“A video shows a voting machine deliberately switching a vote to a Republican candidate.”

Claims that voting machines are programmed to switch votes have circulated for years, often accompanied by viral videos. In every documented instance where such a video has been investigated, the cause has been identified as a technical malfunction—specifically, touch-screen miscalibration—or user error. When a touch screen is miscalibrated, the sensor may register a touch in a slightly different location than intended, leading the machine to select a candidate adjacent to the one the voter actually pressed. Election officials and cybersecurity experts have repeatedly clarified that these are isolated hardware issues that can be corrected by recalibrating the machine or by the voter verifying their ballot before casting it. There is no evidence to support the claim that these machines are deliberately programmed to switch votes for specific candidates or parties.