Editor’s Note — October 25, 2025 Update
In revisiting this piece, I found that several official and watchdog sources—particularly those from early 2025—had been scrubbed or relocated. I’ve updated every citation with either an archived copy or a verified mainstream replacement to keep the record intact. The facts haven’t changed. Only the links have.
An earlier version cited “Smart Elections, Arizona Maricopa County CVR Tabulator Data.” That exact page is no longer accessible, and the publicly available dataset is Smart Elections’ Drop-Off by County: Arizona Data (2024). The citation has been revised to reflect the verified source.
October 19, 2025
A Clown with Stolen Power
By the time the government stumbled into another shutdown on October 1, 2025, the No Kings movement had already been organizing for months. These protests weren’t spontaneous or staged—they were planned long before the shutdown began. On October 18, more than 2,500 demonstrations took place across the United States, with solidarity rallies in cities abroad.
I attended the one in San Francisco. It was peaceful, determined, and grounded in a shared belief that democracy still matters. Many participants carried handmade cardboard signs—proof against the regime’s propaganda that protesters were “paid” or “staged.” The crowd included teachers, veterans, healthcare workers, students, and retirees. Their message was simple and direct: No Kings.
Most people I spoke with were anti-fascist, anti-Trump, and deeply worried about the upcoming 2026 midterms. Several said they believed irregularities took place in the 2024 election, but the next sentence was always the same: “What can we do? It’s been certified. Neither party seems to care.”
That resignation is exactly what this regime depends on. While citizens rallied for democracy, the Senate turned the shutdown into partisan theater— Republicans blaming Democrats while federal workers went unpaid, furloughed, or quietly fired, the Hatch Act tossed aside like it never existed. Performative outrage on camera; policy sabotage behind closed doors.
The regime’s media allies will inevitably dismiss us as conspiracy theorists. They will ignore the data we present and attack the messengers—the independent researchers and watchdog groups who have done the work our official institutions refuse to do. But our strength does not come from their validation. It comes from the receipts: the public data, the sworn testimony, and the mathematical impossibilities that form an unassailable chain of evidence. This isn’t about partisan belief; it’s about forensic fact.
This is why proving 2024 still matters. Because when a stolen election becomes accepted history, everything built on top of it—the shutdowns, the propaganda, the hollow bipartisanship—becomes normalized.
On November 13, 2024, seven election-security veterans — Duncan Buell, David Jefferson, Chris Klaus, Peter Neumann, Marilyn Marks, John Savage, and William John Malik [1] — warned Kamala Harris that Dominion and ES&S systems were breached and urged immediate hand counts in the swing states. She didn’t act. She conceded. And that silence paved the way for Trump to stand at the United Nations on September 23, 2025, staggering through a speech where he claimed he had “ended seven wars,” sneering that other nations were “going to hell,” and blaming a broken teleprompter for his own incoherence [2] [3] [4]. He even managed to fold in a plug for his campaign hats.
There was no way to diminish this debacle as “fake news.” It happened in New York, broadcast live, with the entire world’s press documenting his incoherence in real time. American media couldn’t bury it; international outlets accentuated every line. The spectacle was global.
As Gavin Newsom wrote in his Substack note afterward:
“Trump’s teleprompter broke.
He told every other nation they are going to hell.
He bragged about violating international law.
He blamed climate change on immigrants.
He complained about the wind not blowing enough.
And made a plug for his campaign hats.
What a disgrace.”
But this wasn’t just embarrassment on the world stage. It was the culmination of decades of planning. The Heritage Foundation and others laid the groundwork: projecting chaos, normalizing authoritarianism, and maintaining control over the voting infrastructure. Every incoherent speech he delivers is only possible because the same compromised voting systems that delivered him power in 2024 are still in place. His presence in that chamber—his ability to humiliate the nation before the world—rests on a foundation of stolen votes.
North Carolina, Ohio, Nevada, and Florida tell the story in four acts: the prototype, the uniform pattern, the forensic proof, and the system that never reformed. Together, they show how Trump didn’t win. He was installed, and the cost of letting him stay is measured not in sound bites but in the collapse of democracy itself.
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North Carolina: The Prototype
North Carolina’s 2024 election was run on machines the state itself admitted were insecure. 93 of 100 counties — representing over 92% of voters — used ES&S systems that had not undergone full certification testing [6]. Worse, those machines included the ExpressVote, which had already been the subject of a lawsuit alleging it could be miscoded, hacked, or silently altered to steal votes. The case was dismissed, but no fixes were made.
The Election Truth Alliance’s (ETA, a nonpartisan election monitoring organization) analysis found the drop-off difference in NC screamed red flags: Democrats consistently did better down-ballot than at the presidential level — an inversion of normal voting behavior [6]. Drop-off votes refer to the gap between votes cast for president and votes cast for other races on the same ballot—when voters supposedly skip the top of the ticket but vote for everything else. That means Harris underperformed her own party’s governor and attorney general candidates, while Trump’s totals were inexplicably inflated.
Add to that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s last-minute exit, which forced counties to destroy nearly 3 million ballots and reprint everything weeks before Election Day. Machines had to be recoded on a rushed timeline. Ballots were late to overseas and military voters. The chaos created a perfect opening for digital manipulation exactly the kind of environment where ghost votes and suppression thrive.
The most common tactic to dismiss election irregularities is to attack the source. So, let’s be clear: the vulnerability of the ES&S ExpressVote system is not a theory from activists; it was the subject of active litigation. The state’s own decision to run an election on 93% uncertified machines is a matter of public record. When we point to the “drop-off difference” analyzed by the Election Truth Alliance, we are not asking you to trust them blindly. We are asking you to look at the official, certified results: why did the Democratic presidential candidate consistently underperform every other Democrat on the same ballot? This is not a minor statistical quirk; it is a fundamental inversion of voting behavior that demands a public explanation, one that has never been provided.
North Carolina wasn’t about chance. It was about proving you could run an entire swing state on uncertified machines, rush new ballots into circulation, and inflate GOP numbers without triggering audits. NC was the prototype.
Ohio: Uniform Where It Should Be Messy
Ohio wasn’t supposed to be close — which is exactly why no one looked. But ETA’s down-ballot charts tell a story that shouldn’t exist in any real election. In 2016 the scatter looked human: uneven, irregular, the kind of chaos millions of voters create. In 2024 the pattern flattened into straight lines. Harris underperformed Democrats across the board while Trump over-performed Republicans in nearly every county.
Smart Elections’ multi-state drop-off study backs that up. Of the seventeen states analyzed, Ohio ranked among the most extreme: Republican presidential drop-off exceeded +10 percent, while Democrats registered –5 percent or lower. That means tens of thousands more Trump voters “skipped” the Senate race than Harris voters — a mathematical impossibility if the ballots were genuine [7]. ETA’s own mapping of Ohio’s vote clusters described the same distortion: “unexpected uniformity of down-ballot difference,” a polite way of saying the results looked machine-generated [6].
The anomalies weren’t random; they followed the same fingerprint seen in other compromised states. Counties using ES&S DS200 and ExpressVote tabulators reported identical drop-off ratios across precincts — a level of precision no organic voting population produces. Meanwhile, the Cast Vote Records (CVRs) — the ballot-level digital receipts that could have confirmed or disproven manipulation — were never released to the public [8].
Ohio’s recount laws ensured the curtain stayed closed. Automatic recounts only trigger if the margin is 0.25 percent or less, and candidate-requested recounts must be filed within five business days of certification designed to run out the clock.
Ohio’s data doesn’t just raise suspicion; it completes the pattern. Uniformity where there should be randomness. Red lines where there should be scatter. And once again, no independent forensic audit allowed to prove what everyone can already see.
Nevada: The Smoking Gun in the Desert
If North Carolina was the lab, Nevada was the crime scene. Clark County, home to 70% of Nevada’s population, provided the clearest forensic evidence of tabulator manipulation in 2024.
The Cast Vote Record (CVR) data—the machine-generated record showing exactly how each ballot was scanned and counted—tells the story. Out of 1,033,285 votes in Clark County, the split was wildly different by voting method:
Mail-in ballots: Harris 61 percent (271,455) vs. Trump 36 percent (160,824)
Early votes: Harris 40 percent (156,705) vs. Trump 59 percent (234,231)
Election Day ballots: Harris 47 percent vs. Trump 50 percent
The anomaly is Early Voting. ETA’s scatterplot analysis found that once ~250 ballots were processed on a given tabulator, Trump’s totals suddenly spiked while Harris’s cratered. Instead of messy, random human voting patterns, the graphs collapsed into uniform clusters: machine after machine delivering near-identical results [9].
Smart Elections’ multi-state drop-off study backs it up: Nevada’s Republican presidential drop-off averaged +9.87 percent, while Democrats sat near flat [10]. In plain terms, thousands more “Trump voters” skipped the Senate race compared to Harris voters—a statistically absurd pattern that appeared in multiple swing states but was sharpest in Nevada.
Similar patterns and vulnerabilities appeared across other states — though not always in the same form. In Pennsylvania, ETA documented skewed scatterplots and unexplained ballot rejections [11][12]. In Georgia, a March 2024 cyberattack on Fulton County’s election systems exposed weaknesses in Dominion’s software months before the general election, raising alarms about the potential exploitation of those same tabulators in November 2024 [13][14]. Wisconsin showed inverted drop-off and voter-ID rejection trends that mirrored those seen elsewhere [15]. In Arizona’s Maricopa County, Smart Elections’ presidential-to-Senate drop-off data showed a negative Democratic drop-off rate—indicating fewer Democratic Senate votes than presidential votes—even when historical trends ran opposite [16]. Even California, often considered secure, logged unverified tabulator updates and elevated ballot-rejection rates during certification [17].
Nevada isn’t just irregular. It’s the smoking gun. The CVR data itself shows when and where the manipulation happened, down to the tabulator. This same tactics that surfaced in Clark County were perfected further east, where the infrastructure for manipulation had already been built over decades. Florida didn’t need a new playbook; it simply updated the old one.
Florida: The System That Never Reformed
Florida has always been the graveyard of American democracy. Twenty-five years after Bush v. Gore, the wound of 2000 never closed — it just got smarter, digital, and harder to trace. In 2024, the same machinery failed again, only this time with code instead of hanging ballots.
Impossible Turnout Numbers
According to This Will Hold (an investigative research collective), six Florida precincts exceeded 100% turnout in 2024. Palm Beach 1716 recorded 172%, with 382 votes cast from 222 registered voters. Miami-Dade 592 logged 250%, and four other precincts broke mathematical reality altogether [18].
Across Miami-Dade, Palm Beach, and St. Lucie Counties, ETA found Trump’s share of the vote climbing almost one-to-one with precinct turnout — a correlation that doesn’t exist in legitimate elections. Once turnout passed 60%, Trump dominated; below that, Harris led. Mail-in ballots showed no such pattern, proving the anomaly originated inside the in-person tabulation layer, not with voters themselves [18].
The Vendor Behind the Curtain
Behind those impossible numbers sits a vendor history straight out of a civics nightmare. VR Systems, Florida’s longtime contractor, issued 151 falsified vote-by-mail reports between June 2024 and March 2025, creating nearly 600,000 “No-No” voter-record flags statewide [19]. In VR Systems’ software, a “No-No” status means a voter is tagged as having no ballot sent and none returned—a placeholder that should later change once a ballot is mailed. But in these falsified reports, legitimate voters were left frozen in that status, as if they’d never been mailed a ballot at all. Those flags marked thousands of eligible citizens as “undeliverable” or “ineligible,” effectively erasing them from participation before Election Day.
At the same time, ECO 1188 — a last-minute software “update” rubber-stamped by Pro V&V — stripped out cryptographic safeguards in ES&S tabulators, leaving the back end open for manipulation [20]. Florida certified those machines anyway.
Targeted Suppression
The numbers don’t lie. A Civil Rights Commission study documented that 14.3 percent of Black in-person votes in Florida were rejected in 2024 [21]. Nearly one in seven Black voters who showed up were tossed out of democracy like they didn’t exist. This isn’t clerical error; this is targeted suppression. Greg Palast the investigative journalist who has spent years exposing Florida’s voter-purge machine — from “felon” lists to “citizenship” challenges — documented that 2024 was no different [22].
The Recount Trap
If you think recounts could have saved it, think again. Florida law is a trap by design:
Automatic recounts only trigger when the margin is 0.5% or less
Candidate-requested recounts must be filed within three business days of certification — basically impossible when it takes weeks for anomalies like over-turnout or mass rejections to surface
The state’s so-called “audits” are token samples of ballots, never binding, that can’t overturn anything no matter what they find [8]
What we saw in 2024 wasn’t an accident. It was the rerun of 2000, only more sophisticated. Instead of paper ballots with hanging chads, we got missing ballots floating off the Florida coast in 2020 — and by 2024, we got ghost ballots and code-level tampering. Instead of butterfly ballots, we got ECO 1188 and voter purges. Instead of a Supreme Court coronation, we got silence from Democrats pretending the theft was “free and fair.”
The result was the same: power handed to the wrong man and a nation told to look away — nothing to see here. Florida proves the point — democracy was strangled. The wound never healed because the people in charge never wanted it to.
What happened in North Carolina, Ohio, Nevada, and Florida wasn’t isolated. The same statistical fingerprints appeared in Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, Arizona, and even California—none of which have ever faced a full forensic audit.
Closing: The Chain of Proof
The chain of proof we have laid out does not rely on a single theory or a secret whistleblower. It is built on a convergence of evidence from multiple states, multiple analysts, and multiple types of data—from uncertified machines and impossible turnout to CVRs showing digital manipulation and targeted laws designed to block accountability. They can try to dismiss each piece in isolation, but they cannot explain the whole picture. North Carolina, Ohio, Nevada, and Florida are not isolated incidents; they are chapters of the same story. The pattern is the proof.
North Carolina shows us the prototype. Ohio shows the uniform pattern. Nevada shows us the forensic fingerprints of manipulation. Florida shows us the system that never reformed. Together, they form an unbroken chain of evidence that Trump didn’t win in 2024. He stole power through broken machines, purges, and laws designed to block accountability.
This wasn’t a transfer of power. It was a coup.
Harris won. Trump lost.
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Sources
[1] Free Speech for People, “Letter to Vice President Kamala Harris,” Nov 13, 2024 (PDF):
https://freespeechforpeople.org
[2] Associated Press, “Trump repeats false claim at UN that he has ended 7 wars,” Sept 24, 2025:
https://apnews.com/article/trump-united-nations-wars-settled-end-claims
[3] Reuters, “Who stopped the UN escalator? Likely Trump’s videographer, says UN,” Sept 24, 2025:
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/who-stopped-un-escalator-likely
[4] The Guardian, “Trump tells UN nations they are ‘going to hell’ in combative speech,” Sept 23, 2025:
https://www.theguardian.com
[5] Gavin Newsom, Substack Note, Sept 23, 2025:
https://substack.com/%40gavinnewsom/note/c-159244354
[6] Election Truth Alliance, North Carolina 2024 Data Analysis Report:
https://electiontruthalliance.org/analysis/north-carolina/ long form
[7] Smart Elections, “Drop-Off by County,” 2024:
https://smartelections.us/drop-off-by-county
[8] Verified Voting, Audits and Recounts: A State-by-State Summary, Nov 2024: https://verifiedvoting.org
[9] Election Truth Alliance, Clark County, Nevada CVR Analysis: https://electiontruthalliance.org/analysis/clark-county-nevada/
[10] Smart Elections, “Drop-Off Statewide Nevada Data,” 2024:
https://smartelections.us/drop-off-by-county
[11] Election Truth Alliance, “Pennsylvania 2025 Scatterplot Data Overview,” April 14, 2025 Page 33: https://electiontruthalliance.org/
Smart Elections, PA Drop-Off By County Spreadsheet 2024, https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/
[12] “Philadelphia Declined Ballots Spreadsheet,” Nov 11, 2024:
https://vote.phila.gov/news/2024/10/08/2024-general-election-unverifiable-identification-undeliverable-and-or-potentially-flawed-ballots/
[13] Associated Press, “Fulton County cyberattack disrupts election systems,” March 1, 2024: https://apnews.com
(Originally cited from the Election Truth Alliance Georgia and Fulton County System Failures Summary, Jan 2025, which was later removed from electiontruthalliance.org.)
[14] Coalition for Good Governance, Press Release: CGG Responds to Court Ruling on Georgia’s Voting System Security, Apr 1 2025:
PRESS-RELEASE--CGG-Responds-to-Court-Ruling-on-Georgia-s-Voting-System-Security
See also: Today’s SEB Meeting — The Facts about the OCR Ballot Image Audit, Dec 11 2024:
Today-s-SEB-Meeting--The-Facts-about-the-OCR-Ballot-Image--Audit
[15] Smart Elections, Drop-Off by County: Wisconsin Data (2024 General Election), updated 2025:
https://smartelections.us/dropoff
Raw data spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets
(This dataset compares presidential-to-Senate drop-off rates and identifies Wisconsin among the states showing statistically irregular voting patterns.)
[16] Smart Elections, Drop-Off by County: Arizona Data (2024), published 2024, updated 2025:
https://smartelection/dropoff
(Dataset includes Arizona precinct-level presidential-to-Senate vote comparisons; raw data available via Google Sheets: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets)
[17] Election Truth Alliance, “California’s Concerning Red Shift,” June 2025:
https://electiontruthalliance.org
[18] This Will Hold, “172% of Voters Cast Ballots in Palm Beach Precinct 1716? Now That’s Some Fuzzy Math,” 2025:
[19] This Will Hold, “She Won, Part X: VR Systems, 151 Fake Reports,” 2025:
[20] The Common Coalition Report, May 14, 2025:
https://www.commoncoalition.com
[21] The Gainesville Iguana, “What Really Went Wrong in 2024: If All Legal Voters Were Allowed to Vote, Harris Would Have Won the Presidency,” Feb 2025:
https://gainesvilleiguana.org
[22] Greg Palast, “Trump Lost. Vote Suppression Won,” for the Hartmann Report June 16, 2025: https://www.gregpalast.com/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won
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Ok. I agree. Fantastic data and it's great you included references in the report.
But, here we are on Substack. Your data is presented with the zeal of someone who has found what they were looking for. Not a problem here, but in the otherworld it's not flying yet.
Embedded in your presentation is data analyzed by an algorithm suggested by common sense, which of course provides favorable stats. That's nice data. and might do well with different explaining.
The same data and the same conclusions could be published in a journal of widespread and non-ideological reputation, such as a statistics research or political science journal of some sort; or, even something with an ideological bent, like Atlantic, The Nation, and so forth. Or both. Mainstream Libertarians are sick of Trump, and one of their rags might even pick it up.
The presentation of the data would depend upon the publication, and it would be ideal to be seconded by an impartial reviewer. Just saying.
Great message. Keep trying. Thanks.
I have a hard time getting my head around why the powers that be are not interested in pursuing a recount. It can’t hurt anything to ask. I realize it’s a big effort but putting all our eggs in one basket for 2026 seems really naive and short sighted when the republicans have shown time and time again they will go to any lengths to get what they want. You can bet money they don’t plan to loose 2026.