Fact check: Viral video shows Pennsylvania poll workers fixing damaged ballots
In the aftermath of Election Day, social media has been flooded with unsubstantiated allegations of voter fraud and conspiracy theories that target battleground states.
Pennsylvania has become the epicenter of online misinformation.
A 54-second video clip purporting to show election staff filling out blank ballots in Delaware County and alleging fraud has gone viral on social media. "This lady is marking the ballots. I filmed her a half hour ago doing six and she's still working at it," a man narrating the video says, claiming that the "cops are in on it."
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The viral video is genuine footage from a livestream of ballot counting. However, in some cases the video has been manipulated by zooming in to eliminate surrounding areas.
Adrienne Marofsky, public relations director for Delaware County, Pennsylvania, told USA TODAY that the video crops out bipartisan observers who were not more than 6 feet away.
"The cropped video portrays an election worker, seemingly alone at a table, marking a ballot. The actual video shows the election worker at a table with other coworkers in a room full of people with bipartisan observers a few feet away at each end of the table, closely observing the worker from approximately 6 feet away," Marofsky said in an email.
She said the arrangement was agreed upon between the Election Bureau and the former Republican chairman of Delaware County Council.
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