Wild videos show conspiracy theorists bailing out poll workers to accuse them of illegally removing ballots during NSW poll
- NSW election officials harassed
- Conspiracy theorists accused them of fraud.
Conspiracy theorists have been filmed harassing NSW election officials accusing them of vote fraud.
Several videos are circulating on social media showing conspiracy theorists hassling NSW Electoral Commission workers across the state.
Officials are ambushed while attempting to transport sealed boxes of filled pre-voting ballots as part of proper procedure.
One of the incidents prompted a police response with officers forced to guard a polling station to prevent election officials from being harassed.
Conspiracy theorists film themselves harassing NSW election officials accusing them of voter fraud (Pictured election officials being harassed in East Maitland)
One video showed a conspiracy theorist confronting two officials at a polling station in Shellharbour, on the south coast of New South Wales.
Election officials are seen loading the boxes of ballots into the back of a car before they are ambushed by the conspiracy theorist.
Do you mind if I ask where you take them? he said.
One of the officials asks him to stop filming while his partner tries to cover the camera with his hand.
The conspiracy theorist continues filming claiming they have been ‘caught’ before demanding their names.
“You wouldn’t be acting like that if you weren’t wrong,” he said.
Another video showed a conspiracy theorist harassing an election official at East Maitland Church of Christ in the Lower Hunter Valley in New South Wales on Wednesday.
An election official is seen carrying a box of ballots to his car when he is interrupted by the woman.
‘Why are they taking the ballots?’ she asked. ‘That’s illegal. This is nice and risky, isn’t it?
The conspiracy theorist follows the election official to his car when he is joined by another person.
‘It’s another rigged election, right?’ he said.
The election official asks the woman to stop filming and covers her name badge as the woman demands to know her name.
Another video showed a conspiracy theorist harassing an election official at East Maitland Church of Christ in the Lower Hunter Valley in New South Wales on Wednesday.
Another video showed an election official completing internal administrative paperwork at a polling place.
His colleague tries to explain the vote counting process when the woman interrupts him.
‘It doesn’t work like that,’ said the woman. ‘You don’t take them. I’m not wrong. How corrupt is this!
It is understood that the incident was reported to the police and officers were dispatched to the polling station for surveillance on Friday.
A third video shows an election official being confronted in Blacktown, west of Sydney.
Another video showed an election official completing internal administrative paperwork at a polling place.
A conspiracy theorist posted a video on Twitter of the official using an eraser on a piece of paper before falsely accusing him of something more sinister.
“Crazy scenes, check out officer caught deleting then what appears to be editing someone’s vote,” they wrote.
The New South Wales Electoral Commission was forced to respond with a statement calling the claim disinformation.
‘This is not a ballot paper. This official was filmed without permission working at an early voting center completing internal administrative paperwork,” he said.
