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“In Wisconsin, there are approximately 70,000 absentee ballots that do not have matching ballot applications as required by law.”
Donald Trump U.S. President. a speech. Claim dated 2 Dec 2020.
PolitiFact rated thisPants on Fire

What PolitiFact found

Voters seeking an absentee ballot filled out an application attached to the ballot envelope. State law has no requirements for the application's form.

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

In short

Donald Trump (U.S. President) made this claim around 2 December 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 10 December 2020, 8 days later. Its rating was “Pants on Fire”.

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.

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