No, Donald Trump, There's No Voter Fraud In Texas

Republican Donald Trump announced on Thursday that he's hearing about rampant voter fraud at the polls in Texas.

In the end, it turns out one voter didn't know how to review their own ballot.

A lot of call-ins about vote flipping at the voting booths in Texas. People are not happy. BIG lines. What is going on?

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 27, 2016

Even the Tarrant County Republican chairman didn't buy into the Trumpster's hyperbole.

From Politico:

According to Snopes, “Reports are not flooding in from across Texas about vote switching.”

“Although rumors of ‘vote switching’ in Texas are rampant, we found only one case in which a report was investigated, and it was found to be unsubstantiated,” the rumor researching website said.

The Republican presidential nominee is likely referring to an allegation from a woman who posted on Facebook this week that she voted for Republicans up and down the ballot, though the summary of her votes showed that the Hillary Clinton-Tim Kaine ticket was checked, too.

“I tried to go back and change and could not get it to work,” the woman, who voted in Texas, said. “I asked for help from one of the workers and she couldn't get it to go back either. It took a second election person to get the machine to where I could correct the vote to a straight ticket.”

The woman urged voters to “double check your selections before you cast your vote!”

According to election officials, however, the problem was likely a “voter error,” not a sign of election rigging.

Tim O’Hare, chair of the Tarrant County Republican Party, told a local CBS affiliate that voters are inadvertently changing their votes by incorrectly turning the machine’s wheel to change the page.

“We don’t think there’s fraud inside the machine or software glitches,” he said.