Voter machine rejecting Bernie was actually just not turned on

A Philadelphia artist posted video of a voting machine seemingly rejecting his vote for Bernie Sanders that went viral.

“Here it is folks. Voter supression in my own f——— neighborhood,” Brooks Bell wrote when he posted the video on Instagram. “Hundreds of people at my location today were told that they couldn’t vote for Bernie.”

The video was retweeted more than 2,500 times after New York journalist Shaun King shared it on Twitter.

However, the machine in the video was not turned on, said City Commissioner Al Schmidt.

“It is a video of someone trying to vote on a machine that isn’t on,” Schmidt said. “If you look at the video, to the left of where the candidates names are, there should be a red light on, indicating that the voter can select one of those candidates. … We looked at it. It’s immediately apparent that the voting machine was off.”

Bell confirmed that, in fact, the voting machine just needed to be reset, and he was able to vote for Sanders later on. But he said problems like this may have obstructed other voters.

The asshole went ahead and posted the video anyway AFTER HE VOTED.