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Let me preface this by saying there should only be one takeaway from the news and polls: you still have to vote.

I’ll also note, that I’m not familiar with Tennessee elections, nor do I have any inside knowledge, so I don’t have any information to dispute what Parton said, but depending on the machine, this could be the result of old technology. Georgia had voting machines that were old enough to vote by the time the equipment was retired, so it had technology from about 2000 (think Palm Pilot technology).

I’m not sure what the age ranges are here, but one of the big selling features for the iPhone when it debuted was that it had “multi-touch” input. That meant the device could recognize the input from two inputs simultaneously — without this you would never be able to use a “pinch and zoom” gesture on a touchscreen. Prior to multi-touch, a touchscreen could only detect one input at a time, and it didn’t have any capacitive technology to distinguish between a finger and say, a coat sleeve. So if someone’s finger touched a screen at roughly the same time (or just before) a sleeve or a bracelet slid down someone’s wrist and swung enough to touch the screen, the touchscreen would still only register one input, but it might end up registering the most recent touch. Depending on the spacing and other ballot design choices, that might mean the touchscreen might register an unintended choice.

I’m not saying this is what happened in this case, but I’ve done enough voter support that my colleagues and I were able to suss out this appeared to be what happened several times, particularly with older voters. But the takeaway of all this should be, go vote, and check your ballot before casting it.

Look, let's not permit plausible deniability. Turdpublicans are the type to take an inch and go around the planet. They will just cheat their way to victory, given even the barest fig leaf.

We should only use paper ballots and no screens. This is how I feel.

The voting machine companies were purchased by conservatives trump sycophants c. This will not be an election. This is their last chance, they will stop at nothing. The last one was likely stolen as well. We did nothing. Trump said it on stage, we did nothing. Do you think you'll feel differently when it happens again next month? Is it finally far gone enough to risk everything? We're all about to find out.

Just a reminder that the Tennessee voting machines in both Davidson and Williamson counties -- the two mentioned in the article -- are both made by ES&S, a company with a long history of questionable behaviors.

Elections in the US are state-run, usually run by an Elections Commission (or office with similar name) via the Secretary of State. Thus, anyone who sees this kind of thing at the polls can also personally check the manufacturer of that machine, often via their own Secretary of State's website. Here's Tennessee's: the actual maker of the voting machines in each county is listed in a pdf linked near the top.

Very few people seem to pay attention to who is behind the actual machine, but the right wing has been all over it since the dawn of electronic voting. From Bush v Gore and the temporarily negative 16,000 votes in Volusia County in 2000 to today, electronic voting machine anomalies are many. Without going into detail, not all voting machines are alike, and whenever there is fuckery, the same manufacturer names seem to crop up.

Whatever your beliefs, it's worth paying attention to, especially if your own machine does not seem to be acting without bias.

If you're not sure who runs your town's machines or how to find that information, search "[my state] voting machines made by" in DDG or another search engine that has no financial motivation to steer you wrong by promoting misinformation or fake sites. Also, make sure you look for .gov links. For example, I used "nashville tennessee voting machines made by" in DDG and the Tennessee Secretary of State site was the first hit.

Yeah…. It’s really looking like MAGA pretty much owns this shit now. But vote anyway, if there’s any shred of justice after shit is tallied, everything will count. Don’t let them steal democracy!

This kind of thing makes no sense. If they want to change your vote (which assuredly Stephen Miller does) they will just do it in data, there's no reason to do it in the UI so people see it personally.

This is also being reported in Texas, Missouri

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.

That's why the White House wanted the machines hacked.

There is a reason many countries don't use machines to vote. A truly verifyable, secret, and democatric election is mathematically impossible on digital machinery. The parameters are mutually exclusive, and nothing can fix that.

Also in TN, and had no issues. Individual claims shouldn’t be taken seriously. If it were a mass number of complaints, that’s different.

Last thing we need is people not trusting the results.

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

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

Get agun, you'll need it soon.

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.