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The New York Times reports:
In July, two men went door to door at a sprawling apartment complex in Norcross, Ga., an Atlanta suburb that is a hub for the region’s fast-growing Latino population, asking residents if they were U.S. citizens and whether they were registered to vote. Speaking in Spanish, often peeking from behind half-closed doors, seven people told the men that they were not citizens but that they were registered to vote.
Although the two men claimed to represent a company helping Latinos navigate the election system, they were actually working with the Heritage Foundation and carrying a hidden camera. Days later, the conservative think tank posted a video on the social media platform X containing some of the footage the men had captured, calling it “staggering” evidence that 14 percent of noncitizens in Georgia — which Heritage said extrapolated to more than 47,000 people — were registered to vote.
The video was reposted by Elon Musk, X’s owner, who called it “extremely disturbing.” It quickly went viral. State investigators found no evidence that any of the seven people on the tape had ever registered to vote. A spokesman for Georgia’s secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, called the video “a stunt.”
Read the full article. There’s so much more. Gift link here. Per the NYT, the video got 58 million views, mostly thanks to Musk, and has been pounced upon by right wing outlets including, of course, Fox News.
“The Heritage Foundation’s own analysis found just 23 documented cases of noncitizen voting across the country between 2003 and 2023” https://t.co/9yPVmFBYRC
— Keri Potts (@MsPotts_ATL) September 7, 2024