With a little over a week to go before the midterms, a video is circulating with claims that it proves election "rigging."

The clip allegedly shows a voting machine deliberately changing a vote for a Democratic candidate to a Republican.

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The rumor stems from a TikTok video of a Cook County, Illinois, woman, who claimed a voting machine said "people are not typically choosing this person" when she tried to vote for a Republican judicial candidate.

Some people suggested the strange, guttural vocalization was a burp or another involuntary sound.

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