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There is a group that has been analyzing the voting data from 2024's election where Trump "won".
The group is comprised of statisticians and data analysts.
It looks like they have analized enough data and have decided to go public with their results.
They are giving it a month and then the big reveal.
https://www.tiktok.com/@anonymous_resurfaced/video/7509212312469916958
https://electiontruthalliance.org
@electiontruth.bsky.social
speak easy
(12,591 posts)the CTs that 2024 was another 'stolen election'.
When we win in 2028 the Magats will be saying the same thing - and saying - you did it too - last time.
Get out and about on June 14, not wasting time on Stolen Elections shite.
k_buddy762
(638 posts)*every* election will be "stolen" in the eyes of the side whose candidate did not win.
Its all so very tiresome.
questionseverything
(11,508 posts)That can only be done with a hand counting of paper ballots in full public view
Just curious, why do you trust the 1%ers that own the voting machine companies to count your votes? We see they have no problem starving people, tossing them out in the cold street or denying them healthcare, so why do you think 1%ers rigging voting software systems crosses the line?
k_buddy762
(638 posts)that trust the "1%ers that own the voting machine companies."
If I told you how I feel about voting I'd be thrown overboard, but trust me, it doesn't include voting machines.
questionseverything
(11,508 posts)That suggests you trust the companies and their owners that make them
If you are saying something different, please say it plainly
k_buddy762
(638 posts)No matter the outcome, the losing side will always call "stolen election" or "shenanigans" for the rest of eternity.
CrispyQ
(40,591 posts)NYC is going to hand count over 8 million ballots? Just the president or the senators & reps too? What about all the other candidates & issues they vote on? Do we hand count those too? They've done tests & there are big error rates with hand counted ballots.
My state has paper ballots that are mailed out to the majority of voters & the ballots are then run though a tabulator at the county level. The counties perform bipartisan audits on the counts. While nothing is absolutely tamper proof or fool proof, there are ways to secure the process. --on edit:: I'm more concerned about the disenfranchisement of tens of thousands of voters than actual digital theft.
I totally believe there were a ton of democratic men or democratically leaning men who wouldn't vote for a woman. Not that they voted for Trump, but they left it blank. Maybe they saw the enthusiasm & thought Harris had it in the bag. IDK, but misogyny is still huge in this country, more so than other developed nations.
questionseverything
(11,508 posts)Personally I would be happy with hand counting the top two federal races as long as recounts were easily available for other races if a problem came up
What we have now is a trust me system, you have to guess at what happened last election because you arent allowed to see it being counted
Curious, what state are you from?
CrispyQ
(40,591 posts)Even before mail in voting, at the precinct level the ballots were only counted to match the number of ballots to the poll book. The actual tabulating of candidates & issues was done at the county level. The first time I voted my ballot was a punch card run through a digital counter. We aren't going back to hand counted ballots.
https://www.coloradosos.gov/pubs/elections/auditCenter.html
on edit: This is how it was done where I vote. States have different laws & methods. One of my arguments for standardized voting is that it's undemocratic that voting in Colorado is easier than voting in other states.
questionseverything
(11,508 posts)CrispyQ
(40,591 posts)Short of a massive die off, of course. Then maybe.
questionseverything
(11,508 posts)It seems like with the nightmare *rump is putting us through handcounts would be worth while ( besides the fact that democracy demands transparency)
Wiz Imp
(8,680 posts)Hand Counting Ballots
Nearly all election jurisdictions across the country use voting machines to count ballots because they are more accurate, faster, and cheaper than counting all ballots by hand.
https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/hand-counting-ballots-explained/
Election experts oppose hand-counting ballots. Here's why.
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/hand-counting-votes-proven-bad-idea
Hand-Counting Votes: A Proven Bad Idea
Efforts to replace modern voting machines with hand-counting are based on false conspiracy theories. But the machines do still need to be protected and kept up to date.
https://time.com/7071959/election-2024-hand-count-ballots/
Why Hand Counting Ballots Could Create an Election Disaster
It would actually be easier to "steal" an election if it were mandated all votes must be counted by hand. It's why the Democratic Party file lawsuits against the State of Georgia to prevent a law being enacted that required just that.
The frankly ludicrous decision came about after the five-person board found itself overrun by election deniers. The boneheaded move has drawn bipartisan criticism, including Vice President Kamala Harris and Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp.
This is exactly why Democrats on Sept. 30 filed a lawsuit to block this potential folly. Its got a good chance to proceed, as even Georgias Republican Secretary of State says the election board waited too long to institute such a dramatic change of rules.
While shutting down Georgias hand count plan could spur conspiracy theories that the vote is rigged, keeping it in place could do even more damage to trust in the states elections. Despite right-wing conspiracy theories about inaccurate voting machines and a desire to go back to paper-and-ink ballots, the perils of hacking or tinkering are just not justified. Fueled by disinformation and sheer cynicism, Trumps belief that the 2020 election was stolen simply has no basis in fact.
questionseverything
(11,508 posts)Thats not what I am advocating for
Germany hand counts their paper ballots because it is the only way the average citizen can oversee the count
Chemical Bill
(3,026 posts)if there is no ulterior actions by the private company that programs the counts.
brush
(61,033 posts)If '24 was stolen, it needs to be exposed so it will nuch harder for it to happen again.
Blue Full Moon
(3,109 posts)They always blame then do it themselves. Musk and Trump both admitted to it. Also remember no more voting my beautiful Christians.
FemDemERA
(676 posts)sarisataka
(22,191 posts)I recall various people who made claims of private conversations with Trump admitting to various schemes. The people making the claims toured the talk shows to get repeated 15 minutes of fame however the alleged recordings were never provided.
questionseverything
(11,508 posts)multigraincracker
(36,832 posts)so now its time for him to come clean on election fraud. He got him elected with $ and hacking the election. He can now bring him down.
proud patriot
(102,358 posts)I was thinking this very thing .
malaise
(292,125 posts)I remain doubting malaise. Pretending to trust these effin criminals is stupidity.
Dave says
(5,310 posts)NJCher
(42,287 posts)was that he won the election.
This is what you would have to believe if you thought he won fairly.
MorbidButterflyTat
(4,087 posts)That had to be the fat felon's idea. "Make me win every swing state, Elon!"
IMO, the "conspiracy theory" is that the orange criminal DIDN'T cheat. Also, stupid.
tritsofme
(19,765 posts)I hear shes looking for work!
Chemical Bill
(3,026 posts)is, as they say, enough to warrant hand counted recounts.
I don't understand why people don't want a check on automated ballot counting.
Blue Full Moon
(3,109 posts)Fits with the findings of the Commission on Federal Election Reform. Those wonderful counting computers. The tabulators are easily hacked.
Irish_Dem
(79,271 posts)Blue Full Moon
(3,109 posts)MichMan
(16,514 posts)Nothing is preventing any state on its own from doing a complete hand count if they so desire.
Other than the significant expense of course.
Chemical Bill
(3,026 posts)fought tooth and nail to prevent hand counted recounts in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan in 2016. They succeeded. Even though the recounts were paid for.
MichMan
(16,514 posts)All three of those states have Democratic Governors and other elected officials.
What is stopping those three, and for that matter the other 47 states, from having a hand recount if they wanted?
Chemical Bill
(3,026 posts)I believe that only a candidate can request a recount. Then the candidate has to pay for it. This is why some of us are disappointed that Vice President Harris didn't request a recount. I would have pitched in some money.
Mountainguy
(2,145 posts)Same arguments the Rs made about 2020.
We. Lost.
NJCher
(42,287 posts)"exact same." Not even close.
Did they have statisticians? No. They had Rudy.
Did they have data analysts? No. They just lied with no back up.
tritsofme
(19,765 posts)No different for the 2024 election denier crowd.
NJCher
(42,287 posts)Here's just one of the bios for someone on the Smart Elections team:
Mr. Smith serves on the Technical Advisory Team for SMART Elections. He was featured in a PBS News Hour segment on What election officials think about paper ballots and voting machines. He is best known for his proof of concept research examining election system vulnerabilities. It was covered by Bloomberg in its Cyber Security Segment and he was profiled in a cover story by Bloomberg Businessweek. He is currently a Tennessee Elections Commissioner, as well as a software developer who works in analytics and innovation.
Smith has developed expansive business and technical skills throughout his career. In government, as a liaison between elected officials and IT, Smith was a software developer maintaining City of Memphis applications for the Traffic Violations Bureau, Memphis Police and Internal Affairs.
He developed applications for lender auditing at First Tennessee Bank, and production metrics at International Paper.
The other bios are just as impressive, if not more.
Just curious: what's in it for you to lie about this?
tritsofme
(19,765 posts)Trumps people had randos with credentials, spouting nonsense too.
Why is it that the real experts on Republican election shenanigans, like Marc Elias, have rejected these ridiculous conspiracy theories?
Is Kamala complicit in the steal? The cover-up? If its so obvious, why didnt her team, with limitless resources, figure it out?
NJCher
(42,287 posts)"rando" with credentials.
I'm asking the questions here. Not you.
tritsofme
(19,765 posts)to find an equivalent random person with vaguely relevant credentials.
But I certainly understand why you dont want to engage on why someone like Elias rejects your silly conspiracy theory!
NJCher
(42,287 posts)get current.
And you can't provide one with relevant credentials.
Discussion over. You lose.
tritsofme
(19,765 posts)Elias: There was not fraud
questionseverything
(11,508 posts)There were hundreds of bomb threats called in that stopped voting in democratic precincts over and over.
Or why he wouldnt mention the voting machines going down in Apache county keeping people waiting for hours.
The voting machine companies have proprietary software that doesnt allow anyone to verify how the votes are counted
tritsofme
(19,765 posts)The fact that actual credible individuals in this field, like Elias, dont give these ridiculous conspiracy theories any credence, ought to give you pause when embracing this sort of nonsense.
questionseverything
(11,508 posts)Voting machines and reporting systems are just computers and a good hacker can make a computer give any result they want
Volkswagon and now tesla have both been caught altering mileage through software same thing can easily happen with voting software
Exactly what is your argument for believing in results no citizen got to oversee? Besides the insultingly conspiracy theory thing and the insulting grifter thing?
tritsofme
(19,765 posts)Four years ago.
Why do you suppose folks like Elias, or even Harris herself, have not embraced these conspiracy theories?
questionseverything
(11,508 posts)Why dont you explain why you believe in software programming no citizens are allowed to oversee
But ty for the bump
tritsofme
(19,765 posts)questionseverything
(11,508 posts)According to you though that should not have happened?
tritsofme
(19,765 posts)questionseverything
(11,508 posts)Accurate, transparent results are exactly what I am talking about
tritsofme
(19,765 posts)and all of the proper laws were followed.
There was no state in 2024 that was as close as the Franken race, but just the same, all laws regarding recounts were followed.
Talking about Franken is completely irrelevant.
questionseverything
(11,508 posts)Hillary lost Wisconsin by about 22,000 votes, Harris lost by just under 30,000 votes
Thats less than 7 votes a precinct (average) and some of those precincts literally have hundreds of undervotes
As long as we rely on computers and electronic software systems we will never really know if we won or not, democracy demands transparency
tritsofme
(19,765 posts)Because they are really bad at their jobs?
Or were they complicit in covering it up too?
questionseverything
(11,508 posts)tritsofme
(19,765 posts)That would necessarily mean they are complicit in the cover-up
questionseverything
(11,508 posts)Im not saying anyone knows the election was stolen
My point is always the same, we, the American public deserve open transparent election counts and that can only be done with hand counting paper ballots and a tight chain of custody
Since the brooks brothers riots we have seen republicans trying to stop legitimate election counts and unfortunately for a lot of people that quiets them
then toss in some one calling names and being hurtful that silences more people
No one can see inside the computer
NJCher
(42,287 posts)Example: Rockland County.
None of their cases went forward. Trump lost 60 cases. No comparison whatsoever.
Snip of what was posted at X:
The Rockland County, NY election interference case has moved forward. The lawsuit by election security and advocacy organization SMART Elections seeks a hand recount on U.S. Senate and White House election races in Rockland County. This could trigger an annulment of the 2024 election results. -
@AP
from Hunter Cullen.
madville
(7,834 posts)Thats not going to change any swing states or even the results in NY, why arent they focusing in an area where it might actually make a difference?
One county in a Blue state being sloppy or having defective equipment isnt indicative of a nationwide election fraud conspiracy. How is that going to trigger a nationwide recount of a certified election and overturn it.
Its over, this is just false hope.
it clearly says in the reports surrounding it that it could up-end it.
madville
(7,834 posts)Are going to reverse the entire Presidential election? Ok
.
Key Findings:
Sworn voter affidavits reveal missing ballots
District 39 (Exhibit A): Nine voters signed sworn statements saying they cast ballots for Diane Sare in the U.S. Senate race. The Rockland County Board of Elections recorded just five votes - a nearly 50% shortfall.
District 62 (Exhibit B): Five voters said they voted for Sare; the Rockland County Board of Elections recorded three - a 40% deficit.
https://www.wjbf.com/business/press-releases/accesswire/1033393/retransmission-2024-presidential-and-senate-results-called-into-question-as-lawsuit-advances/
NJCher
(42,287 posts)by the way you wrote this that you are not only unfamiliar with the court process but what might happen as a result. Also, you have more reading to do.
Back to the drawing board.
NJCher
(42,287 posts)Now, go out and find a comparable one from the rw election deniers. If I don't see one, I'll conclude you cannot make your case:
https://electiontruthalliance.org/mebane-pa-working-paper
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Dr. Walter R. Mebane Jr. (University of Michigan)
Dr. Walter R. Mebane, Jr. is a leading U.S. expert in election forensics and detecting election fraud. He is a professor of political science and statistics at the University of Michigan.
On May 6, 2025, Dr. Mebane shared an updated version of a working report titled "eforensics Analysis of Three Pennsylvania Counties in the 2024 Presidential Election" with the Election Truth Alliance (ETA) and provided our team with written permission to share it on our website. The working report analyzes the same three counties in Pennsylvania previously examined by the ETA using different methods of analysis.
This page contains three key sections:
High-Level Summary of Dr. Mebane's working report, which was drafted by the ETA team. It is informed by the working report, as well as conversations and written exchanges with Dr. Mebane. It is intended to help communicate his high-level findings to a broader audience.
Expert Overview - "Walter R. Mebane, Jr & eforensics Model" (May 7, 2025) by the ETA Team. Provides a brief overview of Dr. Mebane's key writings on election forensics, as well as a plain-language characterization of his eforensics model.
Mebane's Working Paper - "eforensics Analysis of Three Pennsylvania Counties in the 2024 Presidential Election" (May 6, 2025) by Walter R. Mebane J.r, a working report analyzing Philadelphia, Allegheny, and Erie county results from the 2024 U.S. Presidential election.
Self Esteem
(2,248 posts)Maybe we're not so different after all.
Chemical Bill
(3,026 posts)There were hand counted recounts in 2020 which proved that those states had fair elections. Nothing like that was done in 2024, or 2016 for that matter.
Mountainguy
(2,145 posts)They would show the same results and it still wouldn't be enough to satisfy the conspiracy theorists.
questionseverything
(11,508 posts)Biden still won but votes were found that were not previously recorded
Chemical Bill
(3,026 posts)we would still have voter purges in Democratic areas, longer waits in Democratic areas, and those bomb scares that shut polling places in Democratic areas. These are all serious issues that effected the outcome of the election. Without those issues, as well as the Republican corporate media, we would have had a different winner.
However, statistical analysis publicized by Election Truth Alliance suggests that hand counts alone would give a different count, with a different winner. Perhaps the lying media, the crooked state run elections, and the bomb scares originating in Russia, weren't enough to give Trump the victory without programming the tabulators to cheat as well. I would want that possibility to be ruled out so we can concentrate on eliminating the other factors.
Mountainguy
(2,145 posts)Chemical Bill
(3,026 posts)I feel like it has made a big difference in our country.
MorbidButterflyTat
(4,087 posts)RANDYWILDMAN
(3,126 posts)The data matters and they data shows a pattern in the swing states and no repubs have never ever had data that says they were cheated !
All the Data says Al Gore won
the SC can go fuck themselves, because they picked a loser and stuck with it.
the data is what matters....
edhopper
(37,000 posts)When and if the reveal anything.
lees1975
(6,888 posts)was stolen. He was telling us, over and over and over and over exactly how he was going to steal it in 2024.
We made it hard to come back with the claim, on our side, that he did indeed steal it. Our leadership said "We've got it," but they fell asleep at the wheel. They didn't have it and he stole it.
Jacson6
(1,728 posts)Just like Biden won the 2020 election fair and square.
Ponietz
(4,226 posts)NOT ONE DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR, SECRETARY OF STATE, OR ATTORNEY GENERAL supports this bullshit. Youre doing exactly what MAGA wants you to do.
90 million people sat on their asses and didnt vote. This theory absolves all the mewling my vote doesnt matter betas.
questionseverything
(11,508 posts)The rules seem to be different from one group to the next
Ponietz
(4,226 posts)questionseverything
(11,508 posts)She and her team considered it until they found the ne corner of Wisconsin had practically no paper ballots to count, afterwards she stressed the need for paper ballots everywhere
So i can handle being in tune with what Hillary tried to tell us
Ponietz
(4,226 posts)While all people are innately driven to find meaning in their lives, this subconscious desire pulls some people to conspiracy theories and dangerous belief systems.
After an extensive review of psychological research, renowned social psychologist Arie Kruglanski and journalist Dan Raviv show how people's need for 'significance' propels our actions, governs our feelings, and dominates our thoughts in their new book "The Quest for Significance".
"Experts on human motivation contend that all people share the same set of basic needs, and everything people do, try to attain, or avoid is in the service of satisfying one or more of those basic needs," they explain.
"The need for significance and mattering is one such preeminent basic need that all people have."
Drawing on both academic, peer-reviewed research and the personal experiences of the authors, including Kruglanski's childhood in Poland during the Holocaust, the authors explore how this need for meaning can motivate people towards harmful and even violent actsincluding believing conspiracy theories. They also suggest that self-awareness is key to how people can avoid becoming susceptible.
The authors spotlight factors that make modern society "fraught with uncertainty," from financial chaos to the Ukraine war, the rise of authoritarians, and global health crises.
questionseverything
(11,508 posts)Ponietz
(4,226 posts)I also believe Nevadas Secretary of State is a Democrat. I believe neither makes a vote tampering claim, and that the OP is harmful to the Democratic Party.
questionseverything
(11,508 posts)Hurts democracy
Cuthbert Allgood
(5,339 posts)If you self identify with that statement, that's on you.
questionseverything
(11,508 posts)He is saying that makes me a ct?
Let me ask you why wouldnt we have that right?
As stalin said, who votes doesnt matter, only who counts the votes
Cuthbert Allgood
(5,339 posts)No state is reporting errors. No state supports what is in the OP. What the OP posted sounds no different than what we heard from Rudy and Pillow Man.
We don't need to become MAGA 2.0.
questionseverything
(11,508 posts)4 swing states all flip for trump and have thousands more votes in the senate races than the presidential races
When there is a high undervote in the top race it should be looked at closely because usually the top ticket gets the most votes with totals falling off as you go down the ballot
But they have gone way past that and dove into neighborhoods, got sworn affidavits about how people voted that prove the results posted are incorrect
And they show every piece of evidence
Not like rudy
Cuthbert Allgood
(5,339 posts)And the logical explanation has always been that people didn't give a shit about the Presidential race. That they were tired of it. That they disliked both candidates. Occum's razor doesn't point to some conspiracy that this random guy figured out how to game the system. And if he DID figure out how to game it, why didn't he swing some of the other races that would have helped him?
Be better than MAGA.
questionseverything
(11,508 posts)Stood in line, to not vote for president because they didnt give a shit and no one should bother looking because people figured that out
Ty for the bump
Chemical Bill
(3,026 posts)like the gerrymandered ones that let Republicans control the house with a minority of votes, right?
Georgia has a law that any person can challenge any voter's registrations. A handful of people (Republicans) challenged many thousands of voters in Democratic areas, resulting in disqualifications that probably changed the outcome of the vote.
And no state has state employees who program the tabulators that sum up the machine totals. We rely on private companies with proprietary software, so how could the states know to report errors without a hand count?
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kentuck
(115,033 posts)...across the country?
If he could communicate with passenger planes computers by satellite, why could he not do the same with voting machine computers?
Blue Full Moon
(3,109 posts)chouchou
(2,724 posts)Blue Full Moon
(3,109 posts)Last edited Thu Jun 5, 2025, 02:33 AM - Edit history (1)
Musk attacked EVMs that they can be hacked. He said "Anything can be hacked." He got into with India's Chandrasekhar. Chandrasekhar said " where they (USA) use regular computer platforms to build internet connected voting machines." "Indian EVMs are custom designed, secure and isolated from any network or media."
Trump signed an EO on 2/18/25 to "reign in" independent agencies. The Federal Election Commission in charge of campaign finance laws and the Election Assistance Commission that is in charge of EVMs intrigrity.
As a side the first EVMs came out in 1976. 1998 Trump was being investigated for Russian ties. The Taj Mahal casino broke anti-money laundering rules 106 times. The gamblers who cashed out $10,000 or more in a single day. The settlement was the largest fine the federal government gave a casino for violating the Bank Secrecy Act. They were laundering money using slot machines.
Ivanka secured trademarks for EVMs. She applied in 2016 and got them in 2019.
In 2024 Tina Peters was sentenced to 9 years of prison. She allowed a man to misuse a security card to access Mesa County election system and being deceptive about the man's identity. 3 counts of attempting to influence a public servant. 1 count of conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation. 1st degree official misconduct, violation of duty and failing to comply with the secretary of state. The man was affiliated with Mike Lindell. James Baker had brought up these concerns in the Commission. The issue was setting up the machines for the upcoming election what was focused on was the Big Lie.
Dr. Hugh Thompson, Florida Institute of Technology, " Tabulators are EASILY hacked, both before and after the election. Votes can be changed in as little as 60 seconds if someone has access to the machine. Therefore no, one other than poll workers should be allowed into the room where the Tabulator is located. Physically and securely transport the data from where the votes were cast to where they are counted rather than using a modem. Memory cards should be treated with the same security as a box of ballots or a Brink's truckload of money. Unlike transporting money there is No Way to know the content of the memory cards as they leave the polling stations, nor does the person receiving the data know what to expect so any tampering on the way cannot, in any way, be detected."
Dr. Avid Rubin, John Hopkins University, "Because of the myriad problems possible at every stage of the electronic voting process and the possibility that the software in the Tabulator might be faulty or even rigged, it is a good idea to reconcile the precinct counts by hand to check that the numbers that come out of the Tabulator,at the end of the process, match the actual precinct totals." Dr. Rubin led a team that analyzed code from Diebold and found flaws that basic training in secure code would prevent. " The only way vendors are going to produce auditable machines is if they are forced to." "We still don't have a process for ensuring that people writing the code of those machines know what they are doing, or are not malicious."
James Baker, "The greater threat to most systems is not from external hackers but from insiders who have direct access to the machines. Software can be modified maliciously before being installed into individual voting machines. There is no reason to trust insiders in the election industry any more than in other industries such as gambling, where sophisticated insider fraud has occurred despite extraordinary measures to prevent it."
Back to Trump's 106 times of money laundering.
BlueTsunami2018
(4,815 posts)And after pushing back so hard on them, wed look like hypocrites and idiots for saying the same thing about them when they actually did it.
Piss might be a dope but the P25 people and others behind this loooooong term fascist push are not. They know exactly what theyre doing and theyre very good at it.
ForgedCrank
(3,005 posts)Alex Jones would be proud of this effort. Q is apparently alive and well.