copenlu/druid huggingface dataset:
Claim: “Joe Biden announced to the world tonight that they are going to cheat by dumping ballots.” (Instagram posts, 2022-11-03)
Evidence (2020-11-06): They screamed at police, complained to the media and banged on the windows to the counting room. [...] He complained about the process, alleging Democrats were controlling the counting and far outnumbered Republicans in the room. [...] 'Challenge every single ballot'
Claim: “Joe Biden announced to the world tonight that they are going to cheat by dumping ballots.” (Instagram posts, 2022-11-03)
Evidence (2023-03-06): Facebook posts stated on December 7, 2022 in a Facebook post: This video shows Chuck Grassley demanding Joe Biden’s "resignation." Viral image stated on December 5, 2022 in an Instagram post: President Joe Biden’s daughter-in-law tweeted, "The press is also covering up serious health issues that my father in law is facing. The plan is for Kamala to get a one track ride to the nomination in 2024." Viral image stated on November 10, 2022 in an Instagram post: "Biden ‘child porn’ shock" headline was "front page news in Australia." Instagram posts stated on November 3, 2022 in an Instagram post: "Joe Biden announced to the world tonight that they are going to cheat by dumping ballots." Viral image stated on October 29, 2022 in an Instagram post: Hecklers chanted "f--- Joe Biden" during a Barack Obama speech. Viral image stated on October 23, 2022 in an Instagram post: There are no photos of "Biden in the Oval Office" from after early 2021. Facebook posts stated on October 4, 2022 in a Facebook post: Antony Blinken "confesses that Biden" is responsible for the Nord Stream pipeline leaks. [...] Instagram posts stated on February 22, 2023 in an Instagram post: "President Joe Biden admits to faking the election." [...] Instagram posts stated on November 3, 2022 in an Instagram post: "Joe Biden announced to the world tonight that they are going to cheat by dumping ballots."
Claim: “Joe Biden announced to the world tonight that they are going to cheat by dumping ballots.” (Instagram posts, 2022-11-03)
Evidence (2024-07-18): Facts First: Trump’s claims are nonsense – slightly vaguer versions of his usual lies that the 2020 election was rigged and stolen and that Democrats are serial election cheaters. The 2020 election was highly secure; Trump lost fair and square to Joe Biden by an Electoral College margin of 306 to 232; there is no evidence of voter fraud even close to widespread enough to have changed the outcome in any state; and there is no basis for claiming that election cheating is the only thing at which Trump’s opponents excel.
Claim: “The Wisconsin voter roll has over 120,000 active voters who have been registered to vote for over 100 years.” (Facebook, 2022-01-07)
Evidence (2022-01-07): Wisconsin municipalities kept their own registration records — and the smallest municipalities weren’t required to keep records at all — until a 2002 federal law required a statewide database and a standard format. When a municipality’s system didn’t track a voter’s date of birth or initial date of registration, a default date was entered into the statewide system: 1/1/1900 for date of birth and 1/1/1918 for date of registration. Such placeholders for missing information have been used by other states as well. As of the fall of 2021 in Wisconsin, there were still about 3,700 active voter records that contain default information for date of birth and about 120,000 records exist in the system with a default date of voter registration.
Claim: “The Wisconsin voter roll has over 120,000 active voters who have been registered to vote for over 100 years.” (Facebook, 2022-01-07)
Evidence (2020-01-19): The debate over whether to purge more than 200,000 names from the Wisconsin voter roll continues to bounce around the Wisconsin court system. [...] But three voters — represented by Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty — filed a lawsuit arguing the state had to remove the names from the roll faster. Ozaukee County Judge Paul Malloy agreed and ordered the names be stricken from the voter roll. [...] Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Appeals court blocks purge of Wisconsin voter rolls for the time being, Jan. 13, 2020
Claim: “The Wisconsin voter roll has over 120,000 active voters who have been registered to vote for over 100 years.” (Facebook, 2022-01-07)
Evidence (2022-07-08): The State of Wisconsin had 3,456,732 active registered voters on August 1, 2024. Wisconsin does not collect information on the gender, race or political party affiliation of registered voters. Please note: the Registered Voters by Age Group file slightly understates the total number of registered [...] The State of Wisconsin had 3,441,422 active registered voters on February 1, 2024. Wisconsin does not collect information on the gender, race or political party affiliation of registered voters. Please note: the Registered Voters by Age Group file slightly understates the total number of registered [...] The State of Wisconsin had 3,444,063 active registered voters on January 1, 2024. Wisconsin does not collect information on the gender, race or political party affiliation of registered voters. Please note: the Registered Voters by Age Group file slightly understates the total number of registered
Claim: “The Wisconsin voter roll has over 120,000 active voters who have been registered to vote for over 100 years.” (Facebook, 2022-01-07)
Evidence (2023-07-12): The Wisconsin Elections Commission recorded nearly 3.7 million registered voters by Nov. 1, 2020. The Instagram post also fails to account for voters who registered on Election Day in Wisconsin, which is among the 22 states that allows same-day voter registration. In 2020, 6.62% of voters registered on Election Day in Wisconsin, equating to almost 220,000 people. However, this figure also includes voters who change their name, address, or both. [...] Wisconsin Election Commission. "November 1, 2020 Voter Registration Statistics." Accessed 12 Jul 2023. Wisconsin Election Commission. "Voter Turnout." Accessed 12 Jul 2023.
Claim: “The Wisconsin voter roll has over 120,000 active voters who have been registered to vote for over 100 years.” (Facebook, 2022-01-07)
Evidence (2024-01-10): Wisconsin election officials have removed roughly 206,000 people from voter rolls in the state as part of routine list maintenance, including about 30,000 voters who were part of a high-profile conflict ahead of the 2020 presidential election. The Wisconsin Elections Commission said Wednesday it removed 174,307 voters from the rolls Saturday because they had not voted in four years. That removal process and timeline is dictated by state law. Another 31,854 voters were also removed Saturday, the remaining people on a 2019 voter list that spurred a lawsuit that went all the way to the state Supreme Court. [...] In addition to years of inactivity at the polls, some voters are flagged for removal because they are identified as having moved within Wisconsin or out of state. In 2016, Wisconsin joined the multi-state Electronic Registration Information Center which helps states identify those voters. However, those lists can sometimes be flawed. For example, about 7 percent of people on a 2019 list of 232,579 possible movers reported to the commission that they still lived at the address where they were registered to vote. Because of that communication, they stayed on the voter rolls.
Claim: “The Wisconsin voter roll has over 120,000 active voters who have been registered to vote for over 100 years.” (Facebook, 2022-01-07)
Evidence (2023-08-08): MADISON - More than 100,000 voters were removed from the state's voter rolls as part of routine maintenance to ensure the integrity of voter registration lists, the Wisconsin Elections Commission announced last week. [...] Of those 116,051 voters, 7,469 returned their postcard and asked to be kept as registered voters in Wisconsin. Only 11 voters requested that their registration be canceled. [...] Wisconsin's voter list is compiled by the Electronic Registration Information Center, a consortium that helps 30 states and Washington, D.C., maintain accurate voter rolls.
Claim: “The Wisconsin voter roll has over 120,000 active voters who have been registered to vote for over 100 years.” (Facebook, 2022-01-07)
Evidence (2020-11-04): "BREAKING: Wisconsin has more votes than people who are registered to vote," tweeted Mike Coudrey, who describes himself as an activist, entrepreneur and investor. "Total number of registered voters: 3,129,000. Total number of votes cast: 3,239,920. This is direct evidence of voter fraud." [...] Featured Fact-check "There are more than 3.6 million registered voters in Wisconsin. Look for yourself," she tweeted, sharing a link to the Wisconsin Elections Commission. [...] We rate the claim that Wisconsin had more votes than registered voters Pants on Fire!
Claim: “The Wisconsin voter roll has over 120,000 active voters who have been registered to vote for over 100 years.” (Facebook, 2022-01-07)
Evidence (2020-11-04): What is Wisconsin's actual registered voter count? According to Wisconsin Elections Commission, there are 3,684,726 active registered voters as of Nov. 1. This figure, as well as denial that the state has more ballots than registered voters, was affirmed by the commission on its official Twitter account. [...] We rate this claim FALSE because it is not supported by our research. The number for registered Wisconsin voters stated by the Facebook image is incorrect and instead is confirmed to be at over 3.6 million as of Nov. 1, according to the Wisconsin Elections Commission. The commission has denied there being more ballots than registered voters. The total votes counted in the state has topped 3.2 million.
Claim: “The Wisconsin voter roll has over 120,000 active voters who have been registered to vote for over 100 years.” (Facebook, 2022-01-07)
Evidence (2022-01-29): One hundred years is a long time. But is that how long names of some Wisconsin residents have been on the state's voter rolls? PolitiFact Wisconsin puts that claim to the truth o meter. [...] Now, a widely circulated Facebook meme suggests Wisconsin's voters rolls were padded with tens of thousands of voters who registered to vote a century ago. "The claim, the Wisconsin Voter roll has over 120,000 active voters who have been registered to vote for over 100 years, said Greg Borowski with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. "Now that would make them, well really, really, really old."
Claim: “The Wisconsin voter roll has over 120,000 active voters who have been registered to vote for over 100 years.” (Facebook, 2022-01-07)
Evidence (2020-11-04): Fact check: Wisconsin did not have more votes than registered voters [...] Fact check: Wisconsin did not 'find' 100K ballots around 4 a.m. the morning after the election [...] More than 3.6 million Wisconsinites were registered to vote as of Nov. 1, according to the Wisconsin Elections Commission. That was two days before the election.
Claim: “The Wisconsin voter roll has over 120,000 active voters who have been registered to vote for over 100 years.” (Facebook, 2022-01-07)
Evidence (2020-11-04): An example of the widely shared post claims, "Wisconsin has more votes than people who are registered to vote." It then says there are 3,129,000 registered voters in the state, and 3,239,920 votes were cast. "This is direct evidence of voter fraud," the post alleges. [...] That data is easy to get from the Wisconsin Elections Commission, which reported a total of 3,684,726 registered voters as of Nov. 1. Wisconsin has Election Day registration, which means that the voter registration numbers are likely even higher than the total reported on the state website on Nov. 1. [...] Wisconsin Voter FAQs. Wisconsinvote.org. Accessed 4 Nov 2020.
Claim: “The Wisconsin voter roll has over 120,000 active voters who have been registered to vote for over 100 years.” (Facebook, 2022-01-07)
Evidence (2020-11-05): That was the voter registration figure right before the 2018 midterm elections. But as of 7 p.m. on Sunday, the Wisconsin Elections Commission reported 3,684,726 registered voters. And that figure — well above the 3,239,920 votes that were cast — does not include people who might have registered to vote on Election Day. In other words, no fraud at play, just social media posts that relied on outdated numbers. The Wisconsin Elections Commission received "a lot of calls" about the false rumors, said the state’s top elections official Meagan Wolfe. "Wisconsin does not have more votes than registered voters," Wolfe said. "Share the facts, rather than speculation or rumors." Associated Press reporters Scott Bauer in Madison, Wisconsin and Arijeta Lajka in New York contributed to the report. Seitz reported from Chicago. By — Amanda Seitz, Associated Press Amanda Seitz, Associated Press [...] The Wisconsin Elections Commission received "a lot of calls" about the false rumors, said the state’s top elections official Meagan Wolfe. "Wisconsin does not have more votes than registered voters," Wolfe said. "Share the facts, rather than speculation or rumors." Associated Press reporters Scott Bauer in Madison, Wisconsin and Arijeta Lajka in New York contributed to the report. Seitz reported from Chicago.
Claim: “The Wisconsin voter roll has over 120,000 active voters who have been registered to vote for over 100 years.” (Facebook, 2022-01-07)
Evidence (2022-01-07): "The Wisconsin voter roll has over 120,000 active voters who have been registered to vote for over 100 years," said the speaker in a Facebook video shared Jan. 7. "The margin of victory is 20,000. Yes that’s right: Biden beat Trump by 21,000 votes yet there are over 120,000 people in Wisconsin who are more than 100 years old and they are voters." [...] Hecker’s video clip said "the Wisconsin voter roll has over 120,000 active voters who have been registered to vote for over 100 years." [...] Save America PAC, ICYMI: "HUGE: Wisconsin Election Hearing Reveals 119,283 ‘Active Voters’ Who Have Been Registered For Over 100 Years!" Dec. 9, 2021
Claim: “The Wisconsin voter roll has over 120,000 active voters who have been registered to vote for over 100 years.” (Facebook, 2022-01-07)
Evidence (2022-02-03): The claim: Wisconsin's voter rolls have over 120,000 active voters who have been registered to vote for more than 100 years [...] "The Wisconsin voter roll has over 120,000 active voters who have been registered to vote for over 100 years," Ivory Hecker, a former reporter for a Fox affiliate in Houston, said in a Jan. 7 Facebook video. "The margin of victory is 20,000. Yes that’s right: Biden beat Trump by 21,000 votes yet there are over 120,000 people in Wisconsin who are more than 100 years old and they are voters." [...] Based on our research, we rate FALSE the claim that Wisconsin's voter rolls have over 120,000 active voters who have been registered to vote for more than 100 years. There are 120,000 voters with a 1918 registration date, but they haven't been registered that long. That date was assigned as a default value when local voter rolls were merged into a single statewide database, since not all local clerks had tracked voters' birthdates.
Claim: “The Wisconsin voter roll has over 120,000 active voters who have been registered to vote for over 100 years.” (Facebook, 2022-01-07)
Evidence (2005-01-06): A Washington Post investigation found that many longtime voters discovered their registrations had been purged. [...] We are here because of the elderly voter in Lucas County who requested an absentee ballot that never showed up and was refused a provisional ballot because of another partisan decision by the [...] Long-time voters ``disappeared'' from voting rolls.
Claim: “The Wisconsin voter roll has over 120,000 active voters who have been registered to vote for over 100 years.” (Facebook, 2022-01-07)
Evidence (2015-11-20): States must also follow the requirements of the NVRA to ensure that eligible voters who submit a timely application are timely added to the voter registration list, to conduct a general program of list maintenance that removes voters who are ineligible, and to ensure that voters who move to a new place of residence are not removed without following all of the protections in the NVRA, including notice and timing requirements. [...] Assistant Attorney General Tom Perez meets with the congregation of the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in Oak Creek, Wisconsin (pictured above). [...] More than 50 years after its creation, the Civil Rights Division continues to play a critical role in combating discrimination. As a nation, we have undeniably come a long way – the rights for which so many civil rights pioneers fought, bled, and sometimes gave their lives are now guaranteed by law. We have seen tremendous movement not only legally but in public attitudes and acceptance.
Claim: “The Wisconsin voter roll has over 120,000 active voters who have been registered to vote for over 100 years.” (Facebook, 2022-01-07)
Evidence (2005-06-01): Listening to Mr. Sensenbrenner's opening statement, I think he said 1.2 million voter registrations by ACORN, roughly. I saw a number that was 400,000 that were, I think, confessed by them to be fraudulent. That number alleged is significantly higher than that, I believe. [...] For more than 100 years, the NAACP has fought for equal rights for all Americans. Sadly, our struggle continues as there is still clear evidence of voter suppression throughout the United States. While the 2008 election saw some improvements in the terms of voter participation, we also saw that there is still so much left to be done before the promise of democracy is universally fulfilled. [...] The NAACP has been in existence for more than 100 years, and since our inception we have fought for equal voting rights for all Americans.
Claim: “The Wisconsin voter roll has over 120,000 active voters who have been registered to vote for over 100 years.” (Facebook, 2022-01-07)
Evidence (2022-08-23): Concerned about a lack of guidance for hand-counting ballots, the Secretary of State’s office proposed new regulations in August, hoping to get them approved ahead of November’s election. [...] The system was supposed to be set up so that voters who don’t opt out are automatically registered as nonpartisan unless they indicate a party affiliation. Their political party was not supposed to be changed for previously registered voters.
Claim: “The Wisconsin voter roll has over 120,000 active voters who have been registered to vote for over 100 years.” (Facebook, 2022-01-07)
Evidence (2020-03-20): Additional extensions and new measures have been announced in February and April ,and May 2021 that are set to expire end-September 2021. [...] On June 23, the authorities announced additional measures, including a three-month extension of some measures initially planned till end-June including: support to the agricultural sector; exemption from the payment of utility bills for businesses in the tourism and hotel sectors; reduction of taxes on health and life insurance contracts; exemption from the payment of the apprenticeship tax as an incentive to retain workers; and import duty exemption on fishing equipment. [...] On November 25, the government extended the curfew until mid-December, and introduced new restrictions, including closures of restaurants and bars, and a 2-person limit for private gatherings.
Claim: “The Wisconsin voter roll has over 120,000 active voters who have been registered to vote for over 100 years.” (Facebook, 2022-01-07)
Evidence (2024-09-30): Wisconsin [edit]The Republican Party attempted to have all 60,000 voters in the heavily Democratic city of Milwaukee who had registered since January 1, 2006 deleted from the voter rolls. The requests were rejected by the Milwaukee Election Commission, although Republican commissioner Bob Spindell voted in favor of deletion.[101] [...] Wisconsin [edit]In 2019, district court Judge Paul V. Malloy of Ozaukee County, Wisconsin removed 234,000 voters from state rolls.[150][151] Wisconsin's Attorney General Josh Kaul appealed to halt the purge, on behalf of the Wisconsin Elections Commission.[152] The purge was claimed to be targeting voters in the cities of Madison and Milwaukee, and college towns, which all tend to favor Democrats.[153] Disenfranchisement expert Greg Palast ties the Wisconsin effort at voter purging as part of a national Republican strategy.[154] [...] - ^ How a Conservative Group Persuaded a Judge to Purge Wisconsin’s Voter Rolls, Slate Magazine, Mark Joseph Stern, January 4, 2020. Retrieved January 4, 2020.
Claim: “The Wisconsin voter roll has over 120,000 active voters who have been registered to vote for over 100 years.” (Facebook, 2022-01-07)
Evidence (2013-06-27): Requires the Secretary to provide such information to a: (1) law enforcement or security agency, (2) court, (3) grand jury, or (4) coroner. [...] Requires DHS detention centers to provide for access to children, child welfare agencies, courts, and consular officials. [...] Requires such alien to be certified abroad by the Secretary of State as eligible for a W-visa.
Claim: “The Wisconsin voter roll has over 120,000 active voters who have been registered to vote for over 100 years.” (Facebook, 2022-01-07)
Evidence (2020-08-13): But there was more here than the usual partisan rancor: A single case from the Wisconsin Supreme Court's previous session had ended in a tie, because Kelly had recused himself. This case turned on a dull bureaucratic process, but one with alarming ramifications. A massive purge of the voter rolls had been planned for 2020, but it was delayed over fears that a lot of legitimate, mostly Democratic, voters would get cut. The tie-breaking vote would decide the timing of the purge—before or after the November presidential election. Karofsky was a likely "after" vote. What happened next made the stakes glaringly obvious. Karofsky won the election, setting the stage for a delayed purge. But then the conservative judge decided to do something so legally bizarre that the very word used to describe his action is not yet in Webster's Dictionary. With three months left in his lame-duck judgeship, Kelly decided to "unrecuse" himself, and suddenly a purge of 129,000 names seemed possible. [...] Meanwhile, in Wisconsin, the state supreme court decided in early July that it wouldn't fast-track the voter purge after all. The court will hear arguments in the case in September, but given the timing and Wisconsin law, a purge is unlikely until 2021. Two judges dissented from that opinion: One was David Kelly, who will be replaced by Karofsky in August.
Claim: “The Wisconsin voter roll has over 120,000 active voters who have been registered to vote for over 100 years.” (Facebook, 2022-01-07)
Evidence (2023-07-13): ProPublica did find that challenges sometimes identified errors in the voter rolls, which are dauntingly complex databases that are forever evolving as people register, move, die or otherwise change their statuses. Many of these corrections would have happened anyway in the routine maintenance process, officials said and records showed, though sometimes at a pace slower than if activists submitted challenges. "If all these challengers are finding is inconsequential errors that do not affect election results on the whole, but they’re placing real and harmful burdens on voters, then you have to wonder why they’re really doing this," said Derek Clinger, a senior staff attorney with the State Democracy Research Initiative at the University of Wisconsin Law School. "It’s doing more harm than good." [...] Despite requests from some counties for clearer direction, state officials have issued limited guidance for how counties should handle challenges, mostly advising them to rely on their attorneys.