WILD conspiracy theories that have no basis in fact or reality have swept the country in the wake of Joe Biden’s election victory over Donald Trump.
The “Gavel and Scorecard” is one of those made-up theories.
What is the ‘Hammer and Scorecard’ Conspiracy Theory?
The Hammer and Scorecard conspiracy theory surfaced after the 2020 presidential election.
Supporters of former President Donald Trump supporters falsely claimed that a supercomputer called Hammer and a computer program called Scorecard changed the vote count in the election.
Some believe Dennis Montgomery was the face behind the alleged software, praising him and falsely claiming he sabotaged the election.
“He’s a genius and he loves America,” retired Air Force Lt. Thomas McInerney said on Trump adviser Steve Bannon’s podcast, adding: “He’s the programmer who made this all possible, and he’s at our side.”
“I think there are a number of things they need to investigate, including the likelihood that three percent of the total votes were altered in the pre-election ballots that were digitally collected using the Hammer program and the software program called Scorecard ,” Sidney Powell, the lawyer for Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn, told Fox Business at the time.
“That would have meant a huge change in mood.”
Joe Biden needed 270 electoral votes to win the election against Trump and he finished with more than 300 electoral votes.
Who is Dennis Montgomery?
Dennis Montgomery is a former intelligence officer at the center of a wild conspiracy theory The everyday beast.
He has previously been accused of being behind “one of the most elaborate and dangerous hoaxes in American history,” the news outlet said.
Montgomery claimed to have developed software that would help the CIA breach Al Qaeda’s systems after the September 11, 2001, attacks, according to the Daily Beast.
The newspaper reported that Montgomery claimed he had discovered information showing that hijackers were hijacking planes flying from Europe and Mexico to the US.
However, his so-called technology was a hoax and did not exist.
Does Donald Trump still support the conspiracy theory?
Trump has continued to embrace the claim that the election was stolen from him two years after President Joe Biden became president.
In a podcast interview with far-right conspiracy theorist Dinesh D’Souza, Trump claimed that anyone could vote 28 times in different locations, helping Biden win the election.
“…They voted six, seven, eight times. As much as they could in the local area,” Trump claimed.
“Some people went back, I think they said 28 times in one day, to vote in different places.”
The spread of voter fraud has been debunked after several states were forced to re-count after Trump claimed he had won in that state.
Trump referenced D’Souza’s conspiracy documentary, 2,000 Mules, which claims Biden supported “armed mules” to produce extra ballots.
During the interview, Trump did not say where he arrived at 28 votes per person, but said the ballots did not yield more votes because they would have been made public.
“They’re very smart,” he said.
Trump’s claims come at a time when polls show his popularity among the Republican party is declining new PBS NewsHour/NPR/Marist poll revealed that more than six in 10 Americans don’t want him to run for the 2024 election.
“His numbers aren’t moving. They are stuck,” said Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist Institute for Public Opinion. PBS.
“The good thing for former President Trump is that his numbers are not going down. The bad thing is that he is only talking about a third of the electorate being in his corner.”
Those who voted for Trump in the 2016 election say their loyalties are beginning to shift, with many believing he has no chance of winning.
Jim Holladay, an independent voter from North Carolina, voted for Trump in 2020 but now says the former president should step aside.
‘He’s done some things that are borderline stupid. I don’t think things like this will help unite the country,” Jim Holladay, an independent voter from North Carolina, told the newspaper.
Referring to the classified documents found at Trump’s Mar-A-Lago estate, Holladay said: “I don’t think he can win.
“I don’t think he can bring the Republican Party together and win the election. I think too many people are afraid of him.”