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True93% confidence7 sourcesAug 11, 2026Tina Peters was convicted of four felonies and sentenced to nine years in prison.Said by BMultiple reliable sources confirm Tina Peters was convicted by a Mesa County jury of four felonies (plus three misdemeanors, or seven of ten counts depending on the source) and sentenced in October 2024 to nine years. The claim departs from the passage only in dropping no qualifiers; the later Court of Appeals ruling ordering resentencing and Governor Polis's commutation do not make the original sentence claim false, though they reduced her time served.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.True60% confidence3 sourcesAug 11, 2026The speaker spent four years in court following a canvassing effort to check the government's work.Said by BThe extraction matches the passage, which says the speaker and their group did a canvassing effort to check the government's work and then spent four years in court. Court records show a 2022 suit by NAACP, League of Women Voters and Mi Familia Vota against Smith, Epp and Kasun over canvassing, and the defendants' own allies describe a trial and a pending appeal, which fits a four-year span. The corroboration is thin and mostly comes from partisan sources tied to the defendants, so confidence is moderate.True70% confidence1 sourceAug 11, 2026Early bird pricing for virtual tickets to the Great American Restoration Tour event in Las Vegas offers a $10 discount through August 15, 2026.Said by BThe organizer's own virtual-pass ticket page lists early bird pricing at $25 versus a $35 regular price, a $10 difference, valid through August 15, 2026, for the Las Vegas GART 13 event, which matches the claim as of the 2026-08-11 posting. The page is the organizer's own ticketing source and its published date (2016) is inconsistent with its 2026 content, so confidence is capped.True55% confidence4 sourcesAug 11, 2026Senator Marsha Blackburn uses scripted talking points.Sources document a campaign event by Blackburn that was scripted, with assigned topics, planted questions, and a 'Run of Show' document, and several outlets describe her as defaulting to talking points. The evidence is thin and mostly from low-credibility or opinion outlets, and the claim is a broad characterization of her conduct, so confidence is moderate. The post itself frames the point as the speaker's own skepticism about one clip, which the sources do not test directly.Can’t tell25% confidence5 sourcesOct 21, 2026The Maine People's Alliance is paying people to work at polling locations.Said by CNo source reports that the Maine People's Alliance paid people to work at polling locations. The post itself only passes on hedged hearsay ('I've been told by other sources that maybe the Maine People's Alliance is paying these people'), and the extracted claim drops that hedge and states it as fact. The Lewiston complaints in WMTW and NewsCenter Maine say the allegation has not been independently verified, and the Robinson Report (published after the post) makes related electioneering allegations without evidence of payment. As of 2026-10-21 the record neither substantiates nor disputes the payment claim.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.Can’t tell35% confidence7 sourcesOct 21, 2026NGOs are dropping off groups of Somalis to vote in Lewiston, Maine.Said by BThe claim traces back to a Maine Wire report that NGOs were dropping off Somalis to vote in Lewiston, and most later sources repeat that account without independent confirmation of the drop-offs. The DOJ is only reviewing footage, and the WSJ-sourced report says there is no evidence of ballot stuffing, which does not address the drop-off claim itself.Can’t tell40% confidence7 sourcesOct 21, 2026Interpreters in Lewiston, Maine, have been observed touching ballots and placing ballots into envelopes.The only direct account of touching and envelope-placing is the claimant's own reporting (Maine Wire reporter Jon Fetherston), which other outlets repeat without independent verification. Official responses are limited to DOJ reviewing footage and the clerk distributing guidance, so the sources show the observations were claimed but do not confirm or dispute them.Can’t tell35% confidence7 sourcesOct 21, 2026Interpreters aiding voters in Lewiston, Maine, are being paid by NGOs.The sources show only that the Maine Wire alleged NGO-affiliated interpreters at Lewiston City Hall, and that the DOJ is reviewing the footage; none independently establishes that interpreters are paid by NGOs. The claim also drops the post's hedge "likely," and its payment assertion mostly echoes the claimant's own allegation, which cannot corroborate it.Can’t tell50% confidence4 sourcesOct 21, 2026Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski represent states that use ranked choice voting.Said by AOn substance, the sources support that Maine (Collins's state) and Alaska (Murkowski's state) use ranked choice voting for federal elections. However, the passage only says "her and Lisa Murkowski" and never names Collins, so the extracted claim adds a name the post does not state, and it is graded as unverifiable. The claim was made 2026-10-21, and the sources confirm the RCV status as of that period.Can’t tell40% confidence4 sourcesOct 21, 2026California adheres to federal law 52 U.S.C. 20506, Section 5 of the National Voter Registration Act.The extracted claim departs from the passage: the post's garbled citation reads "C-52 USC 2054 C-2," not 52 U.S.C. 20506, so the specific statute number was added during extraction. The sources also show 52 U.S.C. 20506 is NVRA Section 7 (voter registration agencies), not Section 5 (motor voter), so the claim's own citation does not match its label. Sources do indicate California's provisional voting and VRA procedures are implemented under the NVRA, but they do not settle the claim as worded.Can’t tell40% confidence7 sourcesOct 21, 2026Gavin Newsom, the California Attorney General, and the California Secretary of State have obstructed efforts to clean up voter rolls.Said by AThe sources document that California officials refused DOJ's demand to act on a list of about 20,000 alleged noncitizens, sued by the DOJ, and the courts were skeptical of the federal request, but they do not establish whether this amounts to obstruction of voter-roll cleanup. 'Obstructed every step of the way' is a sweeping political characterization of the officials' conduct rather than a checkable factual claim, and the state's side (the list was unreliable, and the federal government has no role in state election administration) is also reported.Can’t tell30% confidence8 sourcesOct 21, 2026The Squad members effectively won their challenges against Nancy Pelosi and transformed the Democratic Party.Said by AThe claim that the Squad 'effectively won' their challenges against Pelosi and 'transformed the Democratic Party' is a sweeping, evaluative characterization of political influence; sources document friction and Pelosi's partial accommodations (2019 Ocasio-Cortez peace, Pelosi later re-elected with Squad votes) but none directly grades who 'won' or credits the Squad with transforming the party, and the claim's 'transformed' assertion is interpretive, so it cannot be graded in either direction.

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