Issues: medicare

Is Bush Abusing Seniors with Medicare Rx Benefit?

January 9, 2004

A liberal group’s ad gets a couple facts right, but leaves out the good stuff.

Fibs and Flubs at Democratic Debate

January 5, 2004

Straining the facts at Iowa’s debate on Sunday Jan. 4.

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Q: Are voting machines changing Democratic votes to Republican votes? Several posts on Facebook are making that claim.

A: There is no evidence that touchscreen voting machines are deliberately switching voter selections. Rather, elections experts and state election officials have said that reported issues of machines initially not recording votes correctly are a result of familiar machine calibration issues or voter error. Also, nearly the entire country votes in a manner where voters review a paper ballot before having their votes officially cast.

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