“21,000 DEAD PEOPLE" are registered to vote in Pennsylvania.”
Social media posts
Claim dated 6 Nov 2020.
FactCheck.org rated thisMisleading
What FactCheck.org found
A claim that more than 21,000 registered voters in Pennsylvania are dead is circulating online. The figure comes from a conservative group that failed to convince a federal judge in October that its list was accurate.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 6 November 2020. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 10 November 2020, 4 days later. Its rating was “Misleading”.
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