Tampering With The Vote?

This is a video clip of voter tabulation in Sacramento, California.

I followed verification steps to determine the validity of this video. According to my findings, this video is most likely fake and was created to confuse the public and discredit the U.S. presidential election.

1. I watched the video through without bias. I watched it twice more to spot edits or discrepancies in the video. At :19 seconds and 1:07, the video jumps into another part of the video. This lets me know that it is not the original video and we don’t know how much of the original video was cut out.
2. There’s the red circle over a specific printer. The point was to tell the viewer of something suspicious happening to the ballots. That machine is only counting the ballots, so the voter official wouldn’t have to do it by hand. If you look to the right at the man in black, his printer is doing the same action. It’s actually more time efficient and accurate than hand counting.
3. Below the video is the time stamp of upload. The video was uploaded November 4, 2020 by the Sacrament Bee account. The video itself does not have a time stamp, so we don’t know when it’s actually from. It could be from a past election since every state has always allowed mail-in voting under certain circumstances.

4. Lastly, I performed a Google images reverse search on the video by screenshotting the first frame. Once in Google search, the results showed the video being used on multiple non-English sites in Asia. Other countries have been known to spread false information to Americans about our elections.

This information is not to discredit our democracy, but to inform the public of all the fake news that floats around the internet. Use these verification tools to decide for yourself what you want to believe.