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Of course they are.
Nobody bothered to investigate how Donald Trump stole the 2024 presidential election, despite multiple prominent Computer Scientists and statisticians begging them to investigate bullet ballots in swing counties that usually total under .5% suddenly jumping to 9-12% with literally no earthly explanation that wasn't 'foul play'.
Why wouldn't they steal the Mid-terms? Especially after fucking over so many republicans to the point where it wouldn't be a blue wave, it would be a goddamn apocalyptic tidal wave for the GOP.
It's not like they have a member of the doge team who deleted all his previous work, some of which was voting software verification - including a program to create bullet ballot votes.
Or the database of swing voters gained from a fake lottery...
So, when I search on this, I can only find reference to a single guy, Stephen Spoonamore, making this claim. You said "multiple prominent Computer Scientists and Statisticians"; do you have a link for that?
Heres another voice.
Thanks, that does help.
This was one of the first results for “computer scientists petition to check 2024 vote”, not sure how you missed it.
https://freespeechforpeople.org/computer-scientists-breaches-of-voting-system-software-warrant-recounts-to-ensure-election-verification/
I remember this. The petition was more about security assurance than a specific accusation, and the letter from Spoonamore was sus because he is a known attention-seeking alarmist (and sole-proprietor of a cybersecurity consulting company that he pumps a lot).
Spoonamore cried wolf too many times to be taken very seriously, but also his “analysis” is weirdly unspecific just like his deflection in interviews. It honestly felt like those “security alert!” popups from fake antivirus software, if that makes sense, like the point isn’t security just the alert.
Ultimately the gold standard for verification is random sample hand counts, and several rounds of these confirmed software tallies within very small margins. That basically closes the case, because if they “hacked” the hand counts, it would mean the conspiracy went well beyond tampering with voting software.
That has nothing to do with the claims about bullet ballots though. You made it sound like there were a bunch of people all united behind a single, specific claim about a statistical anomaly, and as far as I know that's simply not accurate.
I had intended to cite bullet ballots as an example, not at the unifying theory. My apologies.
This sounds like election denial. I thought democrats didn't do that?
Republicans have mandated it be taught in schools. What’s good for the geese certainly should be good for the gander.