Latest Fact-Checks By Clara Hendrickson

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Trump on absentee

Trump tweet wrongly suggests there were defects with Michigan voting machines

December 16, 2020

“68% error rate in Michigan Voting Machines. Should be, by law, a tiny percentage of one percent.”

Detroit voters Nov. 2

Affidavit in Michigan lawsuit seeking to overturn election makes wildly inaccurate claims about vote

December 4, 2020

In 10 Michigan precincts, voter turnout reached 100% and in 6 precincts it surpassed 100%

Duggan COVID press conference

Detroit has among the lowest rates of infection in Michigan, but not the lowest.

December 1, 2020

“Detroit actually has the lowest infection rate in the state of Michigan. We’re half of that of the surrounding suburbs.”

Challenger Detroit TCF Center 11 6 2020

No, Michigan has not refused to certify the election results

November 18, 2020

“Michigan just refused to certify the election results!”

Challenger Detroit TCF Center 11 6 2020

No ‘planned theft of the election’ in Detroit

November 11, 2020

Detroit election worker trainings “reveal the mechanisms of the planned theft of the election”

voting booth

List does not show over 14,000 dead people cast ballots in Michigan’s Wayne County

November 7, 2020

A list shows over 14,000 dead people voted in Wayne County, Michigan.

Detroit absentee counting

Over 100 Republican challengers monitored absentee ballot count in Detroit

November 6, 2020

Republican election challengers were unfairly barred from observing absentee ballot processing and counting in Detroit.

Detroit ballot counting

No evidence ballots were smuggled into Detroit counting hub

November 5, 2020

Wagon arriving at Detroit counting center after deadline “may have been a ballot box.”

Jon Hoadley

Upton voted a dozen times in support of repealing the Affordable Care Act

October 28, 2020

Upton “voted a dozen times to kick thousands of Michigan families off their health insurance and eliminate protections for preexisting conditions”

Whitmer COVID update

Trump says Michigan has been “like a prison.” But most COVID-19 lockdowns ended in June.

October 23, 2020

Michigan has been “like a prison” during the coronavirus.

Jon Hoadley

Republican super PAC misleads on Hoadley’s blog posts in new ad condemned as homophobic

October 16, 2020

“Hoadley called women ‘breeders.’... wanted to learn about crystal meth and wrote that his sexual partners were his victims. Hoadley even wrote about a four…

Gary Peters committee hearing

John James levels misleading attack on Sen. Gary Peters’ coronavirus response

October 8, 2020

Says Sen. Gary Peters “downplayed the pandemic” and “failed to act.”

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