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X posts stated on October 9, 2025 in a post on X:

“If you vote no on Prop 50 to stop the redistricting, it shows through the envelope,” making it easy for Democrats to cheat.

By Maria Ramirez Uribe • October 14, 2025

Instagram posts stated on October 27, 2022 in a video:

“If you use the US Postal Service certified mail or registered mail, they can do anything they want with those ballots." They “can burn your mail and they won't get in any trouble.”

By Andy Nguyen • October 31, 2022

Viral image stated on August 8, 2022 in a Facebook post:

“Pennsylvania sent out 1,823,148 mail-in ballots. They got back 2,589,242.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • August 11, 2022

Stacey Abrams stated on January 31, 2022 in an interview on CNN:

“In Texas, because of the laws they passed, a 95-year-old World War II veteran is being denied the right to vote by mail because he can't produce a registration number he got back in the 1950s.”

By Amy Sherman • February 3, 2022

Viral image stated on August 3, 2021 in an Instagram post:

“Due to the new ‘delta variant’ California will be mailing in ballots for recall election.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • August 6, 2021

Chip Roy stated on July 29, 2021 in a hearing:

A quorum-breaking Texas Democrat said in 2007 that mail-in ballot fraud “is the greatest source of voter fraud in this state.”

By Brandon Mulder • August 6, 2021

Kevin Sorbo stated on February 15, 2021 in a tweet:

“So California is requiring signature verification for Gavin Newsom’s recall, but didn’t require it for the mail in ballots.”

By Bill McCarthy, Chris Nichols • February 16, 2021

Bloggers stated on November 4, 2020 in a Facebook post:

“USPS failed to deliver 27% of mail-in ballots in South Florida”

By Jon Greenberg • November 5, 2020

Viral image stated on November 4, 2020 in a Facebook post:

More mail-in ballots were counted in Lancaster County, Pa., than were returned.

By Ciara O'Rourke • November 5, 2020

Facebook posts stated on July 19, 2020 in a Facebook post:

“Two mail in ballots in PA (were) sent to the same person with their names on both a week and a half apart.”

By Samantha Putterman • August 28, 2020

Facebook posts stated on July 24, 2020 in social media posts:

Social media posts claim the U.S. Postal Service “says you should give mail in ballots at least 14 days roundtrip. So, if you plan to vote by mail, election day isn’t November 3. It’s October 20th.”

By Chris Nichols • July 28, 2020

Donald Trump stated on May 26, 2020 in a tweet:

California Gov. Gavin Newsom “is sending Ballots to millions of people, anyone living in the state, no matter who they are or how they got there, will get one" and the election is "Rigged."

By Chris Nichols • May 26, 2020

Lone Star Project stated on July 14, 2013 in a blog post.:

Says Greg Abbott "converted over $1 million in federal grant money intended for use to prosecute online sexual predators and other cyber crimes and instead used it to harass and prosecute senior citizens who were assisting other senior citizens in applying for mail-in ballots."

By W. Gardner Selby • August 2, 2013

Donald Trump stated on March 23, 2026 in remarks at a Memphis event:

"Mail-in voting means mail-in cheating.”

By Amy Sherman, Zoe Weyand • March 25, 2026

Donald Trump stated on August 18, 2025 in remarks at the White House:

With voting machines, "They say we're going to have the results in two weeks. With paper ballots, you have the results that night."

By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • August 19, 2025

Donald Trump stated on August 18, 2025 in a Truth Social post:

“We are now the only country in the world that uses mail-in voting.”

By Amy Sherman • August 18, 2025

Instagram posts stated on November 18, 2024 in an Instagram post:

"Ballot dumps" in Pennsylvania, California, North Carolina, Alaska and Wisconsin show election officials are improperly “flipping" down-ballot seats for Democrats.

By Caleb McCullough • November 21, 2024

Threads posts stated on November 5, 2024 in a post:

“In Nevada, the GOP is succeeding in throwing out the votes of thousands of young people.”

By Sara Swann • November 8, 2024

X posts stated on October 27, 2024 in a post on X:

“The United States Postal Service recently changed the delivery method of absentee mail-in ballots” to hide “the evidence of absentee mail-in ballot fraud.”

By Madison Czopek • November 4, 2024

Facebook posts stated on November 3, 2024 in a Facebook post:

If a ballot has a small dot in the box for Vice President Kamala Harris, “any other box filled in, will be void.”

By Caleb McCullough • November 4, 2024

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