evidence: EXCLUSIVE — Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy admitted he made false claims about his voting history after the Washington Examiner confronted the 2024 Republican contender with state election records. Ramaswamy notably asserted in two interviews released on June 30 and July 12 that he did not vote until 2020, when he backed former President Donald Trump over now-President Joe Biden. However, the wealthy entrepreneur actually first voted in the 2004 presidential election for the late Libertarian nominee Michael Badnarik, according to Ramaswamy as well as Ohio database records in Butler and Franklin counties. [...] Ramaswamy’s remarks come after he responded, "Yup," during a July Scripps News interview upon the journalist stating, "I was surprised to hear that you had not voted until 2020, until the 2020 presidential election. So, you voted for the first time. Now, it’s a little bit over two years. You’re running for president. That’s a pretty big jump to just go from voting, now 2 1/2 years later, to run."