“Says Georgia’s secretary of state won’t let the people recounting ballots check the signatures for fraud.”
Donald Trump
President of the United States. In a fundraising email.. Claim dated 17 Nov 2020.
PolitiFact rated thisPants on Fire
What PolitiFact found
Signature verification and vote counting are totally separate by design. The goal is to preserve the secrecy of your vote.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Donald Trump (President of the United States) made this claim around 17 November 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 18 November 2020, 1 day later. Its rating was “Pants on Fire”.
Donald Trump has 1,168 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 663 of them false or fake, 375 misleading or mixed and 13 true.
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