Across America, voters are already encountering issues with their ballots and the voting process ahead of Election Day. Intervene, God!

From 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.

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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 …

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

— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) October 30, 2024

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. …

From The National Pulse. A sheriff’s office in Barry County, Michigan, says it has been referring suspected electoral crimes to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and that the America First law officer has opened a criminal investigation into Dominion Voting Systems.

“The Barry County Sheriff’s Office has an ongoing investigation into election related crimes since December 2020,” a statement from Sheriff Dar Leaf explains …

Dominion voting machines are already stirring controversy in the 2024 election amid ongoing early voting. …

BOMBSHELL REPORT: Barry County Sheriff’s Office reveals Texas AG Ken Paxton has an OPEN INVESTIGATION into Dominion Voting systems..

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“The Barry County Sheriff’s Office has an ongoing investigation into election related crimes since December 2020.”

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— Chuck Callesto (@ChuckCallesto) October 31, 2024

From Just the News. A variety of election irregularities – at least ten of them – have occurred across the country in the weeks leading up to Election Day, as some states have reported record-breaking turnout during early voting. …

Fraudulent voter registration schemes

Prosecutors in Lancaster County said Friday they had uncovered a large-scale scheme to submit fraudulent voter applications that were collected at shopping malls and other locations. Lancaster County District Attorney Heather Adams told a news conference that detectives have found about 60% of some 2,500 voter registrations submitted in recent days to the county’s election office were fraudulent.

Adams added that she was aware of at least two other counties that may have similar concerns about recent voter registration applications dropped off in large batches. …

Ballot drop boxes set on fire

Ballot drop boxes have been set on fire in at least three occasions in Portland, Ore., and across the state border in Vancouver, Wash., this month. …

The FBI is investigating the fires, which are all connected. Three ballots were damaged in the Portland fire, while hundreds of ballots were destroyed in Vancouver. …

Fraudulent ballots

At least a dozen fraudulent mail ballots were sent in and identified in Mesa County, Colorado, last week, three of which were counted and unable to be removed.

The Colorado secretary of state’s office said they learned earlier in the week about the dozen or more ballots that were stolen before the intended voters received them. …

Voter suppression

The RNC sent a letter to Pennsylvania’s secretary of the commonwealth on Monday about concerns that election officials were discouraging voters from casting ballots.

“Voters consistently report to us that at Boards of Election Offices across the Commonwealth, they are told that ‘computers are down,’ the site will be closing early, they are not accepting any more voters, and that mail ballots will not be counted,” reads the letter, sent on behalf of the RNC and the Trump campaign. …

Ballot harvesting

The South Carolina Republican Party alerted state officials last week of an alleged Democratic ballot harvesting operation in Marion County after finding multiple voters registered at a vacant address. …

The state GOP announced that it had found a paid Democratic staffer and 15 other voters registered at an address that is currently vacant.  The party additionally discovered that at least five paid Democratic campaign workers have a different voter registration address than their reported address on a campaign financial disclosure.

Cyberattacks

The Georgia secretary of state’s office earlier this month fended off a cyberattack against its website that allows voters to request absentee ballots. The cyberattack was likely sent from a foreign nation, according to the secretary’s office, Fox News reported. …

D.C. mail-in ballot sent to Michigan

Hillsdale College Vice President and General Counsel Robert Norton received a mail ballot from Washington, D.C., last week that was addressed to a voter who does not live at his residence. …

Label printing problems

Early voting in Wisconsin was delayed last week due to label printing problems, causing voters to wait hours in line to vote in some cases. …

The delays began when early voting started on Tuesday last week and continued into Wednesday. …

Candidates’ political parties switched on ballots

Minnesota Republican state Rep. Peggy Bennett was incorrectly listed as a Democrat on the ballot in Faribault County during early voting due to a “ballot processing error” that was made by the Minnesota Secretary of State.

It was discovered when early voting began in Minnesota last month. Bennett said the error had already cost her votes. …

Missing race

Ballots for a precinct in Douglas, Ariz., which is located in Cochise County, were missing a Board of Supervisors’ race last week. A total of 118 active voters were affected, 78 of which had early ballots mailed. …

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(Excerpts from The National Pulse, The National Pulse, and Just the News. Photo Credit: James Willamor from Raleigh, NC, USA – 2008 Presidential election early voting lines, Charlotte, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=68865755)