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🔍 The viral 2024 election claims making the rounds again, checked against the record:

"Hacked voting machines in the swing states": No court, audit, or official investigation has found any machine tampering. Every statewide audit and recount confirmed the certified result. Election security experts say machine vulnerabilities are real but there is no evidence they have ever been exploited in a US election.

"100,000 Harris votes deleted": No deleted votes were ever found. The figure echoes a debunked 2021 claim about Georgia, where the "deleted" items were obsolete voter registrations removed in routine maintenance. The real story is simpler: Harris drew about 6.8 million fewer votes than Biden did in 2020.

"Fake counties with millions of Trump votes": Those counties do not exist, and no votes were recorded for them. They were graphics glitches on an election night livestream, where county cards were transposed over statewide totals. The claim's loudest amplifier publicly retracted it in December 2025.

Statistical anomaly claims, like early voting clustering in Nevada, remain allegations disputed by statisticians, and a related New York recount lawsuit was dismissed on standing grounds. Paper ballots, post election audits, and congressional certification remain the backstop.

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