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Donald Trump continued his baseless claims about election fraud with a statement about the GOP-commissioned audit of results in Maricopa County, Ariz. "The entire Database of Maricopa County in Arizona has been DELETED!" his statement said.
PolitiFact's ruling: False Here's why: On May 15, 6½ months after losing the presidential election to Joe Biden, Donald Trump continued his baseless claims about election fraud with a statement about the GOP-commissioned audit of results in Maricopa County, Ariz. "The entire Database of Maricopa County in Arizona has been DELETED!" the statement said. Trump called the alleged deletion "illegal," then went on to make several other claims of "election crime" and "presidential election fraud." Trump’s statement didn’t describe the database he referred to, and his office did not reply to...
The bitter Capitol fight over Republican efforts to toughen voter fraud laws has cast a brighter spotlight on Crystal Mason, a Tarrant County woman who was sentenced to five years in prison for illegally casting a ballot that wasn't even counted in 2016. Democrats and civil rights groups have embraced Mason's case as a cautionary tale on overcriminalizing election matters, and state Rep. John Bucy III, D-Austin, successfully amended a major GOP voting measure by invoking her name during a recent late-night House debate. The added attention comes at a critical time for Mason. The state's high...
PolitiFact's ruling: Pants on Fire Here's why: Attacks on Senate Democrats’ latest attempt to rewrite the nation’s voting laws have grown fierce, and perhaps no other Republican has condemned the Democratic measure quite like U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas. To Cruz, the For the People Act, or S 1, is “the most radical legislation the Senate has considered” since Cruz entered office in 2013, and it’s “the most dangerous legislation pending before the U.S. Congress,” he said during a Tuesday morning meeting of the Senate Rules Committee. Then, invoking a term many ...