Social media users in states such as Texas are already misrepresenting early voting machine errors as evidence of wrongdoing. Republican former president Trump has also repeatedly accused Democrats of importing migrants to vote illegally for Harris on Election Day, November 5. The 2020 election was marred by false claims of hacked voting machines, dead people voting and illegal overnight ballot dumps, culminating in the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol by Trump supporters. 'Kind of laughable'The last presidential election was the most secure in American history, according to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (archived here). Safeguarding the voteWhile each state makes its own election rules, all have security measures at each step of the voting process.