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Can’t tell45% confidence4 sourcesOct 26, 2026Of 64 cases brought by the Justice Department related to non-citizen voting, 56 individuals are lawful permanent residents.Said by CThe claim faithfully extracts the passage, which is the claimant's own review of 64 court files, so it cannot be verified from that. NBC's later review (Nov 1) finds that roughly three-quarters of about 200 prosecutions target lawful permanent residents, which is directionally consistent but a different sample, so it neither confirms nor refutes the specific 56-of-64 figure.Can’t tell40% confidence4 sourcesOct 26, 2026Pamela Line has been a lawful permanent resident since 1982.Said by CSources identify Pamele Arbués Line as a lawful permanent resident charged in a California voting case, which supports her LPR status. None of the sources states when she became a permanent resident, so the 1982 date that is the claim's central point cannot be checked.Can’t tell40% confidence5 sourcesOct 26, 2026There has been an incident involving illegal voting by noncitizens in Wyoming.Said by BSources do confirm a real Wyoming case of illegal noncitizen voting: Maksim Shakirov pleaded guilty in federal court to voting as a noncitizen in the 2024 election. But the claim departs from the passage, which refers to the 'one we've already seen in Wyoming' as the Governor's complaint about aggressive DOJ monitors, not noncitizen voting, so the claim is not graded as the poster's statement.Can’t tell40% confidence5 sourcesAug 28, 2026Donald Trump claimed he won California in the 2016 presidential election.The passage says "In 2016, he said he actually won it" right after discussing Orange County, so "it" most likely refers to Orange County, not the whole state; the extracted claim departs from the passage by widening the scope to California. Separately, sources show Trump in November 2016 alleged serious voter fraud in California and claimed he would have won the popular vote, but none of them grades the narrower claim as the post made it.

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