CNN: Voting goes mostly smoothly on Election Day as baseless fraud claims swirl

CNN: Voting goes mostly smoothly on Election Day as baseless fraud claims swirl

“What we are seeing are things that we usually see on Election Day,” said Susannah Goodman, director of election security at Common Cause. “Sometimes voters are going in and one of the voting machines isn’t working, or lines are a little longer.”

(CNN —) State and local elections officials said Tuesday’s voting in the midterm elections went smoothly overall, with a few isolated problems reported, including in the key swing state of Arizona where issues with voting machines sparked baseless claims about fraud.

While multiple states reported attempted cyberattacks on their websites on Election Day – including a “sustained outage” of a website in Mississippi – none of the hacks have prevented anyone from voting, federal officials told reporters Tuesday evening.

“What we are seeing are things that we usually see on Election Day,” said Susannah Goodman, director of election security at Common Cause. “Sometimes voters are going in and one of the voting machines isn’t working, or lines are a little longer.”