Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick publicly debunked claims that voting machines in the state are changing the choices voters make.
Republican National Committee co-chair Lara Trump, whose father-in-law is Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, posted on social media that Texas had investigated claims about voting machines in Tarrant County altering voter selections and that the “error has been corrected with the voting machines.”
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But Patrick, who is also a Republican, quickly corrected the national party leader on social media. The lieutenant governor said fewer than 10 of the nearly seven million Texans who had already cast ballots across the state claimed their selection had been changed, but officials could not confirm any case of this.
“There really weren’t any errors that needed to be corrected after we investigated those few cases,” Patrick wrote on X.
Election day is Tuesday.
One of the 591,885 people who had already cast ballots in Tarrant County claimed the voting machine had changed his selection for president from Donald Trump to Democratic candidate Kamala Harris. Tarrant is Texas’ most populous battlefield region.
Tarrant County officials believe the man made the wrong choice while using the machine. His original ballot was canceled and he was allowed to cast a new ballot.
Lara Trump reposted Patrick’s statement debunking claims about the vote switch.
“We will be watching our elections closely,” Patrick wrote in his post. “If you see anything troubling, please call the Secretary of State’s office that oversees our elections.”
The Office of the Secretary of State can be reached at 800-252-8683 or online.
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