There have been a few articles here at DK about the “100% proof” video that Mike Lindell tried to broadcast. I found a 13-minute segment at YouTube and watched it.
The claim is that the break-ins to alter the number of votes have been documented, with the data stored in a spreadsheet. This spreadsheet shows who was doing the attacking (including the IP number, which is like a street address and can be used to find the location of that computer), when the attack occurred, the IP and MAC number (the number for the actual computer) of the computer that was hacked, including where that computer was, how successful the attack was, and how many Trump votes were “stolen.”
The cybersecurity expert says that there are “thousands of pages” of this data. She made a color-coded video of how it happened, which clearly impressed Mike. (As a side note, he sounded a bit drunk while talking.)
There were several claims made during this 13-minute segment which do not appear to be as solid as Mike thinks.
(1) Assuming for the moment that there were break-ins. There were changes in vote totals for Trump. (This would happen because the votes weren’t all counted at once.) But where's the proof that the crackers [
“hackers” is the incorrect term that the media uses] changed the votes? No record of what the crackers did once they broke in was presented on this video.
(2) If votes were changed, then the recounts would show this. Changing votes electronically doesn’t magically produce or alter paper ballots.
(3) Now for some numerical analysis, i.e. math. In the final column of the spreadsheet, we see a lot of occurrences of “Trump: down xx,xxx.” The cybersecurity expert says that this was the number of votes that were stolen from Trump during that one attack. (My claim is that it just shows the actual number of votes that Trump was behind, and not a change in the number of votes.) On the page that was shown in the video, the smallest number listed was a little over 1,000 (some numbers ranged up to 14,000). Now, saying “thousands of pages” means at least 2,000 pages. The number of lines per page in a standard document is 60 (although anything down to 50 is possible). Thus, the total number of “Trump votes stolen” is at least
1,000 × 2,000 × 60 = 120,000,000.
As I pointed out above, this is an undercount by at least a factor of 10, but this number is still problematic. If we take the number of votes that Trump received (74 million) plus the number that were stolen from him (120 million), we arrive at 194 million, which is roughly the number of adults in the United States. There is something severely wrong with this number; Trump could not have gotten 90% of the adult vote.
If you take the extra factor of 10 into account, the number of “votes stolen” is around 1.2 billion, or four times the population of the United States.
What Lindell wanted evidence of was the crime of the century, but the numbers are too big for them to have been real.
(4) That alone would be enough to refute the claims. But now, let’s make another assumption, that yes, Trump did get 194 million votes. Where did they go?
Were they changed to Biden votes? No, because Biden did not get anywhere near 120 million votes (plus the number of “legal” Biden votes).
Were they deleted? No, not unless the paper ballots were destroyed as well. And the number of ballots that would have to be destroyed would have to be consistent for every state that was “attacked.”
I chose three IP addresses at random out of the ones that were semi-legible to me. In the summary below, the last digit could be a 5 instead of a 3, but that doesn’t change the location of the computer (changing the last number doesn’t). I have listed the IP, where the computer allegedly is, and where it is, when I look up that address on the website mentioned above.
| IP address |
Alleged location |
actual location |
| 104.16.0.193 |
Cobb County, GA |
United States (more specific information not found) |
| 34.192.0.63 |
Oakland County, MI |
Springfield, GA (Effingham County) |
| 104.14.0.1 |
Cobb County, GA |
Troy, MI (Oakland County) |
In short, NONE OF THEM were where they should have been. (It’s odd that the Georgia computer was actually in Oakland County.) In the very best case scenario for Lindell, the data is disorganized enough to be useless. (In his worst case scenario, it’s completely made up; I suspect that this is closer to the truth.)
(6) Lindell and his expert point out that security issues were brought up as early as 2015. If the Republican party was so concerned that this election could be stolen from their candidate (something Trump said in 2016), then why didn’t they beef up security efforts between 2017 and 2020?
Any one of these arguments would destroy the “100% Proof.” And all six of them were found within a 13 ½ minute span of the video. (And no, I have no plans for watching the entire thing.)
