mellowtigger | the one thing (Reply)

I've skipped some Moody Monday posts in recent months because there was simply too much of everything to consider. Even by disallowing my Doom Bingo 2025 topics, there's still just too much. During the last week, I've had half a dozen topics that seemed to be the most important new issue to mention today. Even since last night, I had this new issue bubble to the top of the stack.

The one thing that seems most urgent to mention is this, a news article from the Daily Boulder, based not in Colorado but in Texas, in the city of Dallas. Granted, it's from a low-credibility source, but the claims in it seem to be verifiable, and slightly more credible news outlets are repeating the story. And there is a lawsuit in progress with the Supreme Court of New York State, focusing on the issues named in the article. You can see the court filing yourself by visiting their court site then clicking the link at the top document named "PETITION *Corrected*".

Click to fill your mind with potential tin foil hat nonsense that's hard to neglect...

"In the lead-up to the 2024 presidential election, a private lab quietly performed sweeping changes to voting machines used in more than 40% of U.S. counties. No one told the public. No one reviewed the updates. No one verified the results. But the machines were altered...

SMART Elections immediately flagged the move. But by then, it was too late. The machines had already been used in the election. And Pro V&V? The lab responsible for certifying them? It all but disappeared. Their once-public website became a hollow page. No logs. No documentation. Just a phone number and a generic email address. This is the lab that signs off on voting systems in Pennsylvania, Florida, New Jersey, California—and countless other places. And when people started asking questions, they vanished. ...

In Rockland County, New York, voters noticed their ballots didn’t seem to count. People swore under oath that they voted for Senate candidate Diane Sare. But in district after district, the machines didn’t reflect it. In one case, nine voters said they picked her. Only five votes showed up. In another, five claimed to vote for her—only three were recorded. It wasn’t just third-party candidates. Kamala Harris’s name was missing entirely from the top of the ballot in several heavily Democratic districts. In areas that overwhelmingly backed Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand for Senate, somehow, Harris got zero votes. Zero. Meanwhile, Donald Trump received 750,000 more votes than Republican Senate candidates in those same districts. That’s not just voter preference. That’s a statistical impossibility."
- https://dailyboulder.com/report-voting-machines-were-altered-before-the-2024-election-did-kamala-harris-actually-win/

I can't ignore those details. They are quite strange in their own right, definitely. That's just the potentially illegal stuff, separate from the very legal voter suppression that we all expect anyway.

There is also, however, what Trump himself has said about Musk winning him the election thanks to what Musk knows about voting machines. There's also what Musk himself has said about anything being hackable, and about him being responsible for Trump's win. There's also the ongoing mystery of what exactly Musk's son said to Trump in the White House and separately to Tucker Carlson (a clip for which I have not found a more reputable source, so keep AI fakery in mind here).

Is there an illegitimate leader in the Oval Office?

So... I did not have that conspiracy theory on my card for Doom Bingo 2025. And now it's lodged in my brain. If the lawsuit proves successful, its implication will break the USA.