“According to the Census Bureau, “5 million more people voted than were registered to vote” in the 2020 election.”
What PolitiFact found
The most accurate count found 48 million more registered voters than votes cast in the 2020 election. The Census Bureau's survey found 13 million more registered voters than votes cast.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Mike Gibbons (Candidate for the Republican U.S. Senate nomination) made this claim around 28 March 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 4 April 2022, 7 days later. Its rating was “Pants on Fire”.
Mike Gibbons has 5 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 1 of them false or fake, 4 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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