WaPo Fact Checker: Stefanik defends election falsehoods told on Jan. 6

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“In Georgia, there was unconstitutional overreach when the Secretary of State unilaterally gutted signature matching for absentee ballots and in essence eliminated voter verification required by state election law. In addition, more than 140,000 votes came from underage, deceased, and otherwise unauthorized voters — in Fulton County alone. And many individuals testified to not being able to meaningfully observe the counting of ballots.”
— Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), in a statement to the Albany Times-Union, Jan. 6, 2021

Stefanik has emerged as a potential replacement for Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) as the third-ranking member of the House Republican leadership. Cheney has repeatedly called out former president Donald Trump for his lie that he won the 2020 presidential election, causing angst in the Republican caucus.

Stefanik, by contrast, has regularly echoed Trump’s falsehoods. Our colleague Aaron Blake first spotted this claim, and it cries out for a fact check now that the lawmaker may soon be a senior leader in the House.

The whole statement is riddled with false claims, many of which we debunked previously, but we’re going to keep our focus on Georgia, as that state — which President Biden narrowly won — is run top-to-bottom by Republicans. So it leaves out any question of partisanship.

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