2020 election: clarification of fraud allegations is more rampant

As President Trump continued to debate the results of the American elections, misleading or misleading posts went viral on social media about voting.

Some of this news has been amplified by President Trump himself and his team, who have urged people to question the integrity of the election without providing evidence.

We have examined some of the key claims.

Several posted tweets accuse that many of the dead are voting in a key Michigan state, adding to the Trump-led chorus of unsubstantiated claims of “voter fraud.”

The viral tweets are believed to have identified absentee voters, despite being born at the turn of the century and deceased.

One of the men in the posts who appeared to have mixed his vote with his father’s has now passed away. He and Dad have the same name and address, according to the Politifact website. Local officials in Michigan told Politifact that the child’s vote had been mistakenly attributed to the father in the official voting system.

We have seen other different cases of “dead” voters, explained mainly by relatives with the same name or for technical reasons, such as directed voters. leads to temporarily entering a hypothetical date of birth, if they can’t initially find your voter record online.

These rumors are echoed by influential accounts, including President Don Jr.’s son – who of course shares his name with his father – and Brexit party leader Nigel Farage.

Posts that are widely shared online show a flaw in the counting software used in Michigan that resulted in thousands of Donald Trump votes being counted for Joe Biden.

Statements posted on the president’s Twitter, posted by Republican Senator Ted Cruz, suggest that there may be a problem with the software used across the state.

He added that the original error was human error, not software error.

The online posts that are currently circulating claim that there could be a similar problem in 47 other Michigan counties where the same software is being used.

“There is no evidence that this user error has occurred in other parts of the state,” Benson said.

Another rumor that spread appeared in the counting of votes in the state of Arizona, battlefield.

There are tweets claiming a plan to reduce votes in the pro-Republican Republican regions of the state by distributing Sharpie pens, permanent markers, for people to fill out their ballots.

In a widely circulated video, a woman describes how the voting machine is allegedly unable to read the ballots marked with this pen.

The person behind the camera said that the votes were not counted and that people are forced to use a Sharpie pen to falsify the total number of votes.

This resulted in a lot of social media activity and allegations of voter fraud that a large number of votes from Trump supporters were cast off.

CNN reported that a group of protesters gathered in Maricopa County in Arizona were “shouting misinformation on social media about Sharpie.”

Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs confirmed on Twitter that if you vote in person, “your ballot counts, no matter what type of pen you use (even a Sharpie pen)!”

Ms. Hobbs later told CNN that “ even if the machines can’t read these ballots for some reason, like ink leaking through the other side, we have a way of counting them. They will be counted. There is absolutely no basis to say that these are some of the conspiracies to invalidate the votes of the Republican Party. “

An election night Michigan voting map, showing an increase of around 130,000 votes for Joe Biden, but not an increase for Trump, has gone viral on social media.

President Trump tweeted images that sparked speculation about voter fraud.

It is normal for you to have a large number of votes added to the count at the same time while the votes are being counted.

But social media users questioned why Trump didn’t add any votes to his account in this particular update.

The explanation is simple: it was an input error, which was later corrected.

Decision Desk, the election monitoring website that created the map, said: “It was a simple error from a state generated file that we imported … the state noticed the error and came up with it.” number of updates “.

The spokesperson added: “This could have happened on Election Night and we suspect that other Michigan ballot makers could also see the error and correct it in real time as we did.”

Twitter has tagged the tweets that raise this suspicion: “Part or all of the content shared in this tweet is in dispute and could mislead an election or other civil process.”

Matt Mackowiak, the user whose post Trump chose to retweet, deleted the tweet and apologized, though the image is still widely shared elsewhere.

Earlier Wednesday morning, this updated map was broadcast by QAnon’s conspiracy and Trump supporters, and reached a large audience of influential conservatives online.

When we contacted the Michigan Elections Office, they did not comment on the data discrepancies, but said that the results at this stage were “unofficial” and not the final number.

There have been many false claims that there are more people voting in Wisconsin than are registered to vote.

One user tweeted: “BREAKING: Wisconsin has more votes than those registered to vote. Total registered voters: 3,129,000. Total number of votes: 3,239,920. This is direct evidence. Of cheating.”

However, the number of registered voters for this tweet is out of date – the latest number as of November 1 is 3,684,726.

That tweet has now been removed, but people on Facebook and Twitter continue to share screenshots of the post.

Wisconsin voter turnout in this election is significantly higher than in previous years.

The state of Wisconsin also allows people to register to vote on Election Day 03/11, which means that the total number of registered voters may be higher than currently reported.