An article on X claims that a Kentucky voter using an electronic voting machine was not allowed to vote for Donald Trump, with his votes automatically replaced with Kamala Harris.

Verdict: misleading

Tony Brown, Laurel County Clerk said it was a ballot marking machine, not a machine that processed votes. The machine was temporarily disabled and the voter was finally able to vote for their preferred candidate.

Fact check:

A job Having gone viral on X, it claims to show a voting machine in Kentucky that would not allow a voter to vote for former President Donald Trump. She is seen tapping the area of ​​the screen with Trump’s name, but sees Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris’ ticket highlighted instead.

Even if the video is real, local authorities tell a different story. They say the problem could simply be due to a machine malfunction, not a concerted effort to overturn the vote for Mr. Trump. The machine was immediately decommissioned and the voter was able to vote correctly.

Russell Coleman, Kentucky’s Republican attorney general, said they recommended the machine be removed for investigation after hearing about the problem. He adds that Kentucky voters can be confident that the state’s elections will be secure.

Kentucky Secretary of State Michael Adams, who is also a Republican, confirmed to WLKY that the voter was able to confirm that her ballot was correct. “Get your voting information from legitimate sources, not TikTok or cat poop,” Adams said, apparently taking aim at popular right-wing personality X Catturd.

>Laurel County civil servants struggled to recreate the problem during its investigation, and the machine is now back in service. Some attribute the problem to voter errorclaiming that the machine would have worked correctly if the voter had touched the correct spot on the screen.