A constant stream of false and misleading information is circulating online around the 2024 elections. In one case, a video shows a group seeking help for its elderly and disabled members, without jumping the line to vote in Pennsylvania . Here are the facts:

CLAIM: Video shows busloads of non-citizens skipping the line to vote at a satellite election office in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.

THE FACTS: FAKE. Video shows a group walking past a line at a satellite voting location in Allegheny County to ask elderly and disabled voters for help as they requested an absentee ballot Saturday, Oct. 26, they said. election officials said in a statement.

Officials noted that the deadline to register to vote in Pennsylvania was October 21, so anyone requesting an absentee ballot after the deadline would only have received one if they were already registered on the electoral lists. Only U.S. citizens can register to vote in Pennsylvania.

In the video, a group of people walk toward the South Park Ice Rink office in the Bethel Park borough and stop to speak with a woman outside the building.

“ILLEGAL VOTERS ARE CUTTING THE LINE AGAIN!” » reads an X post that shares the video. “Look at this BS in Pennsylvania…the swing states…it’s there. BUSES of non-English speaking “citizens” are guided past Americans who have been waiting in line for hours to vote early.

As of Wednesday, the erroneous post had been liked and shared approximately 122,700 times.

The county’s statement explained that the group “came to request mail-in ballots and required assistance from translators.”

The video shows a “brief conversation between voters, their translators and a county employee.”

The county clerk asked the elderly and disabled people in the group to sit while they waited their turn – an accommodation offered to any elderly and disabled voter in Allegheny County satellite offices – and the able-bodied voters are went to the back of the line, according to the press release. Translators helped those who needed it.

—- Mélissa Goldin