US election 2020: mysterious calls unsettle voters - manipulation from abroad?

Misinformation and rumors are circulating in the US ahead of the election.

A particularly bold ploy plays with the citizens' fears - in a rather perfidious way.

• After the

  US election in 2016

  , it became known that citizens had been specifically manipulated on social media.

• Before the 2020 election, everyone seems to have become more prudent - but one scam makes voters unsure.

• Here you will find all the news about the

  US election 2020

  , and here the first results of this

  presidential election in the USA

  .

Washington (USA) -

in the

should have been

warned

since the last

.

In retrospect, there were massive allegations at the 2016 elections.

According to investigations, voters had been manipulated via social media in favor of an election of

, presumably from those around Russia.

The content of these posts had often been rumors at the expense of the

.

So if the New York Times keeps a list of "Miss Information", then citizens should take a closer look - and be puzzled when they

come across strange information

during the

.

Manipulation of the US elections?

- Misinformation should unsettle citizens

The New York Times list is long.

Misinformation circulating prior to the elections included:

• That billionaire George Soros could rig the elections because he owned thousands of voting machines.

• That ballot papers would be systematically destroyed.

• That thousands of people would vote multiple times.

In particular, the last accusation about the security of the elections was

fueled again and again

by

.

However, it has also been refuted several times - the vulnerability of postal voting to manipulation is well below 0.01 percent.

Manipulating the 2020 US election: mysterious robot calls intimidate voters

But a completely different scam that gets by with very little information creates great uncertainty.

Countless citizens report phone calls in which a female

merely warns against leaving the house.

At first, according to the Washington Post, many people called

believed

in a friendly warning from the

amid the

.

But as the calls came in more and more frequently, many related the call to the day of the election: As a warning against leaving the house on that day.

In the city of

for example, citizens were called on to vote on Wednesday instead of Tuesday.

But then the polling stations have long since closed.

Getting reports of multiple robocalls going to Flint residents that, due to long lines, they should vote tomorrow.

Obviously this is FALSE and an effort to suppress the vote.

No long lines and today is the last day to vote.

Don't believe the lies!

Have your voice heard!

RT PLS.

- Dana Nessel (@dananessel) November 3, 2020

USTelecom has not yet been able to identify the originator or the origin of the calls.

But there is much to suggest that the calls came from

.

Thanks to complex tactics, they apparently cannot be stopped or immediately identified as a spam call.

(kat)