A voting-security expert seeks a recount to show Kamala Harris won the 2024 election. But he needs Harris' help because she suffered damages that give her standing in court. But Harris isn't helping. Why?

Stephen Spoonamore (TikTok)

One of the nation's foremost voting-security experts says a hand recount "would most likely show" Kamala Harris won the 2024 election over "president-elect" Donald Trump. In essence, Stephen Spoonamore is well on his way to solving perhaps the most grave crime in American history -- a malicious hacking job that ensured the 2024 race would be "willfully compromised," giving Trump a "victory" he did not win and depriving Harris of her rightful place as America's next president .

Spoonamore, however, has a problem: Most state's require that the candidate, the one who directly suffered damages, giving him or her legal standing, must fully participate in the election-challenge process. And so far, Harris, inexplicably, is not participating. 

In a letter released yesterday, Spoonamore expressed his dismay, disgust, worry, even sadness (with a touch of bitterness), that Harris (at this moment) does not appear willing to fight for democracy, that neither she nor a surrogate has contacted him so that he and his sizable team can get started on the serious work that must be done to ensure an imposter president (Trump) does not wrongfully take office, toss democracy aside like a bag of trash, and institute an authoritarian government, with him fulfilling his stated goal to act outside our constitution and the rule of law to establish a dictatorship that likely will be based on his whims and personal grievances -- even though we have yet to see him produce a shred of evidence that any of his perceived enemies have actually wronged him. Here is Spoonamore's letter, and one can only wonder what Harris and her advisers are thinking by not engaging with Spoonamore and his team. She had the talent and will to run a gaffe-free campaign, raising record-breaking sums of money, but now she doesn't have the courage to fight for the presidency she likely won? Was she a phony all along. I hate to think that might be the case, but I can't discount it at the moment.

Spoonamore's letter starts immediately below, and you can hear the grief for his country wash over him as you read the words. My prayer is that he will have reason to take on a joyous tone in the very near future -- and we will have reason to know that Kamala Harris really is the kind of person many of us thought she was -- the kind who offered up a "joyous" form of government, filled with hope for America's future. If Donald Trump, and his dark vision for the future, take over . . . I'm not sure America has a future. Here is how the situation stands now, in Stephen Spoonamore's own words:

An Update on getting a Recount for 2024.

No Kamala. No recount at scale. She is the harmed party in the court's eyes.

Stephen Spoonamore

Nov 20, 2024

 

In short, if Kamala Harris does not engage in demanding a recount in the next 48 hours, it will not happen at scale. On a deep and fundamental level, I don’t think she nor the people around her fully understand the scale of abandonment, and permanent loss of trust that will result. Shame. Shame on anyone in power who claims to love democracy. Shame will surround you like the stench of a rotting limb. I hope it wakes you in your sleep from time to time.

From our citizens, we have 100s of individuals now organized and finding dozens of places we could direct her team to demand recounts. But again, in most states ONLY the candidate can demand large recounts. We are dogs who have followed the bones, but they are buried on the other side of a fence. Being dogs, we lack thumbs to open the gate. Kamala can open it. The whole team of smart dogs working over at SmartElections.us deserve a nod of thanks.

 

There is also more and more evidence which gobsmacks me:

* Russian Hacker groups infighting over who should get more credit for unmaking our Democracy. And Putin’s team calling publicly for Trump to pay up for the help.

* Photos of fundamentalist Christian Activists posing at election offices wearing T-Shirts emblazoned with firmware passwords to access the tabulation software.

* Cleta Mitchell saying the entire voting rights division of DOJ will be “fired” under Trump.

* Despite 60+ Russian bomb threats to our polling places and tabulation centers, none of our team members have been harmed.

* Confirmation that six of the seven swing states used tabulators with firmware access codes built in -- and unchanged since the last election or longer. In one case 14 years.

* Multiple people sending me chapters of Kamala’s 2019 book, in which she details how vulnerable voting machines are, and even worries Russia will change an outcome.

* There is enough laughing chatter at having pulled off the hacking of American democracy that folks over at ballotbounty.org have posted a reward for information on the hack. Good on them.

* Your book was dead-on correct, Kamala. You nailed it. The chapter lines up with reports and videos the whole security community has been involved in. Imagine my face while reading your discussion of a hacking demo, that … I helped develop. It’s great stuff, 100% correct in everything discussed, but, you don’t want to engage? Kamala, you literally wrote about this specific attack by Russia on an American Democratic election. Gobsmacked might not be a strong enough word for how I feel.

But here we are. If the candidate won’t act, we dogs must now find individual voters and file litigation down at the precinct level in the states which allow this. Some do, but not all. We will get some hand recounts in a few voter’s precincts. We will likely file in AZ, PA,  and MI. By law, we likely cannot file in WI, FL, NC, and NV. Only Kamala can. What we will get from our filings is a snapshot of what happened in a few precincts. We can’t file for a whole state. Nor even a whole county. We can file only in the specific voters' precincts. Even if we find in that precinct the race has the wrong totals, and that finding might indicate the state was wrongly called, we will not be able to expand our activity without Kamala.

If anyone knows how to get Kamala involved, please try. As far as any of us working on it know, she is not. And the rot of shame for some, I fear, will never go away.

 

On a personal note. My son is distressed by all this. He is 11 and afraid for some of his friends of what Trump’s lawless regime will do. He is also sad and upset we might move rather than stay where we are. We will watch the horror from afar, I have lived through several such episodes already. But he is upset because he loves his school. His neighborhood. His friends and his 11-year-old challenges and life. I have told him it will be OK. We had this conversation over dinner last night. More or less verbatim.

“…Sometimes you have to be brave and you can only be brave when the chance of losing is real. In my mind, being brave is trying to keep doing the right thing even as hope of it working out fades away. Fades to zero. If you don’t try, you are not brave.”

 

“Why won’t anyone else help?”

“Hundreds of people are helping.”

“But not Kamala Harris?”

“No. Or if she is, I have no idea how.”

“So, you're saying she is not brave.”

“Yes. I am. Which sucks. I guess at least this time she’s not. Which is a hard thing to say about someone.”

“That really sucks, Dad."

“Yup. And it makes me really sad. But no one can make decisions for anyone else, little man. We can make them only for ourselves. And then live with them.”

We talked about how it will be over in a few days either way. Either she shows up, and the big fight happens. Or she does not, and we do our tiny recounts. Either way it ends.

But if she doesn’t show up, the stench will be forever. It appears we all will live having seen what I believe is the greatest crime in all our lifetimes, bar none. We saw the crime, and almost no one above me cared enough to act. Damn. I will keep trying to do something as long and as far as I can, for I can live with losing. Facing off against Putin, Musk, Trump, and the Christain Right might be more stupid than brave. So be it. Either one of those is better than the stench of not engaging. I’m just wired that way.

If you live in PA, AZ or MI, know your precinct and county - later tonight I will post on all socials and here in comments where we are looking for plaintiffs. Step up if you are willing.

Onward.

Closing thoughts from Legal Schnauzer . . .   

If Kamala Harris was not brave enough to fully challenge a hacked election. she never should have assumed the top spot on the Democratic Party ticket when Joe Biden stepped aside. For now, it appears her campaign was an exercise in deceit, that she never had the backbone to be president in the first place. Will we soon learn differently? We can always hope, but we won't get far if that's all we have. I hate to say it, but I'm not holding my breath. Does Kamala think she isn't entitled to challenge a hacked election because Trump has made made so many baseless accusations of being "cheated"? Is her thinking that it's OK for a Republican to whine about cheat jobs that never really happened, but a Democrat can't challenge a cheat job that did happen -- via a malicious and intentional hack, perhaps by foreign actors? Is she afraid MAGAs might accuse her of hypocrisy? MAGAs are always stirred up and ranting about something -- and they aren't very smart or they would not be supporting Trump -- so you can't worry about people who, as a group, likely are infested with personality disorders, making them vulnerable to joining a cult. They clearly have terrible judgment, so forget about 'em. You have  way more important items on your to-do list. And the clock is ticking.

 

On a personal level from my end, it gnaws at me when I think of the hours I have spent writing blog posts about Harris clearly being the candidate we needed. And that was true. I still think she would make an excellent president. I also think of how many fundraising emails I received from Democrats -- Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, Tammy Baldwin (Wisconsin), Adam Schiff  (California) Gretchen Whitmer (Michigan) Sherrod Brown (Ohio), Bob Casey (Pennsylvania) Josh Shapiro (Pennsylvania) Jon Tester (Montana), Ron Wyden (Oregon), Kamala Harris herself, and many more I'm forgetting. I read each email in full; I have no problem with the people who asked for money, and I tried to help as best I could -- considering legal travails (caused mostly by Republican judges and a conservative Democrat lawyer or two) have put a dent in our finances. Chuck Schumer and I were almost pen pals for a time, and Hakeem Jeffries wanted to talk to me by phone. I'm so disgusted at the moment, I'm tempted to call both of them and demand a refund. And I don't know that I ever will give to a Democrat again. Since I wrote off Republicans long ago, I guess my days of political giving are over. That makes me sad, but some things are important enough to fight for, and this election is one of those things. That person who must fight, right now, is Kamala Harris. No one else can do it for her. If she won't do it, it doesn't speak well for her or those around her.