Liberty Vote (formerly Dominion) voting tabulator produces hundreds of phantom votes in local election

By Easton Martin | November 25, 2025

Valencia County New Mexico officials confirmed that a Liberty Vote tabulator, previously part of the Dominion system, (now Liberty Vote), produced more than 200 phantom votes during the recent local elections. The machine was not used on Election Night, yet it generated totals in a dozen races, and those numbers were transmitted to the state before the discrepancy was caught.

County staff corrected the results, but Liberty Vote has not provided an explanation for how an unused machine created vote totals at all. That unanswered question matters because several Valencia County races were extremely close. In Los Lunas and surrounding areas, multiple contests drew only a few hundred voters, and some were decided by single-digit margins. A discrepancy of over 200 votes far exceeded those margins.

The county says it is reviewing procedures to ensure unused machines cannot feed any numbers into the system in future elections. With every county in New Mexico using the same equipment, officials are also seeking clarity from the vendor to confirm whether the glitch was isolated or part of a broader technical issue.

While the corrected results stand, the incident is yet another major blunder for voting machine technology. If Liberty Vote cannot even explain how or why this happened, how is anyone expected to have any measure of confidence in these machines?