A widely-shared Facebook post, recycling a familiar voter fraud rumor, claims that Georgia mailed out more ballots than the number of registered voters. The full post reads as follows: “Georgia Mailed Out 7 Million Ballots In 2020 Election When the State Only Had 5.6 Million Registered Voters.”
This is a false claim.
Georgia recorded a record number of registered voters with 7,638,898 registered voters in the 2020 election, per data from the Georgia Secretary of State’s office.
According to the U.S. Elections Project, using information from the Georgia Secretary of State’s office, Georgia had 1,782,580 mail-in ballot requests in the 2020 election. There were 1,320,154 mail-in ballots returned and accepted, with a return rate of 74.1%.
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Not this stuff again! Please send these people to Lucy's kiosk of psychiatric help. And give them a nickel!!
It's great to dunk on obviously wrong Facebook posts. But you guys should consider going after more consequential sources of misinformation such as the New York Times. It's as easy as just reading the original source that they cite to show how that they have misrepresented it and published fake news. See e.g., https://thefederalist.com/2021/08/02/nyt-lies-about-trump-again-with-claim-he-pushed-doj-to-declare-election-corrupt/#.YQf33WSdkpE.twitter