"52% of Fetterman's votes were mail in ballots. The Dems can put somebody with brain damage into office with this massive operation. Republicans need to match this effort," says a November 10, 2022 tweet.
The same claim also circulated on Facebook and Instagram after the Democratic candidate was projected to win Pennsylvania's competitive US Senate race against Republican Mehmet Oz, a celebrity doctor backed by former US president Donald Trump.
Screenshot of a tweet taken November 18, 2022
Unfounded claims of wrongdoing via absentee ballots are not new.
Trump has repeatedly and falsely claimed mail-in ballots are responsible for widespread fraud. Such allegations circulated before, during and after the 2020 presidential election -- and again following the latest midterm results.
But Fetterman did not receive 52 percent of his votes through mail-in ballots, and fraud is exceptionally rare.
As of November 21, preliminary election results showed Fetterman received 35 percent of his votes from mail-in ballots. About 9.4 percent of Oz's votes came from absentee ballots, according to the Pennsylvania...
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