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Statement: Under Florida's voting law, a requirement to turn in voter registrations within 48 hours "makes it impossible to meet the deadline if you're working right to the end of the week.
Speaker: chris matthews
About the speaker: Chris Matthews is the host of the MSNBC show Hardball. Previously, Matthews served on the staffs of congressional Democrats and worked as a speechwriter for President Jimmy Carter. He also worked as chief of staff to former House Speaker Tip O'Neil.
Date: June 4, 2012
Location: florida
Topics: elections;pundits;tampa bay 10 news
Context: comments on MSNBC's "Hardball"
Fact-check justification: That’s not correct. The law factored in weekends and holidays and gave voter registration groups until the next business day. We rate Matthews’  . PolitiFact Florida is partnering with 10 News for the 2012 election. View the video version of this fact-check here .
Statement: Says shredded ballots were found in Dell boxes in Georgia
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: January 5, 2021
Location: georgia
Topics: elections;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post shares a screenshot of a viral tweet that claimed to find shredded ballots in boxes in Georgia. This is bogus. Shredding ballots is a federal crime and election officials in the state rejected the . Representatives from Fulton County, which was identified as the location where the photo was taken, said the shreds of paper are from the envelopes that absentee ballots come in. !
Statement: Video shows child shouting an expletive at Jill Biden.
Speaker: viral image
About the speaker: Graphics, pictures and charts shared on social media give chain emails a run for their money when it comes to spreading too-good-to-be-true claims all over the Internet. A common form is is the "Internet macro," which uses an easily recognized and repurposed image (called a meme) wth superimposed text to make a funny but political argument. Sometimes these images are passed across social networks like Facebook, Twitter and Reddit so widely that the original source is nearly impossible to determine.
Date: November 30, 2021
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: (Read more about our partnership with Facebook .) As Reuters reported , the audio of the child screaming an expletive comes from another video that has been online for at least a few years, before the Biden administration started. The title of that video, posted here on YouTube in 2019, says: "Kid tells teacher to shut up." Other people can be seen reacting to the outburst, both laughing and chastising the child.   We rate claims that this was shouted during Biden’s book reading !
Statement: We jumped 11 places since beginning this year in terms of being job-friendly.
Speaker: john kasich
About the speaker: John Kasich is the governor of Ohio. A Republican and a former congressman, he defeated Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland in 2010 and was reelected in 2014. He ran for president in 2016.
Date: July 12, 2011
Location: ohio
Topics: economy
Context: an interview on Fox News
Fact-check justification: And some of the tax changes that boosted the state were put in place by previous administrations. Kasich was trying to show progress in Ohio, selling both the state and his stewardship. In his , he was citing only one study. On that study his statement was accurate, but these other points help clarify the picture. On the -O-Meter, that gets a rating of .
Statement: Says Mitt Romney's comments indicated he would not have pursued Osama bin Laden.
Speaker: barack obama
About the speaker: Barack Obama is the former president of the United States. Obama also served as a U.S. senator from Illinois. He was born in 1961 in Hawaii, where his parents met as students at the University of Hawaii. Obama's father is from Kenya and his mother is from Kansas. He graduated from Columbia University and received his law degree from Harvard Law School. Obama previously served in the Illinois state Senate and was an instructor at the University of Chicago Law School. He and his wife, Michelle, have two daughters, Malia and Sasha.
Date: April 27, 2012
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography;message machine 2012;terrorism
Context: a Web ad
Fact-check justification: An Obama campaign ad suggested Mitt Romney wouldn’t have agressively pursued Osama bin Laden by citing Romney's statement that, "It's not worth moving heaven and earth and spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person." The Obama campaign is right that Romney used those words, but by cherry-picking them, it glosses over comments describing his broader approach. Romney said he wanted to pursue all of al-Qaida, not just its leaders. The reporter quoting him in April 2007 said he instead "endorsed a broader strategy to defeat the Islamic jihad movement." And he said just over a week later that he would "get Osama bin Laden and track him wherever he has to go, and make sure he pays for the outrage he exacted upon America … he is going to pay, and he will die." Still, Romney was clear later that summer that he would prefer to participate with allies rather than take unilateral action to kill terrorists as Obama supported — and later did. The ad takes Romney’s words out of context, but gets part of the story right. We rate it .
Statement: We cut property taxes for seniors and our middle class.
Speaker: charlie crist
About the speaker: Charlie Crist lost the race for Florida governor as the Democratic candidate in 2022. He served as a U.S. congressman from St. Petersburg since 2017 and resigned Aug. 31, 2022 to focus on his campaign.  As a Republican, Crist served as governor from 2007 to 2011. Crist left the Republican Party in 2010 to mount a campaign for the U.S. Senate as an independent. Crist lost the race to Marco Rubio. In 2012, he endorsed President Barack Obama and announced that he had registered as a Democrat. He lost his race as a Democratic candidate for governor in 2014.
Date: July 7, 2014
Location: florida
Topics: taxes
Context: campaign commercial
Fact-check justification: Crist said, "we cut property taxes for seniors and our middle class." Crist supported increased homestead exemptions for seniors, although only those considered low income. He also supported tax cuts for property owning residents, but not just an undefined middle class. Voters decided on both issues with constitutional amendments, and the state Legislature did its part by passing bills that Crist signed. Crist’s  doesn’t specify the nuances, but property tax cuts for groups falling under those umbrellas did happen during his term. We rate the statement .
Statement: Says Joe Biden's Democratic National Convention speech "had to be taped in segments, and the segments had to be edited together.
Speaker: rush limbaugh
About the speaker: Rush Limbaugh is a conservative radio talk show host. His website describes him as "America's Truth Detector; the Doctor of Democracy; the Most Dangerous Man in America; the All-Knowing, All-Sensing, All-Everything Maha Rushie; defender of motherhood, protector of fatherhood and an all-around good guy."
Date: August 21, 2020
Topics: pundits;facebook fact-checks;punditfact
Context: a radio segment
Fact-check justification: Limbaugh said Biden’s convention speech "had to be taped in segments, and the segments had to be edited together." The nearly 25-minute speech was continuous. It was carried live on TV stations, streamed live online and delivered live for a room of reporters, camera crews, campaign staffers and Secret Service agents in Wilmington. Multiple reporters shared photos from inside the venue. We rate Limbaugh’s  !
Statement: Says Sen. Luther Olsen, his recall opponent, supported the sale of state-owned power plants "not to the highest bidder, but to the biggest donors" with no oversight.
Speaker: fred clark
About the speaker: Democrat Fred Clark is a member of the Wisconsin state Assembly, representing the 42nd District near Baraboo. He was elected in 2008. He ran unsuccessfully against Republican state Sen. Luther Olsen in an August 2011 recall election.
Date: July 25, 2011
Location: wisconsin
Topics: energy;state budget
Context: a television ad
Fact-check justification: The ad’s  starts off OK by saying Olsen supported a no-bid approach. So there’s an element of  in the . But some critical facts are ignored and  missing on part of the . Olsen backed legislative oversight of any sale, and there is no  that his vote was "supporting" a sale to the flashiest campaign donor. We rate Clark’s  against Olsen as .
Statement: Video footage from Georgia shows suitcases filled with ballots pulled from under a table and illegally counted after election observers were told to leave.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: December 3, 2020
Location: georgia
Topics: elections;facebook fact-checks
Context: Facebook posts
Fact-check justification: Social media posts  that video from Georgia shows suitcases filled with ballots pulled from under a table and illegally counted after election observers were told to leave. That’s . State officials have said there was no suitcase, no instruction to leave, and no illegal counting of ballots. The video does not prove that the bins shown contained fraudulent ballots, either. We rate these Facebook posts . RELATED: Georgia election worker falsely accused of discarding ballot is in hiding, official says
Statement: If the FAA is worried about what the 5G deployment will do to the planes, what do you think it will do to our bodies?
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: January 19, 2022
Topics: public health;technology;facebook fact-checks
Context: a post
Fact-check justification: The post inaccurately implies that the FAA’s concerns about radio interference are also applicable to human health. That’s not the case. The concern about 5G is that it could cause wireless interference with instruments onboard airplanes, potentially imperiling safety. Current  does not support the  that 5G technology is a health hazard. We rate this  .
Statement: NASA will pay you $100,000 to stay in bed for 60 days!
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: September 3, 2017
Topics: fake news;punditfact
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: A recent blog post claims "NASA will pay you $100,000 to stay in bed for 60 days!" NASA does have a program that pays volunteers to participate in bed rest studies, where one lies down for a long period of time. The point is to allow scientists to understand how the body might be affected by space travel. But the blog post grossly  the amount of money one would receive for such a task. In the past, rather than being paid $100,000 for 60 days of lying down, volunteers have been paid $18,000 for 70 days of their time. We rate this statement .
Statement: U.S. is "really not doing (COVID-19) reporting right" because deaths are being improperly counted and hospitals have an "incentive" to pad stats.
Speaker: donald trump
About the speaker: Donald Trump is the former president of the United States. He was elected the 45th president of the United States on Nov. 8, 2016.  He has been a real estate developer, entrepreneur and host of the NBC reality show, "The Apprentice." Trump's statements were awarded PolitiFact's 2015, 2017 and 2019 Lie of the Year. In November 2022, he announced he would run for president in 2024.
Date: October 24, 2020
Location: wisconsin
Topics: elections;coronavirus
Context: Speech
Fact-check justification: Trump said at a Waukesha rally the U.S. is "really not doing (COVID-19) reporting right" because deaths are being improperly counted and hospitals have an "incentive" to pad stats. This is  on every point. The U.S. is following the same COVID-19 death reporting guidelines as nearly every other country, which come from the World Health Organization. Under those guidelines, someone with heart disease, cancer or any other disease whose death is hastened by COVID-19 would be listed as COVID-19 death. And while COVID-19 patients do generate slightly higher payments to hospitals if they’re covered by Medicare — due to a bill Trump himself signed — there’s no  this has led to any widespread fraud or  reporting as Trump implies. We rate this  .
Statement: Under the Hate Crimes bill, "any pastor, preacher, priest, rabbi or imam who gives a sermon out of their moral traditions about sexual practices could be found guilty of a federal crime.
Speaker: john kline
About the speaker: U.S. Rep. John Kline is a U.S. Congressman from Minnesota.
Date: October 8, 2009
Location: national
Topics: crime
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: "I don't see how anyone who has read the language of the legislation could come to that conclusion," Moulton said. We certainly think it's fair for Republicans to criticize the decision to add this controversial hate crime provision to a bill that funds the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. But we also think it's  for opponents of the bill to again raise the scare tactic that it might lead to the prosecution of preachers who condemn homosexuality from the pulpit. The language of the bill makes abundantly clear that it would not. And we rule Kline's statement .
Statement: 500 National Guardsmen being called to Kenosha ahead of the Rittenhouse verdict. Had they done this in the first place, there wouldn't have been a trial.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: November 15, 2021
Location: wisconsin
Topics: corrections and updates;facebook fact-checks;guns
Context: a post on Facebook
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post says, "500 National Guardsmen being called to Kenosha ahead of the Rittenhouse verdict. Had they done this in the first place, there wouldn’t have been a trial."  The  implies that the National Guard was not present in Kenosha when Rittenhouse shot three people, two of them fatally.  The National Guard was activated and arrived in Kenosha on Aug. 24, 2020. The Rittenhouse shooting happened the following day, Aug. 25, 2020. We rate this  .  CORRECTION,  Nov. 22, 2021:  We corrected an  description of how George Floyd was killed by a police officer.
Statement: Says $500 billion in Medicare cuts are coming.
Speaker: lois kolkhorst
About the speaker: Lois Kolkhorst of Brenham, a former Texas House member, won election to the Texas Senate in December 2014.  She's formerly the chairwoman of the House Committee on Public Health. Her family runs Kolkhorst Petroleum in Navasota, according to biographical information on her campaign website.
Date: June 15, 2011
Location: texas
Topics: medicare
Context: House floor remarks
Fact-check justification: The referenced $500 billion figure depends on a slowing in the pace of Medicare cost increases. That’s not the same as cutting back. Medicare spending will still grow; benefits will expand. Still, there remains the prospect of some providers quitting Medicare, possibly making it harder for patients to get care. Kolkhorst’s statement has an element of , making it .
Statement: Under the House health care bill, Medicaid spending "actually goes up 20 percent over the next 10 years.
Speaker: newt gingrich
About the speaker: Newt Gingrich is a political adviser and author. A former Georgia congressman, Gingrich served as Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999. Gingrich sought the GOP nomination for president in 2012.
Date: June 27, 2017
Topics: health care;medicaid;punditfact
Context: an appearance on 'Fox & Friends'
Fact-check justification: Gingrich said under the House health care bill, Medicaid spending "actually goes up 20 percent over the next 10 years." By any CBO projection and under any proposed legislation, Medicaid spending will increase over the next decade — because health care costs are increasing. The House health care bill limits that increase to 20 percent, while maintaing the status quo requires a 60 percent increase, according to the CBO. Both the bills in the House and the Senate limit the growth of spending. The statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details. We rate it .
Statement: After the attack on a U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, "the ambassador's body was dragged through the street.
Speaker: laura ingraham
About the speaker: Laura Ingraham is a conservative broadcaster and commentator. On April 13, 2014, she was named an ABC News contributor.
Date: May 4, 2014
Topics: foreign policy;terrorism;punditfact
Context: a broadcast of ABC's "This Week"
Fact-check justification:   Ingraham said that the body of Ambassador Stevens was dragged through the street. We reached out to Ingraham but did not hear back. After reading three government reports and independent press accounts, we find that Stevens, overcome by smoke from the fire, was brought to a Libyan hospital where efforts to revive him failed. To be dragged through the streets implies disrespect. There are no reports of public abuse of his body.  This  was debunked long ago and the  has been widely available. We rate Ingraham's  .
Statement: Nationally, they predict prison populations on the basis of third-grade achievement.
Speaker: toni preckwinkle
About the speaker: Preckwinkle is the Cook County Board President and also leads the Cook County Democratic Party. She is currently running for mayor of Chicago.
Date: March 19, 2019
Location: illinois
Topics: criminal justice;education
Context: a debate
Fact-check justification: Preckwinkle said, "Nationally, they predict prison populations on the basis of third-grade achievement." That’s a riff on a well-worn and startling urban legend that has been debunked repeatedly by PolitiFact and other news outlets over the years. It’s not  in Illinois and we could find no credible  that suggested it was  elsewhere. We rate it .   — The statement is not accurate. Click here  for more  on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: We rank below Ethiopia, I'm told, in terms of our exports per capita, well below any of the other developed countries we trade with, and well below China and (South) Korea.
Speaker: rob portman
About the speaker: Rob Portman was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2010. He is a former Republican congressman who also was a U.S. trade representative and director of the Office of Management and Budget under President George H.W. Bush.
Date: July 19, 2011
Location: ohio
Topics: economy;foreign policy;trade
Context: a television interview
Fact-check justification: So where does that leave us? Portman's underlying point remains that U.S. exports lag behind other countries. Yet even allowing that he misspoke on the terms for his comparison, he still is off point on one of his examples. His statement is partially accurate, but sorting it out requires knowing some important details. On the -O-Meter, that makes it .
Statement: Homelessness has skyrocketed across California. We have the nation's highest homelessness rate and the nation's highest homeless population.
Speaker: travis allen
About the speaker: Travis Allen is a Republican and a member of the California State Assembly, representing the Orange County area. He is a 2018 candidate for California governor.
Date: March 8, 2018
Location: california
Topics: homeless;housing;states;the 2018 california governor's race
Fact-check justification: Candidate for governor and state lawmaker Travis Allen recently claimed homelessness has "skyrocketed" in California and that the state has "the nation’s highest homelessness rate and the nation’s highest homeless population." A December 2017 report by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is considered the authority on state-by-state homeless counts, and shows Allen got two of his three points correct. California’s homeless numbers jumped nearly 14 percent in 2017 as nationwide levels remained nearly flat, giving credence to his first point. Meanwhile, the report showed two other states, Hawaii and New York, have a higher per capita homeless rate than California’s. Finally, it shows California, indeed, has the highest total homeless population at 134,278, far more than second place New York. Looking at Allen’s statement in sum, he was on the mark twice and only slightly strayed from the facts on the per capita . For that reason, we rate his overall statement .   – The statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information. Click here for  more  on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check. UPDATE: After publication, we received an email from a spokeswoman for Travis Allen. To support the statement, she cited an Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee Analysis of AB 2161 showing "California experienced the largest increase in the number of residents experiencing homelessness – over 16,000 individuals" from 2016 to 2017.
Statement: Eighty-five percent of government's running right now. Only 15 percent of government spending is shut down.
Speaker: rand paul
About the speaker: Rand Paul, a U.S. senator from Kentucky elected in 2010. He ran for president in 2016 before dropping out to seek re-election to the Senate. Paul is a medical doctor and an ophthalmologist. His father is Ron Paul, a 2008 presidential candidate and a former member of Congress from Texas. 
Date: October 2, 2013
Location: national
Topics: federal budget
Context: an interview on CNN
Fact-check justification: Paul said that "85 percent of government's running right now. Only 15 percent of government spending is shut down." Government shutdowns by nature are somewhat haphazard, so it’s hard at this point to calculate these numbers with any precision. However, due to the big role of entitlement spending in the federal budget, Paul is likely in the ballpark when he measures "government" by the yardstick of spending. However, measuring government in other ways, such as the percentage of federal employees being furloughed in major departments, would make the impact appear bigger. And when he said that "85 percent of government" is operating right now, that’s more of a stretch. Paul’s comment is partially accurate but leaves out important details, so we rate it .
Statement: At a minimum, 40 percent of those who view child pornography end up molesting children as a result.
Speaker: mike dewine
About the speaker: Mike DeWine, the Ohio attorney general, won the Republican primary for governor in May 2018 and is running in the general election in November. Previously he was one of Ohio's U.S. senator's, lieutenant governor and a member of the General Assembly.
Date: November 18, 2011
Location: ohio
Topics: children;crime
Context: a news conference
Fact-check justification: And that’s exactly what DeWine did. And researchers caution that there is no  that the molesting of children by those possessing child porn takes place as a result of viewing the child porn, a  made by DeWine. Quite to the contrary, study of this cause-effect relationship we found suggests that nearly all offenders committed acts of molestation prior to looking at child porn. Those are critical facts that would give a different impression of DeWine’s . On the -O-Meter, his  rates .
Statement: Obamacare provision will allow "forced home inspections" by government agents.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: August 15, 2013
Location: national
Topics: civil rights;health care;public health;privacy issues
Context: blog posts
Fact-check justification: Bloggers passed around a  last week that a provision of the new health care law will allow "forced" home inspections by government agents. But the program they pointed to provides grants for voluntary help to at-risk families from trained staff like nurses and social workers. What bloggers describe would be an egregious abuse of the law — not what’s allowed by it. We rate the  .