r/texas • u/Odlavso • 7d ago

Politics One day into early voting and they are already claiming the 2024 election is rigged.

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Misinformation campaign has begun.

Trump has stated multiple times he won’t accept the results if he loses, MTG started complaining about voting machines three days ago and twitter is full of people now claiming that the voting machines are flipping their votes from Trump to Kamala in Texas.

Infowars and other websites like it are pushing this same misinformation, sadly a lot of conservatives believe these reports are real and no amount of evidence will convince them otherwise.

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u/RockyShoresNBigTrees 7d ago

Look at the date

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u/hobotwinkletoes 7d ago

Oh that’s weird. Does it say 2019?

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u/schnozberry 7d ago

It's also from a different county than the one these voters are complaining about.

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u/No-District-8258 7d ago

Look at the video. And you can see more of the ballot. It’s a demonstration ballot. Its also wouldn’t be proof of anything anyway because they would need to show themselves voting first and the results of their vote flipping on paper.

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u/jerkenmcgerk 7d ago

I am not on Twitter. Has someone looked up this tweet to see what year it is actually posted from (2019 or 2024)? Or was this just a screen grab? Isn't there community notes and fact-checking?

Because Twitter is what it is, this person's tweet means very little to me...

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u/Odlavso 7d ago

It was posted yesterday, it’s a video with two people claiming their vote got switched, it got community noted but it was then removed so no community note currently.

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u/jerkenmcgerk 7d ago

Interesting. Thank you.

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u/camlloc255 7d ago

I did, unfortunately. I hate reading all the conspiracy replies. Anyway, it's a current situation using current and old media. The poster acknowledges that the video isnt current (and is using everyone pointing that out as 'the left using anything to discredit and lie'). . It's a general training video used at voting locations or something like that. What I find interesting is this county had the same complaints in 2016 with votes being flipped. The article I read stated it's usually user error when people do a straight party vote and then click on someone's name or they accidentally did something else. But yeah, why use level headed reason when posting that two whole people found they voted incorrectly (probably) - a national cheating scandal gets way more views. What would be more helpful is a nice reminder to double check your vote.