Conan James Hayes, from conquerer of Cloudbreak to
toy merchant to self-appointed electoral detective bringing truth
to truthers!
(Editor’s note: Two weeks ago, we wrote about
Conan Hayes’ new role as a minor celebrity in election fraud
conspiracy circles. Here, our pretty little lawyer boy
Cedar Hobbs goes deeper.)
Since the election of Joe Biden, heralded as “the most
secure in American history,” conspiracies have sprouted up across
the nation to justify Donald Trump’s loss.
Dead men voting, buried mail-in ballots, Dominion Voting Systems
etc.
A grand conspiracy orchestrated by the Democrats (who actually
lost seats in the House of Representatives and greatly
underperformed in the election) to keep Donald Trump out of
office.
Coined the Stop the Steal movement, it has resulted in
myriad conspiracies, lawsuits (that were ultimately dismissed), and
result confirming audits.
And, it appears that one of the movement’s prominent players is
Conan Hayes himself, former professional surfer and RVCA
co-founder.
In November of 2020 a lawsuit was filed in Michigan state court
challenging the electoral results of Antrim County, Michigan, where
Donald Trump won almost 2/3 of the county. The lawsuit proffered a
conspiracy that Dominion voting tabulators switched votes from
Donald Trump to Joe Biden.
As part of that litigation, Conan Hayes was designated as one of
several expert witnesses on behalf of the plaintiff. According to
filings, Hayes was expected to “testify as to application security,
systems, process, generally accepted programming practices,
standards of care, as it relates to application development of
sensitive systems.”
The names of those experts, including Hayes, were not initially
public.
Per The Record Eagle, the plaintiff in the case filed a motion
for protective order to keep the names of the experts private,
citing safety concerns, but the presiding judge denied that
motion.
While in Michigan, Hayes, through his Twitter account
@We_Have_Risen, reportedly (and improperly) tweeted
photos of rolls of voter data.
Hayes would later contribute to a flawed report released by the
Allied Security Operations Group (ASOG).
According to The Daily Beast, the lawyer for the
plaintiff, Matthew DePerno, confirmed that Hayes had “helped with
the collection of forensic information and the analysis of the info
we put into the ASOG Report.”
That report asserted that the Dominion vote tabulators were
“intentionally and purposefully designed with errors to create
systemic fraud and influence election results.”
The report was met with wide spread criticism, notably
because it confused Minnesota
precincts with Michigan precincts in its analysis.
That suit was dismissed in May of 2021.
(For what it’s worth, I voted at least three times in Michigan,
and every time I visited my polling place everything appeared well
above board.)
Conan Hayes has been involved an Arizona audit as well, where
Donald Trump has claimed that voting fraud cost him Arizona’s
electoral votes.
Despite two audits that confirmed the results in the area, state
legislators began a review of the ballots in April.
That review has been led by Cyber Ninjas, a computer security
firm with no election experience prior to the 2020 election.
Hayes apparently has connections to Cyber Ninjas.
In a statement from Dave Logan, CEO of Cyber Ninjas, the
“DePerno Team” was recognized as providing “operational support and
advice pivotal in executing the audit.” This may implicate Hayes,
as he worked with DePerno during the Michigan electoral
challenge.
In May 2021, Garrett Archer, a data analyst for ABC15 Arizona,
confirmed that Hayes was on the Arizona audit floor acting as a
subcontractor.
Additional information from Cyber Ninjas, including records
related to fundraisers and communications, is expected soon.
According to AZCentral, the U.S. House Oversight and Reform
Committee instructed Cyber Ninjas to produce certain records by
Friday, August 27th.
Results of the Arizona audit were expected Monday, August 23rd,
but have been delayed “because three of the five members of the
auditing team have tested positive for coronavirus,” according to
the Arizona Republican Senate leader.
And most recently, Hayes has been implicated in an election
scandal in Mesa County, Colorado.
According to Vice, earlier this year, county clerk Tina
Peters allowed an individual to steal election data from the
county. That data would later be shared at Mike Lindell’s (the MyPillow guy and notable
conspiracy theorist), Cyber Symposium
conference.
During the breach, surveillance cameras monitoring the equipment
were shut off at the prompting by Peters.
In a statement from Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold, a
Gerald Wood was penned as an “unauthorized individual” who accessed
the hard drives and data.
But it appears that Gerald Wood is a pseudonym used by
Hayes..
During the Cyber Symposium, Ron Watkins, a major player in QAnon
and who has been rumored to be Q himself,
specifically named Hayes as possessing the data.
https://twitter.com/get_innocuous/status/1425566065413607427
Watkins stated live during the symposium: “I just learned that
Conan James Hayes may have taken, without authorization, the actual
hard drives, from the Mesa County, er, Mesa Colorado County clerk,
and he needs to produce those hard drives immediately and return
them to the clerk.”
Ty Clevenger, Watkins’ attorney, confirmed to Vice News that
Hayes had provided the sensitive data.
Data from the leak also showed that it was accessed by an
individual with the username “cjh,” according to Twitter user
@get_innocuous.
Following the breach, the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office,
the Mesa County District Attorney, and the Federal Bureau of
Investigation have opened investigations.
According to a statement from FBI spokeswoman Courtney Bernal,
“The FBI is working with the 21st Judicial District Attorney’s
Office on the forensic review and analysis of county voting systems
to determine if there was a potential federal criminal
violation.”
Dan Rubinstein, the District Attorney for Mesa County, told CNN
that he had been contacted by the Secretary of State’s Office and
“was told that they believed that there were potential criminal
matters which would be referred to my office for prosecution.”
Since the Cyber Symposium, Tina Peters is being housed in a safe
house provided by Mike Lindell. Lindell told Vice News
that Peters was “worried about her safety, these people are
ruthless.”
There have not been any criminal charges filed.
Hayes’ Twitter account, @We_Have_Risen, has recently been
deleted.
More as the story develops.
