Better to link to Mediaite directly than the Yahoo news portal.

This is also being reported in Texas, Missouri

I didn't know GOP officials bought Dominion voting machines in 2025

It's not a bug, it's a feature?

Unfortunately there’s nothing we can do. You can’t question the integrity of the US voting process unless you’re a Russian bot. So sad. Better luck next vote. :(

I remember seeing videos of this in the presidential election as well

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There is. If you experience issues the first step is to call 1-866-OUR-VOTE and they'll connect you with your state's voting officials.

AGs of states (especially blue states) have been preparing for these kinds of things and will be all over them.

It's also worth noting that this happens in every election with touchscreens. And it's quite possible that they are malfunctioning in any way, including changing R votes to D.

Modern machines produce a human-readable paper ballot, and we can do exit polling to check for statistical anomalies, us election integrity probably isn't attacked at the voting machine level.

At least since the 2000s or so.

FFS Americans.

Simpsons did it!

I'm glad I vote on paper here, but it's still read by a black box scanning machine so I have no idea what happens in there. But, I'd have no idea what happens anywhere after I turn in my ballot.

We'll need to depend on the state election officials to hold the line, and call for a new election if the they find the machines are compromised.

You dropped this: /s

Hopefully, people will start recording this and posting it.

UN observers are denied observation access.

This happens with touchscreens every election.

They didn’t do that in 2024 while being told by the criminals they stole it so what makes you think this will go any differently?

If we didn’t insist on knowing the results as quickly as possible we could just use paper ballots and take a couple weeks to count them.

I remember back in 2000 seeing a flash animation of "florida voting machine" on Jay Leno probably, where the user would try to click on Gore, and Bush's name would jump under the mouse, with Gore jumping away. The clip was chasing Gore's name all around the screen.

Holy shit I found it. Turns out it was 2004 with Bush/Kerry. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yq79wG3DqvI

It's quite possible to use paper ballots and still get the results quickly. Many countries do this.

Real question is - will Americans find balls to finally raise hell and get into streets and protest for real (or do general strikes) or will they keep posting "Why doesn't someone arrest Trump/Hegseth/etc?" on social media all day long, fearing loss of any comfort or convenience if they are asked to fight for their freedoms?

I can't tell you the number of times that Americans and citizens of other moral-high-ground countries insisted how I had to fight against my tyrannical regime, decades ago. And we did, and I fought fucking police on the streets.

And here we are, they need to put their money where their mouth is and all we hear is - crickets.

Don't get me wrong, I still prefer Western culture and countries, I would not change it for anything but I am so fucking tired of watching all those loud cunts not having any balls while telling others what they should do (or should have done).

How do all the people suggesting Iranians should have fought the regime feel now, eh?

In case it is not clear, there is 0% chance Trump and billionaires will give away what they hold, peacefully. It is still surreal that there are so many naive people even though they could just glance at history and see how it will play out.

Good luck.

yea some of us can't afford to risk that, it's not all just comfort it's survival. it's a police state

The "secret" to both quick and accurate counting is to use machine counting - not counting by humans.

Want to prove it to yourself? Here's a simple test to perform:

1. Purchase a 500 sheet ream of blank printer paper.
2. Count the sheets in it.

Bet you won't come up with 500. Count them again; again, I bet you won't come up with 500 and I bet you won't come up with the same number as the first time you counted them.

That's why:

1. You have to have properly calibrated equipment (touch screens in this case). And, 2) a validate/confirm button/screen that has to be selected before the votes are actually submitted.

The proper course of action in the above case would be to alert the pole workers to the problem and they should then remove the defective equipment from use until it is properly calibrated and certified accurate. Which it should have been before being placed in service originally.

Oh the machines are broken so cancel election until further review, womp womp womp

Violence is a legitimate form of political expression.

Just takes one Molotov cocktail to get the revolution started.

Wow seems like some shit we’ve been saying for 30 fucking years at this point that we shouldn’t rely on some digital system that can be manipulated anywhere from the screen to the database to the network to the memory to the reporting output to the…

Ink on paper is much harder to manipulate because you need to physically insert fakes, physically create,transport, insert them, and physically hide all this activity from workers, volunteers, and monitors who can’t possibly all be bought off.

Digital systems have way too many ways to be fucked with invisibly, at the electron level, inside wires and computer chips and on spinning hard drives through code and commands and erased files, done remotely from other states or countries, and if you need someone on the inside you may only need one or two people. Even if the manufacturers are honest, even if they create the best possible product. It’s like “backdoors in encryption that only work for the good guys” - it’s a screen door on a bank vault with an “employees only” sign.

The same is true for the scantron machines but with those, there is a hardcopy paper source that has a physical, observable chain of trust as a fallback (assuming of course all procedures are thorough and followed).

Of all the systems in the world, breaking the one that gives the power is the ultimate target.
It’s irrational to think this was a good idea.

I knew instantly as a fucking teenager that “touch screen voting machines” was a bad idea, and here I am pushing 50 and still saying it. All it’s done was prove to me beyond the shadow of a doubt that no one knows what the fuck they’re doing; not then and not now.

Dude you split the 500 pack into sheets of 10 and lay them crosswise over each other. You haven't ever done this, have you?

They won't, theyll protest then nothing, just like every one of their stupid no kings protests, nothing changes after them but they keep doing this performative nonsense to make themselves feel better.

And it will stay that way till you grow a pair of balls.

This exact mindset is how you end up under the yoke and frankly you deserve it for not fighting against it.

A whole lot of countries make it work:

https://web.archive.org/web/20221114152441/https%3A%2F%2Faceproject.org%2Fabout-en%2FCDTable%3Fquestion%3DVC005%26set_language%3Den

As another demonstration, Just about every bank i've been to dispenses bills by way of an automatic counting machine.

Yes, I volunteer regularly in Germany. It works just fine and is fully paper based.

One problem with this.

I had the misfortune of living in Texas for two years.

Not only do they check your ID in order to walk in, they will arrest you if you record a video of the polling machines.

When I expressed concerns, such as "what if the machine is having issues that I'd like to document" and "I researched before the voted and took notes on my phone that I'd like to reference"

They encouraged me that my printed ballot is the ultimate source of truth and to always verify that before leaving. And that I can use my cell phone outside.

Inheritance tax fears make people say crazy things.

Depending on the ethnicity of the person you replied to, drawing attention to themselves in any form of protest may very well bring an immediate life or death situation. Us pale folk need to be stepping up, and good on those that already are.

Yo thats so fucked! I went to my polling place for the first time a few years and was completely unprepared. I asked my pollsters if I could whip my phone and do some light research. They were completely happy and fine with it (Pittsburgh, PA).

This is partly to prevent voter manipulation and blackmail, e.g. i give you 500 euros and you film yourself voting for my candidate.

Odd strategy wishing death on the oppressed but go off or whatever. How does it look from that "moral highground" of yours?

The people are fighting, the problem is the media stomps out coverage of it in an attempt to cull the movement. Not our fault u believe the propaganda, the media has been bought by the people we rebel against. I have to ask, how long did your people have to fight? How long did it take to see results? How big is your country? It's not that the people aren't trying, that's what they want you to think. It's that we are a big country and change takes time. Maybe instead of walking around with your nose above your ears, you can relate to our struggle and help us out by telling us what worked instead of spouting some sexist bullshit about "growing balls". Way to tell us where you stand on sexism and how much u gobble up corporate propaganda.

I have done this and still miscounted. Pages stick together here and there. Some of my stacks of 10 were 11. Slowing down helped. Having a second person count helped more.

Real question is - will Americans find balls to finally raise hell and get into streets and protest for real (or do general strikes) or will they keep posting “Why doesn’t someone arrest Trump/Hegseth/etc?” on social media all day long, fearing loss of any comfort or convenience if they are asked to fight for their freedoms?

You know the answer. It's the same reason that you don't raise hell and do a general strike against your simp-for-the-USA government.

Odds are very good that your country uses the US dollar to trade and that you're part of the US-led International Monetary Fund, and that your government trains with the US Armed Forces, follows their military dictates, and buys US weapons. Why do you just watch your government openly serve the USA?

You can buy a plane ticket and start the rebellion any day now, just like Americans, or you can at least stop your own country from serving the USA's interests and feeding the beast.

But you don't. Sad.

This article was an eye-opener for me :

https://edgnts.substack.com/p/why-americans-dont-just-do-something?r=99ug36

This article was an eye-opener for me :

https://edgnts.substack.com/p/why-americans-dont-just-do-something?r=99ug36

So, when is your country going to leave the US banking system?

Just wondering how you can live with yourself.

You do realize many country's are backing away from American systems right? Soon as America trys anything, the country will move. Also notice how your trying to leaver your countrys 'position' over others when your being criticized? Sounding a lot like a MAGAt to me.

So, placing them in stacks of 10 fixes it all?

Let's see, Pennsylvania had ~5,000,000 votes cast in 2022 per ballotpedia.org for senator. That would mean ~500,000 stacks of 10.

You're sure everyone of them has exactly 10 sheets; not 9 or 11 or 8 even? They never get knocked off the table, mixed up, etc?

And remember, all parties need to count all of the ballots independently from each other - can't trust a party to count their own candidates ballots ;-). And I'm certain we want every party to come up with the exact same count for each candidate.

Looks like (from the same reference above), that there were 7 candidates running for senator in that election. Five of which received any votes (guess the 2 write-in candidates didn't even vote for themselves 🤷). So that's 5M x 7 counts = 35M ballots to count . . . by hand . . . for just one mid-sized state.

And also, there is almost always more than one race on a ballot (I usually see more like 10+ on mine). So, are you going to count them once (in stacks of 10) - tallying 10+ races per ballot? Or do you plan to count them 10+ times (once for each race)?

With all due respect, I can't see that being in any way practical even given an army of very careful people with multiple months of time.

Your wishing death upon yourselves for not fighting for your right to live the way you had been, waving a no king sign around and pretending like you did something is not fighting, that performative bull rap is just that.

Also, "moral highground" are you fucking stupid, your debating morals while your rights are getting stripped away and you sit their thinking "look at this guy with the soapbox" when I'm telling you if you don't fight for yourselves, why should anybody help you.

Actually explain it, why should I help someone who won't help themselves, and no, going out and "protesting" is not fighting for your rights, the federal Gove doesn't give a shit so this action is POINTLESS.