"So in Arizona you mean to tell me more people showed up to vote for Treasurer than Governor," says a November 14 tweet, shared more than 10,000 times.
The tweet includes an image showing vote counts reported by the Associated Press (AP) as of November 13, at which point the outlet estimated 93 percent of ballots had been counted. The same image appeared alongside similar claims elsewhere on Twitter and other platforms, including Facebook, Instagram and Truth Social.
"Tell me how more people showed up to vote in Arizona for Treasurer than for Governor... #FRAUD," says one post on Truth Social.
The posts spread as US media projected November 14 that Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, had defeated Republican Kari Lake to become the next governor. Lake, an outspoken supporter of false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from then US president Donald Trump, had not conceded as of 1930 GMT on November 16.
The claim circulating online is based on bad arithmetic. In reality, more Arizonans voted for governor than for treasurer.
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