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Dan Patrick refutes claims of voting machines in Texas changing votes
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Dan Patrick refutes claims of voting machines in Texas changing votes

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Lt. Gov. Texas. Dan Patrick publicly debunked claims that state voting machines change the selections voters make.

Republican National Committee co-chair Lara Trump, whose husband is Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, posted on social media that Texas looked into claims about voting machines in Tarrant County changing voter selections, and “the error was corrected with the voting machines”.

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But Patrick, who is also a Republican, quickly corrected the national party leader on social networks. The lieutenant governor said fewer than 10 of the nearly 7 million Texans who have already voted across the state claimed their selections were altered, but officials could not confirm a single instance in which that happened.

“Actually, there were no errors to correct once I investigated those few cases,” Patrick wrote on X.

Election Day is Tuesday.

One person out of 591,885 who have already voted in Tarrant County claimed the voting machine switched their selection for president from Donald Trump to Democratic nominee Kamala Harris. Tarrant is the most populated battlefield in Texas.

Tarrant County officials believe the man made the wrong selection while operating the car. His initial vote was voided and he was allowed to cast a new one.

Lara Trump re-posted Patrick’s statement, denying the claims of switched votes.

“We will be watching our picks carefully,” Patrick wrote in his post. “If you see anything troubling, call the secretary of state’s office that oversees our elections.”

The Secretary of State’s office can be reached at 800-252-8683 or online.

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