Outside a polling station in the Texas city of Fort Worth, in Tarrant County, a voter supporting former president Donald Trump reported that the machine had changed his vote. A video of the incident went viral, sparking a wave of accusations against the electoral process. In response, electoral authorities issued a statement clarifying that only one in every 58,000 ballots cast on the first day of early voting (October 21) was misprinted due to voter error. However, by that point, the misinformation had already begun to spread.
“Tarrant County’s voting system electronically marks a voter’s candidate selections and prints a final paper ballot for review before the ballot is cast,” the statement explains, arguing that there is “no reason to believe that votes are being switched by the voting system.” It adds: “The Tarrant County Elections Department highly encourages voters to confirm their selections on the physical paper ballot before placing it into the scanner to be counted.”
Similar complaints were made in from states like Tennessee and Georgia. In Georgia — a key swing state in the November 5 elections — Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene alleged that a voting machine changed a ballot in Whitfield County, north of Atlanta.
In response, the Board of Elections and Dominion Voting Systems — the manufacturer of the machines —, said that the issue stemmed from voter error and was addressed while the voter was still at the polling center. “Humans make mistakes....
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