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.

False posts circulating on social media claim that billionaire Elon Musk facilitated alleged election fraud through his internet service provider Starlink, manipulating the vote count, particularly in swing states,

Left-leaning social media users are claiming Elon Musk, the billionaire Telsa and SpaceX CEO turned top Donald Trump surrogate, used his Starlink internet service provider to manipulate the vote count in the 2024 presidential election in the Republican's 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.