• tigermountain@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    7
    ·
    23 hours ago

    I read a story yesterday about Dolly Parton’s sister and a few others saying they watched their votes for a democrat switch to the republican candidate before their eyes. She said she had to try it 3 times before it registered the correct vote. Though I have no more information than that I find this extremely troubling knowing with certainty that Trump and his enablers are completely willing to do this and worse in order to stay in power. Pay very close attention when you’re voting.

    • TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      23 hours ago

      That isn’t really what is at risk, that’s just a MAGA poll worker deliberately sabotaging the touch screen calibration. It might be an attempt at election theft, but what Trump is seeking to do is much more covert and you won’t even notice it. They will try to see if and where they can flip the tallies and mess with the paper trail if there is any, and that’s only on one of the levels he will be trying to steal the midterms.

      • lightnsfw@reddthat.com
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        18 hours ago

        Is there confirmation that’s what happened? It’s certainly a valid theory but all I’ve seen about the two cases I read was speculation.

        • TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          14 hours ago

          It’s an informed assumption based on historical precedent and the combination of plausible deniability with level of ease to implement that only statistics can really disprove as anything but speculation. There’s also less eyes this time around because independent observers like OSCE have been prevented from participating.

          These issues are nothing new, but are so old some of the articles that have discussed them in the past are no longer even accessible:

          https://verifiedvoting.org/vote-flipping-and-touch-screen-calibration/