Stella Parton called for Elon Musk to die after alleging her Tennessee ballot kept selecting Marsha Blackburn, officials report just one such complaint so far.

The 77-year-old singer posted on Facebook on Wednesday that people like the SpaceX CEO and “Russian bots” may have “upended another election,” then wished them dead.

Breitbart News reported the vocal Democrat’s words and the thin official record behind her separate claim that an early-voting machine kept defaulting to Republican Marsha Blackburn.

Stella Parton wrote that the thought of election interference made her skin crawl.

"To think people like Elon Musk and Russian bots may be upended another election makes my skin crawl. May they all die and worms eat them,"

She tied the outburst to her own experience voting last week at the Hermitage Library in Tennessee.

Parton said the screen kept selecting Blackburn and that she had to correct the choice three times. She added she would never vote for the Republican for anything and urged others to double-check their ballots rather than let anyone “rig this election.”

"In Tennessee last week at the Hermitage Library where I voted, I had to go back three times and correct my vote because it kept defaulting to Marsha Blackburn,"

She framed the post as a public warning: voters take the process seriously and should not rush past errors just to keep lines moving.

"I’m putting this out here because when we vote, we take it seriously but we try not to hold up the long lines. Do it anyway. Don’t let them rig this election."

State officials describe one matching complaint

Tennessee’s Secretary of State’s Office offered a far quieter picture. Among roughly 400,000 ballots cast so far in the November midterms, the office said it had received only one complaint like Parton’s.

Tennessee Coordinator of Elections Mark Goins told the Tennessean the systems include multiple checks so ballots match voter intent.

"Tennessee’s voting systems are designed with multiple safeguards to help ensure that ballots are recorded consistent with voter intent,"

Officials noted voters can review and fix selections on the initial screen, on a final review screen, and on the paper ballot or paper record. Anyone who thinks something is wrong is told to alert a poll worker before casting the vote so the problem can be fixed on the spot.

Parton’s post did not say whether she flagged a poll official before finishing. The state response did not identify the single similar complaint as hers or anyone else’s.

Grief, fear, and a public death wish

Follow-up posts showed Parton answering people who asked why Democrats sound so angry. She said she felt more frightened and frustrated than angry, and called the moment heartbreaking for “every good and innocent person in this country.”

The timing sits against heavy family loss. Stella Parton lost her sister, country legend Dolly Parton, to cancer in August. Fox News reported Dolly Parton died at age 80 on Aug. 25 after a brief battle, and that the diagnosis stayed private because she could not bear negative things and did not want fans or family to worry.

Stella later described that choice in plain terms: Dolly did not want anyone told.

"Well, Dolly did not want anybody to tell that, because Dolly could not bear negative things, and she would not have wanted her fans worried about it,"

The Parton family has absorbed other recent blows as well, including the earlier death of Coy “Denver” Parton, Dolly’s older brother.

None of that grief supplies evidence that Elon Musk or foreign bots altered Tennessee’s early vote. Parton’s Facebook posts offered no data, no machine logs, and no second voter accounts beyond her own story. State officials answered with the complaint count and the built-in review steps already available to every voter at the machine.

Rhetoric outruns the record

Parton is free to dislike Blackburn and free to distrust national figures she associates with the right. She is also free to post on Facebook. What she chose to post was a public call for Musk and anonymous “bots” to die and for worms to eat them, paired with an election-rigging charge that state election administrators say matches one complaint out of hundreds of thousands of ballots.

Secure elections need working equipment, clear paper trails, and voters who stop and fix mistakes before they cast. They also need adults who can argue about policy without turning political opponents into targets for death wishes. Parton’s posts delivered the second impulse far more clearly than they documented the first problem.

When frustration at the ballot box becomes a curse aimed at a named American, the argument is already lost.