The 2014 Lie of the Year Finalists: Vote in the PolitiFact Readers' Poll
We announce the 10 finalists for Lie of the Year from PolitiFact and PunditFact, and we invite you to cast your ballot in our Readers' Poll.
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"Too many" tattoos "on visible body parts" keep some applicants out of the military.
— PolitiFact Florida
Immigrants "have captured all of the nearly 9 million jobs created since 2000."
— PunditFact
The poorest counties in the U.S. are in Appalachia and "happen to be more than 90 percent white."
— PolitiFact Virginia
"Every president since Eisenhower has taken executive action to address immigration issues."
— PolitiFact Virginia
Rhode Island's legislature is "the strongest in the country."
— PolitiFact Rhode Island
Wisconsin is below the national average in wage growth and job growth.
— PolitiFact Wisconsin
Austin is "burdened by the fastest-growing tax increases of any major city in the nation."
— PolitiFact Texas
"Our median income here in Providence is the same as the median income in Mississippi."
— PolitiFact Rhode Island
"The conviction rate is almost exactly the same" for whites and blacks who commit murder.
— PunditFact