Claims desk
Truth or ConspiracyDesk
Elections, polling, and institutional trust. The desk files claims about process, and leaves private lives alone.
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Contested · 35/278 votes
The claim is physical: ballots are diverted after they leave the voter. The public argument is mostly about procedure.
Claim. Large numbers of mail ballots are diverted or altered after they leave the voter and before they are counted.
186 votes
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Horse-race surveys miss. The stronger claim says the miss was the product, not the sample.
Claim. Major public opinion polls are routinely fabricated to manufacture a horse-race narrative rather than to measure opinion.
92 votes
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