“Elections that have been held with mail have found substantial fraud and coercion. For example, we indicted someone in Texas — 1,700 ballots collected from people who could vote, he made them out and voted for the person he wanted to.”
William Barr
Attorney General. in a CNN interview. Claim dated 2 Sep 2020.
Washington Post rated thisFour Pinocchios
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William Barr (Attorney General) made this claim around 2 September 2020. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 4 September 2020, 2 days later. Its rating was “Four Pinocchios”.
William Barr has 8 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 5 of them false or fake, 3 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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