An Instagram post claims that the midterm elections were rigged because of technology issues with voting machines in Arizona, New Jersey and Texas. But those glitches did not stop people from casting their ballots.
The issues experienced in Arizona, New Jersey and Texas did not prevent anyone from voting or having their vote counted.Voters in Arizona’s Maricopa County typically cast their votes by printing out completed ballots at a polling location and inserting them into vote-counting machines, known as tabulators. Scanners in the tabulators record each vote.completed ballots. Some of the ballot printers didn’t use enough ink, making the ballots unreadable by a tabulator’s scanner.
"Of course, it is not optimal when your scanners do not work on-site, but we are pleased that we have a paper-based election system that allows every voter to cast a vote and have that vote count," Sollami-Covello said."Every vote was counted.", Sollami-Covello said the glitch doesn’t appear to be a deliberate attack on Mercer County’s voting system, but a full investigation would be conducted to rule out the possibility.
Stafford said there were no issues with the county’s voting machines, contrary to the claim in the Instagram post.
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