A photograph authentically exhibits a poll submitted by a Canadian citizen who voted for former U.S. President Donald Trump in 2024.
The identical photograph shared in viral posts in late October 2024 had been posted two weeks earlier by an X person who made no declare of being a Canadian citizen.
A rumor circulating on-line in late October 2024 claimed {that a} photograph confirmed a poll forged by a Canadian citizen for former U.S. President Donald Trump and his operating mate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, within the 2024 U.S. presidential election.
On Oct. 28, 2024, X person @wizardofsoho posted the image with the caption (archived), “I’m Canadian however USA does not require voter ID, so figured I’d drive throughout the border and vote. Variety regards.”
Nonetheless, this rumor was not true. In subsequent posts on X, @wizardofsoho posted (archived), “This has gone viral lol.” As of this writing, the submit had acquired greater than 242,000 likes and 10.9 million views.
One person responded to the submit (archived), writing, “That is not humorous in any respect. I hope you perceive the horrible consequence penalties, once you deliberately unfold fakes and disinformation, fooling thousands and thousands of individuals and disrupting belief within the elections. Be happy with your self!” Different customers posted similar thoughts.
Moreover, one other person on X exhibiting the deal with @Loopifyyy posted that @wizardofsoho had taken their concept for the same joke or prank (archived). Hours earlier than @wizardofsoho’s submit, @Loopifyyy had shared the identical image of the poll with the caption (archived), “Got here on vacation to the US and so they did not require voter ID so simply voted on a bunch of ballots.”
Different customers additionally later reposted the same photo of the poll with the captions first shared by @wizardofsoho and @Loopifyyy, as a continuation of the identical joke or prank.
Round two weeks earlier than @wizardofsoho and @Loopifyyy created their posts, on Oct. 14, a Reddit person posted the identical photograph of the poll on three different subreddits. Someday earlier, an X person posted the image (archived). That X person replied to @wizardofsoho to say the poll as her personal (archived). These earlier posts featured no point out of a noncitizen casting the poll.
Snopes has previously covered Trump’s claims of enormous numbers of noncitizens voting in U.S. elections. In line with USA.gov, folks residing within the U.S. as noncitizens aren’t eligible to vote in federal, state and most native elections. The Associated Press reported that voting by noncitizens is uncommon, and that “federal regulation requires states to recurrently keep their voter rolls and take away anybody who’s ineligible.” Additional, The New York Times revealed information from research exhibiting noncitizen voting is “primarily nonexistent” in U.S. federal elections.
