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“You have to remember what I went through in my 2018 election, where they completely violated the law. They found 95,000 votes after election night.”
Rick Scott Senator (R-Fla.). in an interview with CNN. Claim dated 21 Jan 2021.
Washington Post rated thisFour Pinocchios

What Washington Post found

Multiple investigations have failed to produce evidence of widespread fraud in Florida in 2018, but Scott keeps repeating the claim.

Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.

In short

Rick Scott (Senator (R-Fla.)) made this claim around 21 January 2021. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 3 February 2021, 13 days later. Its rating was “Four Pinocchios”.

Rick Scott has 28 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 15 of them false or fake, 11 misleading or mixed and 0 true.

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