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Salon
Salon
Politics
Nandika Chatterjee

Election misinfo goes viral on Facebook

David Bowens, director of elections in Durham County, North Carolina — one of the most populated areas of the swing state— received an email in July notifying him that a Facebook post containing voting misinformation was going viral, CNBC reported. 

The post seemed to be written by an authority figure and urged voters to request new ballots if a poll worker or anyone else wrote on their form, claiming that this would render the forms invalid. This is not true. 

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