“There were several states where outside actors dramatically changed the rules of the road, so to speak, two weeks out, one week out, on how elections would be run.”
What PolitiFact found
Some legal challenges and other guidance from state officials may have come close to the election, but characterizing them as "outside actors" is misleading.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Chris Jacobs (Member of Congress) made this claim around 8 January 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 14 January 2021, 6 days later. Its rating was “Mostly False”.
Chris Jacobs has 7 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 1 of them false or fake, 5 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
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