This article originally appeared on PolitiFact.
If you go to bed on election night and don’t know who won a midterm congressional race, that’s normal. And if you wake up the next morning and find that a candidate who was behind hours earlier has since pulled ahead, that’s normal, too.
That won’t stop some politicians and their allies from spreading misinformation during vote counting.
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In past elections, elected leaders, candidates and social media users have spread falsehoods that “late night” arrivals of “ballot dumps”
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