“There's a potential for "massive fraud" in Nevada because "the post office doesn't date [mail-in ballots] with a postmark because they're already prepaid.”
Hogan Gidley
Trump campaign press secretary. CNN. Claim dated 8 Aug 2020.
FactCheck.org rated thisFalse
What FactCheck.org found
USPS policy is to postmark all ballots. According to a July report from the USPS’ Office of Inspector General, a postal service memo issued in 2018 “states that all ballots should be postmarked by machine or by hand."
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Hogan Gidley (Trump campaign press secretary) made this claim around 8 August 2020. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 14 August 2020, 6 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Where the claim appeared
- transcripts.cnn.comhttp://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2008/08/smer.01.html
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