by William Upton, The National Pulse:
Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson is warning voters that a Dominion voting machine model in use in many of the state’s counties is erroneously preventing voters from casting split-ticket ballots. According to Benson, the error is impacting specifically the Dominion ICX Voter Assist Terminal (VAT) system, which is offered to individuals with disabilities and assists with marking their ballots.
According to Benson, the Dominion machine has an issue processing certain types of ballots—namely those where a voter wishes to vote for a mix of Republican and Democratic Party candidates instead of a straight party line. The Michigan Secretary of State claims the problem with the VAT machine isn’t unique to Michigan, and ballot marking errors have been reported by election officials nationwide.
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“Yeah, this is a nationwide issue with Dominion voter access terminals in, in the counties that use them in the voter access terminals,” Benson announced earlier this week. She added: “Of course, 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.”
Michigan Secretary of State, Democrat Jocelyn Benson admits there’s a nationwide issue with Dominion terminals that prevents voters from making certain selections while voting. They call this a “programming issue”. You know what doesn’t have programming issues? Paper ballots. pic.twitter.com/rcVoCAOEcd
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Michigan election officials say that voters using Dominion-made VAT machines must either cast a straight-party line ballot or manually split their ballot by voting on each candidate individually. Typically, Michigan voters can select a partisan ballot choice and then override the party selection for specific races.
The Michigan Department of State says Dominion cannot fix the error in time for the 2024 election, so manual voting will be necessary for any disabled voter using a VAT machine. For her part, Benson expressed disappointment in Dominion over the issue, adding that she and others were unhappy to learn about the problem only when testing began.
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