Trump Pounces on ‘Ordinary’ Voting Machine Issues in Arizona
Automatic vote-counting machines went down Tuesday morning at some 20 percent of polling places in Maricopa County, Arizona, a locale that has become a hotspot for far-right conspiracy theorists—ex-President Donald Trump among them—looking to “prove” fantastical allegations of electoral fraud.
However, the truth-bending claims perpetuated during the first several hours of voting fell flat when the issue was fixed by adjusting the printer settings on affected vote tabulators at about 40 voting centers.
Shortly after the technical problem was first reported, Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Chairman Bill Gates said at a press conference that there is a “redundancy in place” for anyone who can’t run their ballot through the tabulator: “Just slip your ballot into the secure box directory below the tabulator to be verified and counted later.”