The top election official in the southern US state of Georgia has warned that a video allegedly showing a Haitian immigrant voting multiple times is part of a targeted disinformation campaign likely originating from Russia.
The 2024 US presidential campaign has been inundated with at times highly sophisticated misinformation that has only deepened with the approach of Election Day on November 5.
“Earlier today, our office became aware of a video purporting to show a Haitian immigrant with multiple Georgia ID’s claiming to have voted multiple times,” Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said in a statement published Thursday night.
“This is false, and is an example of targeted disinformation we’ve seen this election. It is likely foreign interference attempting to sow discord and chaos on the eve of the election.”
Raffensperger, who rose to national prominence after the 2020 presidential vote by refusing Donald Trump’s demands to change the state’s election results, added he was asking Elon Musk, a staunch Trump supporter, and the leaders of other social media companies for their help in taking the clip down.