Voters in Kentucky are having issues casting their ballots for former President Donald Trump after the machines automatically changed their choices to Vice President Kamala Harris.
The Kentucky Attorney General’s office launched an investigation into the incident that occurred in Laurel County after a voter filmed themselves trying to tap Trump on the touch-screen voting machine when, after multiple tries, it auto-selected Harris.
Another machine automatically switching to Kamala Harris after voter picked Donald Trump this time in Arkansas.
— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) October 31, 2024
I want paper ballots!
Thank you to the people filming these machines switching.
Keep filming, keep reporting, and KEEP VOTING!!!
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Laurel County Clerk Tony Brown confirmed that at least one of the ES&S ExpressVote machines was malfunctioning. However, he insisted that the state’s elections were secure and that the voting machine had been switched out.
A spokesperson for Kentucky Secretary of State Michael Adams, Michon Lindstrom, claimed that the incident was "voter error.” He insisted that the issue was not the result of election interference after the video went viral on social media.
“There is no 'vote-switching.' The voter confirmed that her ballot was correctly printed as marked for the candidate of her choice. Get your voting information from legitimate sources," Adams said.
Politicians, among others, such as Billionaire Elon Musk, have called for elections to use paper ballots only in elections.
Musk claimed that voting machines make it "too easy" for elections to be hacked, voicing skepticism about their integrity. The SpaceX founder specifically mentioned Dominion Voting Machines, which have been at the forefront of past election disputes.
"There's always a sort of question, like, say, the Dominion voting machines. It is weird that, you know, I think they're used in Philadelphia and Maricopa County not in a lot of other places," he said. "Doesn't that seem like a heck of a coincidence?"
Musk warned people not to trust computers, saying voting machines don't produce accurate results.
It’s almost like we have been screaming for years about these voting machines.
— RedWave Press (@RedWave_Press) October 31, 2024
Does anybody ever see the glitch favoring Donald Trump?
— AmericanPapaBear (@AmericaPapaBear) October 31, 2024
Nope.
Machines must be eliminated for voter confidence to return.
— Debagain (@DeborahGinn10) November 1, 2024
Imagine how much would slip by if Elon didn’t buy this platform
— Bradley (@Bradley_1999) October 31, 2024
