A video circulating on social media showing someone in Bucks County destroying ballots is fake, Pennsylvania officials say.
The Bucks County District Attorney’s Office and the Yardley Borough Police Department said in a statement Thursday that they investigated the video and found it was “fabricated in an attempt to undermine confidence in the upcoming election.”
The district attorney’s office is in contact with the FBI, which will “attempt to determine the source of the video,” the statement said.
The Bucks County Board of Elections also said in a bipartisan statement that the video is fake.
“This type of behavior is intended to sow division and distrust in our election systems, and makes a mockery of the people who work incredibly hard to ensure free and fair elections,” the board said in part in the statement.
Officials inside Pennsylvania and beyond, voters have warned about it disinformation about elections spread online.
Pennsylvania is considered one of the main battlegrounds in the upcoming presidential elections. The state will be in the spotlight on Nov. 5 and possibly for days afterward, depending on how long it takes for election workers to count ballots. Officials in the Philadelphia region shared this with CBS News Philadelphia how they secure the elections and how votes are counted.
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