Tucker Carlson made an absurd claim that electronic voting machines serve no purpose other than to assist Democrats in stealing elections Monday during an interview with Steve Bannon.

Carlson joined Bannon’s WarRoom podcast a day before the 2024 election to discuss a number of topics, including demonic forces, human sacrifice, and Tuesday’s vote.

On the subject of electronic voting machines, the former Fox News host recalled being deposed by Dominion after the company sued Fox for airing false claims that its machines were used to rig the election against former President Donald Trump.

While addressing Bannon’s audience, Carlson called for the machines to be banned:

What I’m really struck by is how virtually every Trump voter I talk to and maybe even some on-the-fence voters, says basically the same thing. You know, it’s just a question of how much the Democratic Party cheats in this election, which is another way of saying the whole country seems to have accepted the reality that, you know, one of the two big political parties doesn’t believe in democracy, is willing to cheat and ignore the will of the population – of the citizenry. That’s really dark.

You know, you hate to think you live in a place where people just, you know, accept that is normal. It’s not normal. It’s criminal; it’s immoral. And we should do everything we can to fix it. Right. And the last thing I would say is, as someone who spent, you know, I don’t know, something like 15 hours in depositions imposed on me by voting machine companies. And I was never named in any suit by a voting machine company, but they went out of their way to harass me, I think funded by Reid Hoffman, stole my text messages, leaked them to The New York Times.

Carlson said he was still “bitter” about the 2020 election fallout before he ripped conservative media for being afraid to call for a ban on voting machines:

They don’t work. They’re not more efficient. They’re not better at counting and they don’t produce the result faster. The only reason to have electronic voting machines is if, you know, you want to subvert them. It’s insane that we have them and no one feels free to say that. So I just want to I want to – I think I’ve been proven right on this. And we have every reason to be suspicious of electronic voting machines, and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

Carlson was deposed by Dominion during its successful lawsuit against Fox News, which ended in a $787.5 million payout by Fox to Dominion over the lies it aired about the company. Fox fired Carlson soon after the settlement.

The discovery process of the lawsuit unearthed texts Carlson sent about the election – including several in which he admitted privately that it was not stolen.

In one sent to then-Trump attorney Sidney Powell, a chief purveyor of election lies, Carlson demanded she provide evidence to support her claims.

“You keep telling our viewers that millions of votes were changed by the software. I hope you will prove that very soon,” Carlson wrote to Powell. “You’ve convinced them that Trump will win. If you don’t have conclusive evidence of fraud at that scale, it’s a cruel and reckless thing to keep saying.”

Powell never provided evidence in support of her claims.

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