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Fact-checking Sidney Powell’s claim that 450,000 ballots in key states were marked only for Biden
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This omits the key context that undervoting, a practice where voters mark their choice for one race but skip making selections in other races down the ballot, is not a new phenomenon. It occurs in every election.
Former federal prosecutor Sidney Powell has been waging a war against the legitimacy of the 2020 election, appearing on
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Verifying the 450,000 figure
We weren’t able to verify the exact figures Bartiromo and Powell cited. We attempted to contact Powell about how she arrived at those numbers, but did not hear back.
But using the
New York Times elections data on Nov. 20, we did find that there were nearly 450,000 more votes cast for president in those five states than there were for the down-ballot U.S. House of Representatives races: 124,390 more votes in Pennsylvania; 117,458 more in Georgia; 31,123 more in Arizona; 115,717 more in Michigan; and 61,125 more in Wisconsin. We don’t have data showing that all those votes were cast only for Biden, though.
PolitiFact also reached out to top election officials in each of the states. The Michigan Secretary of State’s Office told us that the number is "easily disproven by looking at unofficial vote totals, either on our state website or individual county ones."
Arizona and Wisconsin officials both said they don’t have official statewide results yet, and are currently accepting canvass results from its respective counties.
Undervoting in American elections
There is nothing fraudulent about people voting for president or other offices at the top of the ballot and then skipping over offices further down the ballot, said Barry Burden, a political science professor and director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.