CYBER SECURITY EXPERTS WARN 2024 ELECTION WAS HACKED

By Rachel Donald

PlanetCritical

Cyber-security experts across America are raising the alarm of wide-scale election fraud securing Trump’s victory – and the data is compelling.

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.

There are already numerous articles online stating that this is a left wing conspiracy, and Elon Musk himself has warned that those raising concerns about the “hoax” will face "the hammer of justice." 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.

The Data

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 percent. 

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.

Election Software Compromised

The first open letter to VP Harris 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 The Washington Post and the Associated Press. 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.

In 2022, the civil case in Georgia about these security breaches brought to light that the operatives had been hired by Trump's lawyers. 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 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 the most severe election security breach publicly known”

Together, ES&S and Dominion are used to count nearly 70 percent of the votes nationwide, including the following percentages in the swing states:

Arizona: 96 percent use Dominion and ES&S equipment;

Georgia: 100 percent of voters vote on Dominion machines;

Nevada: 98 percent vote on Dominion voting machines and the remainder uses ES&S

Michigan: 69 percent of voters’ ballots are counted on Dominion or ES&S equipment

Pennsylvania: 89 percent of voters ballots are counted on Dominion or ES&S equipment

North Carolina: 92 percent of ballots are counted by ES&S

Wisconsin: 97 percent of votes are counted by either ES&S or Dominion

With copies of the software, hackers could then relatively easily develop their own working replicas which both do as they were originally programmed and, 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.

“They're just computers. You can teach computer to do anything you want,” said Spoonamore.

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.

“It’s a lie that these machines aren’t connected to the internet. They're not supposed to be connected to the internet while they're doing tabulation – but you don't know what was loaded in there for the software.”

According to one of the open letters, in Arizona, Trump’s percentage of bullet ballots totaled 7.2 percent. In Nevada, 5.5 percent. 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 percent in each state.

The same pattern continues across the other swing states, with an astonishing 11 percent of votes for Trump in North Carolina being bullet ballots.

“The numbers are so high to be unbelievable, unprecedented and demanding of further investigation,” writes Stephen Spoonamore, hacking and counter-hacking expert, cyber-security adviser, and government contractor.

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.

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.

“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.

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. Less than 50 percent of voters chose Trump, with Harris less than 1.7 percent behind him. One data scientist crunched the numbers:

“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 percent of the vote.”

Here’s what the experts say happened.

The Hack

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 open letter to Harris. This is where Elon Musk comes into the picture.

“I think he’s guilty as fuck,” said Spoonamore.

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.

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