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2023-06-07 00:46:18 UTC - MISINFORMED_OR_POTENTIALLY_MISLEADING

The statistic mistakenly combines data from Pennsylvania’s June 2020 primary election, in which 1.8 million voters requested vote-by-mail ballots, and data from that year’s general election, in which voters mailed back more than 2.6 million ballots that were counted https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-afs:Content:9787630390 https://data.pa.gov/Government-Efficiency-Citizen-Engagement/2020-Primary-Election-Mail-Ballot-Requests-Departm/853w-ecfz/data https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-pennsylvania-elections-voting-2020-presidential-elections-b1fe12514c3a736ec33f84e4ce7e4161

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• The statistic mistakenly combines data from Pennsylvania’s June 2020 primary election, in which 1.8 million voters requested vote-by-mail ballots, and data from that year’s general election, in which voters mailed back more than 2.6 million ballots that were counted https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-afs:Content:9787630390 https://data.pa.gov/Government-Efficiency-Citizen-Engagement/2020-Primary-Election-Mail-Ballot-Requests-Departm/853w-ecfz/data https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-pennsylvania-elections-voting-2020-presidential-elections-b1fe12514c3a736ec33f84e4ce7e4161