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Search results for "Supreme Court allows states to count mail-in ballots that arrive late"

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Instagram posts stated on November 18, 2024 in an Instagram post:
"Ballot dumps" in Pennsylvania, California, North Carolina, Alaska and Wisconsin show election officials are improperly “flipping" down-ballot seats for Democrats.
By Caleb McCullough• November 21, 2024
Justin Clark stated on October 28, 2020 in a tweet:
“Major decision protecting voting rights in Pa. Ballots received after Election Day will not be counted.”
By Jessica Calefati• October 29, 2020
Donald Trump stated on November 05, 2020 in a White House speech:
“If you count the legal votes, I easily win. If you count the illegal votes, they can try to steal the election from us.”
By Amy Sherman• November 6, 2020
Rudy Giuliani stated on November 11, 2020 in a tweet:
Says there were “600,000 plus unlawful votes in Philly and Pitt.”
By Jon Greenberg• November 13, 2020
Facebook posts stated on April 07, 2020 in a Facebook post:
“Conservative Supreme Court Justices vote remotely to deny Wisconsin voters their right to vote remotely.”
By Eric Litke• April 9, 2020
Facebook posts stated on December 02, 2020 in Facebook posts:
The USPS backdated 100K ballots so they could be counted illegally.
By Eric Litke• December 4, 2020
Instagram posts stated on March 08, 2024 in an Instagram post:
The 2020 election was the only time in American history that an election took more than 24 hours to count.
By Sofia Ahmed• March 14, 2024
Facebook posts stated on November 02, 2022 in a Facebook post:
“Pennsylvania is under a court order to count their ballots on election day and not after!!”
By Amy Sherman• November 3, 2022
Donald Trump stated on September 29, 2020 in a presidential debate:
Poll watchers in Philadelphia “were thrown out.”
By Jessica Calefati• October 1, 2020
Chris Jacobs stated on January 07, 2021 in a television interview:
“There were several states where outside actors dramatically changed the rules of the road, so to speak, two weeks out, one week out, on how elections would be run.”
By Jill Terreri Ramos• January 14, 2021
Karen Brinson Bell stated on February 25, 2021 in an appearance before a committee:
Says the NC elections board “did not change state law."
By Paul Specht• March 5, 2021
Facebook posts stated on June 26, 2020 in a Facebook post:
“The Supreme Court ruled today NO VOTING BY MAIL !!!”
By Chris Nichols• July 15, 2020
Instagram posts stated on November 08, 2022 in an Instagram post:
John Fetterman “is suing for the right to cheat and steal the election.”
By Amy Sherman• November 9, 2022
Donald Trump stated on November 01, 2022 in Instagram/Truth Social posts:
“So the Pennsylvania Supreme Court just ruled, in effect, that the 2020 presidential election was rigged.”
By Michael Majchrowicz• November 7, 2022
Donald Trump Jr. stated on August 15, 2020 in a tweet:
“8% of the votes cast” in Michigan’s Aug. 4 primary, 864 mailed ballots, came from dead voters. “NOTHING TO SEE HERE!!!”
By Clara Hendrickson• August 18, 2020
Tim Carpenter stated on December 11, 2020 in a news release:
“Wisconsin is one of the few states that doesn’t allow absentee ballots to be processed before Election Day.”
By Eric Litke• December 15, 2020
Donald Trump stated on June 19, 2023 in an interview on Fox News:
In 2020 the ballots that were counted "were fake ballots."
By Amy Sherman• June 22, 2023
Kevin Nicholson stated on January 28, 2022 in Twitter:
"The use of ballot drop boxes and ballot harvesting is illegal.”
By D.L. Davis• February 11, 2022
TikTok posts stated on June 01, 2023 in a TikTok:
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was “caught on tape saying he discarded 2.5 million mail-in ballots in Texas.”
By Sara Swann• June 6, 2023
Facebook posts stated on November 04, 2020 in a Facebook post:
“Wisconsin took a break, and when they returned, Biden coincidentally came back ahead by 100k.”
By Haley BeMiller• November 5, 2020

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By Bill McCarthy• November 5, 2020

Voting Counts: Michigan’s primary went smoothly, but revealed potential problems for November vote

By Clara Hendrickson• September 9, 2020

Steve Scalise’s flawed argument that states didn’t follow their own election laws

By Amy Sherman• October 15, 2021

Fact-checking false claims about Pennsylvania and the presidential election

By Jessica Calefati• December 6, 2020

Fact-checking Trump’s election fraud falsehoods in White House remarks

By Daniel Funke, Clara Hendrickson, Louis Jacobson, Noah Y. Kim, Ilana Strauss• November 6, 2020

Before election, Michigan Republicans blast Secretary of State Benson for her oversight of last one

By Clara Hendrickson• September 16, 2022

2020 election lawsuits and ballot access: what you need to know

By Amy Sherman• November 2, 2020

How to make sure your ballot is counted this fall

By Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman, Amy Sherman• August 17, 2020

Why the ‘stop the steal’ Arizona Republicans are wrong about 2020

By Maria Ramirez Uribe, Amy Sherman• August 3, 2022

Fact-checking ‘Succession’: What happens if a fire destroys 100,000 absentee ballots in Milwaukee?

By Loreben Tuquero• May 19, 2023

Donald Trump’s WSJ letter is wrong: Joe Biden won PA legitimately. Here’s how we know

By Louis Jacobson, Amy Sherman• October 29, 2021

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By Jeff Cercone• November 9, 2022

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By Amy Sherman• November 11, 2020

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By Louis Jacobson• November 7, 2020

Ask PolitiFact: Is it too late to mail in your ballot?

By Samantha Putterman• October 28, 2020

Iowa’s newest election laws, explained

By Lauren White• June 21, 2021

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By Amy Sherman• May 29, 2020

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By Amy Sherman• October 30, 2024

Absentee voters can still cast ballots by mail in Delaware

By Madison Czopek• October 13, 2022