“More than 500,000 mail in ballots in Virginia and 200,000 in Nevada were sent to dead people or pets”
Social media posts
Claim dated 10 Aug 2020.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
What PolitiFact found
The post twists two news stories, but neither one showed hundreds of thousands of ballots sent to dead people and pets.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 10 August 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 9 September 2020, 30 days later. Its rating was “False”.
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