Trump tweets about voting issues in Utah

Trump, who has been continuing to push allegations of vote rigging, takes to Twitter to quote CNN reporting on ballot issues in one Utah county.

“Just out according to @CNN: ‘Utah officials report voting machine problems across entire country,'” he writes, likely misspelling “county.”

Just out according to @CNN: "Utah officials report voting machine problems across entire country"

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 8, 2016

Election officials earlier said voting machine problems in southern Utah were forcing poll workers to use paper ballots, potentially affecting tens of thousands of people.

Utah Director of Elections Mark Thomas says a programming problem has affected all voting in Washington County, but so far appears it appears limited to that county.

He says about 52,000 registered voters there have yet to cast their ballots.

Election workers are trying to fix the computer problem and hope they can start using the voting machines later in the day.

Thomas says officials were prepared with backup paper ballots. But he said they will need to print more if the problem persists.

There are about 80,000 total registered voters in Washington County. Some 28,000 have already cast their ballots through early voting.

— with AP