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People leave after voting in the Atlanta suburb of Sandy Springs, Ga., on Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024, the first day of early in-person voting in Georgia. A steady stream of false and misleading information is circulating online around the 2024 election.
The 20-second video shows a man who describes himself as a Haitian immigrant with American citizenship who plans to vote multiple times in Georgia’s Gwinnett and Fulton counties. He flashes several purported Georgia IDs with different names and addresses. “We know that Storm-1516, and Russia more broadly, has for many years been focused on undermining the legitimacy of our democratic process,” he wrote in an email. “This video fits with that goal.”
The man in the video is the local postmaster and was doing his job, dropping off ballots as instructed after collection, McClure said in an email. He noted that the misinformation led to unwarranted harassment against the postmaster. CLAIM: A video shows busloads of noncitizens skipping the line to vote at a satellite election office in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
THE FACTS: That’s false. Social media users misidentified the woman in the video as Jordan Bowen, an organizing director for the county party from 2021 to 2023. Thethat the woman in the video “is not and never has been” employed by HCDP or the Texas Democratic Party. Several social media posts wrongly singled Bowen out as the alleged aggressor, using the video as an example of “typical” Democrat behavior. One TikTok video, captioned “Trump 2024,” that showed a screenshot of the video next to an actual photo of Bowen, had been viewed approximately 1.1 million times as of Tuesday.
“It’s a big impediment to our doing our job,” he said of the false claims. “It’s just completely fake, made up stuff.”CLAIM: A video shows ballots marked for Trump being destroyed in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, while those for Vice President Kamala Harris were put back in their envelopes to be counted.
The Bucks County district attorney’s office said in an emailed statement Thursday evening that they and the Yardley Borough Police Department investigated the video and “concluded that this video was fabricated in an attempt to undermine confidence in the upcoming election.” Michigan is hardly the only state with large numbers of inactive voters on its rolls. Every state — aside from the six which are exempt from theThe large number of inactive voters is a sign of robust list maintenance, according to David Becker, the founder and executive director of The Center for Election Innovation and Research, who served as a co-chair on Michigan’sCLAIM: A Dominion voting machine in Whitfield County, Georgia, flipped a vote to a candidate not marked by the voter.
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