evidence: "Joe Biden announced to the world tonight that they are going to cheat by dumping ballots," reads a screenshot of a direct message shared on Instagram Nov. 3. "He asked the citizens of America to 'be patient' because 'it takes time to count all legitimate ballots.''' [...] Biden never said Democrats will be cheating or dumping ballots. It is normal for state election officials to continue counting ballots after Election Day, election experts told USA TODAY. That is not indicative of election fraud. [...] Based on our research, we rate FALSE the claim that Biden announced, "they are going to cheat by dumping ballots." Biden never said anything of the sort in his Nov. 2 speech on democracy. While he did tell Americans it takes a while to count legitimate ballots, election experts said this is normal and not indicative of cheating in elections.