An Aug. 17 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows a photo of an election worker sorting ballots and includes the text of a post on X, formerly Twitter, about claims of election fraud in 2020 in Georgia.
Among a litany of false claims, the post says, “Shockingly, 66,248 individuals under 18 were allowed to vote.”
A similar Instagram post received more than 1,000 likes in a day before it was deleted. The original post on X from Aug. 15 received more than 5,000 reposts and more than 10,000 likes in three days.
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State officials say no underage people voted in the election. A lawyer for former President Donald Trump's 2020 campaign cited that number in a hearing with state lawmakers, and he now is charged with making false statements.
Georgia has been a hot spot for misinformation about election fraud ever since President Joe Biden beat Trump there by just 12,000 votes in the 2020 election.
This particular claim resurfaced on social media in the days after Trump and 18 allies were indicted in Fulton County, Georgia, over their efforts to overturn his election loss in that state – even as it appeared in a list of false statements on page 26 of the 98-page indictment.
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