“California sends 440,000 ballots to ineligible voters.”
Social media posts
Instagram. Claim dated 22 Oct 2020.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
What PolitiFact found
For the vast majority of the 440,000, an analysis the Instagram post relies on indicates those people have not voted in the past 12 years or have not moved, not that they are ineligible to vote.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 22 October 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 23 October 2020, 1 day later. Its rating was “False”.
Where the claim appeared
- Instagram posthttps://www.instagram.com/p/CGk2R7OAWDy/
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