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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

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

Deborah Ross stated on January 25, 2024 in a press conference:

“North Carolina has the longest voting period in the country … and we have the most ways of voting.”

By Paul Specht• February 28, 2024

Facebook posts stated on September 28, 2020 in Facebook post:

“A federal judge just ordered Wisconsin must have all ballots counted by 8 p.m. on the day of the election.”

By Laura Schulte• September 30, 2020

Facebook posts stated on January 31, 2022 in a Facebook post:

“Pennsylvania had 2.6 million mail in votes that the court of appeals of PA held to be unconstitutional. Umm that alone means Biden lost PA.”

By Amy Sherman• February 3, 2022

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

Facebook posts stated on November 02, 2020 in a Facebook post:

Pennsylvania officials are “attempting to silence voters” by sending them letters that say they’ve been exposed to COVID-19 and “must remain quarantined and not vote in person on Election Day.”

By Ciara O'Rourke• November 2, 2020

Mitt Romney stated on August 04, 2012 in a press statement:

President Obama’s lawsuit claims it is unconstitutional for Ohio to allow servicemen and women extended early voting privileges during the state’s early voting period.

By Sabrina Eaton• August 6, 2012

Cindi Duchow stated on November 09, 2023 in Wisconsin Assembly:

"Unfortunately during COVID, the clerks in Madison and Milwaukee told their constituents that they were actually indefinitely confined and did not have to come and vote, which was incorrect."

By D.L. Davis• January 26, 2024

Rick Scott stated on August 01, 2014 in a press statement:

"Attorney General Eric Holder’s own Justice Department precleared the voting changes in the 2011 law" about early voting in Florida.

By Amy Sherman• August 4, 2014

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

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

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

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

Robin Vos stated on July 08, 2022 in Twitter:

“The legislature has long maintained that the law never allowed these illegal drop boxes.”

By Madeline Heim• July 29, 2022

Nikki Haley stated on June 07, 2022 in a Facebook post:

Americans aren’t required to show IDs to vote.

By Jeff Cercone• June 13, 2022

Occupy Democrats stated on October 15, 2018 in a post on Facebook:

"The Postal Service only gives tribal residents PO boxes. The Republican-controlled Supreme Court just said it’s totally okay for North Dakota to demand that ONLY residents with street addresses can vote. Native Americans were the last to get the right to vote, and now they are the first to lose it."

By Tessa Weinberg• October 23, 2018

Kevin Cramer stated on October 18, 2018 in North Dakota Senate debate:

"The standard of voting in North Dakota is the easiest in the country."

By Manuela Tobias• October 23, 2018

Limberbutt McCubbins stated on July 09, 2015 in comments on his website.:

"Limberbutt McCubbins (a five-year-old cat) is a candidate" in the 2016 presidential election.

By Linda Qiu• July 14, 2015

Josh Hawley stated on January 06, 2021 in a U.S. Senate speech:

“Last year, Pennsylvania elected officials passed a whole new law that allows universal mail-in balloting, and did it irregardless of what the Pennsylvania Constitution said.”

By Amy Sherman• January 8, 2021

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