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leighbythesea2

(1,291 posts)
Thu Mar 13, 2025, 07:54 PM Mar 2025

Security Experts Agree-Voting Tabulators Hacked-Penn

“Don’t give me that look, I get How it Sounds”

https://open.substack.com/pub/tinfoilmatt/p/security-expert-says-vote-tabulators-hacked?r=fzwm5&utm_medium=ios

Spoonamore has served as a professional subject matter expert in the legal battle stemming from the 2004 Ohio Election hack, which has since been thoroughly documented. He also appeared on the Lou Dobbs Tonight TV show on CNN, where he discussed hacking, including of voting machines.
History repeats itself:
While watching vote tally data come in, Spoonamore concluded that vote totals in the 2024 General Election had been affected by a hack similar to the one two decades ago.
As a contractor associated with intelligence and financial agency technologies, Spoonamore has a Duty to Warn if he suspects a hack has occurred. On November 7, he wrote a formal Duty to Warn letter to Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro with his conclusions about the election.
In this letter, he comments that the November 5 voter fraud was especially noticeable because the hackers “made a mistake triggering a system issue,” “the aggregate effects of the hacking creates results outside nominal expectations,” and an unrelated distraction (in this case, bomb threats) was “used to draw attention away from the hacking.”
“Here in Centre County initial tabulation was an absurdly low 67K votes when over 80K voters participated,” Spoonamore wrote.
In his letter, he states that Centre County’s “[ballet] scanner systems worked in testing, but were unable to communicate with tabulation systems after the bomb-scare. I note from experience—the failure of a scanning system to load a database is an extremely common development when a system is changed without notice to the users.”
On his Spoutable account, Spoonamore wrote the following: “Tabulation Systems at the County level were hacked far in advance of the election. The hack was probably written into the code even before the code was installed.” has served as a professional subject matter expert in the legal battle stemming from the 2004 Ohio Election hack, which has since been thoroughly documented. He also appeared on the Lou Dobbs Tonight TV show on CNN, where he discussed hacking, including of voting machines.
History repeats itself:
While watching vote tally data come in, Spoonamore concluded that vote totals in the 2024 General Election had been affected by a hack similar to the one two decades ago.
As a contractor associated with intelligence and financial agency technologies, Spoonamore has a Duty to Warn if he suspects a hack has occurred. On November 7, he wrote a formal Duty to Warn letter to Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro with his conclusions about the election.
In this letter, he comments that the November 5 voter fraud was especially noticeable because the hackers “made a mistake triggering a system issue,” “the aggregate effects of the hacking creates results outside nominal expectations,” and an unrelated distraction (in this case, bomb threats) was “used to draw attention away from the hacking.”
“Here in Centre County initial tabulation was an absurdly low 67K votes when over 80K voters participated,” Spoonamore wrote.
In his letter, he states that Centre County’s “[ballet] scanner systems worked in testing, but were unable to communicate with tabulation systems after the bomb-scare. I note from experience—the failure of a scanning system to load a database is an extremely common development when a system is changed without notice to the users.”
On his Spoutable account, Spoonamore wrote the following: “Tabulation Systems at the County level were hacked far in advance of the election. The hack was probably written into the code even before the code was installed.”

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Security Experts Agree-Voting Tabulators Hacked-Penn (Original Post) leighbythesea2 Mar 2025 OP
What I don't understand, is PA has paper ballots RandomNumbers Mar 2025 #1
What if Elon Musk hacked the US Election and delivered the Office to Trump? OAITW r.2.0 Mar 2025 #2
The notion that Donald tRump wouldn't cheat to win the election Blue Owl Mar 2025 #3
I remain doubting malaise malaise Mar 2025 #4
Sorry, but of a double paste of info there leighbythesea2 Mar 2025 #5

RandomNumbers

(19,091 posts)
1. What I don't understand, is PA has paper ballots
Thu Mar 13, 2025, 08:04 PM
Mar 2025

which could be hand-counted.

That's the whole purpose of paper ballots.

Ideally (and it may be true) there would be a random audit of some percent of precincts. If the audit result deviated from the reported tally, there would have to be a 100% hand recount. (or at least increase the audit from say, 5%, to 20% of precincts, then continue if more deviations were found.

I'll admit I didn't research what the PA rules are. But I do NOT understand how the whole point of paper ballots seems to have been missed.

OAITW r.2.0

(31,773 posts)
2. What if Elon Musk hacked the US Election and delivered the Office to Trump?
Thu Mar 13, 2025, 08:04 PM
Mar 2025

You don't think he didn't have the money and technical assets to accomplish this?

Trump is co-owned now - both Putin and Musk have the receipts.

Blue Owl

(58,626 posts)
3. The notion that Donald tRump wouldn't cheat to win the election
Thu Mar 13, 2025, 08:28 PM
Mar 2025

is far more absurd than the fact that he actually did cheat to win the election

leighbythesea2

(1,291 posts)
5. Sorry, but of a double paste of info there
Fri Mar 14, 2025, 07:15 AM
Mar 2025

Had copied out of Substack. But I guess it confirms to giving some info but not whole article.

I will never understand why there could not have been an audit. I get what he’s saying about the bomb threat creating plausible doubt for its results? But still how? Wouldn’t it have been worth it.

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