The video posted on social media shows a man claiming to be an immigrant from Haiti. He assures that he was able to vote several times in the state of Georgia.
A few days before the presidential election, the American authorities attributed this Friday, November 1, to “Russian agents of influence” a video broadcast where a man presenting himself as a Haitian immigrant claims to have been able to vote several times illegally in the State -key of Georgia.
The head of elections in Georgia, Brad Raffensperger, reported Thursday evening in a press release “a video purporting to show a Haitian immigrant possessing several Georgia identification cards and claiming to have voted several times.”
“This is an example of the targeted disinformation that we have seen during this and other elections,” added Brad Raffensperger, saying that it was “probably a product of Russian troll farms “.
Suspicions confirmed by the Federal Police (FBI), the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) in a joint press release on Friday.
A video “made from scratch”
“The intelligence community concludes that Russian agents of influence fabricated a recent video falsely showing individuals claiming to be from Haiti and voting illegally in multiple Georgia counties,” according to the text.
“This activity on the part of Russia is part of a broader framework of attempts by Moscow to raise unfounded questions about the integrity of American elections and to fuel divisions among Americans,” affirm these federal agencies.
They specify that they expect these attempts to continue until the vote and “in the following weeks and months”.
Last week, these same security services attributed to Russian agents a fake video that went viral allegedly showing the destruction of mail-in ballots for Republican candidate Donald Trump in the key state of Pennsylvania.
In his statement, the Georgia elections official asked “Elon Musk and the management of other social media platforms to remove” the video. But the 20-second clip can still be viewed on
Fake IDs
It shows a man in a vehicle saying in a monotone voice to the camera: “We are from Haiti. We arrived in America six months ago, and we already have American citizenship – we vote Kamala Harris.” He then claims that he and his friends voted in several counties and shows a series of driver's licenses.
“We checked the voter rolls. There is no match. The IDs are fake and there is no way that the people in the video voted in Georgia using those IDs,” explained to AFP Mike Hassinger, spokesperson for state authorities.
In September, federal authorities announced a series of measures, including the seizure of 32 domain names used as part of a “campaign to influence” the results of the election conducted under the authority of the presidential administration. Russian, according to the Justice Department.
