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This Google election conspiracy theory is wrong
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This Google election conspiracy theory is wrong

In the video, originally shared by X-user DogeDesigner, a user searches Google for “where can I vote for Harris” and “where can I vote for Trump.” The Harris search shows Google’s 2024 US Election panel, which includes a map you can use to find where to vote. Not the Trump quest.

But there’s a complicating factor here: Harris is also the name of a county in Texas. And the voting map shows up when people search for terms like “where can I vote” and a location — try searches like “where can I vote for Brooklyn” or “where can I vote for Tampa,” and you’ll see it appear. And actually: when The edge When the staff tried to search for “where can I vote for Harris,” we saw a sidebar that said Texas next to the voting map.

Google responded directly to Musk on X and confirmed that explanation. “The ‘where to vote’ panel triggers a number of specific searches” because of the county in Texas, it said — noting that the same happened for “where to vote for Vance” with a county in North Carolina. The company said the issue was “now resolved” in a subsequent post, and as of publication, a search for “where can I vote for Harris” (or Vance) no longer shows the voting map.

The company also said that “very few people actually search for voting places this way.” If you Doing If you still don’t want to find your polling place, you can always bypass Google and go somewhere like Vote.org.