Nope! I'm afraid that was just another lie some right winger conjured up and spread to you all!
Over 3 million people applied to vote by mail for the general election in Pennsylvania
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Verdict: False
Over 3 million people requested mail ballots for the 2020 general election, the Pennsylvania governor’s office said in a press release. Data provided by the Pennsylvania Secretary of State’s office to the U.S. Elections Project shows that the number of mail ballots returned – over 2.6 million – has not exceeded the number requested in the state.
Fact Check:
The
image, which shows a screen grabbed tweet, alleges that Pennsylvania mailed out 1.8 million absentee ballots for the 2020 general election but ultimately counted 2.5 million of them. The Twitter user remarks, “I’m no genius, but I’m pretty sure **700,000** phantom votes is evidence of widespread FRAUD.”
In an
Oct. 27 press release, the Pennsylvania governor’s office said
over 3 million people applied to vote by mail for the general election. The
U.S. Elections Project reports that a total of over 2.6 million mail ballots in Pennsylvania were returned – fewer than the number of mail ballots requested in the state.
Over 1.9 million Democrats and nearly 785,000 Republicans requested mail ballots in Pennsylvania, as well as some 25,000 people with minor party registration and over 336,000 people with no party affiliation, according to
data provided to the U.S. Elections Project by the Pennsylvania Secretary of State’s office. The return rate for mail ballots was 87.7 percent among Democrats and 79.4 percent among Republicans, the
U.S. Election Project reported.
The number of mail-in ballots the post inaccurately claims were sent out during the general election appears to either come from the number of mail ballots requested in the general election by people
registered as Democrats or the number of mail ballots requested overall during the state’s
primary election in June.
(RELATED: Did RealClearPolitics Rescind Biden’s Win In Pennsylvania, Therefore Stripping Him Of His President-Elect Status?)
Over 1.8 million mail-in ballots were requested for the primary election, according to
data from Open Data Pennsylvania. During the primary election, over 1.4 million votes were cast via mail or absentee ballot, according to a
report from the Pennsylvania Department of State.
The “Pennsylvania election hearings” that the Instagram post mentions appears to be a reference to a
Republican-led state Senate committee hearing held in Gettysburg on Nov. 25. Rudy Giuliani, a former New York City mayor and President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, made a similar claim at the hearing, a
transcript shows, and so did Pennsylvania State Senator Doug Mastriano
on Twitter.
Pennsylvania certified its election results for president and vice president on Nov. 24,
The Associated Press reported. President-elect Joe Biden received over 3.4 million votes in Pennsylvania, while President Donald Trump received over 3.3 million votes and Libertarian candidate Jo Jorgensen received over 79,000, according to a
Nov. 24 press release from the Pennsylvania government.
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'Incorrect in multiple ways'
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Verdict: False
Historical voter registration statistics from the Georgia Secretary of State’s office show the state had over 7.6 million registered voters for the 2020 general election. Over 1.7 million absentee ballots were requested in the state for the November election, according to the U.S. Elections Project.
Fact Check:
Georgia, which President Joe Biden
won by about 12,000 votes, has been the subject of
multiple false claims related to the 2020 election on social media.
This particular Facebook post incorrectly alleges, “Georgia Mailed Out 7 Million Ballots in 2020 Election When the State Only Had 5.6 Million Registered Voters.”
The number of absentee ballots the post inaccurately claims were sent out during the November election appears to come from the number of absentee ballot request forms sent out in Georgia ahead of the June primary elections. Absentee ballot request forms, which are different from absentee ballots, were mailed out to 6.9 million active registered Georgia voters for the primaries, according to the
Atlanta Journal-Constitution and radio station
WABE.
Georgia had over 7.6 million registered voters for the 2020 general election, according to
Georgia Secretary of State’s office historical voter registration statistics updated in March 2021. The
U.S. Elections Project reports that over 1.7 million absentee ballots were requested across Georgia for the November election. In the state’s presidential election, over 1.3 million absentee by-mail ballots were cast,
election results by vote type from the Georgia Secretary of State’s office show.
The Georgia Secretary of State’s office told Check Your Fact in an emailed statement that the Facebook post was “incorrect in multiple ways,” noting that counties – not the state – are charged with sending out absentee ballots and that counties “only send one to an eligible voter who requested one.”
“So, the requests could not exceed the number of registered voters,” the statement from the Georgia Secretary of State’s office explained. “And ballots that are returned to counties are also checked to make sure the voter requested it; meaning a ballot without a request would be rejected.”
(RELATED: Does Georgia’s New Election Law Make It Illegal For A Grandchild To Drop Off A Grandparent’s Absentee Ballot?)
The Georgia Secretary of State’s office also confirmed the “number of absentee ballots cast in the general election was 1.3 million,” adding that “all of them were verified for the voter’s identity and eligibility, making sure they did request the ballot and that they had not already voted.”
It’s possible that the Facebook post’s inaccurate claim about absentee ballots and registered voters originated from a July 22 Gateway Pundit article that
originally alleged Georgia sent out 7 million absentee ballots when the state only had 5.6 million registered voters. The article has
since been updated to reflect that there were over 7 million registered voters and that 1.3 million absentee ballots were counted during the 2020 election.
“Update – originally we reported only
5.4 million voters in Georgia were registered based on a report. However, per a reader, we determined that the
Secretary of State’s website shows a little more than 7 million registered voters in the state,” reads the update.
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I guess the question then is what do YOU believe is responsible, since gasoline and about everything else started turning to shit almost to the day he took office! I remember even the stock market took a big fall that day. It jumped way up the first day Trump was in office.
