A Congressman and Conservative News Outlets are Spreading the Baseless Claim that the U.S. Army Seized an Election Software Company’s Server in Frankfurt, Germany, that could supposedly prove there was Fraud in the 2020 Election. There was No such Seizure and the Company doesn’t even have a Server in Frankfurt.
The Falsehood has been Circulating on Social Media. This Server could supposedly prove that Votes for Trump were Switched in Favor of President-Elect Joe Biden. But the Army has Conducted no such Raid, and the Company doesn’t have Offices in Frankfurt and wouldn’t have had that kind of Information.
Still, the Falsehood has been Spread by Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX, 1st District), and the Two Conservative TV News Outlets recently Promoted by Trump, Newsmax and One America News.
Despite a Lack of Evidence, the Suggestion that there was a Raid and a Seized Server has appeared on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Some of those Posts also feature an Electoral Map shown on OAN that supposedly reflects the Results on the Seized Server. OAN attributed the Map to Manga Anantatmula, a Defeated Republican Congressional Candidate in Virginia.
The Map shows Trump winning 410 Electoral Votes, including California’s 55 Electoral Votes. Biden had a 29% Lead over Trump in California as of Nov. 19th, according to the Secretary of State’s Unofficial Count.
The Company, Scytl doesn’t have Offices in Frankfurt. The Company, which is based in Spain, has a U.S. Subsidiary that handled All of its U.S. Election Work in 2020, according to a Fact Sheet it posted in response to the Viral Claims.
“We do not tabulate, tally or count votes in the US. We do not provide voting machines in the US. We did not provide online voting to US jurisdictions for the US elections. We do not have servers or offices in Frankfurt. The US army has not seized anything from Scytl in Barcelona, Frankfurt or anywhere else,” the Fact Sheet said.
The Company also described the kind of Work that it did Conduct in the 2020 Election. That work fell into Four Categories: Visual Displays of Independently Counted Votes on Election Night, called Election Night Reporting Systems; Electronic Ballot Delivery Systems for Overseas Military Voters; Online Training for Election Workers; and Websites with Information for Voters on Where and How they could Vote and what kind of Identification they may need to bring to the Polls.
The Company explained that its Election Night Reporting Systems are Online Displays for Vote Tallies that have been Counted by Local Election Officials. The Vote Counting is done on Equipment that’s Unrelated to Scytl. Once Election Officials Tabulate the Votes, they Upload the Results to Scytl’s System, which then Displays them Online. The Servers that Run it are Based in the U.S. “Scytl does NOT tabulate, tally or count any votes,” the Company wrote.
Similarly, the Electronic Ballot Delivery System offered by the cCmpany is an Online Platform tailored to the State that uses it. “Each state has different laws and regulations regarding who can request their ballot through this system, and how that ballot can be returned,” the Company explained. The System does Not allow Online Voting and it does Not Count Votes. The Servers that Run it are in the U.S.
According to another Release from the Company, 95 of the 3,142 Counties in the U.S. used its Election Night Reporting System to Display the Results in their Counties Online and Seven States used it to provide sSatewide Results. Three States used Scytl’s Electronic Ballot Delivery System in the 2020 Election.
Scytl is also among the 25 Original Members of the Election Infrastructure Subsector Coordinating Council, which Works with Federal and State Agencies to keep Elections Secure. So, there’s No Evidence that the U.S. Army Seized a Server from Scytl that would prove Election Fraud. In fact, both the Army and Scytl have said that’s Not True.
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