A computer problem wrongly showed that ballots about to be given to some Detroit voters had already been issued as absentee ballots. Election workers worked around the error and no eligible voters were turned away.
largest city, a Democratic stronghold, were preventing voters from casting their ballots — a claim that elections officials immediately rejected.on Truth Social."People are showing up to Vote only to be told, ‘sorry, you have already voted.’ This is happening in large numbers, elsewhere as well. Protest, Protest, Protest!" The post was also reshared widely across other social media platforms.
"This isn’t true. Please don’t spread lies to foment or encourage political violence in our state. Or anywhere. Thanks." In some Detroit precincts, computers used by election workers indicated that some ballots about to be given to voters had already been issued as absentee ballots."No voter was turned away," Michigan secretary of state spokesperson Jake Rollow told PolitiFact."They weren’t told that they already voted absentee and they weren’t turned away." He said the glitch affected a small number of voters, though the exact number has not yet been determined.
The pollbook indicated that the person was registered to vote and had neither been issued nor had cast an absentee ballot. When the worker entered the number of the ballot to be given to the voter, the pollbook erroneously indicated that the ballot had already been issued absentee.
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