The following is from Rasmussen Reports.
Most voters say they trust electronic voting systems currently used in US elections, but many also say they are concerned the machines could be manipulated remotely, according to a new Rasmussen Reports survey.
Fifty-nine percent (59%) of likely US voters say they trust electronic voting systems, including 31% who say they have a lot of trust in the machines. Thirty-eight percent (38%) say they distrust the systems, including 11% who say they do not trust them at all.
The poll also found widespread concern over reports that a Venezuelan engineer whistleblower testified in federal court about previously accessing US electronic election systems to interfere with election results without detection. Seventy percent (70%) say they are concerned about the reports, including 47% who say they are very concerned.
Election integrity remains a major issue ahead of the midterms. Eighty-four percent (84%) say it is important to prevent election cheating in the upcoming November elections, including 67% who say it is very important.
Views differ sharply by party. While 51% of Democrats say they have a lot of trust in electronic voting systems, just 16% of Republicans and 26% of unaffiliated voters say the same. Republicans are also the most likely to say they are concerned about reports of possible manipulation.
The survey of 982 likely US voters was conducted May 5-7, 2026. The margin of sampling error is plus or minus 3 percentage points.
To view survey question wording, click here.
“70% concerned voting machines could be manipulated” – well, of course, they COULD be manipulated. If it doesn’t violate the Second Law of Thermodynamics, it COULD happen. It’s kind of a meaningless question. The pertinent question is how likely it is to happen (or have happened) and what safeguards there are to prevent it.
Remember the story that caused a brief dust-up a few years ago when someone claimed that he had shown how the voting machines changed votes? SA covered it in this newsletter. What she didn’t tell anyone is that the guy had bought a decommissioned machine, opened it up, removed the memory chips in the machine, reprogrammed them, and then reinstalled them. And, sure enough, the machine malfunctioned. So he made temporary headlines among the voting-machine conspiracy set by doing something that literally zero people had believed had happened in the real world. And that’s because that set simply wants the story to be true.
I believe that any honest person, even those who might have had misgivings about voting machines prior to 2020, would have to have been reassured after (at least) Georgia, Arizona, and Wisconsin all did hand recounts of their ballots and compared them to the machine results and showed that the results matched. After all, what more could anyone do to prove the machines worked correctly than compare the paper ballots with the machine results? But many people weren’t – and for the same reason that all of the audit and investigation and deep-dive results didn’t persuade them. And that was because all (and I mean literally every single one) showed that Biden had really won.
They had no counterargument for why these investigations weren’t legitimate. They couldn’t point to any flaw in the testing methodology. They couldn’t explain why the voting machine companies would want to cheat in the first place, let alone why they would want to cheat for Biden. But none of that mattered. All that mattered was that Trump lost, and some excuse had to be found. And “the voting machines did it” was just one of them. It’s practically the definition of not arguing in good faith.
Yet people like SA are more than happy to continue to plug the stolen election conspiracy in all its various forms, caring not at all about the damage it does to people’s faith in their institutions. Because fealty to Trump is more important than fealty to the truth (the truth being that no evidence of a stolen election has ever been found). Wouldn’t it be nice to have some evidence for a change?
BTW, Obama didn’t run against McCain in 2012. He ran against Romney. McCain ran in 2008.
In 2012, my husband voted in the presidential election in Prince William County , VA, 20155. When he used the voting machine, he voted Republican down the line and then hit “review.” When the machine went back to his selections, his vote had been changed from McCain to Obama. The rest of his votes remained the same. He changed it back and hit review again. The same thing happened. The machine changed his vote yet again to Obama. This happened 3 times. He reported it to the officials and was told the machine had not been calibrated for the election. This is nuts. How many other people voted and had their selections changed to Obama as well? The integrity of our elections no longer exists. This must be addressed.
It’s not the voting machines themselves. They are not connected to the internet. It’s the electronic sign in books. All three of the electronic voting machine companies use the same compiler is where the rigging of the vote is.
Lisa,
Sharyl
—and Full Measure Team :
It’s likely that the TABULATORS ( the machine taking your
filled-out ballot ) is being hacked by deep-state actors.
Go back to paper ballots—and HAND-Count them.
Regarding Obama, he was chosen, groomed and installed.
This scribbler heard his paternal grandmother brag about
being at his birth—in Kenya ! ! !, during a radio interview ( ABC
radio ).
America has become a firstOCRACY—can’t wait for the FIRST
village-idiot, as U.S.President . . . oh, Biden already had had that
(dis)honor.
-Rick
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