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Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 24, 2021 a Facebook post
Social media posts stated: “Remember Kamala telling Joe during the debate, ‘You will do whatever the Chinese tell you! They gave your son over a billion dollars.’”
Pants on Fire!
By Shasha Hupka • April 30, 2021
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on April 21, 2021 articles and social media
Group “identifies 12,547 illegal votes” in Georgia's 2020 election results, “exceeds margin of victory in the state.”
False
April 28, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 26, 2021 a Facebook post
“A quarter of a million illegal votes found in Arizona’s audit.”
False
April 27, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 23, 2021 on social media
“70% of Americans don't believe a word the mainstream media puts out,” so “everyone who thinks Biden won are only 30% of the population.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 27, 2021
Dan Patrick
Dan Patrick
stated on April 6, 2021 a press conference
“Statistics show that more people of color don't have cars than not. So how do (drive-thru voting centers) help those folks?"
False
By Brandon Mulder • April 23, 2021
National Republican Senatorial Committee
National Republican Senatorial Committee
stated on April 9, 2021 an online ad
Says Raphael Warnock supports boycotts of Georgia to protest voting law.
False
By Amy Sherman • April 13, 2021
Dan Patrick
Dan Patrick
stated on April 6, 2021 a press conference
“Nothing has changed in the election code (under SB 7) regarding early voting. Nothing has changed."
Pants on Fire!
By Brandon Mulder • April 9, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 6, 2021 a Facebook post
Colorado “requires photo ID to vote in person, requires signature verification for mail-in ballots, which Georgia got rid of, and prevents campaign workers from giving food, water to voters within 100 feet if they’re wearing campaign apparel.”
Half-True
April 7, 2021
Edward Lawrence
Edward Lawrence
stated on April 2, 2021 a Fox News appearance
"Sunday was never used before as a voting day in Georgia.”
False
By Bill McCarthy • April 7, 2021
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on April 5, 2021 a blog post
“Report: Biden administration busing ‘thousands’ of illegals to red states to get permanent status.”
False
April 7, 2021
Tim Scott
Tim Scott
stated on April 6, 2021 a tweet
Says Georgia “has more day-of voting rights than Colorado.”
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • April 7, 2021
Alex Mooney
Alex Mooney
stated on March 3, 2021 a news release
H.R. 1 “mandates practices nationwide” that include “ballot harvesting, universal mail-in voting and same-day registration.”
Half-True
By Devyn Osborne, Raeanne Beckner • April 5, 2021
Roy Cooper
Roy Cooper
stated on March 26, 2021 an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper
“People don’t pretend to be someone else to go in and vote. You just don’t see that kind of fraud.”
Mostly True
By Paul Specht • April 5, 2021
Turning Point USA
Turning Point USA
stated on March 27, 2021 a video posted on Instagram
HR 1 “gives the federal government the power to establish their own committees” to take over the redistricting process.
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • April 2, 2021
Michael MacDonald
Michael MacDonald
stated on March 24, 2021 a statement
Michigan election bills are “designed to make it easier for people to vote.”
Mostly False
By Clara Hendrickson • April 2, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 25, 2021 an online video
If the voting bill H.R. 1 is passed, “absentee ballots would be mailed out to anyone without proof of the voter’s identity.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 31, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 29, 2021 a Facebook post
Georgia’s new voting law “makes it a JAIL-TIME CRIME to drop off grandma’s absentee ballot in a dropbox.”
False
By Amy Sherman • March 30, 2021
Shelley Grogan
Shelley Grogan
stated on March 29, 2021 a radio ad
Judge Jeff Davis "spent years defending a convicted cop killer" and "tried to get him off the hook."
Half-True
By Eric Litke • March 30, 2021
Josh Holmes
Josh Holmes
stated on March 28, 2021 an interview on Fox News Sunday
A Georgia law has not “criminalized giving people bottles of water.” It pertains to political organizations.
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • March 29, 2021
James Clyburn
James Clyburn
stated on March 25, 2021 an interview on MSNBC
"There are 43 states that have now passed voter suppression laws."
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 29, 2021
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