Four assertions about the US election scrutinized

The unknown persists as to the winner of the American presidential election, a few days after the poll.

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• Three days after the US presidential election, and while the final results are not yet known, the polls continue to circulate.

• Bulletins in Trump's name burnt, Joe Biden's statement on a fraud system, cardboard signs to block the count, unsolicited ballots ...

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  takes stock of videos, rumors and other viral claims.

While we are still waiting to know who, Democrat Joe Biden or Republican Donald Trump, will occupy the White House for the next four years, the intoxes around the ballot continue to circulate.

After having already looked into four rumors related to this news, the "Fake off" section of

sifts through a new batch of viral content.

• Signs installed in a polling station in Detroit to "protect and block the count"?

  False

Donald Trump made this claim during a speech Thursday at the White House.

He also argued that his campaign team “

could not access the observation of counts ”in this city.

Reporters from several media have however noted the presence of Republican observers.

Cardboard signs were installed at a counting location in Detroit, but because observers tried to film or take pictures of the count, explains the

.

The scrutineers then felt “intimidated”, reports the newspaper.

Observers are not allowed to film or take photos at a polling station.

Observers did remain in the polling station, CNN reports.

• States have sent "unsolicited ballots"?

  Beware of confusion

Referring to postal voting, Donald Trump said Thursday that voters received "unsolicited" ballots at their homes.

He had already said this on several occasions during the campaign.

Eight states (Colorado, Oregon, Utah, Hawaii, Washington, California, Nevada, New Jersey), as well as Washington DC automatically sent, for this election, ballots to all voters for a possible postal vote .

Procedures are in place to ensure there is no fraud when a voter votes in this way, Reuters said.

The signature on the envelope is verified in the majority of states.

The handling of the cash registers with the ballots is also strictly regulated.

• Man filmed burning ballots for Trump?

  Not really

"80 Trump ballots set on fire.

With these few laconic words, Eric Trump, the president's son, retweeted, Thursday, November 5, a video supposed to show a man burning ballots in the name of the outgoing president.

Burning 80 Trump Ballots https://t.co/NGC2naMHhR

- Eric Trump (@EricTrump) November 4, 2020

While the footage caused a stir on Twitter (where it has since been deleted - but remains viewable below), it was quickly denied by the city of Virginia Beach, Virginia, where the burnt documents were taken.

In a press release, the municipality said that these were samples not used to vote, unlike official ballots, which bear, for their part, a barcode.

• Joe Biden and America's "Greatest Fraud System": A Sentence Out of Context

“We have implemented the largest and most inclusive fraud system in American political history.

Who could have said such a shocking sentence?

None other than the Democratic presidential candidate for the United States, Joe Biden ... as a viral video of about twenty seconds is supposed to prove.

"We have the largest and most inclusive system of FRAUD in place."

It is clearer ?

🔽 pic.twitter.com/SCWljPWhSe

- Trump France Committee (@TrumpFrance) November 5, 2020

But this sequence is truncated: it is taken from an interview with the former vice-president of Barack Obama in the podcast "Pod Save America" ​​on October 24.

And more precisely of the moment (from 19:40 below) during which Joe Biden addressed, at the request of his interlocutor, Dan Pfeiffer, former adviser to Barack Obama, to voters who had not yet voted ( or planned to do so).

“Go to Iwillwote.com to find out how, where and when you are going to vote.

Voting can be complicated, because Republicans are doing all they can to make this process difficult - especially for people of color, ”he explained in the preamble.

Before continuing with his famous comments on “fraud”: “Second, we have put in place […] the largest and most inclusive system of fraud in all of American political history!

President [Trump] is trying to discourage any attempt to vote by saying that votes will not count, that they will be contested, etc.

But if enough people vote, it will overwhelm the system.

You see what's going on right now, you know it as well as I do, those long, very long lines for the early voting.

Millions of people have already voted.

So don't be intimidated.

"

And Joe Biden concludes his tirade with an important recommendation: “If you have any problem, call 833-DEM-VOTE.

[…] Call this number.

We have more than a thousand lawyers, they will answer you if you have any difficulty in voting.

"

While some want to see the sentence that has gone viral as a telling slip from the Democratic candidate, as can be seen in the context of this exchange, it was actually referring to the measures adopted by the Democratic camp to ensure that it allows all to vote - and not to admit fraud.

As several American media reported in September, the candidate's team indeed prides itself on having a particularly robust “election protection program” that relies on numerous lawyers, in order to help American citizens to know their voting rights.

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