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“A clip from the Fox News coverage of the Georgia Senate runoff shows the number and percentage of votes for each candidate decreasing and is proof of election fraud.”
Social media posts United States. Claim dated 14 Dec 2022.
FactCheck.org rated thisMisleading

What FactCheck.org found

The Associated Press, which provided the data to Fox, said the clip shows a brief overestimate of votes caused by human error.

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In short

This claim spread on social media around 14 December 2022. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 14 December 2022. Its rating was “Misleading”.

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