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    2024 election problems include Russia and fake videos

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    Disinformation campaigns, issues with ballot processing, and other problems at the polls have been in the news in the run-up to Election Day 2024, as Election officials say they are confident in the safeguards in place. for safe and fair elections.

    Officials have been preparing for trouble for months. In May, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee warned that the 2024 elections were likely will be the most attacked by malicious foreign forces in US history. Now, some of those concerns have made headlines about Multiple fake videos linked to a Russian disinformation campaign.according to US intelligence officials.

    Meanwhile, local election officials are battling other issues related to vote counting. Officials in Oregon and Washington say a suspect Arsonist set fire to the ballot boxes and Undated absentee ballots in Pennsylvania remain at the center of a court fight.

    Below are several issues related to the 2024 election, including accusations of disinformation from foreign governments:

    Ballots damaged in alleged arson attacks

    Officials in Oregon and Washington say a suspected arsonist set fire to ballot collection boxes earlier this week.

    Portland police responded to a ballot box fire in the Buckman neighborhood around 3:30 a.m. Monday, and police in neighboring Vancouver responded to another ballot box arson shortly after. The Portland fire damaged only three ballots thanks to a fire suppression system inside the collection box.

    The Vancouver fire damaged nearly 500 ballots when its fire suppression system failed. Election officials are sending new ballots to affected voters, but about six could not be identified and others may have been burned entirely, they said.

    In Oregon, Portland Police Agency spokesman Mike Benner said the suspect is believed to be a white man between 30 and 40 years old with short or bald hair, a thin to medium build and a thin face. He New York Times and ABC Newsciting anonymous sources, reported that a message saying “Free Gaza” appeared on devices used in Monday’s arson attacks.

    “It is very possible that the suspect intends to continue targeted attacks throughout the area,” Benner warned.

    Fake Election Fraud Videos and False Claims Linked to Russia

    US intelligence officials say multiple deepfake videos showing election fraud have been linked to a Russian disinformation campaign, such as Russia working to help Trump defeat Vice President Kamala Harris in the election.

    A video purported to show a someone who claimed to be a recent immigrant from Haiti and a friend who voted twice for Harris in Georgia. “Russian influential actors” were behind that video, according to a statement from US law enforcement and intelligence agencies.

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    Another video, which accused Harris and her husband, Douglas Emhoff, of tipping off the now accused. music producer Sean “Diddy” Combs of a raid in exchange for a bribe, was also considered fabricated by Russian actors and fake, according to a joint statement from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

    Another video represented Destroyed mail-in ballots in Bucks County, Pennsylvaniaa key suburb on the battlefield. The video was created and amplified by Russian actors, U.S. officials said.

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    Trump campaign accuses British political party of interference

    The Trump campaign filed a legal complaint last month against Britain’s ruling Labor Party, accusing it of interfering in the US election after a public LinkedIn post by the party’s chief operating officer, Sofia Patel, acknowledged that dozens of Party staffers were helping Harris’ campaign.

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    It is not illegal for foreign citizens to serve as campaign volunteers in U.S. elections, as long as they do not receive any compensation, according to FEC rules. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said current and former Labor Party staff were campaigning on their own time and in their personal capacity.

    The Trump campaign’s complaint accused Labor Party officials of “flagrant foreign interference” and questioned whether there were “illegal foreign campaign contributions and interference.”

    Complete coverage: Donald Trump’s campaign accuses UK’s ruling Labor Party of ‘blatant foreign interference’

    Chinese citizen faces charges for voting in Michigan

    A Chinese national studying at the University of Michigan, whose name has not been identified by authorities, is being charged after allegedly illegally casting an unrecoverable vote.

    Detroit news reports The vote is still expected to count because there is no way to remove it from the system after it has been entered into a tabulator, a safeguard to protect voter privacy and prevent individual votes from becoming tied to voters.

    The student registered to vote Sunday using a school ID and signed a document attesting that he was a U.S. citizen, the Michigan Secretary of State’s Office said in a statement. Detroit News. Michigan officials have not said whether the vote has any ties to foreign attempts at election interference.

    “Let’s be clear: Voting records are public; any non-citizen who attempts to vote fraudulently in Michigan will put themselves at great risk and will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” said Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, and the Washtenaw County Prosecutor. Eli Savit said in a statement.

    “Noncitizen voting is an extremely isolated and rare event. Investigations in multiple states and across the country have found no evidence that large numbers of noncitizens register to vote. Even less common is that a noncitizen really cast your vote.

    Other possible electoral problems in the news

    ‘Stay tuned’: Undated absentee ballots in Pennsylvania remain at center of court fight

    Contributing: John Bacon, Josh Meyer, Bart Jansen, Kim Hjelmgaard, Maureen Groppe and Fernando Cervantes Jr., USA TODAY

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