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Friday, April 18, 2025

Misrepresented photo fuels false claims of Canadians voting in US - Yahoo News Malaysia

A widespread post on X claims to show the ballot of a Canadian who skirted the law to vote for Republican candidate Donald Trump in the 2024 race for president. But non-citizens cannot vote in US elections, and the image spreading online has been misrepresented; the photo and ballot belong to an American voter who lives in the state of North Carolina.

"I am Canadian but USA doesn't require voter Id so figured I would drive across the border and vote," says an October 28, 2024 post on X.

Another X post sharing the same picture added: "Came on holiday to the US and they didn't require voter ID so just voted on a bunch of ballots."

The posts generated millions of engagements and inspired numerous copycats across X and other platforms, leading some users to claim Canadians were committing mass voter fraud on behalf of Trump, who faces Democratic nominee and Vice President Kamala Harris in the November 5 election.

Trump and his allies have baselessly claimed that immigration policies -- and election laws aimed at making it easier to register and cast a ballot -- are enabling non-citizen voting.

But it is illegal for non-citizens to vote in federal elections. Several safeguards prevent the practice, and independent analyses have found only a handful of documented cases of it occurring in past elections.

Additionally, 36 states have laws in place for the 2024 elections that require voters to show some form of identification when they visit the polls, according to the National...



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