The claims center on a purported raid by the U.S. Army, Scytl and election security officials all refute the claims More: Fact check: No one was allowed to vote after Nov. Gohmert, Papadopoulos, and the users behind the posts on Facebook have not responded to requests from USA TODAY for comment. USA TODAY has previously debunked false claims about Dominion Voting Systems, including that its machines deleted votes for Trump or switched them to be for Biden. But he misstated the company Gohmert had referred to, claiming instead that the servers belonged to Dominion Voting Systems. George Papadopoulos - a former Trump campaign adviser who was sentenced to 14 days in prison for lying to the FBI - also wrote about the incident on Twitter. Travis Pope, the user who posted the video of Gohmert, told USA TODAY that "Louie Gohmert is about as honest as they come" and that he believes him over "fake news." Scytl is a software company based out of Bacelona, Spain, that specializes in election technology.Įarlier in the clip, Gohmert said that its servers contained information that could help establish "how many votes were switched from Republican to Democrat." Army forces went into Scytl and grabbed their server," Gohmert said. "I don't know the truth, I know that there was a German tweet, in German, saying that on Monday, U.S. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, speaking about the purported raid last week. Users on Facebook also shared clips of Rep. The map attached to the posts shows Trump with a whopping 410 electoral votes and Biden at just 138 electoral votes. More: Fact check: Dominion voting machines didn't delete votes from Trump, switch them to Biden "After analysis of the server, they discover that this is what the voting outcome actually looks like."
"So our military does a little raid in Germany to retrieve the server where our voting info was routed," the posts read.
Most of the posts on Facebook reference a post on Parler, a social media platform that has recently grown in popularity among conservatives. There are 16 votes remaining, in Georgia, pending a recount - though Biden is in the lead and the result will not change the outcome of the election.īut some users on Facebook claim the military has seized servers in Frankfurt, Germany, that show very different results. In contrast, President Donald Trump has claimed 232 electoral votes. A few more state calls brought his total number of electoral votes to 290 - significantly over the 270 votes required to win. Joe Biden is the president-elect, after winning key battleground states and securing enough electoral votes to win the White House on Nov. Watch Video: Trump admits Biden 'won' election in tweet, but refuses to concede The claim: The military performed a raid in Germany to seize servers that show Donald Trump won the election
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