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PolitiFact is a United States fact-checking site run by the Poynter Institute. It rates claims by politicians and viral posts on its Truth-O-Meter, from True to Pants on Fire.

Checked by PolitiFact17 Nov 2020United StatesElections
Social media posts

“Milwaukee Elections Chief Lost Elections Flash Drive in Morning Hours of November 4th When Democrats Miraculously Found 120,000 Votes for Joe Biden.”

PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire

PolitiFact says: The drive was unintentionally left behind, but was in an observed, supervised area the whole time. It's not at all related to a jump in Biden votes overnight, which came when Milwaukee finished counting absentee ballots.

Eric Erickson, Atlanta-based conservative radio show host

“Says Raphael Warnock "ran over his wife" and was "arrested for obstructing an investigation into child abuse.”

PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False

PolitiFact says: Police found no proof that Warnock ran over his estranged wife’s foot. Warnock was arrested after blocking officers who were doing a child abuse probe, but a prosecutor, citing a miscommunication, had the charge dropped.

Checked by PolitiFact17 Nov 2020United StatesElections
Tammy Baldwin, U.S. Senator, D-Wisconsin

“We heard from the Department of Homeland Security ... that this was probably the most secure election that’s ever been run in the United States.”

PolitiFact rated this: True

PolitiFact says: Two cybersecurity committees in the federal Department of Homeland Security released a statement that called the Nov. 3 election “the most secure in American history," contradicting President Donald Trump's many claims