She Won, Part IV: And So Did Hillary. They Opened Pandora's Box. We Tore The Lid Off.

From red flags to red carpets—how the silence after the 2016 election paved the way for a fascist regime.

Let’s Talk About 2016

Before you read this, please note: Paper ballots are only an enforcement tool if we take the steps to look at them.

The 2024 swing state data does not reflect normal human voting behavior—and we’ve been sounding the alarm to members of Congress and the media for months. But they’ve ignored it. So now, we are the media.

Ask yourself—as an American—what are you willing to let stand? And then, get mad. For so many reasons. We’ve already shared the astronomically improbable statistics from the 2024 election. We know Kamala Harris won. And the numbers you’re about to see are just as staggering. This isn’t about “unlikable candidates,” hacked emails, or mean tweets. It’s about the data.

Because when you strip away the noise and run the numbers—paired with fox-in-the-henhouse oversight—what emerges isn’t just suspicious. It’s mathematically impossible to ignore. And what we’re living through right now, both in the U.S. and around the world, was made possible by the silence after the 2016 election.

The Alarms We Never Heard

In unpacking the 2016 data, we found statistical improbabilities across all key states. But Michigan tells a different story. A race decided by just 10,704 votes recorded 75,335 undervotes in Detroit and Flint—most of which were disproportionately concentrated in Black, urban precincts where Hillary Clinton was expected to dominate.

But these ballots weren’t blank because voters skipped the race. In fact, roughly 59% of precincts in Detroit experienced machine malfunctions—including scanners that jammed, failed to read ballots, or didn’t tabulate votes properly.

The historical undervote norm is typically around 0.5%, but in Michigan that year it was a 14.4% undervote rate, odds of that occurring naturally are 1 in 10⁹⁸. That’s a trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion octillions. Because the voting equipment just happened to “fail” in Black, urban precincts—and thanks to Michigan’s voting laws at the time, the recount was halted.

Sure thing. We’ve got oceanfront property in Arizona for sale—bonus: it’s a swing state.

Federal Oversight Status: AWOL

The massive “equipment failures” in Michigan warranted further investigation to determine whether the phenomenon extended beyond the mitten. Given the issues with Pro V&V’s supposed “de minimis” push-through ECOs in the 2024 election, we reviewed the EAC’s official  Engineering Change Orders (ECO) page, which spans from 2011 through 2025.

Our observation: There are no ECOs explicitly dated in 2016 or 2017.

• From 2011 to 2025, the EAC published dozens of certified hardware/software changes.

• There are zero recorded ECOs for 2016 or 2017.

• This blackout covers the entire election window for one of the most consequential political transitions in modern history.

• Meanwhile, states like Michigan were experiencing massive machine failures, unexplained undervotes, and precincts where scanners failed outright—all without a single federally logged update or fix.

• VR Systems, a vendor operating in multiple swing states, was hit with Russian spear-phishing attacks. It was later revealed that Russian military intelligence successfully installed malware on the eve of the election.

• Also of interest: Jack Cobb, the founder of Pro V&V, previously worked for the controversial—and later discredited—CIBER Inc. This revelation opened an entirely new can of worms… but that’s a story for another day.

Numbers Don’t Lie, People Do

The 2016 election data reveals a widespread undervote anomaly that can’t be explained away by “unpopular candidates.” No, there’s a lot more to it than that. Historically, undervote percentages—representing ballots where voters skipped the presidential line—hovered around 0.5%. But in 2016, that number suddenly spiked to around 1.67%, more than tripling the norm.

The shift wasn’t limited to swing states—it hit across the board. Colorado jumped to 2.76%, California to 2.94%, Maine to 3.10%. Even red states like Indiana (2.59%) and Kansas (3.37%) showed dramatic increases. This wasn’t a natural shift in voter behavior. It was a statistical siren.

The odds of this happening organically—especially in razor-thin battlegrounds like Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Florida—are functionally zero. Yet those are the very states that handed Trump his so-called “victory.”

It was the perfect ruse: manipulate the popular vote totals in an attempt to tip the scales, all while staying below the radar. And the narrative of “unpopular candidates” provided the perfect cover.

In layman’s terms: it’s fu*kery.

So, we decided to unpack from 2008 forward.

2008: The “Normal” Obama Wave

• Undervote rates hovered right around the historical average of 0.5%, even in massive states like California and Florida.

• No swing state anomalies. No procedural gaps. The system performed as expected.

2012: The First Cracks

• We see a slight uptick in a few states, hitting 0.87 – 1.72%, but numbers remained within margins for the most part.

• Notable states affected: CO, MI, MT, OR, RI, VT, VA, and WA.

• The shift wasn’t enough to affect the outcome, but someone was testing the waters.

• Remember Rove refusing to accept the election results? How quickly we forget the temerity of a mediocre white male in a suit.

How about Trump’s reaction to the 2012 election results:

“This election is a total sham and a travesty. We are not a democracy!” “More votes equals a loss...revolution!” - Donald Trump via Twitter

But wait, there’s more.

Zzzzt… zzzzt… zzzzt… went the Twitter feed.
One might conclude that Mr. Trump was going through some things after Romney’s loss in 2012:

“We should march on Washington and stop this travesty. Our nation is totally divided.”

Sound familiar? What an interesting reaction—it’s almost as if he was certain it would end differently. What can we say? President Obama stays in the paint.

2016: The Dam Breaks

• The 2016 data went off the rails. Undervote percentages spiked in 43 states—only four saw a decrease, two held steady, and one had to be tossed due to data inconsistencies.

• Cyber intrusions coincided with voter roll targeting and suppression tactics, as detailed in the bipartisan U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Report.

• Dr. Walter Mebane—the gold standard in election forensics—flagged statistically significant irregularities in both Michigan and Wisconsin. Something was fishy, and it wasn’t in their lakes.

Reversing the Margin For The Win

If just a portion of the undervotes in MI, WI, and PA had gone to Hillary Clinton—say, 70–80%, which aligns with down-ballot Democratic Party trends—she would have won the presidency.

• Michigan: Just ~15,000

• Wisconsin: ~23,000

• Pennsylvania: ~45,000
  → Clinton gains 46 electoral votes—more than enough to change the outcome.

And don’t get us started on Florida, the unexplained undervotes exceeded the margin there too. Slap an asterisk next to Trump’s name on Wikipedia—hard.

Hillary Rodham Clinton deserves all the things—a lifetime of apologies, gratitude, and a bar tab that never closes.

The “Kid From Scranton”

The 2020 election saw unprecedented participation, and with it, the national undervote percentage dropped sharply—landing right back around 0.5%. More than 60 million voters cast their ballots by mail, and roughly 60% of them chose President Biden.

Yes, anomalies persisted—but they looked different from the targeted undervote manipulation we saw in 2016. And they simply weren’t enough to overcome the overwhelming surge of mail-in ballots. Say it with us—the words we’ve been hearing for the last four years:
“It was rigged!” Indeed it was—for Trump. We can see it in the data. Per usual with MAGA, every accusation is a confession.

President Biden won the 2020 election with a record-breaking turnout. And thank God, Mother Earth, science, and all the ancestors—he did. He reminded us that decency, kindness, and compassion still matter—as he calmly led the nation through an unprecedented crisis, and pulled the economy out of Trump’s tailspin.

You know what they say: “Heinz-sight” is 20/20. Joe Biden needed a bigger mop. Someone give that man all the ice cream—he certainly earned it.

What Should Have Been & What Must Be

This is the moment to decide—as “We the People”—what we’re willing to let stand. Whether our voices matter. If we still believe in democracy and building towards a more perfect union—or we’re content to let foreign actors, technological broligarchs, Project 2025 Nazis, and Donald Trump hijack three consecutive election cycles.

This country will put a Black man in prison for just about anything, regardless of guilt—but Congress? They'll let a white man steal an election like he’s swiping a Snickers bar. The last legitimately elected Republican president was Eisenhower—you don’t have to take our word for it, ask Thom Hartmann.

What might have been different if someone had just done the math? For starters, we’ve now laid the groundwork to impeach three Supreme Court justices. You know, the ones co-signing Trump’s constitutional bonfire, dismantling due process, and sending your lawn care guys to death camps in foreign countries.

Think about that. “Leo’s Court” is the judicial product of a stolen election.

We have constitutional avenues to remove this entire illegitimate administration. So, Congress—is bombing Iran to keep Netanyahu in power enough of an impetus to act? What about here at home? Does stripping healthcare from millions of Americans qualify? Not so fun fact: this is what the broligarchs refer to as “humane genocide.”

Trump is already threatening a sweep of the blue states in 2026—and with just a 38% approval rating, we already know why he’s so confident. Any conversation about the midterms is a nonstarter until this illegitimate administration is removed.

Is it any wonder the world holds such disdain for the United States? Are we ready to stop behaving like toddlers with nukes and clean up our messes? She won. It’s time to “Do something.”

Where to start: Circulate this Substack series to everyone, ask them to do the same—“We the People” are the media now. Sign the petition for a hand count of the paper ballots in Pennsylvania—we’d like to get to the bottom of those 225,000 questionable ballots, of which 111,088 have been identified as intentional, malevolent manipulations.

Then email, call, and tag state attorneys general and U.S. senators on social media. They don’t have to be your own. It only takes one senator to step up and get this process moving. Remind them: They work for us.

Because again—we don’t need permission to enforce the Constitution. We just need courage.

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