Executive Summary
We the People have a diagnosis problem. Every two years we are told the same thing — that the election is the most important of our lifetimes, that we must turn out, that we must vote like our republic depends on it. And every two years the same architecture of compromised rolls, opaque machines, and laundered mail-in ballots grinds forward, untouched.
This week on the show we sat down with Seth Keshel — former military intelligence officer, election data analyst, and author of The American War on Election Corruption: The Crusade to Restore Trusted Voting, currently the number-one selling title on Amazon in elections, in elections and political process, and in 21st-century world history. Two weeks on the shelves and not a single mainstream review. We will let you draw your own conclusions about why.
Seth walked us through what is actually broken — and what is actually fixable. We talked about the swing-state margins in 2024 that should not have been close. We talked about Muskegon County, Michigan, where a lobbying firm out of Tennessee was found planting thousands of fraudulent voter registrations in a single day. We talked about Georgia’s 634% mail-in surge between 2016 and 2020. We talked about Valencia County, New Mexico, where 204 ballots that were never voted got transmitted for tabulation in 2025. And we talked about the deeper question underneath all of it — the social contract our Founders built to keep bloodshed out of the streets, and what happens to a republic when that covenant fractures.
This is not conspiracy theory. This is documentary history, sourced from county clerks, court records, and Seth’s own field research across more than thirty states. The midterms are coming. The machinery did not uninstall itself on November 6th. The work is in front of us — and it is local.
Scroll to the bottom for Key Takeaways.
The Margins That Should Not Exist
Trump won in 2024. The Electoral College result was more comfortable than 2016 or 2020. But underneath the headline number sits a story almost no one in corporate media is willing to tell.
Pennsylvania — less than 2 points. Georgia — 2.2 points. Michigan — 1.5 points. Wisconsin — under a single point.
Those are not the margins of an election that reflects the actual political gravity of the country. As Seth put it on air, the cheating compressed every one of those states into “too close for comfort.” The machinery that did the compressing did not pack itself up and go home on November 6th. It is still installed. It is still funded. And 2026 is not a safe position to coast into.
We are not telling you this to make you despair. We are telling you this so you understand why the next 18 months matter — and why local action is the only action that compounds.
Voter Registration Is The Foundation
Here is the line worth memorizing, in Seth’s own framing — voter registration corruption is the foundation of electoral corruption.
Everyone wants to fight about the machines. Everyone wants to fight about mail-in ballots. Those are real fights. But they are downstream fights. If you remove every voting machine in the country tomorrow and keep a corrupted registration system, you still have a corrupted election. If you eliminate mail-in ballots and keep machines without hand-count tabulation, a serious cyber-manipulation event still rewrites the result.
Three months before the 2024 election, 83.5% of Michigan’s population was registered to vote. Only 78% of any population is even old enough to vote in the first place — that is a 5.5-point overage right there, before excluding the incarcerated and non-citizens. Do the math on a state of ten million and you are looking at more than half a million registrations that should not exist.
This is the reason blue states are refusing to comply with the DOJ’s request for voter rolls. It is not a privacy concern. It is a sunlight concern.
Muskegon County — One Clerk Paying Attention
In 2020, a lobbying firm out of Tennessee was found planning fraudulent voter registrations in Muskegon County, Michigan — a mid-sized county, not a major metro. The city clerk discovered thousands of registrations had been pushed through in a single day, and she identified a number of them as clearly fraudulently planted. The chain of evidence pointed back, in part, to operations connected to the Chinese government.
One clerk. One county. Paying attention.
Now ask yourself the question the DOJ will not ask out loud — how many other counties had the same operation running, with no clerk paying attention? That is the gap. That is the work. And it is being done one county at a time by Americans who decided to stop waiting for somebody else to handle it.
Georgia 2020 — A 634% Mail-In Surge
Georgia in 2020 is the case study every reformer should be able to recite from memory.
Automatic voter registration expanded aggressively, especially around Metro Atlanta, flooding the rolls with names that nobody had verified. Mail-in ballots went from roughly 200,000 in 2016 to over 1.2 million in 2020. That is a 634% increase in a single cycle. Read that number again. There is no organic explanation for that kind of vertical line on a chart.
Meanwhile — and this is the part the corporate press will not put on screen — most serious democracies around the world have banned mail-in voting outright. In Europe, 34 of 47 countries have banned it. The 13 that allow it largely restrict it to overseas citizens, which is a few thousand votes total. Mexico, Russia, Japan, Israel — all ban it.
So why is it that the moment Democrats take a state, they rush to install automatic voter registration and expand mail-in balloting to the maximum? The utopia they are pushing toward is universal mail-in balloting, where every registration on the rolls — real person or not — gets a ballot mailed to it. The entire game is about ballots in motion.
The Black Box Problem
On machines, Seth is precise — and that precision matters, because the conversation on machines gets sloppy fast.
Can a machine be hacked? Of course it can. A machine is glass and plastic. It has to be programmed, and anything that has to be programmed can be programmed to malfunction. In the 2025 cycle, Valencia County, New Mexico transmitted 204 ballots to the secretary of state for tabulation — ballots that had never been voted. Two hundred and four phantom ballots in a single small county, in a so-called inconsequential election.
But the deeper issue with machines is not whether Machine X was compromised on a specific Tuesday. The deeper issue is that you are being asked to trust a black box. There is no transparency. In Florida alone, more than ten million votes will run through machines that the public cannot inspect, cannot audit in real time, and cannot independently verify. That is not consent of the governed. That is consent assumed.
We are not anti-technology. We are pro-accountability. There is a difference.
The Mark Elias Architecture
Seth’s book leans heavily on Molly Hemingway’s reporting in Rigged — and one of the threads he pulls forward is the Mark Elias architecture. Elias is the lawfare engine that has spent over a decade quietly rewriting election rules state by state through litigation, consent decrees, and last-minute injunctions. This is how the rolls got bloated in the first place. This is how mail-in expansion happened in states where the legislature would never have voted for it. This is the legal scaffolding underneath the machinery.
Two weeks of bestseller status. Number one in three categories. Zero mainstream reviews. That is the tell. The book that names the architecture does not get reviewed by the institutions that benefit from the architecture. We the People are going to have to do the reviewing — by reading it, sharing it, and handing it to the most skeptical person we know.
The Covenant
This is the part of the conversation that has stayed with us all week.
Before suffrage, when a new king took the throne, he would put to the sword every member of the previous line. That is the historical pattern of human succession. Voting and elections were a mercy to humanity — a social contract. The deal was simple. We will figure out who is in charge through this honored process called an election, and as long as you honor it, we will keep the bloodshed out of the streets.
Elections are not a bureaucratic convenience. They are the load-bearing wall between a constitutional republic and the older, bloodier patterns of how power changed hands for most of recorded history. When the covenant fractures — when elections stop being honored and start being engineered — people eventually figure out historically what that means.
That is why this work is not optional. That is why “I don’t follow politics” is no longer a defensible position for any American who wants to leave a country to their children. The covenant is what we inherited. The covenant is what we owe forward.
Who Rules?
If We the People rule, then We the People count the votes. We see the rolls. We watch the ballots. We audit the machines. We elect the secretaries of state who decide whether rolls get cleaned or cooked.
If someone else rules — the globalist oligarchy, the Mark Elias lawfare network, the NGO sphere of influence financed through the same handful of foundations — then the election is a liturgy of consent and our participation is theater.
There is no third option. There is no “just trust the process” version of self-government. There is the covenant, honored — or there is the covenant, broken. And the difference between those two outcomes is whether enough Americans get off the bench in the next 18 months and do the unglamorous local work that actually moves the needle.
This is the empowering part. This is the part that should put steel in your spine instead of dust on your shoulders. The fix is not in Washington. The fix is in your county. It always was.
Key Takeaways
- The 2024 swing-state margins — Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin — were artificially compressed by the same machinery that has not been dismantled.
- Voter registration corruption is the foundation of every other form of electoral corruption. Fix the rolls and the rest follows.
- Michigan was 83.5% registered three months before 2024 — over half a million more registrations than the eligible population can support.
- Muskegon County, Michigan caught a Tennessee lobbying firm planting thousands of fraudulent registrations in 2020. One clerk paying attention is what made the difference.
- Georgia’s mail-in vote went from 200,000 in 2016 to over 1.2 million in 2020 — a 634% increase in a single cycle, while most serious democracies in the world ban mail-in voting outright.
- Black-box voting machines are a transparency problem before they are a hacking problem. No audit, no consent.
- The seats that matter most for 2026 are local — county clerk, secretary of state, poll worker. That is where the covenant gets restored.
Frequently Asked Questions
If Trump won in 2024, why are we still talking about election cheating? Because the margins in the swing states tell us the machinery is still installed. Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin should not have been single-digit fights. They were compressed by the same systems — bloated rolls, mass mail-in, opaque machines — that produced 2020. Winning despite the cheating is not the same as fixing the cheating.
Why are blue states refusing to hand over voter rolls to the DOJ? If the rolls were clean, sunlight would not be a problem. Compliance is cheap when the data is honest. The refusal is the answer.
Is Seth Keshel saying every voting machine in America is hacked? No. He is saying the machines are a black box, that programmed devices can always be programmed to malfunction, and that the absence of transparent audit is itself the disqualifying problem. Valencia County, New Mexico transmitted 204 ballots that were never voted in 2025. That is the kind of thing that should not be possible to discover after the fact.
Why won’t mainstream outlets review Seth’s book? Because the book names the legal and institutional architecture — including Mark Elias and the NGO sphere — that those outlets are aligned with. Two weeks at number one in three Amazon categories with zero mainstream review is not an accident. It is a signal.
What is the single most useful thing I can do before 2026? Become a poll worker. Not a watcher — a worker. Then run for or volunteer on a secretary of state race in your state. Those are the seats that decide whether the rolls get cleaned or cooked.
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