While the votes were counted, Fox News kept pushing false voter-fraud conspiracy theories about Georgia Senate races
As the votes were being counted in Georgia’s two runoff elections for the U.S. Senate, which now appear to be putting Democrats on track to gain a majority in the chamber, Fox News was busy fearmongering about nonexistent voter fraud — and even worrying about the large numbers of people voting. Early in the night, Fox News host Tucker Carlson bemoaned the slow reporting of mail-in votes in the state. “In-person voting reduces fraud, and reducing fraud and the appearance of fraud was important to us,” Carlson said, going on to assert that despite the coronavirus pandemic, “there's n...
Source: mediamatters.org
