Voting had only been underway in the US for a few hours and polls still hadn’t even opened in some parts of the country, but Republican strategist and pro-Trump influencer Joey Mannarino had apparently seen enough.
\n\n“MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF VOTER FRAUD BEING REPORTED ALL OVER THE COUNTRY!” Mannarino asserted on X at 9:02 am EST, offering no evidence to support his declaration. “The Democrats are stealing our country right out from under us!”
\n\nAs in any other election year, as polling places opened, people began showing up to vote, and voting machines started whirring into action, some jurisdictions ran into problems.
\n\nSevere flooding along Florida’s Space Coast meant about 20 polling places had to be moved. Bad storms over the weekend likely caused brief power outages in Arizona’s Maricopa County, forcing the temporary closure of several polling places. Pennsylvania’s Luzerne County was missing a scanner box. And in Westchester County, New York, voting in the hotly contested House race between incumbent Republican representative Mike Lawler and Democrat Cait Conley hit a roadblock early on Tuesday morning when machines stopped accepting paper ballots.
\n\nVoting machine malfunctions—much like bad weather and power outages—are fairly common during elections. While typically attributable to some…
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