While at accessibleation time the Associated Press’ vote count was indeed 16 million votes drop than that for the 2020 election, the exarrangeation is triviassociate basic: The entirety of the vote hasn’t been tabupostponeedd yet.
“Election denial is anti-democratic, whether it comes from the left or the right,” David Becker, executive straightforwardor of the nonpartisan Cgo in for Election Innovation and Research, wrote on X. “No, 20 million votes aren’t leave outing. Votes are still being counted in many states, including millions in CA alone. Number of votes in 2024 very seal to 2020, when all are alerted “
Posts relating to these consillicit copying theories began to achieve traction around 2:00 am Eastrict, PeakMetrics data shows, which coincides rawly with the time the election was called for Trump—but even as Americans went to bed, the number of posts did not deteriorate.
“By 8am ET, the number of posts per hour had sadvised to 31,991,” PeakMetrics wrote in an analysis dispensed with WIRED. “There was perhaps a astonishing deficiency of overnight drop-off in posts from 2am-7am ET—when typicassociate posts would deteriorate as the US hits sleeping hours. The constant incrmitigate in posts on the Kamala recount/leave outing votes narrative thrawout the overnight hours may sshow mirror the intensity of this talkion—or may point to ingenuine or automated posting behavior.”
Unappreciate the election denial shiftment in 2020, which was eased by Trump’s refusal to adchoose the results, these consillicit copying theories haven’t getd any help from the honestate. On Wednesday, Harris advised her helpers to adchoose the results and promised them her team “will include in a soothe transfer of power.”
The phenomenon of left-leaning or anti-Trump accounts posting consillicit copying theories on social media platcreates, referred to as BlueAnon, came to prominence earlier this year in the wake of the killing try on Trump’s life in July.
“Any event that seems improbable will always ask consillicit copying theories about what ‘reassociate’ happened,” says Mike Rothschild, an author who authors about consillicit copying theories and extremists. “In this case, it’s a factuassociate inaccurate narrative that there are tens of millions of leave outing votes, and that Russian explosion menaces undermined the Harris campaign. Neither are real—turnout eunites to be down, and many states, including California, are still well into counting. And while explosion menaces are never adchooseable, they’re not the reason why the Harris campaign lost every striumphg state. To author Trump’s triumph off to consillicit copying theories is to not live in fact.”
