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November 5, 2020 04:08 pm

Twitter restricts yet another Trump tweet for making up election rules




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Twitter has taken action against another tweet from President Donald Trump, this time falsely claiming that votes arriving after Election Day are ineligible.


“ANY VOTE THAT CAME IN AFTER ELECTION DAY WILL NOT BE COUNTED,” the tweet reads, in apparent reference to the ongoing tallying of mail-in votes in a number of states.


Twitter has added a label underneath the tweet that reads simply “some votes may still need to be counted.”



State election rules commonly allow for ballots to arrive after Election Day, provided they bear an eligible postmark. There is also a significant number of in-person votes still being counted, so simply discarding late-arriving mail ballots would not halt the...



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Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/5/21550991/twitter-trump-stop-the-vote-tweet-restricted-election-interference

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