Rand Paul, on This Week (ABC), claimed that Wisconsin absentee ballots lacked addresses, and that co

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Rand Paul, on This Week (ABC), claimed that Wisconsin absentee ballots lacked addresses, and that correcting them countered prior practice and was illegal.

None of that is true.
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Now he's criticizing Dems for "fighting the last election."

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Fact check: Wisconsin clerks followed guidance in place since 2016 about witnesses and absentee ballots

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/11/11/fact-check-wisc-clerks-followed-2016-guidance-absentee-ballots/6253055002/




Haley BeMiller USA TODAY
The claim: Wisconsin Election Commission might have violated state law by allowing clerks to ‘fix’ ballots, report says

Wisconsin’s election is under a microscope as President Donald Trump cries fraud about the Nov. 3 presidential election that Democratic nominee Joe Biden is projected to win.

The president and his supporters have said, without evidence, that rampant voter fraud allowed his opponent to claim victory after he started election night ahead. Biden took the lead in Wisconsin and other key battleground states after clerks counted mail-in ballots largely cast by Democrats, according to unofficial results – a trend observers predicted heading into the election.

Now, a new claim is making the rounds on social media.

A Nov. 8 headline in the Daily Wire initially reported, "Wisconsin Election Commission Might Have Violated State Law By Allowing Clerks To ‘Fix’ Ballots, Report Says.".

It relies in part on a WISN radio story out of Milwaukee that makes a similar claim. The claim was also widely circulated by conservative websites.

On Nov. 12, the Daily Wire updated its headline and story to reflect the findings of this fact-check.

Wisconsin Republicans have latched onto the issue in their longshot effort to overturn the state's presidential results – four years after members of their own party pushed to allow clerks to fill in missing witness information.

Fact check:Wisconsin county did not have a glitch that stole votes from Trump

Here’s what we know about it...........................



Our rating: Missing context

We rate this claim as missing context because it omits key facts that would give readers a different understanding of the issue, and may be misleading without that additional context. The Daily Wire and WISN stories don't explain this policy has been in place since 2016 without objection, or that it was brought forth by Republicans and unanimously passed by a nonpartisan commission.