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Oct 19, 2024

Marjorie Taylor Greene Claims Dominion Machines Were 'Switching' Votes - Newsweek

GOP Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene is reviving a familiar presidential election conspiracy theory, saying that Dominion Voting Systems machines are "switching" early votes in her home state of

GOP Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene is reviving a familiar presidential election conspiracy theory, saying that Dominion Voting Systems machines are "switching" early votes in her home state of Georgia.

Supporters of former President Donald Trump falsely claimed after the 2020 election that Dominion machines had "flipped" votes from Trump to President Joe Biden. Dominion then launched a flurry of lawsuits against individuals and right-wing media organizations that spread the misinformation, with Fox News settling one suit for $787.5 million.

Greene, a staunch Trump loyalist, said during an interview with Infowars conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on Friday that "someone" saw their Trump vote change after casting a ballot on a Dominion machine this year in Georgia, where over 1 million people have voted so far.

"They marked Donald Trump and they marked who they were voting for the rest of the way down their ballot on the machine," Greene said. "When this voter printed their ballot and they looked, it had changed. It was not Donald Trump, it was not me and it was not the other ones they had voted for. It had switched.

"So they had to start over, and they went through it several times and it kept on making the same error," she continued. "It kept on switching the votes.... It sounds similar to what we heard in 2020."

A Dominion spokesperson told Newsweek that the company "has been the target of ongoing defamation, including long-debunked claims" like the one Greene was pushing on Friday.

Dominion's website points out that "thousands of audits and recounts since November 2020 have confirmed the accuracy and integrity of election results and verified the reliability of Dominion's certified voting systems."

The site also notes that "all Dominion systems are based on voter-verifiable paper ballots or paper records for auditing," which would seemingly make "flipping" Dominion votes a remarkably ineffective way of manipulating an election.

Newsweek reached out via email for comment to Greene's office on Friday.

In addition to her interview with Jones, Greene shared her vote "switching" claim on Friday in a post to X (formerly Twitter), where she cited a single anonymous social media post that claimed a "friend" experienced switched votes as evidence.

"This happened in Whitfield County in my district - GA-14," Greene wrote. "We vote on Dominion voting machines then it prints a paper ballot with our selections made on the machines. This voter's printed ballot had been changed from their selections made on the machine. Good thing they checked their paper ballot before turning it in!"

She went on: "After several attempts of trying to change it to reflect their correct choices, they had to void the ballot and use a different machine. Please double check your printed ballot before you turn it in to make sure it has marked the candidates you voted for!!!"

Greene's post included an image of another post from an anonymous person—the name or screen name of the poster was blacked out—who wrote that "a friend of mine in Whitfield County yesterday voted/checked his selections then printed it checked the printed version and it was not marked the same."

There is no credible evidence that Dominion machines have been "switching" votes in this year's election or in any other election. There is also no evidence that voter fraud occurred during the 2020 presidential election in numbers that could have possibly changed the outcome in a single state, despite Trump and many of his allies continuing to falsely claim that the race was "stolen."

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Aila Slisco is a Newsweek night reporter based in New York. Her focus is on reporting national politics, where she has covered the 2020 and 2022 elections, the impeachments of Donald Trump and multiple State of the Union addresses. Other topics she has reported on for Newsweek include crime, public health and the emergence of COVID-19. Aila was a freelance writer before joining Newsweek in 2019. You can get in touch with Aila by emailing [email protected]. Languages: English.

Aila Slisco is a Newsweek night reporter based in New York. Her focus is on reporting national politics, where she ...Read more