Security Expert Agrees Vote Tabulators Hacked
Update #2 | Election security pro Stephen Spoonamore confirms plot, explains
If you haven’t read the initial post,
I highly recommend reading that first ↓
Update #2
I came across detailed analysis from an election security professional who also concluded that the vote machines had been hacked:
Stephen Spoonamore is a tech entrepreneur and IT security expert currently living in Centre County, Pennsylvania. Spoonamore has a history of detecting and analyzing voting machine vulnerabilities and security breaches.
He is also politically active, having run as an independent candidate for District 1 of the Ohio House of Representatives in 2016.
History lesson:
On Election Day of the 2004 General Election, Spoonamore noticed inconsistencies in voting tallies in a handful of counties in Ohio. He identified it as a “man-in-the-middle” (MitM) attack—meaning a hacker connects a computer between two parties in a communication channel. His professional opinion is that county level tabulators had changed results during the night of the election, flipping votes from Democratic candidate John Kerry to incumbent President George W. Bush. Despite news media picking up on widespread allegations of voter fraud, Kerry declined to contest the results. Bush ultimately won Ohio, without which he would have lost his reelection bid.
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.”
He specified that the code “will have a WHEN function and IF/THEN functions to have the machine force balance to a given outcome within a specific window of time,” which would make the hack harder to detect during testing before the election.
“It is very simple to prove this,” Spoonamore added. “Take the two most outlandish precinct results from any county and just hand-count the ballots. They won't match the tabulation outputs.”
Spoonamore estimated that, on average 8–11% of ballots were being flipped from Kamala Harris to Donald Trump. He believes that the hack would have required the hackers to affect 300-500 tabulators of three types, which would require two years or more of preparations.
He also recommended checking voting precincts in heavy red areas, where it would be “easier to cover up” vote manipulation. He noted that this tactic was used in the 2004 Ohio hack.
About the bomb threats:
“Now, why the Bomb-Threats? They were NOT to allow for hacker access,” Spoonamore commented. Instead, “they were to break Chain of Custody and produce legal grounds to not trust a recount.”
What he’s saying is that the bomb threats created the plausible argument that ballots could have been tampered with during evacuations, thus any recounts could not be proven to be legitimate. Spoonamore anticipates that the Republican party will use this argument to prevent recounts.
“And finally, let me say again, this is a simple, stupid, easy to prove hack,” he concluded. “Hand Count most suspected 2 Precincts in each county. They won't match.”
In his Duty to Warn letter, Spoonamore concludes, “My professional opinion is: many thousands of voters are being disenfranchised, likely by a malicious actor via errors in tabulation software. My concern has been proven correct and warranted here in Centre County PA.”
My thoughts:
Spoonamore and I agree on the scope and methodology of the attack (specifically affecting mail-vote tabulators). After reading his post, I favor his deduction that the Russian bomb threats were called in to break the chain of command and create an argument against recounts rather than being used as a distraction to sneak in a hacker. His technical knowledge of the voting equipment has filled in an incredible amount of detail that confirms my initial suspicions.
Regarding the effort to get the word out about this hack, Spoonamore said, “I will lend any expertise if asked, but be aware these people are sociopaths who will kill you, they have done so to others, so act accordingly.”
Thank you for putting yourself in harm’s way again to speak truth to power, Mr. Spoonamore. Hopefully we can get the message out to those who have the power to act on it.
Donald Trump didn’t just steal the election, he stole America’s future. And it will stay that way unless we do something about it.
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