I found a very interesting article about 2024 election issues.
The DNC promised to tell Democrats what went wrong in 2024. On December 18, they announced they're burying the report instead. That's the hook for a 6,500-word Substack article making the case that the 2024 presidential election was stolen.
The piece, written by Christopher Armitage at The Existentialist Republic, doesn't bury the lede. It opens with a direct accusation: Ken Martin promised transparency about the party's 300-interview post-election analysis, then reversed course, claiming releasing it "doesn't help us win." The article treats this suppression as evidence of something darker than political embarrassment.
Here's the argument structure. The piece uses a prosecutorial framework – means, motive, and opportunity – to build a circumstantial case that Trump allies rigged the 2024 election through vulnerabilities in voting systems they'd been studying since January 2021.
The timeline starts on January 7, 2021.
That's the day after the Capitol attack failed to stop certification.
According to the article, operatives hired by Sidney Powell entered the Coffee County, Georgia election office and copied Dominion voting machine software. Powell's nonprofit Defending the Republic paid $26,000 for the job. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation produced a 392-page report documenting what happened. Powell later pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges related to the breach.
The article claims this stolen software was then distributed to election denial operatives across multiple states.
Named recipients include Jim Penrose (former NSA official), Doug Logan (CEO of Cyber Ninjas, which ran the Arizona "audit"), and Stefanie Lambert (indicted in Michigan on felony charges for voting machine tampering, trial scheduled for March 2026).
Next comes the vulnerability documentation.
In June 2022, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency published an advisory identifying nine vulnerabilities in Dominion voting machines. These included flaws that could allow malicious code execution and privilege escalation. The article notes that Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger declined to patch or replace the approximately 34,000 affected machines before the November 2024 election.
The piece then describes the January 2024 courtroom demonstration.
University of Michigan computer scientist J. Alex Halderman showed in federal court that with a pen, a smart card, and a USB device, someone could install malicious software on voting machines, cause QR codes to not match the human-readable ballot text, and change vote totals.
Judge Amy Totenberg acknowledged the vulnerabilities but didn't order machines replaced before the election.
The article builds to what it presents as the smoking gun: Trump's January 19, 2025 rally remarks about Elon Musk. The quote is real and verified by fact-checkers.
Trump said Musk "knows those computers better than anybody, all those computers, those vote counting computers. And we ended up winning Pennsylvania like, in a landslide."
The piece connects this to America PAC's 2024 activities. According to the article, Musk's PAC collected detailed personal information from swing state voters through a website that claimed to help people register to vote – but in battleground states, it just collected the data without actually registering anyone.
Users in non-competitive states were directed to actual voter registration pages. Michigan and North Carolina opened investigations. The article notes both investigations went silent.
Then there's the Dominion acquisition.
In October 2025, Scott Leiendecker purchased Dominion Voting Systems and rebranded it as Liberty Vote. Leiendecker is a former Republican elections director from St. Louis who also founded KNOWiNK, which provides electronic poll books used to check in voters.
According to the article, KNOWiNK devices checked in 36 million voters in 29 states in 2024 – about one in four voters nationally. The article points out that as a condition of the sale, Dominion settled its defamation lawsuits against Sidney Powell, Rudy Giuliani, and One America News Network.
The piece includes statistical analysis from Walter Mebane, a University of Michigan professor who specializes in election forensics. Mebane's preliminary analysis of Pennsylvania results identified what the article describes as approximately 111,088 votes that "exhibited statistical properties consistent with fraudulent increments rather than legitimate voting patterns." The article notes Trump's margin in Pennsylvania was about 120,000 votes.
The institutional failures section is extensive.
The FBI formally declined to investigate the Coffee County breach in February 2023, stating it needed a formal request from Georgia state authorities. The article frames this as law enforcement treating "a multistate breach of election infrastructure, funded by associates of a former president who was actively running for reelection" as someone else's problem.
The piece also documents Election Day 2024 disruptions. Polling places in swing states received bomb threats that the FBI said "appear to originate from Russian email domains." Fulton County, Georgia – a Democratic stronghold – received 32 bomb threats. Five polling locations were evacuated.
The conclusion doesn't equivocate.
The article states that while the evidence "does not prove with certainty that the 2024 election was stolen," it does prove "that every element required to steal it was in place, that every person with the motive to steal it had access to the means, and that every institution with the power to prevent or detect it chose to look the other way."
The call to action is direct. The article provides Ken Martin's contact information – phone, social media handles, feedback forms – and encourages readers to demand the DNC release its 2024 analysis.
That's the argument.
Stolen software, documented vulnerabilities, unpatched machines, institutional inaction, swing state voter data collection, consolidated election infrastructure ownership, statistical anomalies, and a president who publicly thanked someone for knowing "those vote counting computers" after winning Pennsylvania.
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