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With right-wing conspiracy theories circulating about Dominion voting machines, some conservatives on social media are turning to an old episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver that covered the security flaws in voting machines — citing it as potential evidence the election was rigged against President Donald Trump.
Here is a video of John Oliver on his show @LastWeekTonight literally going on for 20 minutes telling us how unreli… https://t.co/f3X3UNxoqr— Luke Rudkowski (@Luke Rudkowski) 1605638212.0
On Thursday, however, Last Week Tonight hit back, debunking the claims of voting machine fraud and chastising people for taking Oliver's words out of context.
Hello to all our new viewers who've encountered our 2019 segment on voting machines through conservative media usin… https://t.co/ZkQ3CgBjkb— Last Week Tonight (@Last Week Tonight) 1605822693.0
If you watch our segment through to the end, you'll notice that we say the biggest vulnerability is if a state uses… https://t.co/zRTlNxQg89— Last Week Tonight (@Last Week Tonight) 1605822693.0
On top of which, a huge proportion of votes this year came in on absentee ballots, which are... y'know... paper ballots.— Last Week Tonight (@Last Week Tonight) 1605822694.0
In the story, we also suggest that a good failsafe is to perform a risk-limiting audit after an election is complet… https://t.co/EWkk8I56CB— Last Week Tonight (@Last Week Tonight) 1605822694.0
Would you like Wisconsin and Arizona to perform risk-limiting audits? Maybe their Republican-led state legislatures should get on that!— Last Week Tonight (@Last Week Tonight) 1605822694.0
(Is now the time to point out that in 2019, the House passed the SAFE Act, which would've required every state to h… https://t.co/bcnbZLstBt— Last Week Tonight (@Last Week Tonight) 1605822695.0
Finally, and most importantly: There is no evidence that any voting-machine fraud happened. In fact, some of the ex… https://t.co/wJ2ZyK1sk2— Last Week Tonight (@Last Week Tonight) 1605822695.0
If you didn't click through, here's the important part: https://t.co/TCCF3PbHEk— Last Week Tonight (@Last Week Tonight) 1605822696.0
And here's @PolitiFact's writeups of the Dominion Voting Systems and Hammer/Scorecard rumors that you may've seen -… https://t.co/PxYugz7KFi— Last Week Tonight (@Last Week Tonight) 1605822696.0
And here is a GIF of an all-mouse band. https://t.co/pPUDbWSBrs— Last Week Tonight (@Last Week Tonight) 1605822698.0
