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A short mobile phone video that Gadi Schwartz posted to Twitter on Friday night is heartbreaking and lives up to its title: “Conspiracy Theories Can Come That Quickly.” Schwartz reports on the vote count in Maricopa County, Arizona, for NBC News.
Today, the county is extremely important to the election of the president of the United States. It is the most populated region in the state of Arizona. According to “CNN,” 137,000 of the 250,000 or more ballots that had not yet been counted Friday night in Arizona were there. Therefore, the count is decisive for Joe Biden to win the state and therefore eleven voters for him.
But for days, Trump supporters have been gathering to protest in front of the building where the ballots are being evaluated. The riots went so far that police blocked streets four blocks away. Meanwhile, a fence has been drawn around the area to keep protesters at a distance. Behind, however, are the vehicles of the television stations that report on the site, including those of NBC, and that causes misunderstandings.
What’s in the suitcase?
According to Schwartz, a rumor has spread among the group that gathered in front of the fence that television personnel were dragging fake ballots into the building. A man can be heard saying, “They have no watermarks on their ballots.” Another is filming the scene with his smartphone and comments that one is only witnessing electoral fraud. Another exclaims: “There are still ballot boxes there, there are the ballots!”
Schwartz, on the other hand, takes the viewer in his video to the closed parking lot and has a colleague explain what’s in the big plastic suitcase: “Here are the GoPros, here are the interior lamps, here my LU600”, that is , Camera equipment. The LU600, for example, is a device for mobile transmission of video signals.
Confusion apparently occurs more frequently
Another incident said to have occurred in Detroit on Thursday shows that the sturdy suitcase in which television professionals carry their gear can be misinterpreted by passersby. According to this, a short cell phone video is circulating on social media showing someone bringing a heavy box with a small handcart to the Detroit Convention Center, where the vote counting is done. The video suggests that there may be fake ballots in the ballot box.
The news channel WXYZ Detroit, which belongs to the ABC network, explains, however, that the cart belongs to one of their cameramen, who used it to carry his equipment to the building during a twelve-hour shift.
