AFP's fact-check service debunks misinformation spread online. Here are some of our recent articles on false claims of fraud in the US election: US President Donald Trump tweeted a claim that millions of votes were either deleted or switched from him to Democrat Joe Biden, including in the battleground state of Pennsylvania. This is false; US election officials said there is no evidence votes were lost or changed, while Pennsylvania's Department of State said the allegation has "no factual basis." Social media posts claim President Donald Trump and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) secretly watermarked ballots to catch Democrats using fakes to win, and that the National Guard is counting the real ones. This is false; state and local authorities create and distribute ballots, not the DHS. The DHS and the National Guard also said there is no truth to the claims. A video purporting to show Pennsylvania poll workers fraudulently filling out ballots has spread online. Workers in the video are in fact transcribing ballots that were damaged during processing, according to Delaware County officials, who said the footage has been manipulated to omit bipartisan observers who oversaw the process. Social media posts claim a ballot was cast on behalf of a deceased Michigan man born in 1902, pointing to the case as evidence of fraud. This is false; votes determined to be from dead people would not be counted, and the city of Detroit's principal attorney said a legitimate ballot was incorrectly attributed to the man due to a "clerical error." 1. 2. 3. 4. afp