Last night for the second month in a row, Mike Minogue won an online poll that appears to have been significantly manipulated by automated bot activity to dramatically alter the final outcome.

The artificial intelligence app know as Grok determined the manipulation likelihood as “High (~90% confidence).”

Minogue surged twenty percentage points in the final hour as 570 votes were cast or 32% of the total.

24Beacon has acquired a video of the suspected manipulation over the final hour of voting.

Grok is the AI app of X where the poll was hosted. Grok rated the December poll with a “95%+ confidence that the major spikes aligned with patterns typically seen in automated/coordinated (non-organic) voting activity.”

With one hour left until the polls close GOP gubernatorial hopeful Mike Kennealy had a solid lead over Minogue and fellow competitor Brian Shortsleeve, with 51.4% for Kennealy and 1219 votes cast.

But an hour later Minogue won with 45% of the vote, Kennealy second at 38% and Shortsleeve 17%. Minogue surged 20% in the last fifty-nine minutes.

Sunday’s suspected bot manipulation was more subtle than the brute force attack on December online X poll which Minogue also won.

Grok identified Kennealy’s high water mark of 51.4% with an hour left in the voting as attributable, in part, to support from well known X influencer and Kennealy supporter Jessica Machado, who encourage her followers to vote for Kennealy Sunday afternoon.

Chester Tam hosted the unofficial, unscientific poll on X for the fourth month in a row starting Friday and running till Sunday night. No one has accused Tam, a highly regarded and popular GOP activist, of misconduct.

Tam posted the full Grok analysis last night:

December reaction: