A voter in Kentucky despatched out a warning on social media this afternoon after a touchscreen voting machine wouldn’t let him choose Donald J. Trump and his vice presidential candidate, and JD Vance.
In a video he recorded and posted on social media, the unidentified male will be seen repeatedly urgent the oval for President Trump and JD Vance. At one level, the Kamala Harris and Tim Walz selection lights up, indicating he selected them on the touchscreen when it’s clear he’s solely pushing the Trump-Vance ticket.
Nick Sorter shared the video on his fashionable “X” account together with an excellent query:
NEW: Some voting machines in Kentucky are NOT ALLOWING voters to pick President Trump.
As an alternative, after they faucet “Trump,” Kamala Harris finally ends up being chosen.
Add it to the checklist of causes to modify to paper ballots.
Why does this at all times appear occur in a single path and never the opposite?
Watch:
NEW: Some voting machines in Kentucky are NOT ALLOWING voters to pick President Trump.
As an alternative, after they faucet “Trump,” Kamala Harris finally ends up being chosen.
Add it to the checklist of causes to modify to paper ballots.
Why does this at all times appear occur in a single path and never… pic.twitter.com/2QOO93DS1v
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) October 31, 2024
Many on social media questioned the authenticity of his declare, however this night, Tony Brown, the Laurel County Clerk posted a message on Fb confirming that the video was certainly actual and that the touchscreen voting machine with a poll marking system was certainly, malfunctioning and switching the vote from Donald J. Trump to Kamala Harris.
The Legal professional Common’s workplace has been to the vote heart to test the system that has been proven throughout social media at the moment. In full disclosure, after a number of minutes of trying to recreate the situation, it did happen. This was achieved by hitting some space in between the containers. After that we tried for a number of minutes to do it once more and couldn’t.
Since that is going out throughout the USA and the world, I wish to clarify to everybody that this can be a poll marking system. You insert your clean poll into it to vote your particular poll in your precinct. It exhibits you who you may have chosen for every race and notifies you for those who didn’t choose in a race earlier than it permits the voter to proceed to the following web page. Whenever you come to the tip of the poll it exhibits you ways you voted in each race and concern. It confirms with every voter that they’re happy with their picks twice earlier than printing the poll. When you obtain your poll again from the poll marking system you’ll be able to evaluate your selections once more earlier than putting it into the scanner. If you happen to made a mistake, chances are you’ll spoil that poll and obtain one other one, Kentucky Legislation permits two spoiled ballots solely. As soon as you might be happy together with your poll chances are you’ll place it into the scanner, and it verifies that it has been counted.
These poll marking gadgets are set for a voter to the touch inside the entire field with the identify of the candidates. Within the video posted you’ll be able to see us going forwards and backwards by way of the names with no points. This is identical machine utilized by the voter within the video. It remained at its location within the vote heart and was set face down till the consultant from the Legal professional Common’s Workplace arrived to analyze. There have been no claims of any points with the system prior, and none because it went again into service. The voter who posted the video did forged her poll which she mentioned was right.
I hate that this has occurred right here in Laurel County. We attempt to have correct, safe and secure elections that we’re proud to offer to our residents. I hope all can get to the polls and make your voice heard November fifth. If you happen to learn by way of this complete submit, thanks very a lot in your time.
The clerk included a video of himself testing the machine on his Facebook post:
This message by the clerk confirmed what they denied occurred 4 hours after they printed an announcement denying that the incident happened.
We’ve had an incident at the moment with somebody reporting one of many poll marking gadgets malfunctioning. We checked it and couldn’t make it recreate the incident reported. The machine has been taken out of service and are ready for the Legal professional Common’s Workplace consultant to reach. We had no complaints previous to or after the grievance. Now we have left the machine in full view and are awaiting additional instructions.
It’s nice that the election official and Kentucky’s AG admitted the “glitch” within the machines, however what number of different machines had the identical factor occur to voters earlier than this one voter who was conscious sufficient to note the error and good sufficient to tug out his cellphone and file what occurred?
People want to stay vigilant and watch their votes being counted on touchscreen machines. Now, greater than ever, it’s as much as residents to maintain a detailed eye on how elections are being run of their voting precincts.