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2,118 claims on this topic checked by other fact-checking organisations. Topics are sorted by the words in each claim and cover English-language checks.

Checked by PolitiFact3 Feb 2022United StatesElections
Stacey Abrams, Democrat running for Georgia governor

“In Texas, because of the laws they passed, a 95-year-old World War II veteran is being denied the right to vote by mail because he can't produce a registration number he got back in the 1950s.”

PolitiFact rated this: Half True

PolitiFact says: The Harris County voter received two rejection letters when he applied for mail ballots. But he has since updated his registration and he is on track to receive a mail ballot for the March 1 primary in Texas.

Checked by FactCheck.org1 Feb 2022United StatesElections
Susan Collins, U.S. Senator

“President Biden “helped politicize the entire nomination process” by promising as a candidate in 2020 to appoint a Black woman to the Supreme Court. Ronald Reagan's promise to appoint a woman “isn't exactly the same.”

FactCheck.org rated this: We Review The Facts

FactCheck.org says: Ronald Reagan pledged at a 1980 campaign event that a woman would fill "one of the first" of his Supreme Court vacancies, saying it’s “time for a woman to sit among our highest jurists.”

Checked by PolitiFact26 Jan 2022United StatesElections
Ted Nugent, musician

“If this guy received the most votes in history, in the largest voter turnout in history like they claim, then how is the vote being suppressed like they claim?”

PolitiFact rated this: Presents false choice

PolitiFact says: It’s possible to have more raw votes and voter suppression at the same time. Nugent's statement ignores the facts of the unusual 2020 election and that we don't yet know the impact of new election restrictions.