At the end of October 2024, a video of an American automatic machine for voting spread in Telegram channels, which makes it possible to vote only for the presidential candidate from the Democrats. We checked the reliability of this video.
In the video, which began to be actively published in large Russian-speaking Telegram channels on October 31, a touch screen of the electoral machine was captured, which, judging by the inscription on it, is in Kentucky. The voter who shot the video is trying several times to press the small white square next to the name of the candidate from the Republicans Donald Trump, but after several attempts, the machine unexpectedly allocates the name of his rival-democratic, Kamaly Harris, as if a voice was given to her precisely. TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov in his channel Added: “It really happened,” said Kentukka, secretary of the Kentukki district, confirming that the failure in the voting cockpit counted the vote for Donald Trump in favor of Kamaly Harris. ” This post collected 183,000 views at the time of writing this analysis. The video also published, for example, a TV presenter Olga Skabeeva (70,000) and channels "Ne.saxap"(224 000), Rus_criminal (108,000), "Gossip"(86 000),"Urgently, now"(52,000) and"Federation"(50,000). Note to Izvestia about the incident reputed In its channel, the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Maria Zakharova.
The main voting day in the election of the US President is November 5, but voters can make their choice ahead of schedule. By data NBC, this is what more than 76 million Americans have already done. Unlike the elections of 2020, when Democrat Joe Biden called supporters to vote by mail due to the pandemic Covid-19, and Trump, on the contrary, insisted on visiting polling stations, this time candidates from both Parties are actively promoting early voting.
Before getting to Telegram, viral video Collected Hundreds of thousands of likes and reposts in English -speaking social networks. The authorities of the Kentukki Lorel, where the failure of the video, occurred, quickly reacted to him. How reported On his page on Facebook, the secretary of the district Tony Brown, immediately after the complaint received the device was disconnected and sent for verification. Later an official declaredWhat, as the investigation of the incident showed, the cause of the voter and imperfection of the screen was the cause of the incident: “For several minutes we tried to reproduce the described situation, and we managed only once when we pressed the area between the voting fields.” Brown added that there were no other complaints about the work of the terminal - neither before nor after the incident - and the person who shot the video confirmed that in the end he was able to vote for the preferred candidate.
Later Brown Published A detailed video instruction on using such an automaton. He emphasized that the terminal is not intended for electronic voting: the voter must insert a clean ballot into the apparatus and “mark” it, that is, to give his vote for presidential candidate and applicants for places in Congress and other elected positions, as well as express opinion on issues made to the referendum. At the same time, it is, according to the machine gun before the start of the procedure, it should be directly on the name of the candidate, and not on a small square next to it, as the author of the video acted.
After that, the device demonstrates how a person voted in all positions, and requests confirmation twice before printing the ballot. It, in turn, must be lowered into an urn or placed in a special scanner to facilitate the vote count. If it turned out that an error crept into the ballot, the voter in Kentukki can cancel it and print a new one - the state laws allow you to do this twice.
Electronic voting in the United States is practically not used. Unlike Russia and some other countries, in the federal elections in the United States it is forbidden vote online. About 98% of all votes Give up On paper - ballots are filled either by hand or with the help of cars like the one used in the Lorel district. However, in some cases, similar direct electronic voting systems The polling stations do not involve a paper copy, and the voices are stored on a hard disk.
Thus, although the enclosed video captured the real situation on the polling station in Kentucky, it was a single failure in the operation of an automatic machine caused by the imperfection of the program and the error of the voter (which, according to representatives of local authorities, still managed to successfully give his vote for Trump).
Photo on the cover: a screenshot of a viral video
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