Texas voting machines are switching votes — but it’s bad design, not hacking

When Texas’ early voting process started last week, some people finished filling out their ballot only to see that their choices had been changed — either switched from one party to another, or erased completely. This seemed like a bug at best, or deliberate election tampering at worst. But state officials have declared that the machines are functioning correctly; people are just using them wrong. And they’ve decried a “disturbing trend” of misinformation and exagg