“Last year, Pennsylvania elected officials passed a whole new law that allows universal mail-in balloting, and did it irregardless of what the Pennsylvania Constitution said.”
Josh Hawley
U.S. Senator, R-Missouri. Claim dated 6 Jan 2021.
PolitiFact rated thisMostly False
What PolitiFact found
In October 2019, the Pennsylvania General Assembly passed Act 77 to permit no-excuse, mail-in voting.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Josh Hawley (U.S. Senator, R-Missouri) made this claim around 6 January 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 8 January 2021, 2 days later. Its rating was “Mostly False”.
Josh Hawley has 6 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 2 of them false or fake, 4 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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