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| - Fact Check: Illegal voting in US elections? No, this video is from 2022!
This video also simply showed a routine process before the midterm elections in the American state of Arizona.
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India Today Fact Check
This video from October 2022 shows a routine electoral process in Arizona’s Maricopa County.
Republicans have clinched control of the Senate and trends project Donald Trump leading in the Presidential race, as counting is underway after a full day of voting on November 5.
A video allegedly showing people rigging voting machines in Pennsylvania is going viral on social media. It is noteworthy that voting hours were extended in Pennsylvania’s Cambria County after a software malfunction impacted the voting machines.
Sharing the clip, one person wrote: “Breaking: Five Trump-leaning counties in Pennsylvania are experiencing Maricopa County. Widespread machine failures. This time ES&S and MicroVote partnering up with Dominion Rigging Systems.”
India Today Fact Check, however, found that this video has no links to the US Presidential elections. It is from 2022 and shows a routine electoral process in Arizona’s Maricopa County.
Our Probe
Reverse-searching keyframes from the viral clip led us to the same video shared in an X post in 2023. The caption stated the video showed evidence of Maricopa officials tampering with the memory cards of voting machines. Maricopa is a county in the American state of Arizona. The date stamp, clearly visible in the bottom-right corner of this video, reads October 14, 2022.
Further searches led us to multiple news reports about this video. According to these reports, the viral video showed election workers in Maricopa installing new memory cards in the machines. The reports further stated that the clip was shot days before the US Midterm elections held on November 8, 2022, and showed a routine procedure, which happens every election.
Maricopa County also shared a screenshot of the viral clip on its official X account on May 31, 2023. It stated the video showed workers installing new memory cards containing the certified Election Program in the tabulators, adding that this routine process was live-streamed by the County’s Ballot Tabulation Centre itself.
Back in 2022, Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake sued Arizona elections officials after she lost to Governor-Elect Katie Hobbs. The viral video was part of this lawsuit as well. Courts subsequently dismissed Lake’s claims of election fraud by Maricopa County officials.
It’s noteworthy that amid the ongoing Presidential polls in the US, Donald Trump also alleged voter fraud was happening in Pennsylvania. However, election officials rejected this claim of illegal voters and massive cheating.
It is thus clear a 2022 video was falsely shared to allege illegal voting in the 2024 US Presidential elections.
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