TV vote count correction not evidence of Georgia runoff fraud

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🇺🇸🗳️ Posts claim a decrease in the vote count during a Fox News broadcast is evidence of fraud affecting the US Senate runoff election results in the state of Georgia. This is false -- the clip shows an update that corrected a tallying error

The online clip shows a broadcast update that lowered Walker's tally by approximately 10,000 votes. Warnock's total fell byAnd although the footage used in the posts is genuine, accusations of fraud are without merit.election data -- including vote counts -- to clients such as Fox News. The change seen in the clip was due to an update that corrected a tallying error by election researchers.

"Human error caused us to provide incorrect, overstated numbers for Herschel Walker for less than a minute on Tuesday night. As soon as we saw the mistake, we quickly returned to providing the numbers reported by the state," Lauren Easton, the AP's vice president of corporate communication, told AFP.A runoff was also required to determine a winner in Georgia after the November 2020 Senate race.

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