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“Raphael Warnock "believes in no cash bail" and "letting people out of prison that are going to make us prisoners in our own home.”

PolitiFact says: Warnock does not support eliminating cash bail, but does back ending it for nonviolent offenders. He does not support widespread releases of prison inmates, but he backed a law that reduces sentences for some offenders.

“Republicans want to raise the voting to age 28.”

PolitiFact says: One pundit, Peter Schiff, tweeted on Election Day that the voting age should be raised to 28. The next day, another pundit tweeted that the age should be raised to 21. We found no broad effort by GOP to raise voting age.

“They say the ocean will rise one-eighth of an inch over the next 200 to 300 years.”

PolitiFact says: Experts predict rises in sea level many times larger than Trump's claim. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said U.S. sea level in 2100 is projected to be at least 2 feet higher on average than in 2000.

“A video shows a whistleblower creating fraudulent military ballots during the 2020 presidential election.”

PolitiFact says: The clip does not depict the fraudulent creation of real ballots. A DOJ official confirmed that the video features the same content as one linked to a 2020 voter intimidation campaign. That video was a simulation.

“It’s a sign of fraud that “in 244 counties across the United States, there are more registered voters than there are people legally eligible to vote.”

PolitiFact says: Comparing the number of voting-age residents in a state or county to the number of registered voters in that state or county often lacks important context and gives a misleading impression.

“It’s not that there is no evidence the election was stolen, but that no court had the guts to HEAR the evidence. They dismissed the cases, NOT the evidence.”

PolitiFact says: Post-election lawsuits were thrown out for jurisdictional or procedural reasons, but several judges also said the Trump campaign’s allegations of election fraud lacked sufficient proof.

“Pennsylvania drop boxes were “pre-loaded” with ballots.”

PolitiFact says: Some people eligible to vote successfully inserted 18 ballots into three ballot drop boxes in Pennsylvania before the official window of time when the boxes were open to receive ballots. Those ballots do not prove fraud.

“In the 2018 Florida governor's race "votes were being stolen by the corrupt election process in Broward. … I sent in the FBI and the U.S. Attorneys, and the ballot theft immediately ended. … I stopped his Election from being stolen.”

PolitiFact says: DeSantis won narrowly as confirmed by a recount. There was no evidence of efforts to steal the election in Broward.

“West Virginia is poised to “receive $25M for 160 orphaned well clean-up projects across the state.”

PolitiFact says: Documents and news releases confirm that the Interior Department has authorized $25 million under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law as an initial grant for capping orphan wells.

“In Detroit, “people are showing up to vote only to be told, ‘sorry, you have already voted.’”

PolitiFact says: A computer glitch wrongly signaled that ballots about to be given to some voters had already been issued as absentee ballots. The computer error did not indicate that the voters themselves had cast absentee ballots.

“Delayed election results are proof of fraud.”

PolitiFact says: There are valid reasons why election results could be delayed, including the tabulation of mail-in ballots.

“In Georgia, it's "illegal to give people water within 150 feet of a polling place" and "punishable by up to a year in prison.”

PolitiFact says: Georgia passed a law in 2021 that makes it a misdemeanor, punishable by up to 12 months in jail, to give water to voters within 150 feet of a polling place.

“Inflation is not caused because you cut taxes.”

PolitiFact says: Sometimes tax cuts won't increase inflation, such as in a recession. But in our current period of 40-year-high inflation, tax cuts would likely increase inflationary pressures.

“The state is absorbing the cost of overtime pay for farmworkers, and farm owners do not have to pay any more.”

PolitiFact says: New York state is gradually lowering the overtime threshold for farm workers. It is offering refundable tax credits to cover overtime costs between 40 and 60 hours per week.

“Former President Jimmy Carter said “don’t ever use” mail in ballots because “they can be so easily corrupted.”

PolitiFact says: The 2005 report co-written by Jimmy Carter raised security concerns about absentee voting, but it did not call for eliminating it. The report called for further study. Carter embraced mail voting in 2020.

“The U.S. “could easily count every vote in every state on election night until a few years ago.”

PolitiFact says: We found several examples of races in recent history that took days, weeks or months to determine a winner. The 2020 U.S. presidential election is one prominent example.

“Tony Evers “wants to let out between 9,000 and 10,000 more” Wisconsin prisoners”

“Two thirds of eligible voters don’t vote.”

PolitiFact says: In 2018, 50% of eligible voters cast a ballot. In 2020, overall turnout was 66.7%.

“If you use the US Postal Service certified mail or registered mail, they can do anything they want with those ballots." They “can burn your mail and they won't get in any trouble.”

PolitiFact says: The U.S. Postal Service is the country's only mail service and was established in 1970 as an independent government agency. Postal employees are prohibited by law from tampering with or destroying mail.

“Mailing in a ballot “gives the bad guys a chance to know how many ballots they need to make.”

PolitiFact says: Washington implemented statewide vote-by-mail in 2011. There is no history of widespread voter fraud in Washington linked to this voting method.