Fact checking? Already done, for at least one instance.
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CLAIM: Voting machines in Kannapolis stopped working. Ballots were gathered to be counted later.
Determination: The basic claims in the video are true, but missing some very important context. One machine at the downtown Kannapolis train station did go down for a few hours, but the county had a plan for these types of occurrences and poll workers carried it out. The ballots were secured in a locked box where they were placed by the voters until the machine could be repaired and a team of poll workers from both major political parties put the ballots back through the counting machine.
Source: Carol Soles, Director of the Cabarrus County Board of Elections.
Details: In the video, a voter claims that ballots were being collected due to non-functioning scanning machines, sparking concerns about the integrity of the voting process.
Cabarrus County Board of Elections Director, Carol Soles confirmed that the ballot scanning machine, known as the DS 200, did indeed stop working temporarily.
However, she emphasized that such occurrences are anticipated, and they have established backup procedures in place.
“There’s an emergency bin within that same piece of equipment,” Soles explained, ensuring that ballots remained secure and did not leave the building during the outage.
According to Soles, the voters themselves place the ballots in the “emergency bin” where they remain locked and under supervision until a team of bipartisan poll workers can take them out and scan them into the counting machine.
Soles reassured voters that their ballots were safe and securely handled throughout the process, stating, “We do voter history each day... to ensure the number of ballots counted matches the number of applications to vote.”
She said that if there had been any change in the number of ballots, it would have immediately signaled an issue.
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