Pennsylvania voting machine error did not reveal ‘election fraud’ – PolitiFact

Get PolitiFact in your inbox. If Your Time is short A clerical error by a voting machine company caused votes in two judicial races to appear switched on printed ballot summaries that were produced after some Northampton County, Pennsylvania, voters cast ballots. Local officials said the machines recorded voters’ choices accurately and all votes were tabulated properly. A spokesperson for Election Systems & Software, the company that made the voting machines, said an employee made the programming error. The Pennsylvania State Department said this error was isolated to the two judicial retention questions in Northampton County. Voters were informed of the issue before casting ballots. An Election Day glitch in eastern Pennsylvania has some social media users declaring it evidence that the entire country’s election system is corrupt. Text on a Nov. 8 Instagram post read, “Are U.S. elections compromised?” Below that, the post shared a screenshot of an X post from conservative commentator Benny Johnson that said, “Voting machines in Pennsylvania are now being shut down after reports of machines ‘flipping votes.’ And this is why Americans have lost all faith in our electoral process.” “Add this to the list of election fraud cases we’ve recently learned about,” Johnson’s
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