LAWRENCE COUNTY, S.D. (KELO) — Lawrence County commissioners are the first to deal with a petition calling for hand counting all ballots in elections and a ban on electronic voting and tabulating machines. The county auditor confirms the group behind the petition has collected enough signatures. The petition calls for a countywide vote that, if passed, would only allow for hand counting of ballots. Sarah Frankenstein, a Rapid City lawyer who specializes in election law, was brought in to give her advice to the commissioners. She told the commissioners she...

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - The State of Kansas is one week away from the Presidential Preference Primary Election, and the Shawnee Co. Election Office is already testing the machines to ensure they are ready. Election workers took test ballots and ran them through 87 voting machines to ensure they tabulated the correct number of votes. If a machine appeared not to work, the machine was then tagged, taken out of service, and replaced with another. The public was allowed to visit the office to see how they work and observe...

A human programming error in a series of voting machines used this week in a Pennsylvania county has left chaos behind – and confirmed what many who have watched suspicious results trotted out in recent elections as absolute truth feared: Those machines are not infallible. The situation developed in Northampton County where voters responded to a ballot question about the retention of two Superior Court judges. It seems the "yes" and "no" options on a printed copy of the results were not the same as what had been punched in...

Bergen County voters can head to the polls beginning Saturday as early voting gets underway ahead of the Nov. 7 election day. However, voters who skipped the June primaries will be encountering new electronic voting machines for the first time. The new machines have replaced the 30-year-old ones that far exceeded their lifespan, said Superintendent of Elections and Commissioner of Registration Debra Francica. The new machines were rolled out in June for the primary, where 29,763 or 4.5 percent of all registered voters used the electronic ballot machines. Early in-person...

Trump won't help the co-defendents who went all-in to help him, even at the point where helping them would seemingly improve his own chances of getting out from under the Georgia election interference charges. Scott Hall, one of 18 facing charges with the ex-president, has pleaded guilty to tampering with electronic voting machines in a deal that requires he testify against the bigger fish. Hall is the first person charged with Trump to plead guilty in the case, which alleges a widespread racketeering conspiracy to overturn Trump's 2020 electoral loss...

Fulton County prosecutors will present text messages and emails to the grand jury connecting Trump’s lawyers to a ‘voting system breach’ in Coffee County, according to a leak to CNN. Georgia prosecutors are preparing sprawling racketeering charges against Trump over his effort to challenge the 2020 election in Georgia. Fani Willis based her investigation on President Trump’s call with Georgia officials that was later doctored and leaked to the fake news outlet Washington Post. The WaPo published a completely fraudulent text of the call. These phony charges have already been...

A new report from The Guardian's Hugo Lowell claims that has enough "evidence to charge multiple" allies with breaching voting machines in the state. that several of Trump's allies could get hit with felony computer trespass charges as soon as next week, although the list of charges and defendants has yet to be finalized. "Prosecutors have taken a special interest in the , Georgia, by Trump allies because of the brazen nature of the operation and the possibility that Trump was aware that his allies intended to covertly gain access...

A Michigan attorney involved in multiple efforts around the country to overturn the 2020 election in support of former President Donald Trump has been charged in connection with accessing and tampering with voting machines in Michigan, prosecutors announced Thursday. The charges against Stefanie Lambert come days after Matthew DePerno, a Republican lawyer whom Trump endorsed in an unsuccessful run for Michigan attorney general last year, and former GOP state Rep. Daire Rendon were arraigned in connection with the case.

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan attorney involved in multiple efforts around the country to overturn the 2020 election in support of former President Donald Trump has been charged in connection with accessing and tampering with voting machines in Michigan, prosecutors announced Thursday. The charges against Stefanie Lambert come days after Matthew DePerno, a Republican lawyer whom Trump endorsed in an unsuccessful run for Michigan attorney general last year, and former GOP state Rep. Daire Rendon were arraigned in connection with the case. Lambert, DePerno, and Rendon were named by...