Yes. Very good summary. This was an expensive plan, years in the making.
3. I look forward to a study of the “over-vote” for president in Wisconsin and Ohio. The over-vote is the number of ballots that had votes for president but none of the down-ticket candidates. This would be an indication of the salt the small town vote strategy. The “salted” votes would only have presidential votes because the financiers of this operation just want a federal win and don’t care about the rest.
Also see Florida for some of the same pattern.
4. In states with electronic voting machines, votes were flipped and stolen. Being wise in the ways of the world tells me that the temptation to build a “back-door” into voting software is overwhelmingly attractive because you can sell that access for a lot of money. Anecdotes of machines showing Obama when Romney was selected were reported. But that probably was only a part of it. The big stealing can go on after the voting is done but before it is counted. I can envision software that takes running vote totals for a candidate and then “flips” just enough votes for the Democrat to win, but not so many as to be suspicious.
After the 2000 and 2004 elections, there was a huge outcry from the Dems about how paper ballots were easily corrupted, hard to count, and therefore invalid, so "auditable" electronic voting had to be the solution. The problem here is that a software engineer can create fake receipts for votes: if you voted for Bob Smith and the machine changed the vote to John Jones, if you asked for a receipt it could be generated as showing a vote for "Bob Smith" and no one would be the wiser. The machine could have an algorithm that said "if votes for Bob Smith = [1.1] [votes for John Jones] begin [subtract n] [votes from John Jones] or begin [votes for Bob Smith] = [.98] [votes for John Jones] or something like that, and the voter would never know this.
“...a software engineer can create...”
I wonder that, if they can do all those algorithms and back door things, they could also make all of their corrupt “engineering magically disappear”, at a point after votes are officially recorded, and the system “cleansed” leaving no traces? I can imagine all kinds of nefarious things, but not being a software engineer/not having such a background, I don’t know what’s even possible in that invisible realm.
Are we imagining too much here in trying to rationalize what happened? Black helicopter stuff? I honestly don’t know. This is way beyond my pay-grade and level of expertise. Somehow, the numbers vs 2008, just don’t add-up rationally.