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The Washington Post’s fact-checker sharply critiqued former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton<\/a> for her claims on Sunday concerning\u00a0voter suppression in Wisconsin and Georgia in the 2016 presidential election.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cClinton made several factual errors, offered questionable claims about a couple of studies, and ended up giving a misleading assessment of her loss,\u201d Salvador Rizzo wrote in his column. The Post gave Clinton \u201cFour Pinocchios.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI was the first person who ran for president without the protection of the Voting Rights Act, and I will tell you, it makes a really big difference,\u201d Clinton said Sunday in Selma, Ala., commemorating \u201cBloody Sunday.\u201d \u201cAnd it doesn\u2019t just make a difference in Alabama and Georgia; it made a difference in Wisconsin, where the best studies that have been done said somewhere between 40 [thousand] and 80,000 people were turned away from the polls because of the color of their skin, because of their age, because of whatever excuse could be made up to stop a fellow American citizen from voting.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWrong on multiple levels, seriously misleading and worth a cumulative Four Pinocchios,\u201d the Post piece concluded.<\/p>\n Clinton also faulted\u00a0the Supreme Court for voter turnout in 2016, some5hing The Post disputed.<\/p>\n \u201cJust think about it: Between 2012, the prior presidential election where we still had the Voting Rights Act, and 2016, when my name was on the ballot, there were fewer voters registered in Georgia than there had been those prior four years,\u201d Clinton told the audience.<\/p>\n DEMS FEAR\u00a0CLINTON-SANDERS FEUD COULD DAMAGE PARTY IN 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n The Post responded that \u201cClinton\u2019s claim that total voter registration declined in that state from 2012 to 2016 is false; it increased.\u201d<\/p>\n Former Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus also called Clinton\u2019s comments false.<\/p>\n CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n \u201cTotally false.\u00a0 She forgot to show up — now making up false and hurtful stories,\u201d President Trump\u2019s former chief of staff tweeted.<\/a><\/p>\n Clinton did not personally campaign in Wisconsin.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n