15 points | by Crayfish3348 3 hours ago ago

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  • Crayfish3348 3 hours ago

    A bullet ballot is when a voter casts a vote for president and makes no other selections on the ballot, such as for a senator or congressperson ("down-ballot" voting). A bullet ballot contains one vote and one vote only, for president. In presidential races since 1980, bullet ballots have rarely accounted for more than 1% of the total votes, including Trump’s winning 2016 election and losing 2020 election. 2024 is different.

    In the election this month, for 43 states, bullet ballots made up the typical >1%. In the seven swing states however, 600,000 votes for Donald Trump were bullet ballots. In NC alone, 350K votes for Trump were bullet ballots or drop-off votes, comprising 11% of Trump’s winning total. In AZ, such votes comprised 7.2% of Trump’s total. In NV, 5.5%.

    Trump's sweep of all seven swing states has resulted in a computer entrepreneur named Stephen Spoonamore saying that the numbers demand scrutiny. He cites an open letter to Kamala Harris, signed by computer experts, also pointing out the historically unprecedented numbers and asking that officials recount the votes to verify the results.

    The deadline for requesting a recount in NC is today Nov 19 at 5PM Eastern Standard Time.

  • convolvatron 2 hours ago

    I find it very odd that in the middle of the analysis, the author calls for at least 1, but likely 3-5 program managers. is that really a high order bit here - the amount of program management capacity?

    • Crayfish3348 2 hours ago

      It might depend upon how much real-time attention would be needed by the alleged hackers, on voting day.

      "With the ePollbooks connected to the internet, it would have been possible to hack into the system and, using voter profiles of each registered voter who had been checked into a polling station, determine which candidate was gaining in each state. In the final hours, it would have then been possible, using the secondary pollbook created by the $1 million sweepstake, to determine which Trump voters had not shown up and mark enough of them on the ePollbook as having voted. These become the bullet ballots."

      https://www.planetcritical.com/p/cyber-security-experts-warn...

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