Some of this data is compelling, but this last bit now has me skeptical:
The 2004 Presidential election and a 2002 Senate election were also decried as fraudulent by experts, including Spoonamore—to no avail.
“I don’t know why John Kerry refused to engage nor why Max Cleland refused to engage. This is the third time I’ve walked into the public square, poured kerosene on myself and set myself on fire saying, ‘Hey, this election was defrauded.’ And all three times the same thing has happened. People just run around going, ‘Oh my God, don’t question elections. Oh my God.’ They keep questioning integrity. Well, I was right in 2002 and I was right in 2004.”
Anyone know if this Spoonamore guy is legit, or is he just some crank that’s been claiming the elections have been rigged for 20 years? Can anyone with expertise on these topics (statistics, cyber security, election process) weigh in on the claims here?
Leaning hard towards “been claiming elections have been rigged for 20 years”. He was asked how he got his numbers on reddit and said “yeah it doesn’t mean much without the actual counts” and handwaved the question away.
Really wish headlines would start being “One guy claims” instead of “Experts claim”. But that wouldn’t get as much engagement.
He keeps describing himself as a cyber security expert and data scientist, but hes actually a finance major and the only technical job he lists on his resume is 8 months as CTO at a tech company back in the mid 2000s.
I found his official complaint about 2004, which gives a good idea of the sort of non-evidence he considers significant. Overall he seems about as legit as anything Trump was trying to push in 2020.
As an actual cybersecurity expert, I can tell you that absolutely nothing in this writeup was logically sound. This guy is using the term “expert” as a way to fish for media attention. He hasn’t actually described any real method of attack, just rehashed a conspiracy theory with no evidence.
The bullet ballot thing is interesting, and worth looking into, but I need to actually validate that what he said about it jumping from 1% to 7% is actually true, and if that means what he says it means. 1:35,000,000,000 chances are rough, but show me the math if you’re gonna hand out figures like that.
Some of this data is compelling, but this last bit now has me skeptical:
Anyone know if this Spoonamore guy is legit, or is he just some crank that’s been claiming the elections have been rigged for 20 years? Can anyone with expertise on these topics (statistics, cyber security, election process) weigh in on the claims here?
Leaning hard towards “been claiming elections have been rigged for 20 years”. He was asked how he got his numbers on reddit and said “yeah it doesn’t mean much without the actual counts” and handwaved the question away.
Really wish headlines would start being “One guy claims” instead of “Experts claim”. But that wouldn’t get as much engagement.
He keeps describing himself as a cyber security expert and data scientist, but hes actually a finance major and the only technical job he lists on his resume is 8 months as CTO at a tech company back in the mid 2000s.
I found his official complaint about 2004, which gives a good idea of the sort of non-evidence he considers significant. Overall he seems about as legit as anything Trump was trying to push in 2020.
https://law.osu.edu/electionlaw/litigation/documents/KLBNA-E4-5-27-09.pdf
As an actual cybersecurity expert, I can tell you that absolutely nothing in this writeup was logically sound. This guy is using the term “expert” as a way to fish for media attention. He hasn’t actually described any real method of attack, just rehashed a conspiracy theory with no evidence.
The bullet ballot thing is interesting, and worth looking into, but I need to actually validate that what he said about it jumping from 1% to 7% is actually true, and if that means what he says it means. 1:35,000,000,000 chances are rough, but show me the math if you’re gonna hand out figures like that.
if it’s the random dude on Twitter and this is a classic Twitter article then it’s likely a big nothing burger.
some dude on Twitter has been spouting that he’s a big security expert but last I looked at the tweets I was not convinced of anything
lots of words and no evidence