Pennsylvania officials sent a similar confirmation. “Counties do not use Starlink to transmit unofficial or official election results,” a Pennsylvania Department of State representative told The Dispatch Fact Check in an email. “No voting system in Pennsylvania is ever connected to the internet.”

We found little evidence Starlink is widely used during elections. Even in Asheville, North Carolina’s Buncombe County, one of the places hardest hit by Hurricane Helene, election officials told PolitiFact that Starlink was not used for any election functions.

Election officials in swing states said vote-counting systems are typically on closed networks with no connection to the internet.

As President-elect Donald Trump begins filling key posts in his second administration, social media users are pushing false claims that the 2024 election was rigged in his favor.

An independent analysis has debunked a rumor that tech billionaire Elon Musk used Starlink to rig the 2024 election for Donald Trump. The analysis, published by NewsGuard, found that there is “no evidence” to suggest that Starlink was used to influence the election for Trump after misleading claims circulated on social media about voter fraud in last week’s contest.