A hand recount would "most likely show" Vice President Kamala Harris won the 2024 presidential election, according to a "duty to warn" letter to Harris from voting-integrity expert Stephen Spoonamore. Further, Spoonamore states: "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."
News of Spoonamore's missive comes on the heels of our post yesterday about a similar letter from Duncan Buell, Ph.D., chair emeritus and NCR chair of computer science and engineering at the University of South Carolina.
Our focus today in Part Two is on Spoonamore's letter to Harris, in which he states: "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 Spoonamore letter begins below, with certain sections highlighted in yellow, with sections of particularly high interest highlighted in blue. In my view, this is one of the most important documents in modern American history, with the American democracy hanging in the balance against an authoritarian form of government, likely an attempted dictatorship, favored by President-Elect Donald Trump. Spoonamore asks this central question: Given the obvious signs of hacking, did Trump actually win the election and did Harris actually lose it? In other words, who is America's real president-elect at this moment in 2024. Spoonamore suggests no one can know without a thorough investigation of the election's vote-tabulation processes, and he urges Harris to move in that direction. Here is the "duty to warn" letter, and we urge Americans of all political stripes to read it carefully. It appears to be the closest thing we have, for now, to an analysis of how the 2024 election went off the rails -- to the benefit of Donald Trump and his allies in the Republican Party:
Duty to Warn Letter - to VP Harris - Re: Election 2024
(Revised 430PM)
Stephen Spoonamore
Nov 15, 2024
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. (Spoonamore's first letter was to Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, and that state now is conducting a hand recount in the U.S. Senate race between Democrat Bob Casey and Republican Dave McCormick.)
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.
https://freespeechforpeople.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/letter-to-vp-harris-111324.pdf
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 runaway
winner and had no need to add votes. In the case of Oregon, Ms. Harris
was a runaway 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 more than 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 to 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 addresses, this would allow
for building a pool of ghost voters who could logically be marked for
fake ballots, structured in a manner that 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 eight weeks ago, the world watched a vastly larger and more complicated
one. Unknown hackers intercepted more than 3,000 communication 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 cannot 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
Stephen 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.)
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