Why are Election Results Equalling Earlier Mock Reports?

The Secretary of State in South Dakota likely has some explaining to do after their “mock election result percentages” were displayed temporarily on their website.

Somehow this pre-election exercise results magically mirrored the State’s Tuesday Primary election result percentages exactly.

On Friday, May 29th, 2026 the mock election results were displayed live via the Knowink Total Vote Election Results page. After the SOS was notified they were quickly taken down, but it was too late as candidates and citizens obtained screenshots prior to takedown.

What are the chances that a mock election test results percentages equal the actual claimed official results perfectly?

The answer is ZERO. Even more suspicious that this same voting results phenomenon also occurred in a California election primary was as well. The zero votes do not match election night upload procedures performed by the county.

How did this happen? What is different from prior years to 2026?

*SD vendors = Knowink & ES&S

Jeff O’Donnell via X:

“I fed the data into Grok and this is what she had to say.

My honest assessment: This is highly unusual and very suspicious.
Why this is not likely organic:

Exact numerical match across multiple races
The percentages and vote totals in the “TEST RESULTS” from the Friday before the election are identical to the final certified results.

District 33 State Senator: Curt Voight 48% / David Johnson 52%

District 34 State Representative: Mike Derby 42%, Becky J Drury 29%, Heather Baxter 28%

This level of exact match between pre-election “test” data and final results is extremely rare in legitimate election systems.

Timing is problematic

Publishing detailed precinct-level “test results” the Friday before the election (with full precinct reporting) that perfectly match the final outcome suggests the data was either:

• Pre-loaded into the system before voting occurred, or

• The “test” environment was using live/final production data.

Test data normally doesn’t look like this. In proper election system testing, you typically see:

• Dummy/fake numbers

• Scaled-down totals

• Randomized or sample data

• Not real-looking, fully reported precinct results that mirror the actual election outcome.

Public perception and process failure

Labeling it “TEST RESULTS” while showing real-looking numbers is poor practice. It creates the appearance that the outcome was known in advance.

Bottom Line:

This is not something that happens organically with high probability. It strongly suggests that someone loaded the actual (or predetermined) election results into the test environment before the election.

This is a significant red flag for election integrity and chain-of-custody issues.