Ax boss Elon Musk, speaking at a town hall in Pennsylvania, claimed that voting machines rig elections, ABC News reports.
Musk is on a speaking tour around Pennsylvania, ABC News reports.
In his speech, Musk linked Dominion’s voting machines to Republican defeats in Philadelphia and Arizona, saying, “There’s always kind of a question about, let’s say, Dominion voting machines. It’s weird you know, I think That they are used in Philadelphia and Maricopa County, but not many other places,” ABC News reported. “Doesn’t this seem like a great coincidence?” Musk called on states across the country to “switch to hand-counted paper ballots only.”
Elon Musk emerged as a staunch supporter of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and donated US$75 million to his political action committee to return Trump to the White House. According to ABC News, the donation made Musk one of the biggest spenders of the 2024 cycle.
“I’m a technologist, I know a lot about computers,” Musk told the crowd during the event on Thursday (local time). “And I think the last thing I would do is trust a computer program, because it’s very easy to hack.”
According to ABC’s report, Musk mentioned Dominion, a voting machine company that sued Fox News last year for defamation over the network’s claims that it was involved in a vote-rigging conspiracy, then settled with the network $787 million. A historic deal was agreed on the US dollar.
A statement from a Dominion spokesperson following Musk’s comments said, “Fact: Dominion does not serve Philadelphia County. Fact: Dominion’s voting systems are already based on voter verified paper ballots. Fact: Such Hand counts and audits of paper ballots have proven time and again that Dominion machines produce accurate results. These are not matters of opinion, these are verifiable facts.”
ABC News reported that even before Musk’s comments, Dominion had issued a statement encouraging voters to trust verified sources of information regarding the election.
“We are closely monitoring the claims surrounding the 2024 election. We strongly encourage people to rely on verified, reliable sources of election information – sources that have physical, operational And there are multiple layers of technical safeguards in place to fully explain our elections, including voting with paper ballots that can be audited and recounted, ABC News quoted Dominion as saying.
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