President Donald Trump is continuing his days-long Twitter tirade since major media outlets projected on Saturday that President-elect Joe Biden would defeat him in the 2020 election.
Numerous tweets from the President's infamous account have been flagged for spreading the baseless claims that widespread voter fraud occurred across the country, tipping the election to Biden.
One of Trump's most recent pieces of so-called evidence is a video of two men collecting ballots from a ballot box as a woman films them while questioning what they're doing.
Watch below.
You are looking at BALLOTS! Is this what our Country has come to? pic.twitter.com/cI2ZTItqUi
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 11, 2020
Trump accompanied the tweet with the caption:
"You are looking at BALLOTS! Is this what our Country has come to?"
But in the video—taken in Los Angeles—the men identify themselves as ballot collectors and subsequently show identification. The woman asks where they intend to take them and they answer that they're bringing them to an election center before requesting she stay back six feet due to the pandemic.
The Los Angeles County Registrar confirmed this in a tweeted response.
RE: videos clips of ballots being collected from #LACounty Official Vote by Mail Drop Boxes -- Yes, they are ballots; valid, legally cast ballots collected and processed by authorized election officials in accordance with the California Elections Code. #VoteSafe2020 pic.twitter.com/4q4pwmnN9K
— Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk (@LACountyRRCC) November 11, 2020
People pointed out that, despite Trump's best efforts to make it something nefarious, the men were doing their jobs and making sure the ballots got counted.
Fact checks came pouring in.
This video is from 11/4 in LA. All vote by mail ballot drop boxes were closed and locked at 8 PM on Election Day. These ballots are all valid.
So yes, counting all votes "is what our country has come to." https://t.co/gINQf5ZUyc
— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) November 11, 2020
Neither the author of this tweet nor the tens of thousands retweeting and liking it know what's supposed to be problematic about authorized election workers picking up sealed ballots from a drop box. https://t.co/pox3OMe5s7
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) November 11, 2020
This video shows election workers picking up mail-in ballots from drop boxes in LA.
LA County officials have said that these ballots were collected on Nov 4, but deposited by voters on or before Nov 3. They are valid and will be processed and counted.https://t.co/ZstLWUGY6W https://t.co/afB4fltjgc
— Nathan McDermott (@natemcdermott) November 11, 2020
Election workers taking ballots from drop boxes and putting them into locked bags for transport.
My God. https://t.co/RGohL6GWh6
— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) November 11, 2020
This shows election workers LEGALLY collecting ballots from a drop box in LA the day after Election Day.
The LA County Registrar, @LACountyRRCC, confirmed that all boxes were closed & locked at 8PM on Election Night & ballots were collected the next day. https://t.co/X1lfzr3v0g https://t.co/2vB0Ns6KsA
— PolitiFactCalifornia (@CAPolitiFact) November 11, 2020
The President was, once again, circulating disinformation to his 88 million followers in order to undermine faith in American democracy.
It appears that we're looking at ballots being emptied from a dropbox.
What our country has come to is Trump mishandled the pandemic so the safe way to vote is by mail but then he sabotaged the post office so people had to use dropboxes so their votes would count. pic.twitter.com/3mmteFdBV3
— Bob Belcher (@bobbelcher) November 11, 2020
BALLOTS?! You mean to tell me people filled a completely legal drop box designated for voting with THE THING THATS SUPPOSED TO BE INSIDE IT?! pic.twitter.com/zOUkkt7l2F
— Lanna (@RhymesWithDonna) November 11, 2020
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— Jemina Merchant (@jemina_merchant) November 11, 2020
President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will be inaugurated on January 20.
