Tucker Carlson said “electronic voting machines didn't allow people to vote” in Maricopa County. Not so. Because of a glitch, voters had the option to put their ballots in a slot instead of feeding them into a machine.
The last step for voters after they’ve filled out their ballots is to feed them into a tabulator machine and watch as the machine pulls them inside. Optical scanners record each vote.
In about a quarter of the county’s polling locations, the machines took only some ballots; some stopped taking any. That evening, Fox News host Tucker Carlson warned that in a close election, the public needs to have confidence in the entire voting process. And in Maricopa, that broke down, he claimed.That’s incorrect.
Speaking at about 2 p.m. local time, Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Chair Bill Gates, a Republican, said the problem had been fixed at 17 centers and that work was underway at the rest. Gates said no voter was turned away. "People were still able to vote, it was just a matter of maybe not voting in the way they wanted to," Gates
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