False claims have been circulating that Dominion Voting Systems is responsible for widespread election errors. There is no evidence to support these claims, which use isolated incidents to allege malfeasance. Voting across the country remains a secure and auditable process. (1/5)
In Antrim County, MI, an error resulted in wrongly reported election results which were quickly corrected. As stated by the Michigan Secretary of State, the error was a result of “user human error” and not a software glitch. (2/5)
Likewise, in two counties in Georgia, errors occurred encoding voter access cards in electronic poll books used for voting machines. These errors were likewise quickly resolved and did not interfere in the voting process. (3/5)
False claims around these incidents spread widely, including by the President who wrongly labeled the election a “total mess”. To the contrary, this election’s administration was an overwhelming success, thanks to the hard work by election officials across the country. (4/5)
Election administration errors happen and do not imply malfeasance. The focus instead should be that these isolated issues were quickly resolved. There is no evidence of significant interference, foreign or domestic, in the voting processes of this election. (5/5)
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As the ballot count drags on, a series of unfounded narratives have proliferated on social media platforms. A recent viral allegation about dead or implausibly old voters in battleground states has gained traction.
2/ These posts typically share screenshots of Secretary of State voter rolls side-by-side with the birthdate of the alleged voter to prove that their vote was counted, despite the improbability that a voter could still be alive if they were born well-over a century ago.
3/ Despite both the @MichSoS and @PAStateDept refuting these claims, it has permeated throughout partisan circles as the President’s team files lawsuits in PA, GA, MI, NV to challenge the counting of ballots they allege belong to deceased voters.
We have observed false claims that “real” ballots have so-called “non-radioactive” isotope watermarks on them. Watermarks can be on mail-in ballots, but that does not mean they are used to target voters maliciously or as a method to conduct election fraud. [1/6]
Depending on which state you voted in, your ballot may have a watermark. Ballots are printed with watermarks to help with authentication. Watermarks distinguish official ballots from potentially counterfeit ballots. [2/6] sos.ca.gov/administration…
Several fact checkers have already debunked claims about “non-radioactive” isotope watermarks. [3/6] factcheck.org/2020/11/bogus-…
1/ A new Project Veritas video is spreading on social media with an alleged whistleblower from Traverse City, Michigan. There is no evidence to support the claims made in the video. Elections and the vote counting process in Michigan continue to be safe and secure.
2/ The video features a “whistleblower” purported to work at the Barlow Branch USPS in Traverse City. He claims that the morning of 11/4, he and colleagues received a directive from a supervisor to postmark ballots with the previous date, 11/3. This remains unverified.
3/ These claims have gone viral in large part due to conservative influencers on Twitter, including Donald Trump Jr., James O’Keefe (Project Veritas’s founder), Mike Coudrey (a conservative investor), and Tom Fitton (Judicial Watch’s president and a pro-Trump activist).
1/ Last week, we predicted we'd see “premature declarations of victory.” This prediction came true in Trump’s press conference on Tue night, when he falsely claimed he won the election. We look at which breaking news headlines covered his claim accurately eipartnership.net/rapid-response…
2/ To understand how this claim of victory was framed by media, our research team analyzed headlines from breaking news stories that mentioned the claim in the hour after the press conference.
3/ Fortunately, many media organizations either corrected or qualified Trump’s statement in their headlines. Some used direct corrections, such as the common “falsely claims,” whereas others used qualifications, such as “despite uncounted votes.”
1/ According to @washingtonpost, many of the 300k ballots w/no delivery scan from USPS were most likely pulled by hand for expedited delivery & delivered without a scan. Those ballots would be unlikely to flip state-level results, even if missing. washingtonpost.com/business/2020/…
2/ Tweets alleging that the ballots can sway election results are false.
The number of untracked ballots is less than the remaining margins in all outstanding races: even if all of those ballots were missing and were for the trailing candidate, they wouldn’t make a difference.
3/ You may also be seeing this same scanning issue appear in different locals. For ex., the story at 27% of mail-in ballots in Florida being missing is misleading for this exact same reason. There was no delivery scan and were most likely pulled by hand for expedited delivery.