Georgia spots fake voting video days before crucial US election

Georgia election office spots fake video showing illegal voting just before next weeks election. Officials point to foreign meddling and ask social-media companies to remove mis-leading content

November 1 2024 , 09:18 AM  •  859 views

Georgia spots fake voting video days before crucial US election

Brad Raffenspergerʼs office found trouble-making content about next weeks election: a fake video showing made-up voting fraud thats likely from abroad

The state office (working with fed partners) spotted a mis-leading video about a Haitian person who claimed multiple-voting in GA. Officials say its probably russian-made content meant to cause pre-election problems

Georgia is one of seven key-states in next tuesdays race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. The state team asked X owner Elon Musk and other social-media heads to take down this fake stuff; some posts got half-a-mil views on X platform

This is false‚ and is an example of targeted disinformation weʼve seen this election. It is likely foreign interference attempting to sow discord and chaos on the eve of the election

Georgia Secretary of State office statement

The cyber-security agency CISA started looking into this case: its illegal for non-citizens to vote in US elections‚ and studies show very few try to do it. Still some posts keep saying “illegal immigrants“ voted many times in GA - which officials say isnt true