[RELATED: See a questionable claim on social media? Share it with the Trust Index fact-checking team]CLAIM: Votes were eliminated in Arizona because people were made to use Sharpie pens to mark their ballots.
This caused the tabulation machine to cancel the vote.THE FACTS: As Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden was declared the winner of the presidential vote in Arizona, social media posts circulated falsely suggesting that votes for Trump were canceled because people were told to use Sharpies to fill out their ballots.Arizona election officials confirmed that Sharpies were used in voting, but they said that would not invalidate a ballot.