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Help us choose PolitiFact’s Lie of the Year

By Bill Adair
November 26, 2012

It’s time to choose the Lie of the Year — and we’d like your help.

As we’ve done for the past three years, we will be selecting the year’s most significant falsehood. We have begun putting together a list of contenders and would love to hear your suggestions before we unveil the list of finalists.

You can email your suggestions to truthometer@politifact.com or tweet them to us @PolitiFact.

We’ll announce our finalists in about a week.

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