Trump's plan to ban voting machines collapses due to lack of evidence
Source: Raw Story
May 22, 2026 4:55PM ET
White House adviser Kurt Olsen attempted to ban Dominion Voting Systems machines used in more than half of U.S. states and their territories by asking the Commerce Department to declare their components national security risks, according to Reuters reporting.
The plan would have effectively removed the machines before the midterms in November.
Commerce officials began exploring legal grounds to execute the ban in September but ultimately abandoned the effort when Olsen's team failed to provide evidence supporting the security threat claim, reports Reuters' Erin Blanco.
Olsen's team physically dismantled Dominion machines seized from Puerto Rico, searching for components from adversary nations, but found only Intel chips packaged in China, alongside components from Japan, South Korea, and Malaysia — none considered security threats.
Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/midterms-2676931787/
Link to Reuters article - https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/trump-officials-tried-ban-half-us-voting-machines-citing-conspiracy-theories-2026-05-22/
They are trying as hard as they can to destroy elections. EVERY SINGLE ONE NEEDS 3 HOTS AND A COT.
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But I’ve read numerous times here on DU that if Trump wants something “HE WILL JUST DO IT!”, because everybody knows that “NOBODY CAN STOP HIM!”.
And yet, this is like the third time in the last 36 hours that someone has posted a verifiable report that this administration, once again, has been stopped from taking an extreme, likely illegal or unconstitutional action.
It’s getting to the point where I can’t believe posts that claim that Trump is omnipotent, and the states and the people are powerless.
(In case it wasn’t obvious)
Why is he trying to ban them now? This is just another chaos generator ....
