"He knows those computers better than anybody. All those computers. Those vote-counting computers," Trump told the crowd. "And we ended up winning Pennsylvania like in a landslide."

Anyone who still believes that the U.S. is a democracy should can't educate themselves, **or be educated by others.

It's so infuriating American's seem to be lost in the woods. "It's totally fine, we have checks and balances, the system can't be subverted".

Now we get to say we told you so until they pick us off one by one

Not futuristic enough. Besides, they know how to rig those kind of ballots too. I refer you to the "hanging chad" fiasco in Florida circa 2000.

Came here for this...

The Simpson's did it!

Literally every time there are "errors" with voting, it's always somehow in the republicans' favor. Strange that....

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.

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.

They also write propositions in confusing language so the voter doesnt exactly know if they should vote yes or no. Do you want to vote against not raising taxes on securities, house properties, including investment housing, and after death bequeathments?

Super not confusing for your districts voters who are primarily 70+ year olds who probably can't see very well anymore. Nothing suspicious about it. It a butterfly ballot, who hates butterflies? Everyone loves butterflies? Are you some kind of butterfly hating Cuban?

Not to be a debbie downer, but I don't trust Republicans checking those machines when it was benefitting them in the first place

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.

God, don't encourage them to do that. I know they're already trying to do something sinister as fuck like that.

Okay. I'm going to need the name of your boat.

This skit had me dying the first time I saw it.