A recent video circulating on social media shows a Laurel County voter attempting to select Donald Trump as her pick in the 2024 U.S. presidential election on a touchscreen voting machine in Kentucky, but the vote finally went to Kamala Harris.

In a 16-second video, posted on Thursday, the first day of early voting in Kentucky, the voter is seen tapping on former U.S. President Donald Trump's name multiple times, but U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris' name is eventually highlighted in green, indicating the wrong selection, USA Today reported.

The Laurel County clerk’s office then halted the machine’s operation and called for an investigation by the Office of the Kentucky Attorney General the same day.

Laurel County Clerk Tony Brown, a Republican, was cited by Lexington Herald-Leader as saying that after several minutes of trying, an investigator from the state attorney general’s office re-created the issue once, but could not do it a second time.

The incident highlighted ongoing public concerns about voting machine reliability.

In response, Brown elaborated that the problem occurred when the user touched the area between the two choices.

Officials from the Kentucky State Board of Elections said in a statement made on Friday that the voting machine registered the selection for Harris because the voter was touching two boxes simultaneously, according to USA Today.

Brown claimed that the machine error did not affect the actual printed ballot, and the voter was able to cast her vote for her chosen candidate, confirming no lasting impact on her vote.

Such a 'voter error' as depicted in this video was said to be easily preventable and did not impact the voter's final ballot, ABC News cited election officials in Kentucky as saying.

According to Brown, voters have multiple opportunities to confirm their choice before a ballot is printed, and the voters can reprint their ballot twice if they are not satisfied with their selection.

Kentucky Secretary of State Michael Adams also addressed the public to assure voters that no ballots were improperly cast.

Adams affirmed: “There is no 'vote-switching.' Get your voting information from legitimate sources," Business Times reported.

Similarly, James Young, a former Louisville elections director, claimed in an X post that the video “does not depict any fraudulent activity or ‘voting flipping.’”

Katina Granger, a spokesperson from Election Systems & Software, which manufactures the voting devices, blamed errors of this nature on user interactions with the touchscreen, denying any inherent flaw in the equipment.

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