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https://substack.com/home/post/p-190246264My words: We all knew something like this is likely what happened because she drew hundreds of thousands of people and he drew hundreds, if that. Well, we weren't alone.
Added Note: About "This Will Hold". They are legit, however, they do keep their identities anonymous.
'Receipts attached. The question now is what legislators and the media will do about it.'
'Watching Kamala Harriss vote totals decline by millions across swing states on election night sent our team down a year-long rabbit hole to understand why reported totals were moving backward. That is, until we uncovered the five fake ghost counties containing millions of votesand realized we were onto something.
And we werent alone in noticing irregularities. In Pennsylvania, state Rep. Frank Burns (D) watched his own totals move backward as well. He ultimately won, but began asking questionsand so did we.
After more than a year of pressing for legislative and criminal investigations, we knew we had to find irrefutable evidence....'
Trump and Musks hints and innuendo about stealing the election didnt prompt scrutiny or action, and neither did statistically anomalous swing-state data. More than 200 Russian bomb threats, widespread election equipment malfunctions, and documented breaks in ballot chain-of-custody procedures didnt either.
Then, while digging into numbers that made no statistical sense and blatant post-election record changes, we found the math: a simple A + B = C equationone that doesnt require analysts or statisticians to understand but should never appear in an election.
This is how we caught them.'
Fiendish Thingy
(23,041 posts)Thats how Trump won and Harris lost.
There is as much evidence for 2024 election denialism as there is for 2020 election denialism:
Zero
Election denialism is a faulty coping mechanism to avoid the emotional pain of grieving a loss at the polls, and does not help us prepare for the challenges that lie ahead in the midterms.
QueerDuck
(1,644 posts)Cirsium
(3,890 posts)Ah, this is a rare opportunity for me to agree with you, and I am going to take advantage of it.
Callie1979
(1,333 posts)But nobody wants to admit THOSE things either.
Just the other day we had a long thread about how HORRIBLE it is for democrats to use the word "homeland".
BComplex
(9,884 posts)It's so trumpian to complain that elections are stolen. After all, everyone knows how safe computers are! Right???
GiqueCee
(4,088 posts)... of skullduggery is mounting. If they've got receipts, hear them out before condemning them.
Fiendish Thingy
(23,041 posts)Just like Rudi, they have theories, but no evidence.
If they had receipts, as in factual, verifiable evidence, they would have no trouble finding a lawyer to take the case to court and put their law license on the line to introduce the evidence in front of a judge.
But no lawyer wants to lose their means for earning a living, as Rudy, Sidney and several other lawyers did after the 2020 election.
EdmondDantes_
(1,727 posts)How many lies can they tell before we can safely dismiss them as liars?
GiqueCee
(4,088 posts)... who are trying to get to the bottom of lies that are Trump's stock in trade. He's let the truth slip out many times, such as thanking Musk for "his knowledge of vote-counting machines". Trump LOVES to humiliate people by rubbing their noses in the fact that he's gotten away with something AGAIN. I don't doubt for a second that Republicans, and Trump's gaggle of goons in particular, rigged the elections in key states; it's what they do!
I think you'll come to regret your dismissal of their investigations.
EdmondDantes_
(1,727 posts)But if that's the case, aren't the people bringing up these claims also disparaging all the election officials that are Democrats as well as the entire Harris campaign?
How many times can they lie before we're allowed to disregard them?
GiqueCee
(4,088 posts)EdmondDantes_
(1,727 posts)These frauds have claimed that a precinct in Pennsylvania had 400+% turnout. That is a lie that they haven't retracted.
Official vote totals
https://www.norcopa.gov/corecode/uploads/document6/uploaded_pdfs/corecode/GE24%20Precinct%20Level%20Summary%20Results_1290.pdf page 366
Their lie: https://thiswillhold.substack.com/p/how-did-43598-of-voters-cast-ballots
Why should I or anyone else believe them when they continue to lie? They also don't link back to the original source of their claim so you can't verify it.
And how do these claims not require that Democratic election officials not either be stupid, corrupt, or cowardly? If there was cheating they either didn't see it, didn't care, or were afraid to call it out. Is there another option I'm missing?
31st Street Bridge
(189 posts)Wrong on both counts.
He didn't.
She won.
obnoxiousdrunk
(3,114 posts)Just_Vote_Dem
(3,634 posts)Hawkeye must finally have gotten through to him
UpInArms
(54,890 posts)So they can cook the books
yellow dahlia
(5,734 posts)Kid Berwyn
(24,228 posts)Explains how Trump said Elon knows about those "vote counting computers."
Also explains how Trump can kill Americans for protesting without consequences and his treasons to start an illegal, immoral, and increasingly disastrous war to divert attention from Epstein.
yellow dahlia
(5,734 posts)The confessor in chief.
Kid Berwyn
(24,228 posts)So grateful for what he learned from Epstein to get that way.
yellow dahlia
(5,734 posts)OMGWTF
(5,109 posts)Fewer voters showed up due to aggressive voter suppression efforts, bomb threats, etc. Also, some counties voted overwhelmingly for the Dem senatorial candidate, but Kamala received zero votes. There was much fkery afoot.
Amaryllis
(11,247 posts)Elon uploaded vote tabulator codes of battleground states a month BEFORE vote tabulations on election day, then downloaded changed codes to those tabulators ahead of time so that the R win counts were by a slim 1%. Yep, he bragged about it.
Just because FactCheck says "Experts said voting machines are not connected to the internet during tabulation" only means that those "experts" overlooked that the tabulating codes could easily have been changed before tabulation day. And that's what Elon's Starlink did. And Elon allows Russia to have access to Starlink.
yellow dahlia
(5,734 posts)The districts where Dems won in Congress, but Kamala didn't get the votes. Please!?
Polybius
(21,859 posts)IbogaProject
(5,848 posts)And one or more chain of coustody violations with tabulators in at least PA and GA.
Celerity
(54,292 posts)Wiz Imp
(9,872 posts)Joinfortmill
(21,033 posts)Jose Garcia
(3,497 posts)Serving in the military doesn't immunize you from conspiracy theories. Just ask Ashlee Babbit.
Chemical Bill
(3,167 posts)Russian disinformation?
It's hard to tell....
Maybe we should hand recount the votes cast using paper ballots. That might expose the truth.
After all, several organizations did that in some states after the 2020 election, and proved that Trump did not win.
And when the media consortium hand recounted the votes from Florida in 2000, they proved that Gore won.
I think we are all interested in the truth.
chowder66
(12,199 posts)Premiered Dec 30, 2025
Last week I posted a video with the title Yes, Theres New Evidence that the 2024 Election Was Hacked which showed five different fake counties in swing states with a total of almost 20 million votes which I suggested could be smoking gun evidence of an election hack in progress. Today Im going to tell you why that theory was wrong that the fake counties were definitely simply glitches displayed by Decision Desk HQ interface, how those glitches happened, and how I came to believe that they were something that they werent.
Theres an old saying on the Internet that if you want to get the right answer about something that you just need to post the wrong one and someone, somewhere in the comments will correct you. And correct me they did. In fact, the evidence is so compelling that its basically irrefutable.
More important: this is also a story about my interactions with a group called The Common Coalition, which also goes by This Will Hold on substack, which I now believe is intentionally distorting election evidence and undermining any attempt for an honest assessment of the 2024 election.
Indeed, considering my interactions with them over the last six months, I believe that it is entirely possible that they are more than a group of earnest citizens overtaken by confirmation bias, but are, in fact, backed by a foreign intelligence service.
questionseverything
(11,785 posts)As Stalin taught us,
It doesnt matter who votes, its who counts
the vote
The only way the average citizen can over see the vote count is with hand counted paper ballots, counted openly and transparently in full public view
and if the average citizen can not oversee the counting, why should we trust it?
BurnDoubt
(1,659 posts)Im dying to see the proof.
Im one who will always believe they rigged it. (Both Times)
My belief is based on the likely-erroneous faith that people are basically good, ethical beings who would recoil from the people hawking the drek we are enduring. I couldnt believe Americans could sink so low.
Bring us some Truth. Bring the Proof.
Wiz Imp
(9,872 posts)See this from Scott Carney who was initially fooled by them, but then discovered it was all bullshit.
https://sgcarney.substack.com/p/was-i-duped-by-russian-spies?r=4ueio&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true
...........................................................................
However, we all know that Russians have been heavily involved in election interference since at least 2016. The FBI is still looking for several Russian military intelligence agents who have tried to hack election systems, and, more importantly, used social media to sow discord and distrust in the American election process. Investigative journalist Benn Jordan put out a report earlier this year indicating that the system is so pervasive and sophisticated that as many as one in three interactions on social media are actually with bot accounts.
The goal of military disinformation campaigns isnt to directly sway an elections results, but rather make it impossible to trust anything at all that you read online and to make you feel helpless and apathetic to reality. I believe that This Will Hold and the Common Coalition fit the profile of an intelligence operation precisely because they have zero accountability. They promote knowingly fake election theories into the public sphere in order to sow confusion among people who have more reliable information.
This does not mean that everyone in the Common Coalition is a Russian asset, only but that the top of the coalition would be exactly that. At the very least they would be what the FSB calls a useful idiot.
At this point, their conspiracy theories are so popular that they drown out more nuanced analysis by Smart Elections and the Election Truth Allianceboth of which are groups that have transparent founders that you can vet directly.
questionseverything
(11,785 posts)But we appreciate the advertisement and look forward to discovery
And counties that dont exist reporting numbers and watching those numbers spin backwards, obviously another glitch
Wiz Imp
(9,872 posts)You can see here with Allen County North Carolina, the screen actually flips between a statewide screen and the transposed Allen county screen with the vote totals remaining the same in both cases. The same is true for Michigans Oklahoma County, Georgias Hamilton County and, of course, Burke County Florida.
I find this evidence pretty much irrefutable. The fake counties were simply glitches caused by transpositional errors during an exceedingly long livestream rather than evidence that fake counties were used as a bank of phantom votes that would later be covertly distributed to flip the election. To be clear, Im not weighing in on whether the election was hacked or not, so much as stating that this particular evidence just does not add up.
questionseverything
(11,785 posts)questionseverything
(11,785 posts)Wiz Imp
(9,872 posts)Who is behind "thiswill hold"? That's right, nobody knows because they refuse to identify themselves. Why would legitimate people looking at suppsed election fraud refuse to identify themselves? Hint: There is no possible positive answer to that question.
questionseverything
(11,785 posts)Wiz Imp
(9,872 posts)There is nothing they have published that could remotely be considered whistleblowing. They specialize in talking about fake statistics that their readers are not knowledgable enough about data to understand that what they are saying is total BS.
Buddyzbuddy
(2,518 posts)There are rational, intelligent people researching this with the knowledge that it will not reverse the election. Their purpose is not to reverse it, but to prevent it from happening again if it was stolen. Facts are facts and if the facts are being lied about the truth will be revealed.
This isn't anything like 2020 where all attempts to overturn the election, dozens, were defeated in court. There was an army of kooks and liars, I mean lawyers working on behalf of a nutjob that knew it was a lie. He admitted as much. For him, it was life and death, he had to win. And lo and behold, in spite of so many Republicans, many from his Administration, coming out and speaking the truth against him he "won" all of the swing states. He did so well the first time, people couldn't wait for him to be back in office?
I've accepted that he is the President for no other reason than, there is nothing to be done about it now. But just because he's made election denial a farcical sport doesn't mean it couldn't be true for Nov. 2024. The same people act as though they are the watchdogs of truth and continue to try to convince others not to doubt the election, don't look for facts to disprove what they believe to be true because it's not possible, it didn't happen.
If they're that convinced then why worry about what other people are researching. If it bothers you personally, then don't read it. Frankly, it makes me suspicious of their intent, their motivation. Any intelligent rational person IMHO would ignore it and move on. I would just chock it up to kooks and liars and not waste my time. Instead, the same players are trying to convince people not to look, not to listen. Almost as though they work for opposition or have an unhealthy need to be contrary.
This is not meant to be a personal attack against healthy dialog, only a defense in favor of open dialog of different opinions and debate of facts research and analysis.
Fact: the Felon is the President.
Fact: the elections were certified.
Fact: there were and are unexplained anomalies that occurred.
Be well my fellow DUers,
EdmondDantes_
(1,727 posts)Every time they provided "evidence" it's been garbage. The whole country in New York were nobody voted for Harris was a single precinct that voted in lockstep previously because it's a tiny religious community. The Pennsylvania county with 400% turnout, had 80% turnout. They are liars grifting off people.
questionseverything
(11,785 posts)EdmondDantes_
(1,727 posts)For the same reason there's no reason to prove Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster don't exist. Especially not for people who clearly aren't acting in good faith. The frauds behind the substack never retract their false claims. Why should anyone have to prove a negative to conspiracy theorists?
questionseverything
(11,785 posts)Insulting, mean and nasty because I dont want to trust the owners of the voting machine company
EdmondDantes_
(1,727 posts)We absolutely have oversight of elections. You want something that can't meaningfully be done. There is no universe in which it's feasible to to think every single ballot for every single election in the country is going to be shown hand counted in front of you. That would take months given every ballot has a bunch of races and ballot measures on them so each ballot would either be counted 5+ times or take 5 minutes each. We absolutely know hand counting is less accurate and we have election monitors present during the process. There are audits in the system to ensure the voting is correctly counted. While they clearly don't satisfy you, I suspect you don't actually need to see validation of everything.
Do you need to personally be flown to the moon to prove we can fly to the moon? Or is the word of scientists enough? To watch the gas delivery guy pour the correct fuel into the correct tank at the gas station, that your paycheck will be deposited and your bank will say yep, those electrons are equivalent to x amount of money. That other drivers will stop at a red light. We all do that in spite of the small but very real chance that it happens and immediately kills us and people die every day in car crashes. At what point do the experts and the experience that while we lose some elections we win a lot of them as well not disprove that there's a secret button that can be pushed to change votes? If you don't want to take their word, or the election results you like as evidence, if Trump had a magic cheat button, why is he trying so hard to make voting harder, to gerrymander Republican states? It doesn't make sense that he would waste the time instead of telling us how great he is or throwing a temper tantrum because other countries won't help his stupid Iran war.
And your position inherently relies on the stupidity, corruption, or cowardice of Democrats in every state, so maybe just maybe you should reconsider which of us is being insulting and dismissive towards Democrats. I can point to data to back up my position. Every time one of these posts goes up, someone provides evidence from real sites with source links to disprove the claim. Why is that not evidence of the people making the claims aren't trustworthy considering the substack or the Election Truth Alliance never actually link directly to their source?
questionseverything
(11,785 posts)Every scanner already has the capability, its just a matter of publishing the scans so anyone or any group could do an audit, thats a start
questionseverything
(11,785 posts)questionseverything
(11,785 posts)yellow dahlia
(5,734 posts)Six117
(334 posts)There were magas installed in all levels of the election infrastructure in many states. I absolutely cannot believe they would not cheat to get that thing back into power.
Wiz Imp
(9,872 posts)Every Swing State except Georgia had a Democratic Governor and a Democratic Secretary of State. I'm sure Putin is laughing with delight at how gullible even some Progressives are in the US to buy into such bullshit.
mr715
(3,463 posts)lostnfound
(17,503 posts)Not unless she had the backing of at least a third of her partys leadership; AND had a media that wouldnt immediately throw an outrage party before they looked at the facts, AND rock-solid evidence.
She may have major suspicions, but that doesnt mean she would go on a suicide mission to prove it.
And like everything else, IOKIYAR.
mr715
(3,463 posts)She had the support of the President. Had this coordinated attack on democracy actually occurred, they were the ones in charge that allowed it to happen.
The point is it didn't happen. One solution is very simple, the other requires complicity from our own party and is tortuous.
questionseverything
(11,785 posts)Hillary spoke about why she didnt ask for a recount in Wisconsin and it was because huge portions of ne Wisconsin had paperless voting machines, she made a plea to get back to paper ballots so that recounts were possible
mr715
(3,463 posts)mr715
(3,463 posts)Clouds Passing
(7,893 posts)Wiz Imp
(9,872 posts)questionseverything
(11,785 posts)Response to questionseverything (Reply #26)
Wiz Imp This message was self-deleted by its author.
SheltieLover
(80,018 posts)Clouds Passing
(7,893 posts)When all the votes were actually totaled, Al Gore won FL, thus he won the Presidency. The GOP has been manipulating votes, voters, entire elections for decades. This is what we need to come to reality about.
SheltieLover
(80,018 posts)Clouds Passing
(7,893 posts)SheltieLover
(80,018 posts)Joinfortmill
(21,033 posts)Wiz Imp
(9,872 posts)God, it is depressing how many people at DU buy into such obvious bullshit.
Joinfortmill
(21,033 posts)Fiendish Thingy
(23,041 posts)It is depressing to see how many uncritical dupes buy this nonsense.
Scrivener7
(59,381 posts)EdmondDantes_
(1,727 posts)https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220729019 - Please note cmmdgrnd in post 6 debunked their lie again with a direct link
https://upload.democraticunderground.com/100220846123 - cmmndgrnd again coming in with debunking links for both the claims about the vote jump and then again with proof that Tennessee has paper ballots.
For their claims about more people voting Democratic in down ticket races being evidence of cheating, do you really need a citation that split ticket voting is a thing?
For their math on how unlikely it was that 88 counties changed from blue to red and none switched from red to blue, they literally tell you that their math isn't accurate, but then proceed to use it without acknowledging that virtually the entire country shifted red and yet still claimed it was at worst a 50/50 chance a county would change.
How many lies do they tell before you stop believing them?
Scrivener7
(59,381 posts)be legit. In the third, cmmngrnd does have links to legit state sites, but the post with the vote totals has no link.
I agree that the sources for "voting conspiracy" are squidgy. But so are the sources for "no conspiracy."
We keep being presented with ratcheting horrifying acts that no one previously believed possible. And yet there are still those here that think their skepticism about things that were previously thought impossible makes them intellectually superior. But, for example, many here were disgusted with those of us who said Epstein didn't kill himself. Now it turns out that there are a series of mysterious payments going to at least one of the guards, and there was a video angle that was not released.
They're going to try to steal this next election. We need to defend against that.
annielion
(104 posts)I don't think This Will Hold is the best source of the evidence of massive election fraud in 2024 (changing of vote counts after the election via the vote-counting computers). We need some specific audits comparing paper ballots with recorded county results. ElectionTruthAlliance.org.is suing a few counties to perform these audits.
Computers are not adding machines. Computers count our votes in secret in whatever way they are programed to count. Computers are always hackable. People in charge of voting machines say they are not connected to the Internet. However, precinct counts are usually transmitted to the county via cellular modems. Ding, ding, ding. We have a winning situation for the precinct vote counts being changed before they are recorded by the county.
This is why mail-in voting is hated by Republicans. The mail-in votes go directly to the county. No chance for Internet access to change the vote counts.
questionseverything
(11,785 posts)Keep doing the investigating. I feel its been like a drip drip drip that is confirming my suspicions. I know there is a ton of ignorance in this.country - an unbelievable amount. And the political cluelessness even sometimes affects those on our side. For example, Alicia Silverstone supported Bernie. In this past election, she supported RFK Jr. with much gushing! I wonder how she feels now that he is one of Trumps cabinets worst? Too bad because Ive always liked her. Anyway despite the tons of ignorance, I have always had the feeling that Kamala really won.
yellow dahlia
(5,734 posts)To me - it was obvious on election night. The analysis matches up.
Kamala did not lose.
Wiz Imp
(9,872 posts)From the video I poosted a link to:
for safety and legal reasons, members of our team dont go on the record publicly. That doesnt change authorship of the work or ownership of the analysis, and it doesnt undermine the reporting itself.
Thats an interesting take, because as you can see from this channel, a real investigative journalist understands that they cant be anonymous and credible at the same time. If there is personal danger, you have to be willing to take that risk. The legal worries they have seem to be they dont want to be held accountable for libel.
Im not declining to appear on the show lightly. Im currently battling stage 3 cancer, in the middle of an aggressive round of chemotherapy, have three more surgeries, and frankly its miserable. Going on-air just isnt feasible right now. The goal here is coordination, accuracy, and forward momentum. Hope that helps clear things up.
This does not ring credible to me. While I have no idea about the health history of This Will Hold, it feels manipulative to throw cancer into the mix to get out of an interview. Indeed, if there are 62 people in the organization, why wouldnt someone else be able to fill that role?
These are not the actions of a legitimate organization.
Joinfortmill
(21,033 posts)Wiz Imp
(9,872 posts)There is tons of bullshit on substack.
Fiendish Thingy
(23,041 posts)yellow dahlia
(5,734 posts)This is the substack post from whence that quote came.
https://substack.com/@thiswillhold/note/c-227955106
While I was at it, Media Bias/Fact Check rated This WIll Hold as left leaning - good. And the rate the content as "mixed". They do not rate it as false, although they do not validate all of their analysis - hence mixed.
Joinfortmill
(21,033 posts)yellow dahlia
(5,734 posts)Could it be psy-ops? Could there be an agenda?
Wiz Imp
(9,872 posts)Matthew 7:3-4
Scrivener7
(59,381 posts)Joinfortmill
(21,033 posts)Wiz Imp
(9,872 posts)Wiz Imp
(9,872 posts)From Scott Carney:
Wiz Imp
(9,872 posts)https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/russian-disinformation-campaigns-on-twitter/#:~:text=Share%20Via%20Email-,Russian%20Twitter%20disinformation%20campaigns%20reach%20across%20the%20American%20political%20spectrum,from%20diverse%20coalitions%20of%20users.
Russian Twitter disinformation campaigns reach across the American political spectrum
2) Our results make it clear that group identities are at the core of the IRAs attack strategy. Political audiences were addressed as liberals, conservatives, and Black people to provoke anger against oppositional outgroups. Each group was paired with a specific set of opponents: the IRA presented conservatives with outrages committed by liberals, immigrants, CNN, George Soros, and others; liberals witnessed the travesties of the Trump administration, Republicans in general, and evangelical Christians; and Black users were confronted with an endless cavalcade of racism, often perpetrated by white police officers.There was very little policy-related or even horse-race campaign content to be foundmost tweets were devoted to vilifying political and social adversaries. Other tweets supported the core group identity in affirmative ways, such as conservative tweets celebrating law enforcement and the military and Black posts spotlighting Black history and achievements. Individuals who identify as members of targeted groups ran a disproportionate risk of exposure to IRA disinformation over the study time period. The 2020 election may put them in a similar position (Linvill & Warren, 2019).
Buddyzbuddy
(2,518 posts)Or that polling places were reduced in majority minority precincts to increase wait times at those polling places while simultaneously increasing the locations for white or Republican precincts to shorten the wait times to vote.
Laws were passed to keep citizens from passing out water bottles to voters. There are other numerous obvious policies and laws that have been implemented to reduce the amount of voters.
The Supreme Court Justice, Robert's removed protections from minorities right to vote stating that voting is not a right and minorities no longer need protections because there is no more discrimination.
Are these not all actions to impact election integrity?
If they're willing to do and say these things in public, why is it so impossible to believe the 2024 election may have been tampered with.
As for the receipts and why hasn't a lawyer taken them and sued in court.
1. To what end. It won't overturn the election.
2. Why would anybody wear a bullseye when this Administration with the full backing of the U.S. Gov't has proven itself to be vindictive in spite of violating the Constitution.
3. The best strategy in my opinion is to gather the "receipts" and present them to the proper authorities when the Felon can't do anything about it.
If election tampering can be proven it would involve a conspiracy involving many powerful people.
Wiz Imp
(9,872 posts)Buddyzbuddy
(2,518 posts)My statements were and are about the 2025 Presedential Election and my observations and information concerning it and in support of those questioning the integrity of that election.
Wiz Imp
(9,872 posts)They made no claims about voter suppression which is real and definitely could have affected the election. You will find that people who call out bullshit like "this will hold" will not question claims about voter suppression affecting elections as long as they are backed up with verifiable facts.
Scrivener7
(59,381 posts)people are capable of.
BUT here's a really helpful side thing from this article, something that we can all do, especially because we don't seem to be getting a plan to counter the fact that the magats now completely own the media. (A problem that has been developing for decades and which we have never addressed in a concerted way. ) I've been asking forever, "Where is our bot farm?" but the article says this:
Make 5 calls using https://5calls.org
Send 5 emails using https://www.usa.gov/state-governments
Post on 5 social media sites using this article and our last one:
She Won: How Epstein and Peter Thiel Colluded With Russia to Rig the 2016 Election
If we are not going to get a bot farm, FOR ANY GIVEN ISSUE, we can ALL at least do this.
SO, I believe there is absolutely something going on with our elections, and we ignore that fact at our own risk. But I'm bookmarking this for many reasons, not least the call to action that we can use for any issue.
Thanks for posting!
Kaleva
(40,337 posts)But still lost
Joinfortmill
(21,033 posts)Kaleva
(40,337 posts)Wiz Imp
(9,872 posts)Scott Carney is an investigative reporter and award winning author who has made it clear he is on the side of the people who question the results of the election. But when he calls out a fraudulent organization like "This will hold" because they are very clearly frauds and hurt the case of those crying "election interference", then we continue to see loads of people who "feel it in their bones" that the 2024 election was stolen refuse to accept the reality that the claims of "this will hold" are 100% bullshit.
Scott Carney continues to suppor the "Election Truth Alliance" which I believ is simply another grifting election denialist organization, but at least they are willing to go on record with their real identities and stand behind their claims.
https://sgcarney.substack.com/p/was-i-duped-by-russian-spies?r=4ueio&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true
Theyre successful because what they have to say is more extreme than everyone else. Its a story as old as social media and algorithmic recommendations.
The last thing that I want to say before I go is that its sort of embarrassing to admit that I made a mistake in such a public format. I want to get things right the first time and every time before I put out a report. But unfortunately the reality is that EVERYONE makes errors from time to time. Its an unavoidable part of the job.
If only the people here were as honest with themselves as Scott Carney....
Joinfortmill
(21,033 posts)Wiz Imp
(9,872 posts)But the level of denial here is absolutely mind boggling.
Joinfortmill
(21,033 posts)Response to Joinfortmill (Reply #104)
Wiz Imp This message was self-deleted by its author.
Scrivener7
(59,381 posts)Wiz Imp
(9,872 posts)Last edited Wed Mar 18, 2026, 05:51 PM - Edit history (1)
You know this how? Because they say so?
/1-this-will-hold-is-back-with-a-new-article-following-from-their-series-claiming
They claimed:
Reality:
That sounds like the complete opposite of a "legit" organization.
Can you name one piece of real evidence they have presented that the election of "stolen"?
Joinfortmill
(21,033 posts)Clearly you do not agree with them. That is fine, but the belligerent tone of your rhetoric is disturbing to me.
Wiz Imp
(9,872 posts)Last edited Wed Mar 18, 2026, 07:24 PM - Edit history (3)
I'd like to know how you came to that conclusion?
Here is a subreddit from a group convinced the 2024 election was stolen. Even they have banned posts from This Will Hold because they consider them disseminators of disinformation.
https://www.reddit.com/r/somethingiswrong2024/comments/1pr3pjs/did_5_fake_counties_steal_the_2024_election_for/
r/somethingiswrong2024
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Unfortunately there isn't anything in this video confirming that votes for a non-existent Burke County were tallied into the total votes for Florida. Florida 2024 results per county - Politico
This story about a non-existent county was first shared by ThisWill(NOT)Hold, which we, as a community in this sub, have come to the conclusion multiple times that they are disseminating disinformation. They previously tried to promulgate a false story of a security guard claiming to have conducted a national audit of the 2024 presidential election at the NSA without any credible evidence verifying these far-fetched claims.
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Many DU'er's including me first found this forum after the 2004 Bush-Kerry election.
Prior to that election, we'd had the Bush-Gore debacle in 2000, in which exit polling had shown Gore significantly ahead, but the vote count became a near-tie (decided in Bush's favor by the S. Ct.).
That experience had prompted a couple of important changes: (1) a federal law was passed that encouraged precincts across the country to adopt electronic voting, and (2) the VNS Exit Poll System, relied on by major media networks to tabulate exit polling and project election results, underwent an extensive overhaul designed to make projected results more accurate.
These innovations were put into play in the Bush-Kerry election. That night, I stayed up 'til about 1am watching the results come in. When I went to bed, Kerry was 3 points ahead. When I got up, the news was that Bush had won by 3 points in a 6-point swing that took nearly everyone by surprise.
I checked the MSM for some explanation. None explained the swing, other than speculating that perhaps polled voters had suddenly started lying about how they'd voted.
"Adding to the chaos, one network news reporter has received a tip that mercenary hackers were hired to alter the code of a particular brand of machine so that every 10th vote for Candidate A was recorded as a vote for Candidate B. ..." (http://www.popsci.com/popsci/generaltech/article/0,20967,714491,00.html )
Ever since we went electronic, exit polling has proved so unreliable that, last I knew, the media no longer bother with it. Until 2000, exit polls had always been remarkably accurate.
Whatever you think happened in whichever election, the facts are that (1) in every actual test that I'm aware of pitting such electronic voting or tabulation systems against skilled hackers, the hackers won, and computer experts without a profit motive or other interest in promoting electronic voting or tabulation almost uniformly agree it's impossible to fully secure electronic systems; (2) although fraud in elections using paper ballots is certainly possible, it's a lot easier for a single hacker to discreetly tamper with a electronic system with widespread results than it is for an army of helpers to stuff large numbers of paper ballot boxes across the country.
Since the discrepancies between exit polls and election results generally seemed to favor Republicans, the failure of Dem politicans to try to do something about this hazard made me start to lose confidence in the party.
Fwiw, I favor paper ballots and human tabulation. I know that most electronic voting systems now produce a paper print-out of your vote; but have you ever tried to proof one of those things, when the ballot included more than just a handful of candidates? I voted in our primary recently; there were dozens of offices in play and over a dozen propositions, and the print-out was several long pages of very fine print there was no way I'd be able to read it without a magnifying glass but proofing it would be the only way to be certain that the machine did not flip any of my votes. If I were just punching physical hole or blacking in check boxes, proofing would be either unnecessary or at least easier.
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