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6 Nov, 14 tweets, 4 min read
False accusations of election fraud have threatened to undermine Americans' confidence in the election process. Allow us to dish out the facts.
Joe Biden never led Wisconsin by 100,000 votes and election officials did not stop counting.
Pauses or delays in posting results were anticipated because absentee ballots -- cast in record numbers -- take longer to count.
An early morning spike in Wisconsin's vote tally came when Milwaukee's absentee ballots were counted.
The Arizona secretary of state said ballots filled out with Sharpies WOULD be counted.
Wisconsin has more than 3.6 million registered voters and there were 3.2 million votes cast in the state.
The poll worker who was initially turned away was admitted after his credentials were cleared.
A poll worker who claimed to have thrown away ballots in Pennsylvania was not a poll worker and not affiliated with the county in any way.
Pennsylvania voters exposed to COVID-19 were able to request emergency absentee ballots to vote.
A clerical error misstated Joe Biden's total in Michigan, but the typo was corrected within 15 minutes.
Machine outages in Scranton, Pa. were corrected in less than 2 1/2 hours on the morning of Election Day.
Video footage of former President Barack Obama was altered to give the impression he was confused while introducing Joe Biden at a campaign event.
Piles of bricks in Detroit were for construction projects.
Fencing, not a wall, was installed around the White House this week.

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