Michigan Secretary of State: Dominion Voting Machine “Programming Issue” CANNOT Be Fixed, “This is A Nationwide Issue”

MICHIGAN SEC. OF STATE: “This is a nationwide issue with Dominion voter access terminals…Not all the machines, just the ones that are accessible, have an issue. With the straight-party voting and a programming issue, that’s again affected the machines nationwide.”

And Dominion has threatened to sue and has sued anyone who questions the integrity of their election terminals.

Why wasn’t Dominion banned after the 2020 catastrophe?

NEW: Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson says there is a “NATIONWIDE ISSUE with Dominion Voter Access Terminals,” preventing voters from making certain selections.

Of course there is

According to her office, this “programming issue” CANNOT be fixed, and voters are… pic.twitter.com/O6HPChDMbK

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) October 30, 2024

NEW: Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson says there is a “NATIONWIDE ISSUE with Dominion Voter Access Terminals,” preventing voters from making certain selections.

Of course there is

According to her office, this “programming issue” CANNOT be fixed, and voters are… pic.twitter.com/O6HPChDMbK

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) October 30, 2024

Unbelievable.

Michigan says issue with Dominion machines will make voting ‘inconvenient’ for some

By Ray Lewis | The National News DeskWed, October 30th 2024:

LANSING, Mich. (TNND) — The Michigan Department of State said Friday there is a known issue with some of its voting machines that will make it more inconvenient for certain people to cast ballots.

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.

“Because of this programming issue, voters using Dominion ICX VATs will have to select either the ‘straight party’ option if they wish to vote straight ticket or vote for each race on the partisan selection of the ballot if they wish to split their ticket,” the release reads.

The state department added that voters who receive the error message would have to deselect the “straight party” option and cast ballots in either of the two allowable ways. It is not possible to fix the issue since Election Day is less than a week away, according to the release.

Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson said in a press conference on Monday she was unhappy to learn about the issue.

“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,” she told reporters.

“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.