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A provocative but unfounded post from conservative commentator Tomi Lahren has gone viral on Facebook suggesting key states in the presidential race are starting to "flip blue" due to a fraudulent mail-in voting system such as the one used in California.
The post was flagged as part of Facebook’s effort to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about PolitiFact California’s partnership with Facebook.) It received more than 700,000 views and 25,000 likes on the platform by early Wednesday afternoon.
Facebook added a warning label at the bottom of the post citing the trustworthiness of voting by mail.
With the nation’s focus on the still-undetermined presidential race, we set out to fact check Lahren’s claim.
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