copenlu/druid huggingface dataset:
Claim: “The state of Washington has already sent out their ballots” for the 2024 presidential election. (Instagram posts, 2024-07-21)
Evidence (2024-05-23): Deadlines for the Nov. 5, 2024, General Election - 5 p.m. Oct. 29: Your APPLICATION for a mail-in or absentee ballot must be received by your county election office. [...] Frequently Asked Questions - If you already submitted a mail-in or absentee ballot, you cannot vote at your polling place on Election Day.
Claim: “The state of Washington has already sent out their ballots” for the 2024 presidential election. (Instagram posts, 2024-07-21)
Evidence (2024-07-19): A key change in the state’s election laws since 2002 would make this type of switch more difficult. In 2002, voters could vote absentee only if they had a valid reason. Since 2009, any voter can vote absentee, and since 2020, mail-in voting has become extremely popular. This means in early October 2024, many more voters will have already voted than had done so in early October 2002. [...] Washington: "The Secretary of State will certify the candidates and measures for the General Election on August 23. Immediately thereafter, counties will begin the process of printing their ballots to ensure timely delivery to military and overseas voters," according to Jessica Hice, spokesperson for the Washington secretary of state’s office. "Washington state’s deadlines require a certification no later than August 20, 2024. State law allows for substitutions for vice president up until August 22. The Secretary of State will certify the candidates and measures for the General Election on August 23 and would be the last day that any change wouldn’t impact the printing process," Hice wrote in an email to States Newsroom.
Claim: “The state of Washington has already sent out their ballots” for the 2024 presidential election. (Instagram posts, 2024-07-21)
Evidence (2024-09-11): WASHINGTON – The 2025 Counting and Certification of Electoral Votes in Washington, DC on Jan. 6, 2025, has been designated a National Special Security Event by the Secretary of Homeland Security.
Claim: “The state of Washington has already sent out their ballots” for the 2024 presidential election. (Instagram posts, 2024-07-21)
Evidence (2024-01-01): March 2024 Presidential Primary Election Information about the presidential primary election in March 2024. [...] Your choice of party in this election will not aﬀect how you may vote or participate in future elections, including the 2024 November General election. It only is relevant to the Presidential Primary itself.
Claim: “The state of Washington has already sent out their ballots” for the 2024 presidential election. (Instagram posts, 2024-07-21)
Evidence (2024-05-11): To vote in the next election, you must complete your application by 10/21/2024. You can submit your application: [...] By mail to your county voter registration office, received by 10/21/2024. [...] Deadline Alert: If you plan to vote by mail-in ballot in the 2024 GENERAL ELECTION, your completed application must be received in the county office by 5:00 PM on 10/29/2024. Your voted ballot must be returned by 8:00 PM on 11/05/2024.
Claim: “The state of Washington has already sent out their ballots” for the 2024 presidential election. (Instagram posts, 2024-07-21)
Evidence (2024-03-13): - When the election office has sent you your mail ballot and when it is expected to arrive. [...] Several types of mail voting are available to voters in the 2024 elections, depending on the laws in their state.
Claim: “The state of Washington has already sent out their ballots” for the 2024 presidential election. (Instagram posts, 2024-07-21)
Evidence (2023-08-07): November 5, 2024—Election Day (first Tuesday after the first Monday in November*) [...] December 17, 2024—electors vote in their States [...] December 25, 2024—electoral votes arrive
Claim: “The state of Washington has already sent out their ballots” for the 2024 presidential election. (Instagram posts, 2024-07-21)
Evidence (2024-09-01): Washington State uses paper ballots. For every election unique ballot types are created for each precinct whose voters are participating in that election. Any attempt to replicate or submit ballots would require a criminal to know the exact ballot type associated with each voter, the ability to forge individual signatures, and the ability to predict that the targeted registered voter wouldn’t cast a bonafide ballot. [...] We will mail you a ballot to your current address along with voting instructions. During the final week of the election, when delivery and return times are shortened, we advise voters to print their own electronic replacement ballot on VoteWA.gov and return their voted ballot using a ballot drop box. [...] Washington is a "postmark" state. Ballots are accepted as on time as long as they have a USPS cancellation date of Election Day or earlier. Ballots may arrive many days after the election which include transfers from other counties and military and overseas ballots as well.
Claim: “The state of Washington has already sent out their ballots” for the 2024 presidential election. (Instagram posts, 2024-07-21)
Evidence (2024-05-11): Note: Begining July 15, 2024, Washington's online voter registration system will be expanded to accept Washington state learner’s permits and the last four digits of a voter’s SSN, while also improving accessibility for Washington Tribal ID holders. Under current law, online registration requires the state to retrieve the voter’s signature from the DMV using the ID number, which was not possible for all Tribal IDs. After the change goes into effect, voters may submit an image of their signature to the Secretary of State as part of their online registration process.
Claim: “The state of Washington has already sent out their ballots” for the 2024 presidential election. (Instagram posts, 2024-07-21)
Evidence (2024-01-01): If you have submitted an absentee ballot application for a ballot to be sent by mail, you can track your ballot by logging into Ballot Scout. [...] - After the registrar processes your application, you will receive your ballot in the mail. Please note: ballots can be mailed out to applicants starting 45 days prior to the relevant election date.
Claim: “The state of Washington has already sent out their ballots” for the 2024 presidential election. (Instagram posts, 2024-07-21)
Evidence (2024-08-13): June 27, 2024 - Deadline for municipal clerks to send absentee ballots to voters with an active request already on file- Municipal clerks can begin mailing absentee ballots once official ballots are received and have until June 27, 2024 to send ballots to all voters with a request on file by that day. Requests received after June 27, 2024 must be fulfilled within 24-48 business hours. [...] August 13, 2024 @ 8:00 p.m.- Deadline to Return Absentee Ballot- If you have already received an absentee ballot, you must return your absentee ballot by mail or delivery to your municipal clerk. Your ballot must be received by your municipal clerk no later than 8:00 p.m. on Election Day, August 13, 2024. [...] November 5, 2024 @ 8:00 p.m.- Deadline to Return Absentee Ballot- If you have already received an absentee ballot, you must return your absentee ballot by mail or delivery to your municipal clerk. Your ballot must be received by your municipal clerk no later than 8:00 p.m. on Election Day, November 5, 2024.
Claim: “The state of Washington has already sent out their ballots” for the 2024 presidential election. (Instagram posts, 2024-07-21)
Evidence (2024-10-03): 2024 Presidential Elections - Voter Resources #MDvotes 2024 [...] Mail-in ballots must be postmarked or placed in a designated ballot drop box (en espanol) by 8 pm on November 5, 2024 for the Presidential General Election. [...] 2024 General Election Proofing Ballots (Posted 9.2.2024) - New
Claim: “The state of Washington has already sent out their ballots” for the 2024 presidential election. (Instagram posts, 2024-07-21)
Evidence (2024-01-01): All voters receive their ballots through the vote by mail process. Ballots will be mailed 14 to 18 days before an election. Voted ballots must be received or mailed with a valid post mark by 8 p.m. on Election Day. You can sign up to track your mail ballot on your Secretary of State website. Ballots begin being counted on Election Day. Oregon conducts voting by mail only. You have the choice of mailing your ballot or returning it to any county election office or any designated drop site. If it is determined by the county elections official that a person does not receive daily mail service from USPS, the ballot is mailed 18 to 20 days before the election. Out of state voters that are not long term absentee voters have their ballots mailed no sooner than the 29th day before the election. Long term and military absentee ballots (including all out of country ballots) are mailed 45 days before the election.
Claim: “The state of Washington has already sent out their ballots” for the 2024 presidential election. (Instagram posts, 2024-07-21)
Evidence (2024-07-21): No, Washington state’s 2024 presidential election ballots are not ‘already sent out’ [...] The claim that Washington state has already "sent out" ballots for the November 2024 presidential election is inaccurate. [...] An Instagram post said "the state of Washington has already sent out their ballots" for the 2024 presidential election.
Claim: Project 2025 would “end Head Start.” (Kamala Harris, 2024-07-18)
Evidence (2024-07-18): Head Start is a federally funded program that supports early education and other services for low-income Americans. The Project 2025 conservative policy blueprint says on Page 482 that it would "Eliminate the Head Start program."
Claim: Project 2025 would “end Head Start.” (Kamala Harris, 2024-07-18)
Evidence (2024-07-18): Vice President Kamala Harris correct that Project 2025 would end Head Start [...] Vice President Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, warned that Project 2025, a conservative policy agenda, could spell the end for Head Start, a federally funded program that supports early education and other services for low-income Americans. [...] She is correct about what Project 2025 would do with Head Start. The conservative policy blueprint says on Page 482 that it would "Eliminate the Head Start program."
Claim: Project 2025 would “end Head Start.” (Kamala Harris, 2024-07-18)
Evidence (2024-07-09): Project 2025, a 900-page conservative policy agenda that proposes eliminating the U.S. Department of Education, has become a dominating force in the 2024 election campaign as President Joe Biden and Democrats use it to make their case against former President Donald Trump. Biden’s team has referred to Project 2025 as a "manifesto infused with MAGA ideology" that "should scare every single American" and has mentioned it in dozens of recent news releases. Its creators frame it as an effort to bring "self-government to the American people," according to the Washington Post. Meanwhile, the Trump campaign recently has tried to distance itself from the initiative. [...] Trump, who is the presumed nominee for the Republican party, has said that Project 2025 does not reflect his policy agenda and has tried to distance himself from the proposal in recent weeks. In a post on his Truth Social platform on July 5, Trump said he has "no idea who is behind it."
Claim: Project 2025 would “end Head Start.” (Kamala Harris, 2024-07-18)
Evidence (2024-08-27): Sponsored by the right-wing think tank, the Heritage Foundation, the Project 2025 policy agenda was written by more than 400 conservative experts and published in a book titled Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise. While Trump has publicly disavowed the initiative, he has endorsed (and even tried to implement) many of its core proposals, several of which were penned by his former staffers. [...] Project 2025 doesn’t just try to scale back recent successes in making care more affordable for people on Medicare. It also seeks to weaken Medicaid, which more than 70 million low-income Americans rely on for health care. The authors propose instituting lifetime caps on benefits and adding work requirements as a condition for coverage, creating administrative hurdles that make life harder for people who have the least. Together, these provisions could cause millions of people—including those who are currently working—to lose coverage. These policies punish patients for being poor, and in one of the harshest ways: by denying them health care. [...] Finally, Project 2025 takes particular aim at the well-being of children. The authors seek to prevent public health agencies from requiring vaccination in school children, which could cause more outbreaks of preventable diseases like measles. They also propose invalidating state laws intended to stem gun violence, a leading cause of death for children in the U.S. Project 2025 would even eliminate Head Start, a critical program for early childhood development, especially in low-income and rural communities.
Claim: Project 2025 would “end Head Start.” (Kamala Harris, 2024-07-18)
Evidence (2024-08-20): To distance himself from Project 2025 amid the Democratic attacks, Trump wrote on Truth Social that he "knows nothing" about it and has "no idea" who is in charge of it. (CNN identified at least 140 former advisers from the Trump administration who have been involved.) The Heritage Foundation sought contributions from more than 100 conservative organizations for its policy vision for the next Republican presidency, which was published in 2023. Project 2025 is now winding down some of its policy operations, and director Paul Dans, a former Trump administration official, is stepping down, The Washington Post reported July 30. Trump campaign managers Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita denounced the document. WATCH: A look at the Project 2025 plan to reshape government and Trump’s links to its authors However, Project 2025 contributors include a number of high-ranking officials from Trump’s first administration, including former White House adviser Peter Navarro and former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson. A recently released recording of Russell Vought, a Project 2025 author and the former director of Trump’s Office of Management and Budget, showed Vought saying Trump’s "very supportive of what we do."
Claim: Project 2025 would “end Head Start.” (Kamala Harris, 2024-07-18)
Evidence (2024-07-20): Democrats have warned of the damage that Project 2025 could do to the federal government and access to reproductive care if former President Trump wins in November. [...] At least 140 former Trump administration officials contributed to Project 2025, CNN reports. [...] The foundation wants to end another key federal program: Head Start, which offers free early childhood education, health and nutrition services to children from low-income families.
Claim: Project 2025 would “end Head Start.” (Kamala Harris, 2024-07-18)
Evidence (2024-07-26): Vice President Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, warned that Project 2025, a conservative policy agenda, could spell the end for Head Start, a federally funded program that supports early education and other services for low-income Americans. [...] Harris’ claim about ending Head Start, which the Department of Health and Human Services administers, is accurate. On Page 482, the Project 2025 document read, "Eliminate the Head Start program." [...] She is correct about what Project 2025 would do with Head Start. The conservative policy blueprint says on Page 482 that it would "Eliminate the Head Start program."
Claim: Project 2025 would “end Head Start.” (Kamala Harris, 2024-07-18)
Evidence (2024-07-11): - Project 2025 is a conservative coalition's plan for a future Republican U.S. presidential administration. If voters elect the party's presumed nominee, Donald Trump, over Democrat Joe Biden in November 2024, the coalition hopes the new president will implement the plan immediately. [...] For months, Biden's team has been sending foreboding emails to supporters, invoking "Trump's Project 2025" to tap into anxieties over another four years with Trump in the White House and to raise campaign money. According to some of the emails, "Project 2025" calls for proposals that would separate "mothers away from their children," a reference to border policies during Trump's administration, or result in "higher housing costs and rampant discrimination." All of this said, the Biden campaign is not alone in its concern over the policy initiative. Critics including legal experts and former government employees have described Project 2025 as a precursor to authoritarianism — albeit a difficult one to implement — and a wave of social media posts are expressing fear over the initiative, calling it a "fascist" and "extremist" plan for Trump to "reshape America." Numerous reports have also called this conservative effort to reshape the government unprecedented in its scale.
Claim: Project 2025 would “end Head Start.” (Kamala Harris, 2024-07-18)
Evidence (2024-10-01): A federal fund worth $18 billion for low-income students (Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965) would be allowed to expire,[22] and those responsibilities would devolve to the states.[23] Public funds for education would be available as school vouchers with no strings attached, even for parents sending their children to private or religious schools.[22] Cuts would be made to the funding for free school meals. The Head Start program that provides services to children of low-income families would be eliminated.[23][150] For the project's backers, education is a private rather than a public good.[22] Project 2025 criticizes any programs to forgive student loans.[151] [...] - ^ Restuccia, Andrew (July 30, 2024). "Head of Project 2025 Steps Down Following Trump Criticism". The Wall Street Journal. [...] - ^ Winter, Emery (July 16, 2024). "What we can VERIFY about Project 2025's plans for the Head Start program and free school lunches". KREM. Archived from the original on July 21, 2024. Retrieved July 26, 2024.
Claim: Project 2025 would “end Head Start.” (Kamala Harris, 2024-07-18)
Evidence (2024-07-22): Project 2025, the policy agenda for Former President Trump’s potential first year back in the White House published by the far right conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation, has been making waves recently. Some of the many destructive proposals within the agenda include the elimination of the U.S. Department of Education—along with federal education funding and any civil rights protections—and the diversion of public money to private school voucher programs instead. [...] The policies that Project 2025 plans to prioritize—government payments to families sending their children to private school and creation of new charter schools that are run like businesses—have expanded in the last few years, starving public school districts that serve all students of already insufficient resources. In the 2023-24 school year, at least 70 school districts, including in San Antonio, Texas, Jackson, Mississippi, and Wichita, Kansas, announced permanent closures of public schools, impacting millions of students. These districts are resorting to the harmful, discriminatory, and ineffective so-called ‘solution’ of closing schools in Black and Latine communities, stripping those communities of their local public schools. [...] Project 2025 is not an inevitability—it is a call to action for anyone who cares about public education in this country. Our public school system requires more resources to create better school environments for everyone. We need investment in our public schools—not closures.
Claim: Project 2025 would “end Head Start.” (Kamala Harris, 2024-07-18)
Evidence (2024-06-26): If implemented, Project 2025 plans to completely eliminate Head Start, a federally funded child care program that has served nearly 40 million children and provides vital support to American families experiencing poverty. Nixing Head Start would create painful and, in some cases, unbearable increases in the cost of child care for countless Americans. Worse still, the repercussions would be disproportionately felt by some of the nation’s most vulnerable populations, including Latino and rural communities. [...] "Project 2025’s plan to eliminate Head Start pulls the rug out from under families living in poverty and would have a devastating impact on children’s development, parents’ ability to seek employment, and our economy," said Casey Peeks, senior director for Early Childhood Policy at CAP and author of the column. "A majority of Americans already live in child care deserts, but this plan would increase costs for families, set our country’s early learning system back decades, and fall hardest on the backs of rural communities and Latino Americans." Read the column: "Project 2025 Would Eliminate Head Start, Severely Restricting Access to Child Care in Rural America" by Casey Peeks
Claim: Project 2025 would “end Head Start.” (Kamala Harris, 2024-07-18)
Evidence (2024-07-12): Trump has distanced himself from Project 2025, writing on Truth Social that he "knows nothing" about the project and has "no idea" who is in charge of it. (CNN identified at least 140 former advisers from the Trump administration who have been involved.) [...] The Biden campaign said Project 2025 would "eliminate the Department of Education" — and that’s accurate. Project 2025 says federal education policy "should be limited and, ultimately, the federal Department of Education should be eliminated." The plan scales back the federal government’s role in education policy and devolves the functions that remain to other agencies. [...] The Biden campaign said July 8 on X that Project 2025 would "purge the government of thousands of civil servants and replace them with unqualified, far-right MAGA loyalists."
Claim: Project 2025 would “end Head Start.” (Kamala Harris, 2024-07-18)
Evidence (2024-07-24): The 920-page Project 2025 blueprint was organized by The Heritage Foundation think tank and developed in significant part by people who served in Trump’s administration; Trump has publicly distanced himself from the initiative, calling unspecified Project 2025 ideas "seriously extreme." Project 2025’s proposals for right-wing policies and a radical reshaping of the executive branch have become frequent targets of Democratic criticism. [...] Facts First: One of Harris’ claims about Project 2025 is false, while another is at least misleading. The Project 2025 document does not show that Trump intends to cut Social Security; the document barely discusses Social Security at all and does not propose cuts to the program. In addition, contrary to Harris’ suggestion, Project 2025 does not call to "end" the Affordable Care Act or eliminate its protections for people with pre-existing conditions. The document does criticize the Affordable Care Act, especially the law’s expansion of Medicaid, but makes clear it is advocating changes to the law rather than terminating the law entirely. A Harris campaign official said the campaign has "made a deliberate decision to brand all of Trump’s policies" as "Project 2025," since they believe "it has stuck with voters." After the initial publication of this article, a Harris campaign spokesperson, Joseph Costello, added, "Project 2025 is a blueprint for many of the dangerous policies we know that a second Trump term would include, and it is indisputable that in his first term, Donald Trump repeatedly tried to cut Social Security and end the Affordable Care Act."