Reports of this happening in Tennessee. https://www.wsmv.com/2026/10/21/early-voting-concerns-were-brought-head-tennessee-elections-heres-what-he-said/
I bet lots of these electronic voting machines have been upgraded to automatically fix votes accidentally cast for the wrong candidate.
modified clip from Tim and Eric Awesome Show. Great Job.
Anyone who still believes that the U.S. is a democracy should educate themselves.
Anyone who still believes that the U.S. is a democracy
shouldcan’t educate themselves, **or be educated by others.I’m afraid you completely misunderstand what dictatorship means. The U.S. has been an oligarchy for a long time, because the citizens have allowed it and continue to do so to this day. Now, as a logical consequence, the screws are being tightened. If there were still one last chance, resistance would be called for right now. But since that isn’t happening, it will come down to what you’re already mistakenly assuming.
I’m sorry to have to say this, but the current situation is only the beginning.
Where exactly did I display a misunderstanding of dictatorship? I agree with your general point, but your patronizing tone over red herrings gets a downvote. Bad faith.
The U.S. has been always been an oligarchy.
FTFY
I thought it was because you guys have a pathetic system that was easily subverted?
There seemed to be a few moments where he was almost impeached and removed; but every time the answer to “wait, you can do that?” was “yes, and apparently without consequences.” Your checks and balances amounted to empty threats and warnings, as he bunt down everything around him.
Try the same shit in any country with a prime minister and they’d be torn apart and on the street by a month. It shouldn’t be the average citizen’s problem to enforce the laws of your own country on your president. Therefore I don’t think the blame rests with them either.
So there is the selection machine that prints a ballot paper, and a scanner that actually counts the vote. If the selection machine does such a shit, you should test the scanner, too.
And the odd thing is that all reports mention switching of the vote from DEM to REP, but none in the other direction…
It’s possible that the layout of the ballot makes it more likely for the votes to switch in a certain direction. Especially since it sounds like they are using resistive touch screens. If the Republican option was on top and the Democratic option was right beneath it and if people are more likely to hit towards the top of the option, a poorly calibrated touch screen could cause votes to swap (initially selecting the Democrat and then the screen gets confused depending on how the pressure changes as you take your finger off and then selects the Republican above it). These kinds of errors were fairly common when resistive touch screens were the norm.
Then the technician comes out, hits firmly in the middle of the field, sees no problems, and calls it a user error.
In Texas, they used a machine with a kind of joystick to select between the options. And those had a tendency of overshooting the center when you let go of it, so the selector would go back up as you were reaching to hit the next screen button. They put incumbents at the top, so it was more common for people to see it swap from Democrat to Republican than the other way around.
It shouldn’t be acceptable to run elections with machines that have these problems, but there’s no real incentive to fix it.
They always manage to put the republican in the position these errors favor
Literally every time there are “errors” with voting, it’s always somehow in the republicans’ favor. Strange that…
Oh I’m sure we’ll institute such a check after this election cycle and we find out that somehow the scanners were malfunctioning as well. But only after it’s too late to change the outcome.
Do any have AI so I don’t need to even feel embarrassed about making the wrong selection in the first place??
God, don’t encourage them to do that. I know they’re already trying to do something sinister as fuck like that.
Oh god, I was relieved when it saw it was a shitpost, then I saw the link in the description 😩 fuck these fascists, man…
Edit: read the article and they say it’s just a technical error that got caught and fixed. Says they sent a technician from each party to check the machines
read the article and they say it’s just a technical error that got caught and fixed. Says they sent a technician from each party to check the machines
Yeah so was the “hanging chad” issue during the 2000 election. They only fixed that technical error after Bush became president.
Not to be a debbie downer, but I don’t trust Republicans checking those machines when it was benefitting them in the first place
Thank god it will autocorrect my choice to the better suited candidate, the one who bought and cheated the election. I really didn’t want to vote for the lesser evil.
“Oh lemmy shitpost phew, wait—”
“Fuckk a news link…”Reminds me of the voting machine in Postal 4 how it will change who you vote for.
Is your boat a C CLASS boat?
Okay. I’m going to need the name of your boat.
This skit had me dying the first time I saw it.
LMBO falling for the theatrics again. “Voting” and “Democracy” were already illusions
ass.
Good job trying to help Republicans though. Nobody knows you’re doing it because you’re so smooth about it. I’m sure you’re some kind of anarcho-socio-communist or something. Yay you.
TD, I like the cut out your jib. I don’t care what they say about you
Aight 🤨
