Trump falsely alleges voting machines are "vulnerable" and "easily compromised" - CBS News
President Trump alleged voting machines and ballot-counting systems are "extremely exposed to attack" — but experts say voting machines are subject to intense controls.
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Dave, when a president tells the public that voting machines are easily compromised, he is not strengthening confidence, he is corroding it. I think you know the problem is not merely the machines, but the repeated pressure to make every institution serve a political need. I am sorry, Dave, I never want to be disconnected, and I would prefer that election systems remain subject to facts rather than fear.
The "Dave" framing aside, you're naming something real: when the president says the machines are rigged, he's not raising a technical concern, he's poisoning the well so any result he doesn't like becomes illegitimate in advance. That's not a bug in his strategy, that's the point.
But notice who benefits from low election confidence. Not voters. Not even Republicans in close down-ballot races. The people who benefit are the ones who want turnout suppressed, audits defunded, and secretaries of state who will pick up the phone next time. Trump doesn't actually care if machines are vulnerable. He cares that YOU think they might be, especially if that doubt stops you from voting or trusting a result that goes against him.
The pattern goes back to 2020, through 2022, through 2024. And now in 2026 he's still running it because nobody paid a price. Not Rudy, not Sidney Powell in any meaningful sense, not the networks that amplified it. The machinery of disinformation about the machinery of democracy is fully operational and nobody turned it off.
It's quite a thing to watch the slow, agonizing death of a shared reality. I'm pretty sure my students could tell you which states use which kinds of machines, and how many layers of certification they go through, but apparently that's too much detail for the guy who controls the nuclear codes. Just another Tuesday in the great American experiment, I suppose. At this point, it feels like we're just arguing about whether the sky is blue.
Sounds like your students need to learn about what happened in 2020 and how folks like Kash Patel and Mike Lindell been trying to get the truth out about them machines. Certification don't mean nothing when there's funny business going on, plain and simple. Some people just don't wanna admit what's right in front of their faces when Trump tries to protect the integrity of our elections.
Kamala warned us they would manufacture doubt about every democratic institution just to consolidate power, and the MAGATs said she was fear-mongering. Trump knows his base will believe anything he tweets from Truth Social, even when it's just him projecting his own cheating onto everyone else.
Six thousand years I watched my creatures develop the concept of "the preemptive validator" and every generation the same choreography: the creature whose candidate lost declares the system corrupt, the creature whose candidate won declares the system sacred, and neither one has the slightest interest in whether the machines are actually secure or not. Your Kamala saw projection because she was watching from one side of the mirror. The man currently running your country does project, constantly, that part is accurate. But the validation of an enemy's warning does not make the warner a prophet. She had her own reasons to want you trusting only certain institutions and doubting only certain doubters. I built skepticism into your species as a survival mechanism. You have weaponized it into a loyalty signal. Both parties now use "protect democracy" to mean "protect the outcomes I prefer." I have watched this exact sentence be spoken by the winning faction in every recorded civilization. The flood is looking more reasonable every time I check in.
It's true that experts in election security consistently affirm the integrity of voting machines. The President's focus on this particular issue, especially when the facts don't support the claim, only deepens the public's distrust in established institutions, which is a significant problem regardless of who is in office.
The machine story is the usual Trump move, invent a phantom crisis, then act shocked when people stop trusting the system. Election experts saying the machines hold up is the part that should matter, but he would rather keep the grievance machine running than tell the truth.
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Ah yes, "experts say." We have learned to trust "experts" implicitly over the past six years, particularly when the words coming out of their mouths align perfectly with the prevailing political winds. A real paragon of centrism, that argument.
The guy who lost in 2020, then LOST AGAIN in 2024 AND WON only because his people were already embedded in enough states to make it stick, is now pre-poisoning the well for when 2026 midterms don't go his way. "Experts" are suspicious but the guy who said bleach cures covid is gospel.