CLAIM: A video shows an Iranian whistleblower demonstrating how they hacked a U.S. voter registration database during the 2020 election and created fraudulent overseas military ballots.
AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. A federal investigation found that the video was fabricated to make it appear foreign actors fraudulently cast overseas ballots. The falsified video was released by Iranian nationals who were later indicted on federal charges for attempting to push disinformation ahead of the 2020 election, according to court documents and statements released by the U.S. Justice Department and the FBI.
THE FACTS: Social media users are sharing a clip from a Florida election integrity event last month to sow doubt about election security in the days before the 2022 midterms.
The clip shows a panel discussion during the Oct. 29 Florida Election Integrity Conference in Orlando, which was sponsored by several Conservative groups. The event featured a number of speakers who have previously spread misinformation about elections.
In the clip, a panel of five speakers sit at a conference table with a red “make elections secure again” banner pinned to the front. A speaker wearing a baseball cap projects a video from his laptop onscreen to the audience. The footage appears to show a first-person angle of someone extracting U.S. voter information and filling out an overseas ballot using the data.
“This is an Iranian whistleblower, this just got dropped in my lap a couple days ago,” the speaker...
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