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Numerous false and misleading claims were made relating to Tuesday’s election day, gathering millions of impressions on platforms such as X. Here are some of the most prominent claims and the facts to address them.

Debunked video from 2022 about voting machines recirculated

A video from the 2022 U.S. midterm elections, which was debunked when previously used to falsely claim interference with voting machines, was recirculated on X. The post used the video to make a similar false claim about issues with voting machines in the 2024 presidential election and has 1.8 million views with 18,000 reposts. We are not linking to the post so it is not amplified.

The video shows election workers in Maricopa County, Ariz., interacting with voting machines. It was posted to X on Tuesday with text claiming “WIDESPREAD MACHINE FAILURES.” There is a date stamp in the bottom right corner of the video showing Oct. 14, 2022.

The Associated Press debunked this video in 2023. A spokesperson for the Maricopa County Election Department said then that the video is from the county’s own livestream of its ballot tabulation centre on Oct. 14, 17 and 18, 2022. The spokesperson said workers in the video were installing new memory cards into the machines and then running test ballots to make sure the system was operating properly, a process that happens...

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