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“Election officials are “sending 80 million ballots all over the country. Eighty million ballots, non-requested. I call them ‘unsolicited ballots.’”
Donald Trump President. Claim dated 7 Sep 2020.
PolitiFact rated thisMostly False

What PolitiFact found

The New York Times predicted in August that roughly 80 million voters will cast ballots by mail for the Nov. 3 election. But Trump misleads by calling them all "unsolicited."

Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.

In short

Donald Trump (President) made this claim around 7 September 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 10 September 2020, 3 days later. Its rating was “Mostly False”.

Donald Trump has 1,168 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 663 of them false or fake, 375 misleading or mixed and 13 true.

This check was done by PolitiFact, not by DoesItStand. We list it so you can find it. Their full evidence and reasoning are in their article.