This Will Hold "Somewhere along the way, questioning the integrity of our elections became more controversial than the vulnerabilities within the election system itself. And that should terrify every American, regardless of political affiliation.
...We have privately owned voting technology companies, proprietary software, election management systems, third-party reporting vendors, and layers of technology that the average voter couldn’t begin to identify, much less scrutinize. And it’s housed, for the most part, in the far-right ecosystem....We need overwhelming turnout, vigilant citizens, transparent reporting, and candidates prepared to challenge genuine irregularities through the appropriate legal channels.”
This Will Hold
Trump Didn't Win Either Election.
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“Hey, just real quick, have you got any updates on the stolen election news?” Or our personal favorite: “I wanted to ask you about this, but my friends will think I’m a conspiracy theorist.”
At work, around the water cooler. Side conversations with friends, but never in the group chat. Direct messages from people we may or may not know, wanting answers but too afraid to ask questions publicly for fear of being compared to them.
The irony is almost unbearable.
Donald Trump spent years screaming about a stolen election, without producing evidence sufficient to establish his claims. His Big Lie poisoned the well so thoroughly that Americans who now have legitimate questions about election security are afraid to ask them.
And the people who should be demanding answers?
Crickets.
But let’s be honest. This isn’t exactly new territory.
The 2000 and 2004 presidential elections were met with their own controversies, irregularities, and an all-too-familiar chorus of “Nothing to see here, folks. Move along.”
The disputed Florida recount in 2000 and the voting irregularities and challenges in Ohio in 2004 should have prompted a much more enduring national conversation about election integrity.
Instead, the controversies were largely relegated to the history books, while the underlying questions about transparency, accountability, and public trust never really went away.
Twenty-six years later, we’re still having the same conversations, with some of the same experts sounding the alarm. Only now, we’re having them in whispers.
Somewhere along the way, questioning the integrity of our elections became more controversial than the vulnerabilities within the election system itself.
And that should terrify every American, regardless of political affiliation.
The System Nobody Wants to Examine
Our election apparatus is a paint-by-numbers exercise in public trust, and an awful lot of Americans are beginning to question who’s holding the paintbrush.
And why the paint is mostly red.
We have privately owned voting technology companies, proprietary software, election management systems, third-party reporting vendors, and layers of technology that the average voter couldn’t begin to identify, much less scrutinize.
And it’s housed, for the most part, in the far-right ecosystem.
Yes, voting systems undergo testing and certification, and states conduct audits. But those safeguards vary considerably, and audits don’t necessarily examine the races raising the most questions.
It’s great that Pennsylvania audited its state treasurer race. But what does an audit of that contest tell us about the presidential race?
Nothing.
And even when an audit verifies the accuracy of a particular contest’s ballot count, it doesn’t reconstruct every step between the tabulation of those ballots and the results appearing on television.
And that’s precisely where our concerns lie.
What happens between the tabulation of votes and the reporting of those votes to the public?
Who has access? Who maintains the databases? What systems communicate with one another? What records are retained? And who independently verifies that the numbers transmitted from one system to the next are accurate?
These aren’t conspiracy theories.
They’re basic cybersecurity questions.
And the public deserves answers.
Elon Musk and Donald Trump block Ukraine's access to Starlink, and the FBI's 2016 probe to determine if Donald Trump is a Russian asset.
Russia, Russia, Russia
Let’s revisit something we’ve apparently decided to forget.
Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election. That isn’t speculation. American intelligence agencies documented the interference, and subsequent investigations established extensive Russian influence operations.
Then-Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid publicly challenged FBI Director James Comey’s handling of information about Russia’s involvement.
And now, with additional Epstein-related records proving that Epstein, Peter Thiel, Russian operatives, and foreign interests, colluded to rig the 2016 election, there’s more reason than ever to open investigations.
And Russia didn’t simply disappear after 2016.
In 2024, the FBI reported over two hundred bomb threats targeting polling locations in multiple states, originating from Russian email domains.
Meanwhile, American intelligence agencies warned that Russian influence operations were actively attempting to undermine confidence in our elections. And yet, somehow, we’re expected to treat foreign interference as yesterday’s news.
With a hat tip to President Zelensky and Ukraine’s annihilation of Russian data centers, it’s not.
Donald Trump’s reported total changing from 46,219,886 to 87,665,393, and Elon Musk's timely tweet.Then Came Election Night 2024
For those of us monitoring election-night reporting, there are questions that have never been answered.
Our team documented significant changes in publicly reported vote totals, including decreases in Kamala Harris’s totals across the swing states and Florida.
By millions of votes.
And then there’s the Decision Desk HQ reporting sequence we’ve been examining.
Between 9:30 p.m. and 9:33 p.m., the figures we recorded showed Donald Trump’s reported total changing from 46,219,886 to 87,665,393.
A difference of 41,445,507 votes in three minutes.
At the same time, Elon Musk tweeted, “Game, set and match.”
We want to know what produced those wild swings in election totals, where the data originated, and whether the reporting sequence can be reconciled with official county and state records.
We’ve also been investigating what we describe as a fake county vote bank mechanism: that manipulated reporting-layer data could be presented as though it originated from legitimate county results.
We cover all of this territory in the attached article with an investigate blueprint built by cybersecurity experts:
We want the data. We want the access records. And we want independent investigators empowered to follow both.
Because asking the public to trust a system is not the same as demonstrating that the system deserves that trust.
November 3 Is Not a Magic Reset Button
Which brings us to the approaching midterms.
We’re supposed to believe we can simply vote our way out of this catastrophic mess on November 3, 2026. Show up. Cast our ballots. Cross our fingers. Hope for the best.
And then what?
Remember that old adage about what happens when we assume? You make an ass out of u and me. Are we supposed to assume there won’t be attempts at electronic manipulation or procedural obstruction?
And are we supposed to place our faith in Speaker Mike Johnson to do the right thing if Democrats win enough seats to reclaim the House? The same Mike Johnson who delayed swearing in Representative Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ) for seven weeks after her September 2025 victory?
She was finally sworn in on November 12, but the precedent should concern anyone who believes elected representatives ought to be seated promptly.
This time, the excuse will be that the election results are being contested.
And while Mike Johnson cannot unilaterally refuse to seat duly elected members of Congress, he doesn’t necessarily have to. Whatever his shortcomings as a legislator, he has demonstrated an almost supernatural ability to prevent legislation from ever reaching the House floor.
He could drag this process out for a very long time.
After all, we’re talking about a man and a party that orchestrated an insurrection to prevent the peaceful transfer of power, and spent years refusing to accept the results of a presidential election despite no evidence to the contrary.
There’s little reason to believe they’ll suddenly develop a newfound respect for the democratic process when their grip on power is at stake, particularly when losing that power could mean facing criminal prosecution and the very real possibility of prison sentences.
And therein lies the danger.
Even if the courts eventually intervene, how long would that take? Weeks? Months? And what happens to congressional representation in the meantime?
Worse still, can we reasonably assume that a Supreme Court increasingly willing to expand presidential power would ultimately rule against Trump and his allies?
The threat isn’t simply that Johnson might refuse to seat duly elected representatives.
It’s that he could manufacture a constitutional crisis by delaying the process long enough to make the will of the voters irrelevant.
And this is why simply winning elections isn’t enough. We need to be prepared to document the results, defend legitimate victories, and demand accountability when evidence warrants it.
The answer isn’t to abandon voting.
Quite the opposite.
We need overwhelming turnout, vigilant citizens, transparent reporting, and candidates prepared to challenge genuine irregularities through the appropriate legal channels.
November should be a BLUE TSUNAMI.
With Trump and Republicans underwater in the polls, Democrats running the table since 2024, and growing dissatisfaction with this administration, we should expect a Democratic rout of the GOP.
And we should accept nothing less.
If the results defy polling expectations and we have evidence of vote totals moving backward or other significant data anomalies, we need to be prepared to demand answers immediately.
Not weeks later. Not after the deadlines to challenge results have passed. We need to make damn sure every lawful vote is counted accurately.
Immediately.
So What Are We Doing About It?
We’re glad you asked.
We’re organizing volunteers across the country to monitor election-night reporting in real time.
Our goal is ambitious but straightforward and we have several opportunities:
Two to four volunteers in each county to monitor the Election Night results.
Two to four volunteers monitoring every race we can possibly cover.
Volunteers to get access to the poll tapes in the states that allow it, for comparison to the election results.
We’re hosting virtual training sessions and building a nationwide network of people willing to give a few hours of their time to help create a contemporaneous record of election-night results.
No computer science degree required. No cybersecurity background necessary.
If you have a couch, a television, a cell phone, and a little determination, you can help.
We’re asking volunteers to monitor local broadcasts and reporting feeds, record results as they appear, document timestamps, and preserve screenshots or video of significant changes.
Because that’s where our investigation began in 2024.
And this time, we intend to be better organized.
If reported vote totals move backward, if unexpected changes occur, or if the numbers don’t reconcile, we’ll have a rapid-response process to preserve the evidence and bring documented concerns to the attention of candidates, election officials, and appropriate authorities.
Every significant discrepancy deserves an explanation grounded in the underlying records.
If Abdul El-Sayed loses over 900,000 votes in Michigan on Election Night like Kamala Harris did in 2024—he needs to be prepared to challenge those results.
And not just with a recount.
With a comprehensive forensic audit tracing every vote from the ballots and tabulators through the election management systems, county and state databases, and the reporting feeds of DDHQ and the Associated Press.
That’s what the investigative blueprint is for.
We need to establish exactly where any discrepancies originated, whether they affected the certified results, and who had access to the systems involved.
We want the receipts while they’re still warm.
The Only Way Through Is Accountability
This brings us to the part of the conversation that makes people uncomfortable.
The 2024 election isn’t settled in the minds of millions of Americans who still have unanswered questions—and dismissing those questions isn’t going to make them disappear.
Neither is telling people to move on.
The path forward requires state-led investigations with the legal authority to obtain records, compel testimony, examine vendor access, and reconstruct the movement of election data from ballots cast and tabulation through public reporting and certification.
Follow the data.
Follow the access.
Determine where any discrepancies originated and whether they affected official results.
States such as New York, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota have the authority to investigate potential violations of their election laws.
They should use that authority.
Why?
Because if Speaker Mike Johnson refuses to seat incoming Democrats, or it becomes apparent that the midterms were electronically manipulated, investigating the 2024 election would provide the evidence needed to pursue constitutional remedies, including the removal of the Trump regime from office.
A stolen election is a rebellion against the Constitution.
If those investigations establish criminal wrongdoing, the responsible parties should face the consequences.
Not a slap on the wrist.
Not another congressional hearing that produces a thousand-page report nobody reads, like the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence’s investigation into Russian election interference.
And what exactly did that accomplish?
More Russian interference.
We cannot demand constitutional remedies without first establishing the facts. And we cannot establish the facts by refusing to investigate.
We need investigations that lead to actual accountability.
We Don’t Need Permission
There’s a saying in psychology that we teach people how to treat us. And for far too long, we’ve allowed both political parties to dismiss legitimate questions about election integrity, gaslight Americans, and make us feel like conspiracy theorists simply for demanding answers.
If the Epstein files have taught us anything, it’s that conspiracies are real.
Remember Michael Connell? The Republican IT consultant and main witness in litigation surrounding Ohio’s disputed 2004 election? His plane fell out of the sky, Democrats went about business as usual, and Karl Rove and the Republicans took their massive tax cuts to the bank.
Here’s what everyone reading this should understand: you are allowed to ask questions about your elections.
Election hygiene is a democratic process.
You’re allowed to demand transparency from the companies that provide election technology. You’re allowed to expect your elected officials to protect the integrity of the vote, regardless of which political party benefits.
And you’re allowed to be angry when the institutions entrusted with protecting democracy and the American people appear more interested in protecting themselves and their wealthy (pedophile) donors.
We cannot keep whispering about election integrity in private while pretending everything is fine in public. We cannot keep accepting partisan assurances in place of independent evidence.
And we especially cannot assume that people who have demonstrated a willingness to undermine democratic norms will suddenly develop a newfound respect for them in November.
Hello? They constructed gallows on the Capitol’s lawn.
Democrats are attempting to appeal to the GOP’s better angels, which is lunacy because they clearly have none.
Our Constitution belongs to the people.
Not the Republican Party.
Not the Democratic Party.
Not the technology vendors.
And certainly not the billionaires who think the United States is their personal playground.
It belongs to us.
So here’s the ask: if you have a couch, a television, and a cell phone, and you’re willing to help monitor election-night results, please use this link: Sign up as an Election Night watcher
If you can help the organizational efforts or are interested in a poll tape recording position, please use this link: Sign up as a county leader / poll tape volunteer
Questions? Send an email to: ProtectTheMidterms@proton.me
We’re working to build a nationwide network of Americans who understand that democracy isn’t a spectator sport.
We don’t need everyone to agree about what happened in 2024.
We need people to help establish what happens in 2026.
Because whatever your political affiliation, you deserve elections that are transparent, verifiable, and worthy of your confidence.
“Action is the antidote to despair.”
Hold onto your hope.
We don’t need permission to uphold the Constitution.
We just need courage.
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