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Video Doesn’t Show Election Fraud in Georgia

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Conspiracy theorists falsely claimed that a video of an election worker during the Georgia machine recount revealed fraud in the 2020 election. All it showed was an election worker performing a routine part of the process, according to election officials.


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A two-and-a-half-minute video showing an election worker conducting an ordinary part of the recount process in Gwinnett County, Georgia, has been spun into false claims of fraud.

This is just the most recent example in a surge of aimed at undermining the results of the 2020

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