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She Won. They Didn't Just Change the Machines. They Rewired the Election. (thiswillhold.substack.com)

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This would be a lot more tinfoilesque were a court case on the matter not already underway in New York.

The missing votes uncovered in Smart Elections’ legal case in Rockland County, New York, are just the tip of the iceberg—an iceberg that extends across the swing states and into Texas.

On Monday, an investigator’s story finally hit the news cycle: Pro V&V, one of only two federally accredited testing labs, approved sweeping last-minute updates to ES&S voting machines in the months leading up to the 2024 election—without independent testing, public disclosure, or full certification review.

These changes were labeled “de minimis”—a term meant for trivial tweaks. But they touched ballot scanners, altered reporting software, and modified audit files—yet were all rubber-stamped with no oversight.

That revelation is a shock to the public.

But for those who’ve been digging into the bizarre election data since November, this isn’t the headline—it’s the final piece to the puzzle. While Pro V&V was quietly updating equipment in plain sight, a parallel operation was unfolding behind the curtain—between tech giants and Donald Trump.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Your hurricane analogy doesn’t hold because the point isn’t that a bunch of unrelated events magically lined up, it’s that the same anomalies showed up in the same voting systems, in multiple places, under almost identical conditions. The statistical models don’t treat these like random broken windows, they test how likely the same patterns could happen systematically without manipulation.

Pennsylvania is just the latest focus partly because Trump basically said it himself:

“We were in danger of losing Pennsylvania. But he knows those computers better than anybody, all those vote-counting computers. And we ended up winning Pennsylvania like in a landslide. So, thank you to Elon.”

What does that even mean if it’s not hinting at interference?

And it’s not just Pennsylvania. There is detailed analysis for Clark County, Nevada, drop-off rate studies covering six states, and ongoing work expanding that to eleven more full states.

More importantly, this is not just about statistics. In Coffee County, Georgia, Trump lawyer Sidney Powell actually hired a tech team to access and copy Dominion voting system software and data. There is security footage, emails, invoices, and sworn testimony proving it happened. Powell was indicted for conspiracy to commit computer crimes and ended up pleading guilty to multiple counts, admitting what they did and agreeing to testify against others.

This was not a one-off either. Similar breaches happened in Michigan and Colorado, which is why in December 2023 almost two dozen well-known election security experts and computer scientists signed an open letter warning that Trump allies were behind a coordinated multistate effort to breach voting software that runs most of the country’s ballots.

It’s always projection with these people; if they’re accusing the other side of doing something, chances are they’re the ones doing it. It’s like your daft cousin who keeps yelling “Stop cheating!” during a board game while he’s got extra cards hidden up his sleeve. They think the Democrats are rigging the election, so they’re busy rigging it themselves to tilt the scales their way.

So it really doesn’t matter if you personally believe every detail or not. The point is there is so much credible evidence, with real people charged and pleading guilty, that we should be shouting about it until it gets a real, independent investigation.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 hours ago

I'm open to the idea that there might be something here, I just haven't seen anything particularly compelling, it's all been very typical conspiracy theory stuff. The Trump lawyer thing I did hear about, I don't remember anything about actually changing results though, just unauthorized access. Trump saying something suspicious, well, he says a lot of stuff. The drop off rates being different between the two candidates seems sensible to me, I'd expect quite a few Trump voters to just care about Trump and not the rest of the races, and less so on the Democratic side. It's the reason turnout now seems to help Republicans, they've won over a lot of unreliable voters and Trump brings them out better than most. A coordinated, multi-state conspiracy to rig the election seems very unlikely to stay completely airtight for over a year.

Is there a source that specifically claims that these anomalies are happening in states using the same voting system and not in others? I haven't seen that in anything linked to me so far, and that would be at least interesting.