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Elections & voting fact checks
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PolitiFactElections & voting
"This election actually was not unusually close."
Publisher’s rating: True
PolitiFactElections & voting
Says Joe Biden was “wearing a wire” during the first presidential debate.
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
PolitiFactElections & voting
Michigan’s Proposal 2 “will permanently put in the Constitution that you never have to show an ID to vote ever again.”
Publisher’s rating: Mostly False
PolitiFactElections & voting
“A quarter of a million illegal votes found in Arizona’s audit.”
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactElections & voting
“Mike Lee advised Trump's legal challenges to overturn our election” and “was one of only two senators who was in on the scheme.”
Publisher’s rating: Half True
PolitiFactElections & voting
“We’ve had 12 elections in 24 years in Wisconsin that have been decided by less than 30,000 votes.”
Publisher’s rating: True
PolitiFactElections & voting
“Arizona trooper found 50,000 ballots in dumpster all for President Trump!!”
Publisher’s rating: False
Washington PostElections & voting
“They didn’t even allow Republican Observers into the building to watch [mail ballots being counted in Philadelphia]. A terrible insult to our Constitution!”
Publisher’s rating: Four Pinocchios
PolitiFactElections & voting
In Detroit, “people are showing up to vote only to be told, ‘sorry, you have already voted.’”
Publisher’s rating: False
Maldita.esElections & voting
Los muertos también votan en Estados Unidos. William Bradley, de 118 años, votó en el condado de Wayne.
Publisher’s rating: Falso
PolitiFactElections & voting
Says someone tried to suppress votes by disguising trash cans as ballot boxes.
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactElections & voting
In 2020 the ballots that were counted "were fake ballots."
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
Washington PostElections & voting
“Mail-In Ballots will lead to massive electoral fraud and a rigged 2020 Election.”
Publisher’s rating: Four Pinocchios
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FactCheck.orgElections & voting
"Liberal megadonors are backing [Jon] Ossoff with untold millions in dark money,” with the words “$1 billion in political spending" on screen.
Publisher’s rating: Misleading
PolitiFactElections & voting
Four Florida counties had “zero results” Oct. 26, and “something underhanded might be happening.”
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactElections & voting
The voting bill known as H.R. 1 "would force states to adopt universal mail-in ballots.”
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactElections & voting
“Pennsylvania and Michigan didn’t allow our poll watchers and/or vote observers to watch or observe.”
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
PolitiFactElections & voting
Video shows Democratic presidential candidates speechless for 20 seconds when discussing whether any of them started a business.
Publisher’s rating: Mostly False