Jasmine Crockett’s fraud comments: ammo in the fight for hand-counting
By Easton Martin | November 11, 2025
Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett recently claimed that Republicans are trying to cheat in the 2026 midterm elections, pointing to the purchase of Dominion Voting Systems by a Trump supporter. She suggested the acquisition could affect the vote.
Her comments are widely reported and taken seriously in many media outlets. A few years ago, when Mike Lindell raised concerns about election integrity and alleged irregularities in the 2020 election, he faced dismissal, ridicule, and deplatforming.
Allegations of election problems are accepted when they align with certain narratives, and treated as dangerous misinformation when they do not. If the ownership of voting technology by a partisan actor raises questions, those questions should be asked consistently, regardless of party.
Our elections depend on trust in the system. That trust suffers when political bias decides which concerns deserve attention. If Crockett’s claim is legitimate, then Lindell’s should have been treated the same way.
Election integrity ought to be a concern for everyone. Honestly, I don’t think we should condemn Rep. Crockett for her comments per se, just because her concern is cheating in the other direction. It seems best for the election security movement that we embrace this concern, encouraging Crockett and others who may be suspicious of the Dominion purchase to abandon machines altogether in favor of hand-counting.
