A viral video was shot in Madison, Wisconsin, and shows an election worker circling ballot ward numbers and initialing them as required as part of the ballot verification process. It doesn’t show fraud in Philadelphia.
"Nothing to see here in Philly," one Nov. 10 InstagramThis post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. A look at the full Fox News segment from which the clip originated shows the video of the election worker wasn’t shot in Philadelphia.showed the outside of the East Passyunk Community Center, a polling location in Philadelphia. A Philadelphia dateline was visible in the broadcast’s top left corner.
But then the footage changes to show this clip of an election worker flipping through ballots. The dateline on that image is Madison, Wisconsin.
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