Democrat Raphael Warnock defeated Republican Herschel Walker in the Dec. 6 Georgia Senate run-off race. Some social media users claim armed men from the New Black Panther Party, a Black nationalist group, were present at the polls that day.
A Dec. 6 Facebook post (direct link, archived link) shows an image of men dressed in black attire holding rifles.
"Armed to the teeth Black Panthers are everywhere in Geogia (sic) today, intimidating voters," reads text above the picture. "If the right did something this stupid, the DOJ would have ordered the FBI to arrest them all because this is clearly in violation of both Federal and state law. But no, not a peep out of the left."
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The post generated over 300 shares in less than a week. A tweet with a similar claim from former Georgia Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler generated over 15,000 likes.
But there's no evidence to support this claim.
The picture shown in the Facebook post is from 2020, not the December runoff. And both the Black Panthers and an array of county officials told USA TODAY there were no armed group members present for the latest election.
USA TODAY reached out to the social media users who shared the claim for comment.
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