Some problems were reported at the polls Tuesday during the primary election runoffs, including a malfunctioning voting machine that was caught on camera.Video of the machine was posted on social media that appears to show a man trying to vote for Republican candidate for governor William Waller Jr., but the machine would only cast a vote for opposing candidate Tate Reeves.“Our office was made aware this morning that one TSX machine was malfunctioning in the Republican Primary at the Burgess precinct in Lafayette County. We contacted the county. The county dispatched a technician to the precinct and the tablet is being replaced. To our knowledge, only one machine was malfunctioning. Apparently 19 votes were cast prior to the error being detected,” said Anna C. Moak, with the Mississippi Secretary of State’s Office.The primaries are run by the parties and the voting machines are owned by the counties, Moak said. Election officials in Lafayette County said they believe the machine was dropped or damaged on its way to the polling location. There were also voting problems reported in Hinds and Calhoun counties, election officials said. Several Republicans in Hinds County experienced problems with electronic pollbooks, which authorities said were not consistently displaying voter history. Poll workers manually checked paper pollbooks, election officials said.Two voting machines malfunctioned at two separate precincts in Calhoun County, state election officials said. Technicians were dispatched.

Some problems were reported at the polls Tuesday during the primary election runoffs, including a malfunctioning voting machine that was caught on camera.

Video of the machine was posted on social media that appears to show a man trying to vote for Republican candidate for governor William Waller Jr., but the machine would only cast a vote for opposing candidate Tate Reeves.


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“Our office was made aware this morning that one TSX machine was malfunctioning in the Republican Primary at the Burgess precinct in Lafayette County. We contacted the county. The county dispatched a technician to the precinct and the tablet is being replaced. To our knowledge, only one machine was malfunctioning. Apparently 19 votes were cast prior to the error being detected,” said Anna C. Moak, with the Mississippi Secretary of State’s Office.

The primaries are run by the parties and the voting machines are owned by the counties, Moak said.

Election officials in Lafayette County said they believe the machine was dropped or damaged on its way to the polling location.

There were also voting problems reported in Hinds and Calhoun counties, election officials said. Several Republicans in Hinds County experienced problems with electronic pollbooks, which authorities said were not consistently displaying voter history. Poll workers manually checked paper pollbooks, election officials said.

Two voting machines malfunctioned at two separate precincts in Calhoun County, state election officials said. Technicians were dispatched.