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Clik here to view.Some early voters in Texas said that when they reviewed their straight-ticket Republican selections on voting machines one significant candidate choice was changed.Image may be NSFW.
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While all down-ballot names indeed reflected GOP candidates, their presidential choice showed Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton instead of Republican nominee Donald Trump, the Dallas Morning News reported.
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Garland City Council member Stephen Stanley said he went to an early voting station at Nicholson Memorial South Branch Library on Tuesday morning while campaigning for candidates on the ballot.
He said around noon a woman came out of the library and told him she had tried to vote straight ticket Republican but the machine said she had voted straight Democrat.
The woman told him a poll worker apologized that the machine wasn’t working and instructed her to use another one.
Stanley said he was worried about people who didn’t double-check their ballots.
“My question is how many other people didn’t know,” Stanley told the paper.
Dallas County elections administrator Toni Pippins-Poole said voters should double-check their ballots prior to submitting them, the Morning News reported.
Pippins-Poole added that while she’s caught wind of malfunctioning machine reports, voters in the end were able to cast ballots the way they wanted and no official complaints were logged.
“It could be voter error or it could be that the machine needs to be recalibrated,” she told the paper.
“If we had someone in the polling place tell us, ‘Hey, it marked something other than what I marked on the screen,’ we would stop the process and ask the voter to show us,” Sherbet told the paper. “We can absolutely verify and check that in front of the voter. If there were a problem with a machine, it would immediately be taken out of service.”