“There’s danger involved in drop boxes. People need to think about it. Okay. Imagine someone decides ‘oh, there’s a drop box I’m just going to put some explosive and and blow it up and burn all of those ballots’ and now those votes don’t count at all.”
Marco Rubio
U.S. Sen., R-Fla.. Claim dated 18 Oct 2022.
PolitiFact rated thisIgnores long safe record
What PolitiFact found
Drop boxes in Florida are monitored by staff. Boxes have long been used by multiple jurisdictions without safety problems.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Marco Rubio (U.S. Sen., R-Fla.) made this claim around 18 October 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 19 October 2022, 1 day later. Its rating was “Ignores long safe record”.
Marco Rubio has 16 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 6 of them false or fake, 7 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
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