“I tried to pick Trump 10 times, it would not work.”

That’s part of the caption for a now-viral video on X showing a voter trying to cast a vote for former President Donald Trump. After several attempts, the video shows, the electronic voting machine captured a vote — but it was for Vice President Kamala Harris. Although officials have looked into the issue, such glitches are a reminder to voters to always double (if not triple) check ballots when casting votes.

The user, whose screen name is “it’s me,” said in the post that the incident took place in Kentucky. She claimed she “went to the head of the election board and will send this video to KY attorney general.”

Kentucky Attorney General Michael Adams said in a post on X responding to a report on the incident that “there is no ‘vote-switching’. The voter confirmed that her ballot was correctly printed as marked for the candidate of her choice. Get your voting information from legitimate sources, not TikTok or cat turds.”

Laurel County Clerk Tony Brown later confirmed in a post on Facebook that when the state’s Attorney General’s office came to “check the device,” the incident eventually occurred again.

“The Attorney General’s office has been to the vote center to check the device that has been shown across social media today. In full disclosure, after several minutes of attempting to recreate the scenario, it did occur,” Brown said on Facebook. “This was accomplished by hitting

The Trump campaign filed a complaint against The Washington Post with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) in response to advertising efforts Republicans argue amount to illegal electioneering.

On Thursday, the Dhillon Law Group filed a complaint on behalf of former President Donald Trump and Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, that claims the Post is engaged in “a dark money corporate campaign” to boost Vice President Kamala Harris.

“The Washington Post recently announced it would not endorse a presidential candidate, a decision the Post’s owner defended on the basis that ‘Presidential endorsements do nothing to tip the scales of an election,’” the complaint reads. “Yet, on October 30, 2024, the news website Semafor published a report titled ‘Washington Post pays to boost stories critical of Trump as subscribers flee.’”

The Semafor article published Wednesday chronicled the paper’s desperate efforts to save readership after losing hundreds of thousands of subscribers in the aftermath of an announcement that the editorial board would not endorse Harris.

“Washington Post pays to boost stories critical of Trump as subscribers flee,” the headline read.

Semafor reported that eight days before Election Day, “On Monday, the paper aggressively ramped up its paid advertising campaign, boosting dozens of articles related to the election. While the articles about Vice President Kamala Harris were relatively neutral in tone and focused on her innovative digital strategy, her policy proposals, and her chances of winning next week, the articles that the Post paid to highlight about Trump told a different story.”

The Post

Americans hoping for an economic rebound in the waning months of 2024 under the Biden-Harris administration did not receive the news they were hoping for on Friday.

According to a report by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the U.S. economy only added 12,000 nonfarm payroll jobs during October. The nation’s unemployment rate remained “essentially unchanged” at 4.1 percent.

The agency detailed how “[e]mployment continued to trend up in health care and government” sectors, while job losses were reported in the “help services” sector. The manufacturing industry also experienced a decline in job numbers, which BLS attributed to “strike activity.”

According to Fox Business, the 12,000 total is “well below the 113,000 gain that was predicted by LSEG economists and the lowest tally since December 2020.”

Equally notable, however, is the agency’s revelation that the total number of nonfarm payroll jobs for August and September were less than originally reported. According to BLS, August’s total “was revised down by 81,000, from +159,000 to +78,000, and the change for September was revised down by 31,000, from +254,000 to +223,000.”

“With these revisions, employment in August and September combined is 112,000 lower
[nonfarm payroll jobs] than previously reported,” the agency concluded.

The Biden-Harris administration’s downward revision of job totals is not a new phenomenon. Results from an annual analysis by BLS published in August revealed that the U.S. economy added 818,000 fewer jobs from March 2023 to March 2024 than originally reported.

October’s jobs numbers present an increasing problem for