Wednesday, October 30, 2024
An ABC station in Pennsylvania aired a graphic saying Vice President Kamala Harris had won the state — nine days before voting is done.
During a Sunday evening broadcast of Formula 1’s Mexican Grand Prix, Scranton affiliate WNEP aired a bottom-of-screen chyron showing remarkably precise results, which the station said was a mistake.
According to the chyron, 100% of the votes had been counted and Ms. Harris defeated former President Donald Trump by a 52%-47% margin, getting 3,293,712 votes to Mr. Trump’s 2,997,793.
The station said it was a technical mistake.
“Those numbers should not have appeared on the screen, and it was an error by WNEP that they did,” the station said in its own article on the mistaken chyron.
“The numbers seen on the screen were randomly generated test results sent out to help news organizations make sure their equipment is working properly in advance of election night,” WNEP explained.
According to the station, even mail-in ballots already in the state’s possession cannot be taken out of their envelopes until 7 a.m. on Election Day, and no counting can happen until all polls close at 8 p.m.
That didn’t stop the rigged-vote theorists from pouncing, the New York Post reported.
“The cheat is on,” the Post cited one X user as saying.
Another person added: “If the same graphics pop up after November 5th, with the same percentages & the same vote count, it’ll be EXTREMELY suspicious. And the media wonders why nobody trusts them?”
An ABC station in Pennsylvania aired a graphic saying Vice President Kamala Harris had won the state — nine days before voting is done.
During a Sunday evening broadcast of Formula 1’s Mexican Grand Prix, Scranton affiliate WNEP aired a bottom-of-screen chyron showing remarkably precise results, which the station said was a mistake.
According to the chyron, 100% of the votes had been counted and Ms. Harris defeated former President Donald Trump by a 52%-47% margin, getting 3,293,712 votes to Mr. Trump’s 2,997,793.
The station said it was a technical mistake.
“Those numbers should not have appeared on the screen, and it was an error by WNEP that they did,” the station said in its own article on the mistaken chyron.
“The numbers seen on the screen were randomly generated test results sent out to help news organizations make sure their equipment is working properly in advance of election night,” WNEP explained.
According to the station, even mail-in ballots already in the state’s possession cannot be taken out of their envelopes until 7 a.m. on Election Day, and no counting can happen until all polls close at 8 p.m.
That didn’t stop the rigged-vote theorists from pouncing, the New York Post reported.
“The cheat is on,” the Post cited one X user as saying.
Another person added: “If the same graphics pop up after November 5th, with the same percentages & the same vote count, it’ll be EXTREMELY suspicious. And the media wonders why nobody trusts them?”
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