Texas voters casting early ballots claim voting machines are switching their ballot choices

[libertybele]

Texas voters casting early ballots claim voting machines are switching their ballot choices

Voters casting their ballots early in Texas claimed this week that when casting Democratic or Republican straight-ticket ballots, voting machines in at least 80 counties in the Lone Star State flipped their votes to the other party in key midterm races, including the high-profile competition between incumbent Sen. Ted Cruz and his Democratic opponent Beto O'Rourke.

The Texas secretary of state's office on Friday said that there have been issues reported with Hart eSlate voting machines, which are used in approximately 30 percent of counties statewide. The machines feature a wheel for selecting candidates and buttons to move from screen to screen.

But the secretary of state's office said the issues were not caused by the voting machines, but by voters themselves.

"The Hart eSlate machines are not malfunctioning, the problems being reported are a result of user error — usually voters hitting a button or using the selection wheel before the screen is finished rendering," said Sam Taylor, spokesman for the office of Secretary of State Rolando Pablos.

The Houston Chronicle reported that Democratic voters claimed the machines indicated that they were about to cast a vote for Cruz, when they originally intended to choose O'Rourke. Several people said they were able to get help from employees at polling places in order to change their vote back...........

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/some-texans-say-voting-machines-are-changing-their-straight-ticket-choices-to-other-party-in-key-races

[Chosen Daughter]

Sounds rigged.  Are they new machines?  Sounds like results could be easily legally challenged.  If so many people are having trouble it is not user error.  It is faulty equipment.

[Chosen Daughter]

Clear politics has quit reporting House race changes.  They were reporting daily and now they are stuck on Oct 23.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2018/house/2018_elections_house_map_race_changes.html

Is that because voting has started?

[Sanguine]

Anecdotal, I know, but I checked my votes before I hit submit and it was fine.  You can't check it after you have submitted it.

[LadyLiberty]

I had no problem, either.  These machines have been used for many years but they are a bit awkward to operate.

[dfwgator]

Sounds rigged.  Are they new machines?  Sounds like results could be easily legally challenged.  If so many people are having trouble it is not user error.  It is faulty equipment.

Media is planting these stories to cast doubt on the results because they believe it’s not going the way they want it to go.

[Elderberry]

I voted straight R ticket on a Hart eSlate machine and checked every position on the ticket as I scrolled down to the end to vote on the propositions at the end. In every case a Republican was selected except one where there was not a Republican to vote for.
 

[Chosen Daughter]

I had no problem, either.  These machines have been used for many years but they are a bit awkward to operate.

That was my question.  Whether the machines were new.  Then I do believe it is liberals trying to cast doubt on a lawful election.

[austingirl]

We had the new touch screen machine and I damn well checked my ballot before I submitted it. It was correct.

[BassWrangler]

We hear this every election. Check your votes.

[jmyrlefuller]

Media is planting these stories to cast doubt on the results because they believe it’s not going the way they want it to go.

Democrats do this every election cycle. We've been hearing it ever since they started rolling out the electronic ballots in 2004.