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Fact checks: May 2016
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Fact checks: May 2016
- Fact check/Did South Carolina State Senator Wes Hayes vote to block a DOT reform bill in 2015 - May 31, 2016
- Fact check/Has Nebraska State Senate candidate Dan Quick received “tens of thousand of out-of-state and out-of-area” union dollars - May 28, 2016
- Fact check/Did California Assemblyman Devon Mathis vote for a "$100 million health care tax" - May 26, 2016
- Fact check/Is Washington Secretary of State Kim Wyman in the “crosshairs” of the voting rights group iVote - May 25, 2016
- Fact check/Did New York Assemblyman Keith Wright raise a “staggering amount of real estate money” for his congressional race - May 23, 2016
- Fact check/Did Scottsdale, Arizona, mayoral candidate Bob Littlefield vote for height and density towers that set a precedent for high-rise development - May 22, 2016
- Fact check/Did Stockton, California, have “its lowest crime rate in the past 15 years” in 2014 - May 21, 2016
- Fact check/Is Georgia House District 80 candidate Meagan Hanson "the only conservative" in the Republican primary - May 20, 2016
- Fact check/Did GOP Rep. Steve Knight vote to allow federal contractors “to discriminate against the LGBT community” - May 16, 2016
- Fact check/Is it too late for an independent presidential candidate to get on the ballot for the November election - May 13, 2016
- Fact check/Was the 1994 crime bill a primary driver of mass incarceration of African American men - May 12, 2016
- Fact check/Is Oregon secretary of state candidate Brad Avakian making campaign promises he wouldn’t “actually have the authority to” keep - May 12, 2016
- Fact check/Do West Virginia Democratic gubernatorial primary candidates Booth Goodwin and Jeff Kessler want to raise taxes - May 09, 2016
- Fact check/Has Sen. John McCain voted for tax hikes, bailouts, "massive new spending," and increases to the debt ceiling - May 07, 2016
- Fact check/Did U.S. Senate candidate Russ Feingold break “his promise to reject… massive out-of-state contributions” - May 05, 2016
- Fact check/Did Sen. Kelly Ayotte vote for cuts to Pell Grants and against refinancing student loans - May 03, 2016
- Fact check/Did a gay rights bill backed by Indiana State Senate leader David Long include religious freedom protections - May 02, 2016
