“THOUSANDS of fake votes found at Wisconsin Recount in Dane County.”
Social media posts
a Facebook post. Claim dated 28 Nov 2020.
PolitiFact rated thisPants on Fire
What PolitiFact found
Article claims MLW initials repeated on many ballots are evidence of "fake votes." But those are just the the initials of the Madison clerk who issued absentee ballots.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 28 November 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 30 November 2020, 2 days later. Its rating was “Pants on Fire”.
Where the claim appeared
- Saved copy of the posthttps://web.archive.org/web/20201128154008/https:/www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/breaki…
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