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“I don’t care for mail-in voting. That’s why I go to the polls.”
Mark Finchem Republican candidate for secretary of state in Arizona. Claim dated 22 Sep 2022.
PolitiFact rated thisFull Flop

What PolitiFact found

Finchem was on a list in Arizona to automatically get a mail ballot for every election starting in 2008. He submitted paperwork to drop off that list in April. He voted by mail 28 times.

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

In short

Mark Finchem (Republican candidate for secretary of state in Arizona) made this claim around 22 September 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 13 October 2022, 21 days later. Its rating was “Full Flop”.

Mark Finchem has 5 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 5 of them false or fake, 0 misleading or mixed and 0 true.

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