No Time to Fail | Disinformation
Clip: Season 11 Episode 7 | 1m 24sVideo has Closed Captions
RI election officials must combat disinformation during the 2020 presidential election.
As mail-in ballots are dropped off in official drop boxes for 2020 presidential election, Rhode Island's election officials like Terri Bucci, Maria Madonna and Nick Lima must combat disinformation being spread to the media and on social media, making their jobs tougher during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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No Time to Fail | Disinformation
Clip: Season 11 Episode 7 | 1m 24sVideo has Closed Captions
As mail-in ballots are dropped off in official drop boxes for 2020 presidential election, Rhode Island's election officials like Terri Bucci, Maria Madonna and Nick Lima must combat disinformation being spread to the media and on social media, making their jobs tougher during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Somebody just called.
The box out front is too full.
MADONNA: We're gonna, like I told those people, we're gonna need two boxes.
Uh-oh, we're gonna need more than two.
BRITO: You can come inside the office and drop it off in here, because if you don't trust, that's something different, okay?
- Someone called and said, "Drop box out front is full, and we can't get our ballots in," which wasn't true, there was still a little bit of space.
LIMA: Yeah.
- Looking to see if anybody's tweeted or anything about our ballot drop box being full.
That bothers me that someone would immediately go to the press about something like that.
People can say what they want, they want...
If they're looking for something to complain about, they're gonna make it up or they're gonna, you know, they're gonna be blind to it, and then say that, say something that's just not true.
"Drop box was full."
Literally, there's...
There are things that are within our control and not in our control.
That's something that's not in our control, but... At the same time, I don't want disinformation to be out there, because the last thing we need now is people to start distrusting the drop box.
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