“Ballots in Arizona’s Maricopa County” from the 2020 presidential election “found shredded and in dumpster days before Senate audit to begin.”
What PolitiFact found
Election officials say all cast ballots from the 2020 election are sealed in a locked indoor vault, awaiting shipment for an audit by the state Senate, that none are kept in the warehouse and none have been shredded.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
The Gateway Pundit (Conservative website) made this claim around 6 March 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 9 March 2021, 3 days later. Its rating was “False”.
The Gateway Pundit has 10 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 8 of them false or fake, 2 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
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