Video of Delaware County poll workers filling out ballots was manipulated and lacked context

[brooklynite]

Source: Philadelphia Inquirer

A video circulating Friday on Twitter purports to show ballot counters in Delaware County “filling out” ballots in what some Republican pundits have called voter fraud.

But county officials said that interpretation is patently false, and uses a zoomed in snippet of the county’s livestream that strips out important context.

The counter depicted in the video snippet was being observed by poll watchers from both political parties, according to county spokeswoman Adrienne Marofsky, who added that those watchers aren’t shown in-frame because of the way the video has been manipulated.

In the video, the female ballot counter is transcribing ballots that had been damaged, and were unable to be fed into the counting machines, she said. A small number of the ballots the county received were in that condition, and had to have their information copied onto a blank ballot so the vote could be counted properly.

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[Roland99]

1. I figured that was the process that was going on.

[James48]

2. Link to source?

It didn’t come through.