Photo doesn’t show Democrats gathered to demand mail-in voting

Democrats across the country have advocated for more mail-in voting due to the coronavirus pandemic. But a photo shared on social media does not show demonstrators crowding at an intersection in the name of this cause.

"Thousands of Seattle Democrats gather to demand mail-in voting because it’s too dangerous to vote in-person," one post says of the aerial photo that shows people gathered on the streets below. 

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Noncitizens in Washington, D.C., “can vote in federal elections.”

The photo does show thousands of demonstrators in Seattle on June 6, but they were protesting police violence against Black people — not demanding mail-in voting for the November election. 

West Seattle Blog reported on the demonstration, which happened in the West Seattle neighborhood, and published the photo that appears in the Facebook post. It’s credited to Paul Weatherman, an aerial photographer. 

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