Viral videos claiming election fraud prove to be 100% false

As ballots were being counted on Election Day and afterward, numerous videos claiming election fraud went viral, fueling President Trump's unsubstantiated claims that Democrats were trying to "steal" the election from him.

A video shared widely on Twitter on Friday claimed to show ballot counters in Delaware County, Pennsylvania "filling out" new ballots. The president's supporters alleged the video proved ballots were being created for Biden, who was projected as the winner of the state's 20 electoral votes Saturday morning.

In reality, the ballot counter was attempting to ensure that damaged ballots were properly counted, officials said in a statement Friday.

Barron said the county may need to provide protection for the worker, who he said "is in hiding because he's had threats, he's had to shut down all of his social media and all of his personal information was released."

Another video shared widely by well-known conservatives, including the president's son Eric Trump and YouTuber Steven Crowder, claims to show voter fraud in Detroit. It features a man loading a box from a white van onto a wagon to bring into a polling center.

Countless people speculated the box contained ballots that were being brought to the election center to be counted after the polls were already closed. But in fact, the footage features a local news cameraman from WXYZ 7 Action News loading his equipment into a vehicle for work.

Yet another viral video, shared by the president's son Donald Trump Jr., claims that postal workers in Traverse City, Michigan, backdated absentee ballots. But according to state election officials, ballots received after 8 p.m. on Election Day could not be counted — meaning the actions of the postal worker could not affect the election.

"Michigan's election clerks count valid ballots that they received at their offices or in their official ballot drop boxes by 8 p.m. on Election Day," the state's secretary of state said in a statement. Ballots received thereafter, regardless of the postmark, were not counted.

Michigan was the target of countless viral attempts to find fraud, including allegations that the state was counting ballots of deceased voters. The state has been quick to fact check and debunk all unsubstantiated claims.

On the question of deceased voters, the state tweeted, "Ballots of voters who have died are rejected in Michigan, even if the voter cast an absentee ballot and then died before Election Day."

As misinformation runs rampant, social media platforms are attempting to slow its spread. Twitter has added warning labels to several tweets sent from Mr. Trump's account, and Facebook shut down a prominent "Stop the Steal" group after it incited violence.

YouTube, however, won't take down a video falsely claiming that Mr. Trump won the election.

On Saturday, Joe Biden was projected to win the electoral votes needed to make him the 46th president of the United States. CBS News projected that Biden would win Pennsylvania, putting him over the top as votes continued to be counted four days after Election Day.