15)Trump falsely claims Nevada and Arizona election officials ‘want more time to cheat’

Election results take time to count. The number of mail-in ballots that need processing, the margins of the contests and the state’s laws for counting the votes all influence when results are reported.
In Nevada, mail-in ballots can be received until Nov. 12 as long as they are postmarked before Election Day. Arizona’s most populous county had a record number of mail ballots dropped off on Election Day. All of these ballots need processing, and that takes time.

Trump’s claim lacks evidence and ignores established legal procedures for vote counting. His claim is wrong and ridiculous. We rate it Pants on Fire!



16)More than 1.13 million votes were counted within 24 hours of Election Day, not just 62,000

While there was an update that included 62,000 ballots, that was one of three updates after the initial release of results. In the 24 hours after the initial release, the county had included over 273,000 additional ballots in its tally.

We rate this claim False.



17)Trump claimed that in Detroit, "People are showing up to Vote only to be told, ‘sorry, you have already voted.’"

Election officials said a computer glitch wrongly signaled that ballots about to be given to some Detroit voters at the polls had already been issued as absentee. The computer error did not mean the voters themselves had already cast absentee ballots.

Election officials said poll workers were able to work around the errors, and all eligible voters were able to cast their ballots.

Detroit voters were not told at polls that they had already voted

We rate Trump’s claim False.


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