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Quick Take Facebook posts have repeated a false claim about a “one in a quadrillion” chance that President-elect Joe Biden received more votes than President Donald Trump in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Experts told us the claim misuses a questionable statistical analysis that made implausible assumptions about the 2020 election. Full Story A failed lawsuit seeking to have the U.S. Supreme Court invalidate election results in four battleground states that Biden won makes false claims about the improbability of Biden’s victory. At least one of those claims is now being ...

Fact-check: Does Wisconsin not allow absentee ballots to be counted before Election Day? Eric Litke, PolitiFact.com, Austin American-Statesman © Wisconsin Legislature State Sen. Tim Carpenter, D-Milwaukee, in the Wisconsin state legislature. [File photo] Tim Carpenter: Says “Wisconsin is one of the few states that doesn’t allow absentee ballots to be processed before Election Day.” PolitiFact's ruling: True Here's why: It took all day and then some for Milwaukee election officials to count their mountain of absentee ballots in the 2020 presidential election And thos...

PolitiFact's ruling: True Here's why: It took all day and then some for Milwaukee election officials to count their mountain of absentee ballots in the 2020 presidential election And those 170,000 votes proved decisive. When the ballots were added to the state total about 3:30 a.m. Nov. 4, Wisconsin swung from a lead for President Donald Trump to a lead for former Vice President Joe Biden. A later canvass and recount confirmed Biden won the state by about 21,000 votes. But the swing and timing sparked an avalanche of misinformation, with Trump and an array of other Republicans claiming there...