A false claim of vote switching was based on a viral video of a touchscreen machine
Officials, including from the Republican National Committee, have confirmed that a ballot-marking machine in Kentucky did not change someone’s vote for president from Donald Trump to Kamala Harris.
Annotated screenshot of a video posted to X with the misleading suggestion the voter was not able to vote for their selected candidate due to the ballot-marking machine.Tony Brown, the county clerk for Laurel County, Ky., where the incident happened, said in a statement posted to The statement includes a video of the same device from the incident being used with the correct candidate names highlighted when the whole box for a candidate had been tapped.that “there is no ‘vote-switching.’ The voter confirmed that her ballot was correctly printed as marked for the candidate of her choice.”“We called election officials directly. They separated the machine, conducted proper testing, didn’t find any errors, and confirmed that voters could cast their ballots properly.
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