“Broken voting machines in Russellville, Ark., tried to automatically tally votes meant for Donald Trump as votes for Joe Biden.”
Social media posts
Claim dated 21 Oct 2020.
PolitiFact rated thisMostly False
What PolitiFact found
A voting machine at an early voting polling site in Arkansas froze on a voter. Poll workers removed the machine. The machine never computed a vote for Joe Biden. The issue involved just one machine.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 21 October 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 3 November 2020, 13 days later. Its rating was “Mostly False”.
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