Trump gets confused by difference between 'county' and 'country'

Trump's back on Twitter.
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Donald Trump was quick to make a mountain out of a molehill when it came to a potential problem with submitting ballots.

In one of his Election Day tweets Trump incorrectly quoted CNN as reporting voting machine problems across "the entire country."

Several reporters and others on Twitter were quick to correct Trump's hasty tweet.

The tweet also seemed to show that Trump was back on Twitter after his campaign had kept him from posting in the days heading into the election.

According to the Associated Press, "Election officials in Utah said voting machine problems in the southern part of the state forced poll workers early in the day to use paper ballots."

Pretty sure southern Utah is not the entire United States. That pesky "r" makes a huge difference.

It's also unclear where Trump was getting the supposed CNN report about the voting problem.

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Sasha is a news writer at Mashable's San Francisco office. She's an SF native who went to UC Davis and later received her master's from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. She's been reporting out of her hometown over the years at Bay City News (news wire), SFGate (the San Francisco Chronicle website), and even made it out of California to write for the Chicago Tribune. She's been described as a bookworm and a gym rat.

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