The Republican lieutenant governor of Texas is refuting false claims shared on social media by presidential candidate Donald Trump’s campaign that voting machines in Tarrant County will change voters’ choices.
Lara Trump, Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law and co-chair of the Republican National Committee, recently said that voters in Tarrant County are reporting that voting machines are flipping votes from Trump to Kamala Harris. posted on social media.
“I just spoke with Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick about voting in Tarrant County, Texas. They investigated it and the error was corrected in the voting machines,” she said. I wrote it on the day.
Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick responded on social media, speaking with Lara Trump about these social media posts and saying, “In fact, we investigated several of these incidents and found no errors that need to be corrected.” There has only been one in Tarrant County.” It said their votes were invalidated out of 591,885 votes cast so far. ”
The Trump campaign is promoting false claims that voting machines in Tarrant County were changing votes from Trump to Harris until authorities investigated and “the error was corrected on the machine.”
The Republican lieutenant governor of Texas responded: “Actually, there was nothing wrong…” pic.twitter.com/D0jDcb6DCa
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As NBC 5 reported on Oct. 22, Tarrant County officials said there was no evidence to support voters’ claims that their choices had changed and that the incorrect selections were discovered on voters’ printed ballots. When the election worker said the original ballot was invalidated, the voter re-voted, confirmed his choice, and then the vote was cast.
Patrick’s post went on to share state data. “As of today, of the nearly 7 million votes cast across the state, there are fewer than 10 allegations that a vote was flipped. There is not a single confirmation that that actually happened.”
County officials encourage all voters to “verify their selections on their paper ballot before placing it in the scanner to be counted.”
More than half of Tarrant County’s 1.3 million registered voters voted early, with an average of 53,000 people voting early each day during the 12-day early voting period.
Tuesday, November 5th is Election Day. That day, voting will open in Texas from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. If you are in line by 7pm on Election Day, you will be allowed to vote.
