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  • Fact Check: Downticks In Election Graphs Do NOT Show 'Election Crime In Real Time' In Pennsylvania -- Those Were Typos By County Board of Elections

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    Do large downticks in cumulative voting graphs for the 2022 Pennsylvania Senate and governor's races prove election fraud? No, that's not true: Edison Research, which supplies election data to news organization websites, told Lead Stories that the downticks shown by My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell on social media and on his Frank Speech website -- totaling tens of thousands of…

    • Nov 14, 2022
    • by: Ed Payne
    Fact Check: Downticks In Election Graphs Do NOT Show 'Election Crime In Real Time' In Pennsylvania -- Those Were Typos By County Board of Elections Fact Check: Downticks In Election Graphs Do NOT Show 'Election Crime In Real Time' In Pennsylvania -- Those Were Typos By County Board of Elections Clerical Error
  • Fact Check: Mike Lindell's 2022 Midterm Election Graphs Do NOT Prove Races Were Stolen

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    Do midterm election graphs of unofficial, private election tallies used by My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell on social media and on his Frank Speech website prove 2022 elections were stolen? No, that's not true: Spikes in the vote counts are a normal part of clean elections. A Lindell ally said he scraped and graphed data that Edison Research supplies to…

    • Nov 9, 2022
    • by: Ed Payne
    Fact Check: Mike Lindell's 2022 Midterm Election Graphs Do NOT Prove Races Were Stolen Nothing Weird
  • Fact Check: Differences Between Private Election Data Stream And Official Count Do NOT Prove 'Something Is Very Wrong' With 2020 Election Results

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    Do differences between an unofficial election data stream provided by Edison Research and official sources prove "Something Is Very Wrong" with the 2020 election results? No, that's not true: There is no evidence that anything is wrong with the official data even if there were problems with the privately supplied data results from Edison, which delivers unofficial vote tallies to…

    • Jul 19, 2022
    • by: Ed Payne
    Fact Check: Differences Between Private Election Data Stream And Official Count Do NOT Prove 'Something Is Very Wrong' With 2020 Election Results Data ≠ Official
  • Fact Check: 2019 News Clip Does NOT Show Vote Fraud In Kentucky Gov Race -- Typo Caused Numbers Discrepancy, Data Agency Says

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    Does this clip show election fraud happening on live television? No, that's not true: Edison Research, the sole provider of Election Day data to the National Election Pool, which provides numbers to news organizations, told Lead Stories the vote change cited in the post was due to a typo in Henderson County, Kentucky. The error was caught and corrected within…

    • Jul 18, 2022
    • by: Marlo Lee
    Fact Check: 2019 News Clip Does NOT Show Vote Fraud In Kentucky Gov Race -- Typo Caused Numbers Discrepancy, Data Agency Says Numbers Typo
  • Fact Check: Private Election Data Stream Does NOT Prove GOP Primary Stolen From Colorado 'Big Lie' Purveyor Tina Peters

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    Does an election night correction made to a private company's Colorado vote tallies prove the primary election was manipulated by dark forces? No, that's not true: There is no evidence the official results "stole" votes from Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters to increase the total for another GOP secretary of state candidate during the June 28, 2021, primary election in…

    • Jul 15, 2022
    • by: Dean Miller
    Fact Check: Private Election Data Stream Does NOT Prove GOP Primary Stolen From Colorado 'Big Lie' Purveyor Tina Peters Not Official Tally
  • Fact Check: 351,709 Votes Cast To Recall California Governor Newsom Did NOT Vanish -- A Data Entry Error Was Corrected

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    Did 351,709 votes that had been cast to recall California Gov. Gavin Newsom mysteriously vanish during a live CNN broadcast of the California election night results when about half of the votes had been counted? No, that's not true: There was a data entry error made by a staffer of Edison Research Polling, which falsely inflated the count of the…

    • Sep 15, 2021
    • by: Sarah Thompson
    Fact Check: 351,709 Votes Cast To Recall California Governor Newsom Did NOT Vanish -- A Data Entry Error Was Corrected Typo ≠ Theft
  • Fact Check: 'Your Wake Up Call' Film Does NOT Back Extraordinary Claims Of Election Hack, Chinese Control, With Commensurately Solid Evidence

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    Was the fifth Mike Lindell election fraud video correct in claiming a major American voting machine company is controlled by Chinese Communist Party investors and that voting machines used in the 2020 election were hacked via the internet? No, the claims were made without accompanying evidence. Federal banking and finance forms fall well short of supporting the claim that Dominion…

    • Aug 12, 2021
    • by: Dean Miller
    Fact Check: 'Your Wake Up Call' Film Does NOT Back Extraordinary Claims Of Election Hack, Chinese Control, With Commensurately Solid Evidence W/out Sources
  • Fact Check: 32,000 Votes Did NOT 'Disappear' From U.S. Senate Candidate Perdue Live On CNN And ABC -- A Typo Was Corrected

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    Did 32,000 votes "disappear" from Georgia Senate runoff candidate David Perdue live on CNN and ABC? No, that's not true: Video from January 5, 2021, of the coverage of the runoff Senate races in Georgia showed the vote tally for David Perdue changing by 32,400 and claims were made that this was election fraud. Edison Research told Lead Stories the…

    • Jan 6, 2021
    • by: Alexis Tereszcuk
    Fact Check: 32,000 Votes Did NOT 'Disappear' From U.S. Senate Candidate Perdue Live On CNN And ABC -- A Typo Was Corrected Typo Not Theft
  • Fact Check: New York Times Election Report Did NOT Reveal 104,984 Stolen Votes in Ga, 347,768 in PA -- Also NOT Published In "European paper"

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    Did a "New York Times Election Report" reveal 104,984 Stolen Votes in Georgia and 347,768 in Pennsylvania? And was this report published by a "European paper" because the rest of the world gets different news? No, that's not true: the headline "New York Times Election Report Reveals 104,984 Stolen Votes in Ga, 347,768 in PA" appeared in the Central City…

    • Jan 3, 2021
    • by: Maarten Schenk
    Fact Check: New York Times Election Report Did NOT Reveal 104,984 Stolen Votes in Ga, 347,768 in PA -- Also NOT Published In "European paper" Rounding Error
  • Fact Check: Dominion Was NOT 'Caught Red Handed Stealing Votes on Live TV'

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    Was Dominion Voting Systems "caught red handed stealing votes on live TV"? No, that's not true: A video claiming to show an unexplained vote change taking votes away from Donald Trump and giving the exact same number to Joe Biden on election night is false for two reasons. The numbers were "transposed in the data field that went to CNN…

    • Nov 24, 2020
    • by: Alexis Tereszcuk
    Fact Check: Dominion Was NOT 'Caught Red Handed Stealing Votes on Live TV' Doubly Wrong
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