“More than 140,000 votes came from underage, deceased, and otherwise unauthorized voters -- in Fulton County alone.”
Elise Stefanik
Member of the House (R-NY). in an opinion column in the Albany Times-Union. Claim dated 6 Jan 2021.
Washington Post rated thisFour Pinocchios
What Washington Post found
It's an absurd statement to say that 1 in 4 votes cast were fraudulent.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Elise Stefanik (Member of the House (R-NY)) made this claim around 6 January 2021. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 6 May 2021, 120 days later. Its rating was “Four Pinocchios”.
Elise Stefanik has 12 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 4 of them false or fake, 7 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- timesunion.comhttps://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Stefanik-explains-why-she-will-object-to-15850046…
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