Michigan: Some Dominion Machines Will Make Voting ‘Inconvenient’ for Those With Disabilities
Dominion countered the Michigan secretary of state’s comment that it’s a nationwide problem because it doesn’t have “machines in any other states that offer straight party voting options.”
The Michigan Department of State admitted that some of the Dominion voting machines meant for people with disabilities will be inconvenient to use.
No one can fix the machines in time for the election.
In a release, the department wrote that some of the terminals the state uses for people with disabilities present an error message if the voter does not cast a ballot in the way indicated at the beginning of the process.
Voters must select the “straight party” option on the machines, which are owned by Dominion Voting Systems, if they want to cast all their ballots for members of one party, according to the state department. Otherwise, the voter needs to select the desired candidate for each race, the release says.
If the voter selects the “straight party” option but casts ballots for candidates of different parties, the error message will appear, the department explained.
If the voter gets the error message, they must deselect the “straight party” and vote the other way.
“We’re working with Dominion to seek accountability on that front and also are working with our clerks to ensure voters are aware of this programming issue that will require them to ensure they are voting every section on the ballot,” stated Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson.
Don’t forget that Benson admitted it could take days before we know the outcome of the election in the state.
It’s also suspicious because Dominion countered Benson’s claim that the problem is nationwide:
“Dominion has made multiple requests for corrective action from the Michigan Secretary of State’s office regarding a false and misleading statement made during a Monday press conference that there is a ‘nationwide issue’ with Dominion voting assistance terminals that are offering split party voting,” the company said, adding it has “no machines in any other states that offer straight party voting options” like Michigan.
But yet…why are the problems with only Dominion voting machines?
UNFVCKINGBELIEVABLE : Michigan says issue with Dominion machines will make voting “inconvenient” for people with disabilities and cannot be fixed since Election Day is less than a week away.
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Also going on in Michigan: According to reporting by The Detroit News (hardly a conservative newspaper), the Chinese National (U&M student, I believe) who’s under indictment for illegally voting will have his vote COUNTED because ‘it’s already been put through the tabulator.’ Words fail.
https://twitter.com/ChuckRossDC/status/1851706417637363812
Also, as many have pointed out in comments on X, the only reason this foreign national was caught voting illegally is because he offered an unprompted confession. The people in MI who are responsible for ensuring ‘election integrity’ had no idea he voted illegally until he told them.
“will have his vote COUNTED because ‘it’s already been put through the tabulator”
Getting upset about this is silly. It’s like blaming the lifeguard because some guy who peed in the pool can’t take it out again.
Then a GIANT infirmity in how our elections are structured has just been revealed. When someone can be indicted after admitting they voted illegally before Election Day and yet the vote is still ‘tabulated,’ what’s there to stop someone (or a group of someones) from voting illegally by the hundreds or thousands and still having those illegal votes counted? Apparently nothing.
This isn’t just a slippery slope. It’s a vertical slope greased with Vaseline. A criminal enterprise can fix an election knowing the people they’re fixing the election for will simply pardon them, or refuse to prosecute them. This is how elections work in Cuba and Sadam’s Iraq.
I think that’s already happened.
and according to the left
those disabilities are maga people
So the Michigan Sec State is admitting that their voting process is not just non ADA compliant but actually raises structural barriers for the disabled…and that the State is proceeding with what they admit is an inherently flawed process due to their choice of sub standard vendors?
Maybe Michigan should join Colorado in having whatever results from these flawed and/or insecure machines cast aside and their electoral college results refused and their HoR and US Senator refused seating until a rerun in Jan to give the two States time to fix their issues.
I want to see Dominion’s piranha lawyers suing all the wheelchair-bound voters for defamation who complain.
As explained in the article it is user error and easily corrected. Just unselect the “straight party” option and vote each race individually. MI should have a backup plan that doesn’t require the machines anyway.
Hopefully this pushes MI to delete the “straight party” voting option for future elections.
It’s isn’t user error it is a.design flaw that the Michigan Sec State declared will create a burden for disabled voters. I have used the same strategy due to my own disability; mark the ‘straight ticket option’ then manually alter the 1 or 2 individual races I may vote libertarian. Another question comes to mind. Does this also mean that in down ballot contests with d/prog unopposed by GoP but with a 3rd party challenger that I can’t select those? That I gotta mark the each race?.
Those of us with manual dexterity issues have a hard time as it is using the machines. We don’t need systemic problems creating an additional burden.
Stupid me. I always thought that the straight ticket option meant that you were voting for the straight ticket and if you wanted to vote each race individually, you didn’t select straight ticket at the start.
I can see either way.. It’s like pruning your mailbox of spam — select DELETE ALL, then uncheck the half dozen messages you want to save.
Yep. Mark straight ticket then manually adjust a couple for a libertarian candidate. Then there’s the issue of where no GoP candidate exists for a particular contest down ballot and the choice is d/prog or 3rd party. The latter doesn’t usually occur in November elections but in the spring elections for municipal, County or school board elections.
There were a couple of unopposed Dems on my ballot. I simply skipped them, and I assume that a straight ticket selection would do the same for any race there was no GOP candidate. Once again, Texas has eliminated the straight ticket option.
The specific machines we are discussing are not the normal machines but were described as specifically configured machines for those with disabilities. That point seems lost and of course this is about MI options not TX options.
Personally I would prefer a week of early in person bothering ending on ‘election day’ with paper ballots, #2 pencils, scanned and tabulated on site with a receipt issued and no access without ID and a voter registration list that required folks to re register in person in their birth month in the year following midterm Congressional elections and a list that officials had to monitor synched with SSA death data, IRS/Property Tax address data. Military/Overseas resident ballots as only absentee option.
Business as usual here in the People’s Republic of Mich.