On November 3, 2020, individuals in Serbia accessed Dominion voting machines in Chicago via VPNs to upload cartridges of 20,000 ballot images at a time.
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Ask Dr. DrewOct 21, 2026
The claim is a specific instance of the broader Dominion allegations (Serbian remote access, vote switching, foreign control) that fact-checkers and election officials examined and rejected, and no authoritative source confirms the Chicago/Serbia VPN upload account.
What was said
… Dominion is like a it just creates it, but it's a Potemkin American company. It's got a little Denver office, but everything's really done in Serbia. When they there's a there's correspondence showing people in Serbia were coming in through VPNs into the back of machines to create virtual machines in Chicago on the morning of November 3rd, 2020, and uploading cartridges of 20000 ballot images at a time. It's all in there. Why that's especially funny is the CEO of Dominion, when all the poop hit the fan, the CEO of Dominion went around testifying to state senates and the U.S. …
Ask Dr. Drew · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Contradicts. Reuters found the claims that Dominion was linked to Venezuela or Antifa and switched votes unsupported, and Dominion stated it has no servers in Germany and no raids occurred. Election security officials said they had no evidence that ballots were changed, deleted or lost by voting systems in the November 3 election.[1]
Contradicts. PolitiFact and AP fact-checked the Dominion vote-switching and deletion allegations and found no evidence of widespread tabulation errors or major problems with Dominion systems, describing them as baseless.[2][3]
Contradicts. FactCheck.org stated that Cook County, Chicago, used Dominion equipment and that Dominion vote-switching accusations were already debunked, undercutting the premise of a Chicago-specific remote manipulation.[4]
Context. The supporting material is the claimant's own discovery assertions, a private perjury complaint from 2025 that alleges remote access three days before the election, and a 2024 leak of documents by a lawyer whose court filing made the allegation. These are allegations rather than findings by a court, audit, or election authority, and the complaint does not describe VPN uploads of 20,000-image cartridges in Chicago.[5][6][7][8]
Context. Several 2026 posts and social media items repeat the Serbian remote-access and 2.7 million deleted votes framing with the same figures, so they are circular and add no independent corroboration.[9][10][11]
Sources
11 sources: 4 fact-checkers, 7 not rated
- 1Fact check: Dominion is not linked to Antifa or Venezuela ...reuters.com · fact-checker · cited for: contradicts
- 2Fact-checking false claims about the 2020 election - PolitiFactpolitifact.com · fact-checker · cited for: contradicts
- 3AP FACT CHECK: Trump tweets a tall tale of 'deleted' votesapnews.com · fact-checker · cited for: contradicts
- 4Baseless Conspiracy Theory Targets Another Election Technology ...factcheck.org · fact-checker · cited for: contradicts
- 5Patrick Byrne letter to judge in Byrne v. Dominion.24hourcampfire.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 6Criminal Complaint Against John Poulosscribd.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 7Eric Coomer Moves to Censor Questions - High Country Advocatehighcountryadvocate.org · not rated · cited for: context
- 8Lawyer defending ex-CEO of Overstock arrested after she is no ...abajournal.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 9MASTERPIECE: After Court Win, Patrick Byrne Asks Judge Award Him the '$787.5 Million' FOX News Paid to Dominion and Much Morejoehoft.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 10The SCIF on X: "Translated Dominion emails confirm Serbian ...x.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 11Election Security Concerns: Expert Testimony Raises Questionslinkedin.com · not rated · cited for: context
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