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Today in Nevada, Republicans held a news conference and had a woman speak who alleged voter fraud, saying her ballot had been stolen and she was blocked from voting in person by elections officials. 1/ https://twitter.com/RichardGrenell/status/1324409701895823360
But elections officials in Clark County said the woman's story didn't hold up. https://twitter.com/JoshNBCNews/status/1324419281577271300
In Detroit, video was circulated by a conservative news site of what some said was evidence of election fraud, claiming that ballots were being wheeled into a voting center in a suspicious manner. 3/
But it turns out the video showed a TV cameraman loading equipment. He had no ballots. https://twitter.com/wxyzdetroit/status/1324331937385848835
On Election night, there were various claims on social media that Joe Biden had suddenly received huge numbers of votes, while President Trump received none.
But that was not true. https://twitter.com/SassyfrasSarah/status/1324411728726142977
But that was not true. https://twitter.com/SassyfrasSarah/status/1324411728726142977
People have sent me various claims of huge jumps in Biden votes in Michigan and Wisconsin - here's a fact check on one from Wisconsin. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/11/04/fact-check-no-fraud-wisconsin-overnight-vote-spike/6167188002/
There are all sorts of these kinds of claims from the past few days. They all end up in the same place. https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/nov/04/facebook-posts/social-media-post-falsely-claims-wisconsin-found-1/
Then there was the claim that people who were born around 1900 were voting by absentee (making them very, very old). That was also quickly debunked. https://twitter.com/ElectProject/status/1324358555055640579
Facebook today blocked a group called "Stop the Steal" partly for pushing evidence-free accusations of vote fraud. https://twitter.com/technology/status/1324456567157215233
This morning, there was a report that elections officials in Pittsburgh were stopping their work for what seemed to some Democrats to be questionable reasons.
But it turned out to be a different story than originally claimed. https://twitter.com/tripgabriel/status/1324435200978391040
But it turned out to be a different story than originally claimed. https://twitter.com/tripgabriel/status/1324435200978391040
We've also seen the claims that using a Sharpie invalidates your vote - that's also not true.
From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
"Trump and officials with his campaign have floated vague accusations with no evidence of election tampering in Wisconsin" https://twitter.com/darreldrowland/status/1324465233767866377
"Trump and officials with his campaign have floated vague accusations with no evidence of election tampering in Wisconsin" https://twitter.com/darreldrowland/status/1324465233767866377
Then there was the claim that ballots were being burned in Virginia Beach. That didn't happen either.
https://www.pilotonline.com/government/elections/2020-results/vp-nw-virginia-beach-ballot-burning-20201105-ldamv3j5ffdq7hnefrxiuwl4gm-story.html
https://www.pilotonline.com/government/elections/2020-results/vp-nw-virginia-beach-ballot-burning-20201105-ldamv3j5ffdq7hnefrxiuwl4gm-story.html
At this point, the feds have announced no investigations based on any claims made by President Trump https://twitter.com/mattzap/status/1324469187734102018
Then there is the claim that Wisconsin has more votes than registered voters. That one doesn't hold water, either. https://twitter.com/dcexaminer/status/1324471864786325504
Lots of people kept sending me the url of the Michigan elections result site, demanding to know why it was different from what the news media was reporting. The only answer seemed logical enough - it was slow in updating. And it still is. (Michigan top/NYT bottom)
There was the claim - taken to court - that Chatham County Georgia had mishandled 53 absentee ballots. The judge quickly tossed the lawsuit because there was no witness testimony backing up the claims. https://twitter.com/gpbnews/status/1324411478422757376
Today's Las Vegas news conference by Trump/GOP officials featured charges - but not much in the way of evidence. And that was noted on Fox News. https://twitter.com/NikkiMcR/status/1324461590108872704
No, there was no video of ballot stuffing in Michigan. https://twitter.com/PolitiFact/status/1324474645815431168
There seem to be an awful lot of people on social media not familiar with "ticket splitting" or "undervotes." A difference between the number of votes for the candidate at the top of the ticket and those below is not evidence of fraud. It is normal. https://twitter.com/BigJoeBastardi/status/1324721784202153985
Evidently some GOP members of Congress are also unfamiliar with the idea that people split their tickets or don't vote on lower ballot races. https://twitter.com/RepGosar/status/1324725484631064578
Let's go back to 2012. Mitt Romney won Indiana. But the Democrats won the Indiana Senate race. 1.4 million voted for Romney. Only 1.1 million voted for the GOP Senate candidate. People split their tickets. It happens.
So the "ballots were found in a dumpster" from Spalding County, Georgia turns out to be a fake story too. https://twitter.com/DavidBegnaud/status/1324781852717207553
Rumors / internet videos / internet claims *do not equal* actual legal charges of election fraud. So far what we've had is all sorts of talk about fraud / stealing the election / etc - but no specific charges. https://twitter.com/NicoleCarrWSB/status/1324784190722838531
Rush Limbaugh leading the way on an effort to raise questions about fraud and the 2020 vote, when it's something which is absolutely normal. https://twitter.com/mattklewis/status/1324763517535326211
Here's a tweet from Rep. Bill Posey R-FL, talking about "massive voter fraud." What is the evidence? Where is the "massive voter fraud" located? What exactly happened? Lots of Republicans talking about election fraud, but little in the way of detail. https://twitter.com/congbillposey/status/1324787133828222982
Lots of people / GOP reps are tweeting about Republicans not being allowed in as poll watchers. As the Fox News correspondent says in this report, "That's not true."
And then there are the people claiming that there is video of poll workers filling out ballots. Yes there is video of poll workers doing that - because they are dealing with damaged ballots. And they are being watched by observers. https://twitter.com/JaneLytv/status/1324756117415776257
Here's the allegation of a 223,000-to-zero vote dump for Joe Biden made on Fox News. Is there really any evidence for something like that? (no) Or is this just part of the "massive voter fraud" GOP argument that doesn't really have any specifics? https://twitter.com/justinbaragona/status/1324762236364201984
While Republicans are claiming fraud, there is evidently so little available evidence of election fraud that veteran conservative activist Randall Terry is now urging Trump backers to search dumpsters near "Democrat sweatshops in big cities" for possible evidence.
Here's another piece of election disinformation. "Watermarked ballots" https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1324849977227661318
