election–a felony crime. The catch? Most of these “suspects” are minorities—in other words, mainly Democratic voters. Yet the lists and the evidence remain “confidential.”

Palast and his investigative side-kick Badpenny do what it takes to get their hands on the data, analyze it and go find some of these 7.2 million Americans tagged “suspects” and “potential duplicate voters” whose votes were threatened.

They hunt down and confront Kobach with the evidence of his “lynching by laptop.” Then they are off to find the billionaires behind this voting scam.

In this interview, Greg talks about his new film, “The Best Democracy Money Can Buy”. Called “The most important investigative journalist of our time”, Palast has been working for the BBC for 20 years and writes for the Guardian and the Rolling Stone.

 

Antonin Scalia and his Corporate Republican appointed majority of 5 “justices” subverted democracy & engaged in partisan politics by stopping the 2000 election vote count. The above video explains the shocking details. This caused George W. Bush to be installed as President. At the time the votes were stopped by the Supreme Court, there were only 154 votes separating Al Gore from George W. Bush (as detailed in the above video).

With only 154 votes separating Al Gore from George W. Bush, it’s easy to see how purging thousands of black voters being off of the Florida voter rolls rigged the 2000 election and handed it to George W. Bush on a Silver Platter. If all of the illegally disqualified voters had been allowed to vote and all votes counted, the total votes would have decisively shown Al Gore to be the winner of the State of Florida and therefore the Presidency.

It was the Jeb Bush Administration’s illegal voter purge and Republicans who subverted Democracy by not allowing the votes to be counted that caused the installation of George W. Bush and the US to have a Radical Right Wing Republican majority in the Supreme Court.

 

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

 

In 2004, Computer Programmer Clint Curtis testified to congress how he was paid by a Florida Republican Speaker of the House to develop software which could rig & flip elections, proving election rigging has been of interest to Republicans for a long time. Also, many voting machines and software is made by Republican owners.

 

Note how this voting machine is rigged for Mitt Romney in 2012

 

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.

 

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.

 

Trump, Musk and Putin had motives to insure Trump is installed as President. According to news reports, Trump and Musk have had numerous contacts with Putin.

Trump was desperate to be ‘elected’ President to stay out of prison.

Vladimir Putin, with his resources of some of the most nefarious computer hackers in the world wanted Trump to be President because he knows Trump will do anything he wants, including stopping aid to Ukraine, so Putin can win the war and achieve his goal of illegally annexing Ukraine.

Elon Musk also had many reasons to want Trump to president, which include Government contracts worth billions and massive tax breaks, which could save Musk tens of billions of dollars. On 10-7-24 Musk told Tucker Carlson that if Kamala Harris wins the election, ‘I’m f***ed’ and predicts the vice president will send him to prison. [source: abcnews.go.com/Business/stake-elon-musk-presidential-election/story?id=115143069]

Per the above article; “A Wall Street Journal report claims Musk has been in contact with Putin since 2022, discussing personal and geopolitical matters”.

 

 

Outrageous Lies Told By Trump to Get Elected

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”.

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 states; “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“.

 

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.

 

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.”

 

ACCORDING TO THIS ARTICLE, REPUBLICANS HAS BEEN RIGGING ELECTIONS IN MULTIPLE STATES FOR YEARS

Wichita State mathematician sues Kris Kobach, Sedgwick County elections commissioner seeking to audit voting machines

WICHITA – A Wichita State University mathematician sued the top Kansas election official Wednesday seeking paper tapes from electronic voting machines, an effort to explain statistical anomalies favo…

Per the above article: “A Wichita State University mathematician sued the top Kansas election official Wednesday seeking paper tapes from electronic voting machines, an effort to explain statistical anomalies favoring Republicans in counts coming from large precincts across the country.

Beth Clarkson, chief statistician for the university’s National Institute for Aviation Research, filed the open records lawsuit in Sedgwick County District Court as part of her personal quest to find the answer to an unexplained pattern that transcends elections and states. The lawsuit was amended Wednesday to name Secretary of State Kris Kobach and Sedgwick County Elections Commissioner Tabitha Lehman.

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”.

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.

 

• 88 Criminal Charges: 34 felony counts Falsifying Business Records to hide ‘Hush Money Payments’ before the 2016 election…37 felony counts for hoarding classified documents and impeding efforts to retrieve them….four (4) felony counts for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election and 13 felony counts for election interference.
• Pathological LIAR: Fact checkers claim Trump made over 30,000 false or misleading statements while President. Claimed he “Won” the 2020 Election and it was “Stole n”. Accused Democrats of “Stealing the election” when it was HE & REPUBLICANS who tried to STEAL the election & subvert the will of the people.
• Incited Riots and Violence causing 5 deaths by his brainwashed MOB of supporters to make himself an UN-elected Dictator by attempting to stop the certification of Democratically Elected Joe Biden.
• Obstructed Justice on numerous occasions as detailed in the Mueller Report
• Threatened Georgia Election Officials demanding they “find votes” to help him STEAL the 2020 election
• Mob Boss Style Quid Pro Quo: Corruptly solicited the Government of Ukraine to publicly announce investigations of political opponent Joe Biden, before Military Aid would be released.
• 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 Threats: ‘If you come after me, I’m coming after you’. Threatened ‘Death and Destruction’ if charged in New York
• Wanna-be Dictator who implied General Mark Milley should be executed. Said he’d have ‘No choice’ but to lock up Political Opponents if he wins in 2024
• Falsely Accused Georgia Election Workers of stealing votes causing them to receive death threats
• Attacked Judges who didn’t rule his way & attacked Law Enforcement investigating his corruption.
• Violations of Presidential Records Act: Took Top Secret Documents to Mar-a-Lago
• Corrupt Pardons: Trump used his pardon powers to reward political allies, corrupt public officials, accused war criminals and other controversial figures. Reportedly told officials he’d Pardon those who broke the Law to build his Border Wall
• Attacked & Threatened Whistleblower who overheard & reported Trump’s phone conversation with Ukrainian President Zelensky, calling him a “Spy” and implying he should be executed.
• Impeachable Conduct: More than 500 legal scholars from top universities stated in an open letter of ‘overwhelming evidence’ Trump engaged in “impeachable conduct” regarding Ukraine.
• Had Secret Meetings with Putin in which Trump demanded no notes or records be kept
• Publicly asked Russia to Commit Espionage when he said; Russia: “If you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing”.
• Vindictive, Pay-back Firings of multiple agency Inspectors General who testified against & disagreed with Trump
• “Weaponized the Federal Government”: Trump IRS Audited former F.B.I. Director James Comey and former F.B.I. Deputy Director Andrew McCabe shortly after he called for Comey and McCabe to be “Punished”.
• CDC hijacked by Trump Cronies who forced the Agency to “tow the line” with Propaganda consistent with Trump’s messaging instead of Scientific Data.
• Emoluments Violations: Received tax payer and foreign money at properties he owns while President, violating the Emoluments Clause
• Campaign Finance Violations: Hush Money Payment to Porn Star Stormy Daniels by personal attorney / fixer, Michael Cohen “in coordination with and at the direction of” Trump days before the 2016 Presidential Election.
• Narcissistic Psychopath: Dr. John Gartner once 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“.
• Incompetent & Unfit: White House Staffers & Officials claim Trump was unable to stay focused, had a 2 minute attention span. Former DHS official claims classified memos had to be ‘dumbed down’ so he could understand them. Reported to have required a ‘Special Folder’ with flattering news and photos about himself twice a day. 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” & “don’t think he’s fit for office”. A book called “The Toddler in Chief” details more than 1,000 reports by Cabinet members, Oval Office advisers and Republican Party officials describe Trump engaging in childlike behavior and temper tantrums.

 

Republicans knew Trump was unfit to be President, yet all have caved, kowtowed and support him, putting their own political careers over doing what’s best for our country

Republicans such as Marco Rubio who called Trump’s 34 Count Guilty Verdict a ‘complete travesty‘, in 2016 called Trump a ‘Con Artist‘ who’s ‘been exploiting working Americans for 40 years’. Ted Cruz called Trump a ‘Pathological Liar who doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies. He lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth’ & ‘a narcissist at a level I don’t think this country’s ever seen’. Rand Paul; ‘Donald Trump is a delusional narcissist and an orange-faced windbag’ & ‘my concern is that he would grab up that power and treat the country as sort of his bully fiefdom‘. Nikki Haley; ‘Donald Trump is everything I taught my children not to do in kindergarten’. Lindsey Graham; ‘he’s a race-baiting xenophobic religious bigot’ & I think he’s a kook. I think he’s crazy. I think he’s unfit for office. Kellyanne Conway; ‘he says he’s for the little guy but he’s actually built a lot of his businesses on the backs of the little guy’. Mike Pompeo; ‘Donald Trump the other day said that it quote if he tells a soldier to commit a war crime the soldier will just do it’. Glenn Beck; ‘I don’t think Donald Trump has has even read the constitution & knows what’s in the constitution’. Susan Collins; ‘I just cannot support Donald Trump’. Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry called Trump a cancer on conservatism” and “a barking carnival act”. “He offers a barking carnival act that can be best described as Trumpism: a toxic mix of demagoguery, mean-spiritedness and nonsense that will lead the Republican Party to perdition if pursued. Let no one be mistaken – Donald Trump’s candidacy is a cancer on conservatism, and it must be clearly diagnosed, excised and discarded.”  According to various news sources, including an article in politico.com, J.D. Vance stated  ‘I’m a Never Trump guy’ , ‘I never liked him’ , ‘My god, what an idiot’ , a ‘cynical asshole like Nixon’ , ‘Mr. Trump is unfit for our nation’s highest office’  and ‘America’s Hitler’.

 

REPUBLICANS voting to overturn the 2020 election, defending TRUMP no matter what, failing to Impeach Trump when he deserved to be Impeached, disparaging Court Proceedings in New York in which TRUMP was held accountable for paying Hush Money to keep the American people in the dark about his adulterous affairs to influence the outcome of the 2016 election… being outraged over Trump’s well deserved 34 Count Guilty Verdict, claiming the Trial was a ‘SHAM’, ‘Election Interference’, ‘Politically Motivated’, threatening REVENGE & RETRIBUTION, prove REPUBLICANS ARE LAWLESS SCUM OF THE EARTH who have NO DECENCY, NO MORALS, NO SHAME, NO PRINCIPLES, have put PARTY, POLITICS & POLITICAL CAREERS above all else and are UNFIT to hold PUBLIC OFFICE.