This *could* be an unfortunate accident but when you read the rundown of the other issues with Montana voting it definitely seems this was far more likely not to be an accident.
baquir on
Where’s Mike Lindell when we need him… oh wait.
Gwar-Rawr on
Biden needs to do an executive order any legal votes not counted will lead to charges or should give the voter the standing to sue. Every voter needs to be able to check if their vote counted.
ranchoparksteve on
So, some random voter is the first set of eyes to ever see the official ballot? It doesn’t seem possible.
doublestitch on
Quoting the lede:
> “Montana’s election season has gotten off to a rocky start after absentee voters realized Kamala Harris was not a listed candidate on their ballot.
> “The state was forced to shut down its electronic absentee voter system after it went live on September 20 when a voter reported that there was no option to vote for the vice president.”
Weekly-Somewhere-674 on
Idk if this is under the purview of the FBI but that’s exactly the kind of thing that should be gone after doggedly
IAMNIVERSE on
Wow. That’s fucking INSANE. All you can do is hope/pray some of those republicans have an iota of integrity to do the right thing, because the T-virus is real! This country is SICK 😆. Thank god we have some watchdog groups (I know of at least one) that will sue some of these clowns if possible. There’s still hope and some light at the end of this election tunnel. (And the T-virus is a pun from Resident Evil for those wondering.)
BannedAgainDude on
Someone needs to go to jail.
This is unacceptable… There is obviously oversight, proof reading, tests, etc before a voting system goes live.
This is intentional and someone needs to be locked up.
Kyxoan7 on
seems logical. random candidate was added well after the primary by 30 random people within the DNC. Someone in montana probably missed an email.
parisrionyc on
JFC USA RIP.
250 years and still can’t get elections right.
Dragon_Fam_1003 on
The Fed should probably dig into any county with 0 votes for either candidate (I say either for all fairness). But this is scary stuff, man.
2stepsfwd59 on
Did they leave Tester off too?
Mjbagscauze on
Feel free to write a comment to the Secretary of State instagram Christi Jacobsen
It’s good that it was shut down at least, but this is definitely worrying.
VesperJDR on
If this happened to trump, he’d use it alone to fuel another insurrection
bishpa on
>As a precaution the Secretary of State’s office, run by Republican Christi Jacobson, took down the electronic absentee system for troubleshooting, although it insisted that very few voters had been affected by this issue.
I’d like to know specifically what the remedy is here. They need to throw out any ballots that were cast prior to shutting the system down, right? They can’t seriously just say “oh, it wasn’t very many voters that weren’t given the option to choose among all the candidates.”
fatdog4561 on
Jail time to the group that made this happen, complete and utter BS and should never be happening.
Lydkraft on
His replacement of NAFTA also triggered inflation.
He also lost 1.5 million jobs and added 9 trillion to the debt.
BrookeBMa on
People should be loosing jobs because of this.
autotldr on
This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://www.newsweek.com/montana-voting-system-shut-down-1957839) reduced by 87%. (I’m a bot)
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> Montana's election season has gotten off to a rocky start after absentee voters realized Kamala Harris was not a listed candidate on their ballot.
> The state was forced to shut down its electronic absentee voter system after it went live on September 20 when a voter reported that there was no option to vote for the vice president.
> Max Croes, former vice chair of the Montana Democratic Party, said on X, formerly Twitter: "This is criminal…The Montana SOS is an arm of the corrupt Montana GOP.".
Cause election controversy so you can claim election controversy.
BankshotMcG on
What was the expectation here? That people would fail to notice? This is the dumbest slow-mo coup in history.
half-giant on
Ah, so we’re cheating the system again. Very legal, very cool.
Prior-Chip-6909 on
Do they think that this is how democracy works? that they can just keep a presidential candidate off the ballots?
The amount of cheating going on here…& yet, somehow they think they are righteous doing this? this is going to blow up in their faces…just like the mid terms.
NastyBiscuits on
Oh boy, they aren’t even trying to pretend they aren’t the party of anti democracy
JustIgnoreMeBroOk on
Fucking insane.
Vanman04 on
would be interesting to know how many ballots were cast before this was caught.
electriceagle on
Where is the FUCKING DOJ?
IT_Geek_Programmer on
This is bound to get a lot of people angry. The point being is that how did a candidate of a major political party could possibly get left of off the ballot? Wasn’t it the AG Department’s responsibility to test the system and check the ballots before even sending them out?
murrayzhang on
This election (for POTUS) is going to be decided by court cases in PA and/or GA about which votes should or should not be counted. What a country!! 🤷♀️
lizkbyer on
Stupid fuckers. Try harder! WE ARE STILL VOTING #harriswalz2024
lizkbyer on
Stupid fuckers. Try harder! WE ARE STILL VOTING #harriswalz2024
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I’m sure it is all a perfectly innocent explanation
They even ratfuck elections they know they’ll win
50/50 – one web designer is having a bad day/election interference
These things never seem to happen to Republicans, for some reason.
The entire election is a mistrial now. We need to redo 2024 from the start, unfortunately. Call Gregory the calendar is going to need some updating.
It could happen to anyone. Remember when an actual judge [Aileen Cannon left off a ‘not guilty’](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/aileen-cannon-judge-trump-documents-case-made-multiple-errors-earlier-rcna98207) option on jury instructions?
This *could* be an unfortunate accident but when you read the rundown of the other issues with Montana voting it definitely seems this was far more likely not to be an accident.
Where’s Mike Lindell when we need him… oh wait.
Biden needs to do an executive order any legal votes not counted will lead to charges or should give the voter the standing to sue. Every voter needs to be able to check if their vote counted.
So, some random voter is the first set of eyes to ever see the official ballot? It doesn’t seem possible.
Quoting the lede:
> “Montana’s election season has gotten off to a rocky start after absentee voters realized Kamala Harris was not a listed candidate on their ballot.
> “The state was forced to shut down its electronic absentee voter system after it went live on September 20 when a voter reported that there was no option to vote for the vice president.”
Idk if this is under the purview of the FBI but that’s exactly the kind of thing that should be gone after doggedly
Wow. That’s fucking INSANE. All you can do is hope/pray some of those republicans have an iota of integrity to do the right thing, because the T-virus is real! This country is SICK 😆. Thank god we have some watchdog groups (I know of at least one) that will sue some of these clowns if possible. There’s still hope and some light at the end of this election tunnel. (And the T-virus is a pun from Resident Evil for those wondering.)
Someone needs to go to jail.
This is unacceptable… There is obviously oversight, proof reading, tests, etc before a voting system goes live.
This is intentional and someone needs to be locked up.
seems logical. random candidate was added well after the primary by 30 random people within the DNC. Someone in montana probably missed an email.
JFC USA RIP.
250 years and still can’t get elections right.
The Fed should probably dig into any county with 0 votes for either candidate (I say either for all fairness). But this is scary stuff, man.
Did they leave Tester off too?
Feel free to write a comment to the Secretary of State instagram Christi Jacobsen
https://www.instagram.com/secretarychristijacobsen?igsh=MWl2d2huZ3ZpNXRzMw==
It’s good that it was shut down at least, but this is definitely worrying.
If this happened to trump, he’d use it alone to fuel another insurrection
>As a precaution the Secretary of State’s office, run by Republican Christi Jacobson, took down the electronic absentee system for troubleshooting, although it insisted that very few voters had been affected by this issue.
I’d like to know specifically what the remedy is here. They need to throw out any ballots that were cast prior to shutting the system down, right? They can’t seriously just say “oh, it wasn’t very many voters that weren’t given the option to choose among all the candidates.”
Jail time to the group that made this happen, complete and utter BS and should never be happening.
His replacement of NAFTA also triggered inflation.
He also lost 1.5 million jobs and added 9 trillion to the debt.
People should be loosing jobs because of this.
This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://www.newsweek.com/montana-voting-system-shut-down-1957839) reduced by 87%. (I’m a bot)
*****
> Montana's election season has gotten off to a rocky start after absentee voters realized Kamala Harris was not a listed candidate on their ballot.
> The state was forced to shut down its electronic absentee voter system after it went live on September 20 when a voter reported that there was no option to vote for the vice president.
> Max Croes, former vice chair of the Montana Democratic Party, said on X, formerly Twitter: "This is criminal…The Montana SOS is an arm of the corrupt Montana GOP.".
*****
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Cause election controversy so you can claim election controversy.
What was the expectation here? That people would fail to notice? This is the dumbest slow-mo coup in history.
Ah, so we’re cheating the system again. Very legal, very cool.
Do they think that this is how democracy works? that they can just keep a presidential candidate off the ballots?
The amount of cheating going on here…& yet, somehow they think they are righteous doing this? this is going to blow up in their faces…just like the mid terms.
Oh boy, they aren’t even trying to pretend they aren’t the party of anti democracy
Fucking insane.
would be interesting to know how many ballots were cast before this was caught.
Where is the FUCKING DOJ?
This is bound to get a lot of people angry. The point being is that how did a candidate of a major political party could possibly get left of off the ballot? Wasn’t it the AG Department’s responsibility to test the system and check the ballots before even sending them out?
This election (for POTUS) is going to be decided by court cases in PA and/or GA about which votes should or should not be counted. What a country!! 🤷♀️
Stupid fuckers. Try harder! WE ARE STILL VOTING #harriswalz2024
Stupid fuckers. Try harder! WE ARE STILL VOTING #harriswalz2024