It's nearly a week since the voting, and given that I follow DU closely, just yesterday, I found out Musk and Starlnk..

[waterwatcher123]

28. How do you know that Starlink was used to upload data to state tabulators?

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This data hacking effort started right around 2000 when Al Gore lost the State of Florida to G.W. Bush. There were even people coming forward at time who said they developed software to redistribute the vote at the voting machine level. The 2004 election was also centered in Ohio and there were shenanigans going on everywhere. Franklin County, Ohio closed the tabulation center and kicked out all the democratic observers due to a threat. The CEO of Diebold, who was a rabid Bush supporter, promised to deliver the state to Bush in a public speech. The SOS was Ken Blackwell, who also served as Bush's campaign chair in Ohio. Blackwell found a way to disqualify people based on the weight of paper used for ballots. They also allocated voting machines to purposely create long lines in Democratic leaning districts. Then there were the actual voting machines, where the supplier (Diebold) applied a software patch right before the election. They claimed the machines and software were proprietary technology so there was little oversight of the last-minute software patch.

You may recall that the 2004 election in Ohio was so questionable that John Conyers convened a minority party report on the corruption (What Went Wrong in Ohio). There were also Democratic representatives from Ohio who objected to the certification. So, what happened in 2004 was a dress rehearsal for 2012 (I remember when the Ohio SOS website went down on election night and then came back with different numbers - tried to screenshot it live). Karl Rove and company knew about a man-in-the-middle set up in Ohio like you described. But luckily these hackers you mentioned stopped the process.

These folks have been perfecting their craft for years. So, it would not sunrise me in the slightest if they had software that could strip out enough votes to carry an election. They may have stripped them out of places where they were least expected too (red leaning areas). I wonder if it would be possible to see if the precinct data compares favorably to the vote totals reported. If it does, then it may not be an issue. If not, then there is something awry with respect to how the data was managed.

Discussion of 2004 election in Ohio by DNC (https://public.websites.umich.edu/~wmebane/Ohio2004/OhioReportCover2Cover.pdf)