This isn’t just happening in Tennessee. There are reports of voters in other states experiencing touchscreen voting machines changing their selections from Democratic to Republican candidates.
Please check, double-check, and TRIPLE-CHECK your ballot before submitting it. Make sure every vote reflects your choice. If something looks wrong, alert a poll worker before casting your ballot.
This should have been a bigger story for the last several elections.
In 2020, in Kentucky, I had the same thing happen to me. I had to reselect my picks and I'm still unconvinced it recorded my selections properly. It was like it set "default" to every Republican candidate.
At least leave the voting alone. Christ with all the different ways to manipulate us if you can't even get enough of us to vote for you then you must be incompetent leadership wise.
Why would they? They are already breaking every law of the land, they might as well make sure they will win a rigged election. Why would a cheater stop cheating? They have said it themselves, they know if they lose they might go to prison. So they are gonna take every advantage they have, including balantly rigging the voting machines.
they are fascists. they do not care about "the sanctity of voting", that is the first thing they intend to do away with. Every fucking Republican.
they are theocrats who believe God is on their side, and indeed, compelling them to act in their belief of what service to God means (murdering gay people, liberals, non-whites, etc).
They won't leave voting alone, because they firmly believe that they deserve more than the rest of their countrymen, because they're scum.
Yeah but we all of us are only strong on the internet. We do nothing but hope someone else will. Me included. Look at France. Those people are streets ahead
Their entire plan since the 80s was get hold of local government and then change all the rules so that even if they become unpopular it is nearly impossible to unseat them.
Their ENTIRE plan was knowing that once they have power they quickly become unpopular and need to rig the system to maintain power, they cannot maintain power democratically.
With the reports of the Trump administration asking a company to hack voting machines, it's too much of a funny coincidence for both events not to correlate.
Go back to 2016, I'm pretty sure that was fucked with. So was 2020 and that's why Trump is so up his own ass about losing. They didn't account for how many more people would be voting due to all states widely moving to mail in voting due to Covid. They were cheating and still lost, that's why Trump thinks the election was stolen. Because he was actively stealing it and still came up short. Look no further than Pennsylvania.
Collins hasn't won a legit election in a long time, nor has Rand Paul or McConnell. ES&S is the company and they've been owned by Republicans from the start.
The same country that gave voting privileges to only land owning male whites. Then conceded to give blacks 3/5ths when determining House representation. Then needed an amendment to let women vote? Yeah it’s status quo
So many people seem to misunderstand the 3/5ths compromise.
The North wanted only voters to be counted towards representation, and since black people couldn't vote they wouldn't be counted. The South wanted all the people, even those who couldn't vote, to be counted.
Counting non-voters would have given white landowners an outsized influence in Washington. For example, in South Carolina the ratio of black to white people was about 1:1. Meaning that if the black people were counted, even though they couldn't vote, every white person was getting twice as much representation in Washington as in the Northern States.
Considering there were more restrictions on which white people could vote, the voting pool was even smaller and the representation much higher per eligible voter. A man would cast a vote and it would represent the will of his wife, his children, and a good portion of the surrounding black community.
Thats my thing. I'm not convinced it recorded it right even if it got switched. It probably glitched and you saw something it was supposed to do later. We need more methods of auditing what our own votes get recorded as. There's no reason I shouldn't be able to log in with my own information and see what my vote got entered as.
America does not have free and fair elections. They have taken over enough of the system to compromise the rest. Hope ya'll wake up to it soon.
People forgot it's these United states, and didn't concern themselves when this stuff was happening and growing in the red states. Well, the tumor is metastasizing and people are suddenly concerned about what's going on in the body of their nation. Bit late, but I'm really hoping ya'll switch from the bowls of fruit you've been using to fight it to actual fucking cancer treatments soon.
There is for mine, as well as a process to declare someone voted under your name and have that thrown out and replaced with your ballot. Iirc it's similar to the process for "curing" a ballot, it requires you go in person to the voting office. At that point your identity is verified and you follow the steps they lay out to handle whatever issue you were having.
I'm in PA. We aren't even set up to vote early in person. I've always voted in person because I've seen the post people. I would not trust them.
But apparently our results via electric voting is not open to public records.
It looks like I can track that it made it there. But I can't tell much more than that. There might be more info but it doesn't look like it from what I'm seeing.
Then again, I only moved to this county in last year. They still have paper ballots in person, with some having electric. I'm probably electric, if only because I'm in a city. Maybe. I'll see on the third.
This is why many Democrats have been pushing early voting. In most states, it functions as mail in, but the ballots are secured by election officials instead of mail. It leaves them less vulnerable and leaves a paper trail
Its also possible the company or one of its workers are aligned with MAGAs goals. Dominion Voting Systems was bought out by a former Republican election official.
Election Systems & Software apparently has a history of funding Republican causes.
Not a sign of corruption, but IMO voting machine companies shouldnt be private entities with a history aligned to a specific party. It should be either a public entity with broad public ownership, a non profit or an inhouse government run solution with publically audited designs.
The “genius” of convincing his supporters that 2020 was stolen is that it muddied the waters so actual election interference will sound absurd. Destroy faith in the process then break the process…
Look up the Brooks Brothers Riot, there's an unsurprising number of ghouls who are associated with Trump who were on their trial run of destroying our country there.
This happened to me during Trump's first run. Tried to vote for Hillary, and the machine tried to fill in for him. I changed it, but I wonder to this day if my vote was actually counted correctly.
They aren't actually paranoid, they are causing a diversion so that when they do the exact things they say democrats are doing, their voters wouldn't suspect a thing. The republican party is full of hypocritical thinking (e.g. "smaller government" but at the same time everything they legislate is about taking choice and freedom away from citizens; "fiscal responsibility," but running the national debt up into the trillions and starting wars that cause economic instability).
The problem is their base deeply sees their political party affiliation as their primary identity, so none of those things matter. The only thing that matters is that their team is winning. In the end, when they lose just like the rest of us, they won't be able to accept the reality that they voted for it. It'll still be Clinton/Obama/Biden's fault, because their cognitive dissonance is so deeply and fundamentally embedded in their brains it impedes their intellectual processing.
Hey now, there have been literally several instances of Dem voter fraud in the last 250 years. Almost as many as has been reported in a single instance at one ballot in this election for Republican voter fraud.
The difference is that voter fraud is almost non-existence.
This is Election Fraud. Big difference. Why try to sneak people in hundreds of times to vote extra times when you can just buy an electronic voting machine company and corrupt it like has been done with Dominion (now Liberty Vote) and ES&S??
I don't think "jail time" is severe enough for cases of direct election interference en masse like this. Lifetime sentences and/or permanent bans from politics and political-adjacent activities
Remember the false stolen election claims against Dominion voting systems in 2020? Look who bought the company and changed the name to Liberty Vote.
The real stolen elections are here. Every accusation is a confession by the GOP.
Dominion definitely has issues but I believe this was a strategic plan to have everyone looking at Dominion instead of the biggest and more corrupt voting machine company, ES&S, which fraudulently claimed and certified machines that were supposed to be air gapped but we're found to have internal wireless cellular modems in Tabulators that can and do connect to the Internet.
The Fox defamation lawsuit was also the biggest settlement in history for defamation by a large margin at $787 million which could also have been a legal bribe to Dominion because all those companies are owned by right wing billionaires
Yep and for a long time the head of cybersecurity at ES&S was a huge Trump guy in his first term. Then left the admin to join ES&S. When pointed out all the far right people he followed on twitter he unfollowed them.
Voting security experts have been telling Americans to use paper ballots with OCR scanners for decades now. This sort of thing is exactly why. The private companies pushing for these black box machines need to be ejected from the voting system.
I don't understand the country's obsession with voting machines and gadgets of this sort. And this goes way back before the modern cyber/electronic era. Remember the punches and chads that led to Bush, and the Rube Goldberg contraptions full of levers and gears that preceded them?
Name one successful democracy that uses these opaque machines. People point to the complexity of the American ballot. But even the Swiss, originators of direct democracy and no strangers to endless propositions and measures, still use paper ballots manually counted by hand.
I'll tolerate OCR scanners and such, as they're merely counting aids that can be easily audited, and bypassed if necessary. But any computer screen, touch screen, or device where the voter signals their intention other than by marking it on a piece of paper should not even be contemplated.
Unfortunately, in Indiana many counties are using the same type of voting as TN. I am in a county that uses the paper ballots you can review and then feed into the machine at the end (ES&S Express Vote) voting. Interesting fact. My county is predominately democrat. Now, who protects your vote? Democrats!!!
Of course it needs to be reported, investigated, tried and if found guilty hang them! I don't care who wins or loses as much as I care about the integrity of the vote. I can 100% take an election that was won without doubt or question marks or asterisks.
You're literally watching a video from a local news reporter! It was reported obviously or how the hell would the reporters know to come do an interview? Psychic vision?
In general elections, Trump has always outperformed polls by around 5%. Some reporters have tried to explain it as people being embarrassed to admit they voted for Trump in polls, but maybe that is incorrect.
Jerri Green is a grass roots Democrat that beat out the establishment Democrat and is running against Marsha Blackburn, who’s a Trump ride or die “Republican”, so I can see why it’s happening
Two things to take from this: they are testing in hard Red states because they know they will face no consequences. And they are legitimately scared of losing small elections even in red states because they know how unpopular they are right now.
Tennessee swapped to Diebold/Premier Election Solutions machines during Bush, ~2006 in larger counties and rolled out to smaller counties afterwards. Starting in 2010, though, Republicans have controlled all branches of government.
I'm sure the timing is completely unrelated and isn't at all related to heavy donations from their current owners executives to Republicans.
the accusation is true and there is clear cut fraud
the story is made up in an attempt to manipulate voters
regardless of which one it is, this needs to be investigated as there is clear vote fraud/manipulation going on, proof needs to be gathered as to what it exactly is.
Last month we stopped international election observers (the OSCE) for the the first time since 2002. Now we see why.
We went from wanting to show the world how you run free-and-fair elections. to a bunch of billionaires trying orchestrate some pretense that we "voters" have a say in who holds the reigns of power and has access to our tax-dollars.
Exactly - that is the problem. Asking people on the edge (I'm not in this group myself) to go out on a limb where they can lose their job is a lot. If people knew that is the only way out of certain and complete destruction, that would be one thing - but that kind of certainty is impossible to convince everyone to have (even if it were true).
We better have a backup plan to the general strike idea. Maybe a couple.
I'd argue its an option but hardly realistic... we're such a cowed and compliant population. We'd need to get 3-4% plus of the total population to strike to move the needle. Worth doing but so hard to organize and get that to happen in a country of 350 million plus.
12 million plus workers acting in a unified manner? Where and how do we achieve that? It's an option sure...
Blaming illigal immigrants for voter fraud was always a distraction, its the machines that are compromised thats the reason gop want you to vote in person and less likely an audit will catch vote switching fraud unlike mail in ballots their is physical proof and a sample of 1000s of ballots you can confirm who people voted for with a phone call.
This seems like pretty conclusive evidence of vote tampering.
We need to purge the Republican Party from American politics full stop. They can’t seem to keep their thumb off the scale and it needs to end
With your phones video the screens/machines actually doing this. Your oral testimony and rumour is not good enough. Record your machine changing your vote, and be ready to send it as evidence to any future legal case against Trump/Musk.
Why tf have I never heard of this kind of sketchy fraud benefitting a Democrat candidate? Its almost as if Republicans are the only ones cheating while also raising a huge fuss alleging Democrat fraud. Just like the kid who farted blaming everyone else...
Make sure you check... like what?!?!? Make sure you're not a goddamn banana republic and prosecute those who commit voter crimes. Sincerely, functional actual democracies
It happened to me while voting on Election Day in 2024. I double checked my ballot and was furious when I noticed that Trump/Vance was selected. I switched it back and checked it again before submitting my ballot. I suggest that EVERYONE double and triple check your ballot!
I mean, it IS illegal but laws are not self enforcing. When the people employed to enforce and uphold the laws are corrupt and breaking the law, who enforces the law?
That’s the second part really. They’re not going to go easily… they love the way it is right now… ICE, BORTAC, LEO, the military that didn’t get fired… most of them love this shit and will probably take up arms to “defend freedom”
Because if you change someone's votes after the fact, that's like massively massively illegal. If you flip them on screen in hopes that they hit "confirm" without noticing, you can claim that that was their intended vote because they confirmed their ballot.
If it's flipping before you cast it, who's to say it's not flipping afterwards either? So my question remains, what happens when the midterms don't go left
Nothing happens. Democracy has by and large died in the US. This may be the first election truly stolen although I am sure shenanigans happened in the past. But it is very clear Trump controls all the important aspects and nobody is willing to stop him. Democrats warned that the past presidential election was the most important in the history of our country then proceeded to run Biden then jam Harris in when he had a meltdown on live TV.
Voting in person is generally very susceptible for things like this. What we need is an anonymous ballot delivered to every person, a receipt generated for that vote, then the vote to be publicly viewable and archivable online before certification. Anyone should be able to challange an election vote with the receipt and enough challenges should result in a re-election before certification. Whenever you mail your ballot in, do it online, etc it should be viewable online.
No it’s not better with paper, it’s just more hidden. The largest election fraud in U.S. history was under a paper ballot system.
You can't make a cast ballot reviewable because then you've opened the system to vote coercion.
Imagine your spouse, boss, landlord, insurance company, local crime syndicate, etc. demanding to see how you voted or face consequences. Not hypothetical, all things that have happened in reviewable vote systems.
There's a reason that once you cast your ballot, it's no longer tied to you. You can only show that you voted, not how you voted.
trump cheated. he raved about how elon who visited russia days before knew somuch about the voting machines and then completely out of character and the only time in the past decade+ said there would be cheating on election night
In Minnesota you fill out paper ballot and it gets scanned both digital record and paper are saved for recounts. Seems like a good system if there is any ffery.
That’s how we do it in Missouri too. Fill out the scantron form by hand, insert it into the scanner where it’s tabulated (you can see the number of ballots increase by 1 when it’s accepted), and the ballot drops into the locked scanner box where there’s a bag that’s sealed up with tape at the end of the night for delivery to the election HQ.
But if the scans are consistently misreading in favor of Republicans on random ballots you wouldn't know unless a recount actually happened and then only if the recount wasn't rigged.
In 2024 I had this eerie feeling that my vote selection wasn't secure. How am I to know that that barcode it spits out actually tells who I selected and not a predetermined selection?
Republicans be like: All the machines are switching my votes to democrat!
Democrats be like: All the machines are switching my votes to republican!
Why tf are we using digital machines fr.
Hope younger/more tech savy persons start recording when they vote, so, for when, and if it happens, they get Proof, and start sharing that everywhere they can! Those cunts , Elon and Trump Will try to steal again!
That's what I'm expecting to happen in Texas. Interesting fact this year: we fill out a paper ballot and scan it into the system and the system doesn't show us what was registered. Wasn't like this until this year.
This happened in Texas too. Republicans are doing everything they can to win. Including cheating. Which should be a federal crime. But look whos running the country, into thr ground.
If true this is insane. And the most insane part is that Americans are like: Be careful about it. In most other countries it will be a huge scandal enough reason to conduct an investigation and even cancel the election till it's fixed. This just shows how broken your system is.
There is no way they haven’t attempted to rig this election. Remember, every accusation is a confession, and Trump literally confessed to having Elon rig his 2024 election.
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This should have been a bigger story for the last several elections.
In 2020, in Kentucky, I had the same thing happen to me. I had to reselect my picks and I'm still unconvinced it recorded my selections properly. It was like it set "default" to every Republican candidate.