The Simpsons Episode · 1998
A touch-screen voting machine malfunctions and switches votes to the wrong candidate.
What Really Happened · 2012
A voting machine in Pennsylvania was filmed visibly switching Obama votes to Romney in 2012.
2012
The Full Story
In 'They Saved Lisa's Brain', Homer steps into a touch-screen voting booth and watches in horror as the machine cheerfully reassigns his vote to the opposing candidate — a glitch presented as both absurd and entirely plausible. In 2012, a voting machine in Pennsylvania was filmed on camera visibly switching a voter's Obama selection to Romney; election integrity disputes, machine audits, and paper ballot campaigns have dominated every US election cycle since. The clip plays on a loop in every election truther's playlist.
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foreshadowed real-world events. This prediction appeared in S10E22 ("They Saved Lisa's Brain"), which aired in 1998.
It was confirmed true in 2012.
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