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On 29 October 2016, the TruthFeed web site published an article reporting that several states had announced that early voters who cast their votes for Hillary Clinton could change their votes in light of FBI director Jim Comey's announcement that new e-mails potentially linked to Hillary Clinton's mishandling of classified information had been discovered: That article is a mixture of true, misleading, and inaccurate information. While some states do allow early voters to change their votes prior to the election, no state altered its existing election laws in order to specifically allow Hillary Clinton supporters to change their votes in light of newly discovered e-mails. The image shown aobve was taken from a Fox News broadcast in which reporter Trace Gallagher explained the various laws that exist in some states allowing early voters to change their votes before election day: Gallagher didn't say that any of these states had implemented new election laws, or that former Hillary Clinton supporters were clamoring to change their votes. Furthermore, Gallagher's report doesn't appear to have been entirely accurate. The Louisiana Secretary of State's office, for instance, disputed the claim that early votes could be changed in that state: We also found a few discrepancies with Gallagher's report, such as the fact that Michigan does not allow early voting at all. It is true that some states, such as Minnesota, allow early voters to change their minds: Extant mechanisms in some states do provide a means for early voters to change their votes. None of those mechanisms was recently implemented specifically to allow ballots cast for Hillary Clinton to be changed, however.
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