Trump-supporting news network promoted conspiracy theory that Mississippians tried to vote illegally
Source: Raw Story
Noor Al-Sibai NOOR AL-SIBAI
14 DEC 2017 AT 20:20 ET
The pro-Trump One America News Network not only prematurely called the Alabama Senate election for Roy Moore on Tuesday — it also was caught promoting a conspiracy theory about Mississippians trying to cast illegal votes in the election.
As Dave Weigel at the Washington Post reported Thursday, OANN appears to have pre-empted the conspiracy theory cited by conservative radio host Bill Mitchell. In an election night report captured on video, a reporter for the alternative cable network claimed that they’d heard of 50 instances of attempted voter fraud, mostly with people from Mississippi.
“We have reports that a number of people have been caught trying to sneak into voting booths and vote illegally,” OANN correspondent Pearson Sharp said in the video. “[Moore’s] campaign told me that most of the people who have been turned away so far have been across the state line in Mississippi. But they say that voting fraud hasn’t been too much of a problem yet, and that only 50 people had been caught.”
By Wednesday, that theory made its way to Mitchell, who was summarily dismissed by tens of thousands of Twitter users.
Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/trump-supporting-news-network-promoted-conspiracy-theory-that-mississippians-tried-to-vote-illegally-in-alabama/
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