Democrats, voter fraud, and harpo marx

By Matt Martino. By Michael Workman. By Lucy Carter. Topic: US Elections.

Marx, in his book "Harpo Speaks," wrote about New York City Tammany Hall Democratic Party voter fraud.

Trump supporters have been a large source of false claims about election denial in the past, but following the election result, Harris supporters began to spread falsehoods also. Former president Donald Trump has been declared the winner of the US election and Vice-President Kamala Harris has conceded, setting up the peaceful transition of the US presidency from Democratic hands to Republican early next year.

As celebrations and commiserations continue, millions of Americans seem deeply unsettled by the result, with conspiracy theories taking flight online from both sides — some from predictable sources and others from newly enraged voices. Mathew Marques is a senior lecturer in psychology at La Trobe University and says he is not surprised to see these kinds of ideas and narratives start to fester.

Political science probably has the best quote on this — that conspiracy theories are for the losers. ABC NEWS Verify has been looking at some of the false and misleading narratives emerging rapidly online as the world absorbs the election result. Confusion about popular vote totals has given partisan accounts ammunition to sow doubt about the election result, with posts questioning the difference between the number of votes cast in and A false claim of voter fraud, this time from a supporter of the Democrats.

As the idea took hold on X , users began to blame Trump and demand that Harris not concede. Many posts like these, containing false information and with millions of views, could be found on X after the race was called. There's a very simple explanation though: vote totals at the time these posts were published were much lower than , when Democrat Joe Biden received over 81 million votes and then-president Trump received over 74 million.