Fact Check Posts – Page 7

Karl Rove
stated on September 20, 2015 in comments on "Fox News Sunday":

At this point in 2012, "Rick Perry was ahead at 29.9 percent, and we had seven more leads before it finally settled on Mitt Romney."

By Jon Greenberg • September 20, 2015

Bruce Elfant
stated on August 5, 2015 in an interview with Dick Ellis, KOKE FM, Austin:

"The United States is about 100th in voter turnout among the industrialized nations, and Texas is near the bottom in terms of voter registration and voter turnout."

By W. Gardner Selby • August 21, 2015

Arthenia Joyner
stated on July 30, 2015 in a letter to Jeb Bush:

Says Jeb Bush "significantly cut early voting prior to the 2008 presidential election."

By Joshua Gillin • August 5, 2015

Jeb Bush
stated on July 27, 2015 in a Telemundo News interview:

Says in 2002, he "won more Hispanic votes than Anglo votes, 60 percent in the state."

By Joshua Gillin • July 31, 2015

Brianna Keilar
stated on July 12, 2015 in comments on CNN's "State of the Union":

Says Hillary Clinton's "campaign hasn't been clear about when she wiped her server of her work emails."

By Linda Qiu • July 12, 2015

Chuck Todd
stated on July 5, 2015 in comments on NBC's "Meet the Press":

In Florida, "the number of voters who now register as ‘other’ has grown by a million in the last 10 years. Compare that with the Democrats, who only grew by 300,000 and the Republicans who grew by just 200,000."

By Anna Bruzgulis • July 8, 2015

Donna Brazile
stated on June 30, 2015 in a tweet:

"Chris Christie has led New Jersey to a record-breaking 9 credit downgrades."

By Jon Greenberg • July 2, 2015

Scott Walker
stated on June 4, 2015 in a statement:

Says "Hillary Clinton's rejection of efforts to make it easier to vote and harder to cheat not only defies logic, but the will of the majority of Americans."

By Lucas Daprile • June 29, 2015

Hillary Clinton
stated on June 4, 2015 in a speech:

Says Scott Walker "cut back early voting and signed legislation that would make it harder for college students to vote."

By Tom Kertscher • June 9, 2015

Hillary Clinton
stated on June 4, 2015 in in a speech at Texas Southern University:

"In Florida, when Jeb Bush was governor, state authorities conducted a deeply flawed purge of voters before the presidential election in 2000" and "in 2004 a plan to purge even more voters was headed off."

By Amy Sherman • June 9, 2015

Hillary Clinton
stated on June 4, 2015 in a speech:

"Former Gov. Rick Perry signed a law that a federal court said was actually written with the purpose of discriminating against minority voters."

By Keely Herring, Linda Qiu • June 9, 2015

Hillary Clinton
stated on June 4, 2015 in a speech:

"In New Jersey, Gov. Christie vetoed legislation to extend early voting."

By Keely Herring, Linda Qiu • June 9, 2015

Mark Pocan
stated on April 9, 2015 in a news conference:

"When the Constitution was written, (only) 20 to 25 percent of the people in the country could vote."

By Dave Umhoefer • April 16, 2015

Scott Walker
stated on February 26, 2015 in an interview:

More than any Republican governor in the 2014 elections, "I took a higher percentage of the Republican vote"and "yet I also carried independents by 12 points."

By Tom Kertscher • March 4, 2015

Ron Hayduk
stated on January 1, 2015 in a newspaper commentary:

"The right to vote in this country has never been intrinsically tied to citizenship."

By Katie Mulvaney • January 25, 2015

Jeff Clemens
stated on January 20, 2015 in a Senate Ethics and Elections committee hearing:

Online voter registration is a "more secure" way of doing voter registration.

By Amy Sherman • January 23, 2015

Gwen Moore
stated on January 7, 2015 in a tweet:

Says Mitch McConnell credits Republicans "for recent economic improvements" even though they took control of the Senate only "days ago."

By Tom Kertscher • January 14, 2015

Matthew Dowd
stated on December 7, 2014 in comments on ABC's "This Week":

Says President Barack Obama "has lost more members of the House and more members of the Senate than any president ever has lost" in modern times.

By Jon Greenberg • December 7, 2014

Keisha Lance Bottoms
stated on November 28, 2014 in an Atlanta Journal-Constitution story:

Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed became a city resident in the last annexation, opening the door to his candidacy.

By April Hunt • December 3, 2014

Jason Stanford
stated on November 17, 2014 in a commentary:

"Texas had the worst voter participation in the country" in the November 2014 elections.

By Dylan Baddour • November 25, 2014

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