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  • 2018-11-16 (xsd:date)
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  • Were 53,000 Dead People Found on Florida's Voter Rolls? (en)
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  • As President Trump and various politicians pushed unfounded claims about voter fraud during a mandatory recount of Florida's U.S. Senate election results in November 2018, an army of internet trolls started spreading the rumor that 53,000 dead people turned up on the state's voter rolls: One of the most popular tweets pushing this rumor issued from the account Red Nation Rising and insinuated some of the dead people had voted in the election. The Facebook page Donald Trump Is Our President (@the45thpresident) went further and implied that those dead voters were Democrats: These social media posts did not link to a recent article concerning the recount taking place in Florida in November 2018, but rather to a 6-year-old story about the impact of a new (and controversial) voter-related law which was originally published by Fox News back in 2012: This story did not claim that any of the dead people found on Florida voter rolls in 2012 had actually voted in the election. Furthermore, election officials questioned the methodology that was used in order to generate the list of people to be purged from the voter rolls: This was the second time that an outdated and out-of-context article about Florida's voter rolls in 2012 went viral on social media during the November 2018 recount. Donald Trump Jr. helped spread another false rumor when he shared an article from 2012 to back up his claim that Nearly 200,000 Florida Voters May Not Be Citizens: Trump Jr. did not mention that the article he was sharing was several years old when he posted it on Twitter, nor did he include the Editor's Note at the top of the article noting the actual figure of non-citizen registrants ultimately discovered and removed from Florida voting rolls was a mere 85: (en)
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