“New and proposed state laws on voting mean “if you are going to be standing in that line for all those hours, you can’t have any water or any food.”
Kamala Harris
Vice President. Claim dated 9 Jul 2021.
PolitiFact rated thisMostly False
What PolitiFact found
States commonly ban bribing voters but laws that expressly ban giving away food or water to voters waiting in lines are rare. Voters can consume their own food or water in line.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Kamala Harris (Vice President) made this claim around 9 July 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 15 July 2021, 6 days later. Its rating was “Mostly False”.
Kamala Harris has 63 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 13 of them false or fake, 40 misleading or mixed and 7 true.
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