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Election fact check: Minor glitches at a few isolated polling places do not indicate widespread fraud
ABC News | Disney ^ | November 4, 2024 | ByPeter Charalambous (D-ABC)

Posted on 11/04/2024 5:57:01 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

Election officials across the country are trying to prepare for what's out of their control.

When millions of Americans head to the polls on Tuesday, some voters might encounter minor issues including equipment malfunctions or delays. Election officials say that they are prepared for those inevitable challenges, which can come up every election year -- but that they struggle with the torrent of misinformation that could follow, where bad actors or election skeptics will sometimes use minor issues to amplify unsubstantiated claims of widespread voter fraud.

Anticipating issues on Election Day, election officials in some counties have prepared pre-written fact checks that can be shared online to quickly counter misinformation before it spreads.

"If there's an issue that comes up on Election Day, we can kind of say, like, 'Here's something that you might have seen, here's actually what happened,'" said Samantha Shepherd, communications manager for Loudoun County, Virginia. "That's kind of our crisis communication plan for mis- and disinformation."

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abc; abcsedition; election2024; electioninterference; enemieslist; enemyjournalist; journalism; petercharalambous; press; votefraud
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1 posted on 11/04/2024 5:57:01 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The new “mostly peaceful” trope, now it is “minor glitches.”


2 posted on 11/04/2024 5:58:07 AM PST by Skwor
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Bullsh## lying f”S


3 posted on 11/04/2024 5:58:13 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What an odd thing to say.


4 posted on 11/04/2024 5:58:19 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Yeah, right. It’s only a couple of apartment complexes, and it’s all mostly peaceful.


5 posted on 11/04/2024 5:59:17 AM PST by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What do they know that we don’t?


6 posted on 11/04/2024 5:59:42 AM PST by Ciaphas Cain (A perfect storm. There will be no escape from what is coming.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Massive voter roll fraud IS a problem.


7 posted on 11/04/2024 5:59:45 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Hey ABC. Remember this when Trump wins and your masters in the Dem Party start screaming fraud.


8 posted on 11/04/2024 6:00:29 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Remember 2020 when their was “NO FRAUD!”

Now, there is “No Widespread Fraud.”


9 posted on 11/04/2024 6:00:40 AM PST by MMusson ( )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Do 1 million examples of media lies equal bias?


10 posted on 11/04/2024 6:00:49 AM PST by Williams (Let's Focus On Electing President Trump )
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To: grey_whiskers

“What an odd thing to say”

Not if your running interference for stealing a presidential election.


11 posted on 11/04/2024 6:00:54 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Exactly... What’s a few votes here or a few votes there???

If anybody understands that, it’s Florida... With their ‘hanging chads’ and the Democrats attempting to steal an election over just a few of them here and there in 2000.


12 posted on 11/04/2024 6:01:09 AM PST by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

There is no fraud
There are only a few isolated cases of fraud
There is no widespread fraud
There is widespread fraud, but it didn’t affect the outcome
The outcome was affected but there’s nothing you can do about it, you piece of garbage


13 posted on 11/04/2024 6:01:21 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (My decisions about people are based almost entirely on skin color. I learned this from Democrats.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Translation: Pay no attention, we’re just cheating.


14 posted on 11/04/2024 6:01:24 AM PST by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

ABC aka Always Broadcasting Crap


15 posted on 11/04/2024 6:01:49 AM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So they’re admitting that something nefarious is going on-—but since it’s not HUGE then ignore it. Meaning, if Republicans benefitted from this “cheat” the sirens would be blaring and calls for marshal law would be enacted.


16 posted on 11/04/2024 6:02:19 AM PST by mikelets456
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

To minimize possible incarcerations of election thieves, the number of election thefts will only be slightly larger than necessary.


17 posted on 11/04/2024 6:02:30 AM PST by Brian Griffin ("Base load affected facilities...must meet a second phase standard based on 90% capture of CO2" EPA)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

There is no such thing as a “minor glitch” when Paper Ballots are the Standard.


18 posted on 11/04/2024 6:02:35 AM PST by Howie66 ("Let's Go Brenda!!")
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To: brownsfan

Only 10 percent of drivers get a speeding ticket in a given year. Therefore 90 percent are always driving below the speed limit.


19 posted on 11/04/2024 6:03:33 AM PST by brookwood (51 Intelligence Agents say Russia Is Trying To Influence The 2024 Election)
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To: brookwood

Classic Liberal (ill)logic


20 posted on 11/04/2024 6:04:13 AM PST by Skwor
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