Your screen just went dark. That doesn’t mean the election was stolen

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Imagine arriving at a polling place where the electronic voter check-in system has stopped working. Election workers are switching to a backup procedure. At the same time, an audio recording begins circulating online in what sounds like the voice of a local election official. It says voting has been suspended and tells people to stay home.

The recording is fake. The outage is real.

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