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No, dead people don’t vote. Our election officials are there to ensure that. “Ballots of voters who have died are rejected in Michigan, even if the voter cast an absentee ballot and then died before Election Day” - MI SoS https://bit.ly/36qDqsP
No, Biden didn’t magically get 130k MI votes. ElectionDeskHQ had a data uploading error which has since been corrected, and the original poster of the viral tweet deleted it. https://bit.ly/3n0Azxb
No, 300k mail-in ballots have not gone missing. USPS workers are expediting delivery, and some data systems aren’t up to date. https://bit.ly/3p5ExXi
No, a Nevada woman’s vote was not stolen. When election officials looked into the case, she had submitted two ballots — illegally voting twice. https://bit.ly/3oXF6SO
No, PA election staff didn’t take the day off just for the fun of it. Votes could not legally be counted without convening a special committee — they had to wait for that. https://bit.ly/3mWqNw0
No, sharpies won’t discount your ballot. This rumor started in Arizona, but election departments there count all ballots, regardless of what writing implement is used to fill them. https://bit.ly/354VvNj
No, more people did not vote in WI than were registered. WI has 3,684,726 registered voters & 3,239,920 of them cast their ballots (and WI has same-day voter registration). https://bit.ly/38k7rNk
No, postal workers are not backdating MI ballots. The state doesn’t count any votes that arrive after election day, no matter when they’re postmarked. Election admins reject them regardless. https://bit.ly/3k4hrwk
No, the Trump campaign was not denied access to the counting process. Both campaigns were always allowed observers – plus, as of Thursday, they’re allowed to observe election workers from 6ft away. https://bit.ly/36fzafm
No, mail-in ballots appearing overnight are not illegal. Many states allow ballots to be postmarked by Nov 3 & arrive later. Votes appearing overnight are legal mail-in ballots & should be counted like any other. Many of them are from our military members. https://bit.ly/36c9Dnf
No, duplicate voting is not a thing. Reports of people voting twice or voting in a dead person’s name are overblown — a WaPo study found the rate of this to be .0025 percent in 2016 & 2018 general elections. https://wapo.st/3mSPKZc
This is why we have election officials. There are bipartisan watchers and systems in place to address concerns. Let them do their jobs.
