How days of vote counting became go-to ‘evidence’ for false election fraud claims
Experts who track misinformation said the 2020 election gave a head start to 2022’s false claims that normal vote counting processes are evidence of fraud...From Sept. 1 to Nov. 8, the “voting delays” or “delays in midterm election results” narrative accumulated more than 5,000 mentions on blogs, Twitter, Reddit, in broadcast, on news sites and in other online forums and spaces, according to Zignal Labs. From September to October, those mentions jumped by 1,034%.