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U.S. Army Didn’t Seize Election Servers in Germany

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A congressman and conservative news outlets are spreading the baseless claim that the U.S. Army seized an election software company’s server in Frankfurt, Germany, that could supposedly prove there was fraud in the 2020 election. There was no such seizure — and the company doesn’t even have a server in Frankfurt.


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Bogus claims about voter fraud in the U.S. election have gone international.

A falsehood that the U.S. Army seized a computer server in Frankfurt, Germany, has been circulating on social media. This server could supposedly prove that votes for President Donald Trump were switched in favor of President-elect Joe Biden.

But the Army has conducted no such raid, and the company supposedly involved doesn’t have offices in Frankfurt

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