“Only Democratic cities take “‘days’ to count their votes” while “the rest of the country manages to get it done on election night.”
Ted Cruz
U.S. Senator, R-Texas. Claim dated 27 Oct 2022.
PolitiFact rated thisMostly False
What PolitiFact found
Cities operate under ballot-handling parameters set by their state, which in many cases have been set by Republicans who occupy state-level offices.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Ted Cruz (U.S. Senator, R-Texas) made this claim around 27 October 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 28 October 2022, 1 day later. Its rating was “Mostly False”.
Ted Cruz has 24 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 10 of them false or fake, 10 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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