“Fairfax County (Va.) is not requiring the last four digits of Social Security Numbers on absentee ballots in this election.”
What PolitiFact found
The article garbled the nature of a lawsuit against Fairfax County’s elections office. Under state law, absentee ballots do not require Social Security numbers. Instead, the suit challenged applications for mail ballots.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Gateway Pundit (website) made this claim around 30 October 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 1 November 2021, 2 days later. Its rating was “Mostly False”.
Gateway Pundit has 22 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 11 of them false or fake, 8 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
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