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Viral Facebook post: Quotes show Joseph Stalin and Joe Biden expressed similar views about counting votes.
PolitiFact's ruling: False
Here's why: Though divided by countries, decades and ideologies, former Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and President Joe Biden are being compared in a recent Facebook post that looks at the purported words of both men.
"It?s not who votes that counts," Stalin supposedly said. "It?s who counts the votes."
Biden, meanwhile, is quoted as saying: "The struggle?s no longer just who gets to vote. It?s about who gets to count the vote."
In July, for example, Biden said: "It?s no longer just who gets to vote or making it easier for eligible voters to vote. It?s about who gets to count the vote ? who gets to count whether or not your vote counted at all. It?s about moving from independent election administrators who work for the people to polarized state legislatures and partisan actors who work for political parties. To me, this is simple. This is election subversion. It?s the most dangerous threat to voting and the integrity of free and fair elections in our history. Never before have they decided who gets to count ? count ? what votes count."
"This struggle is no longer just over who gets to vote, or making it easier for eligible people to vote," Biden said in a video his account tweeted in October. "It?s about who gets to count the votes ? whether they should count at all. Jim Crow in the 21st century is now a sinister combination of voter suppression and election subversion."
In December he said: "Today, the right to vote and the rule of law are under unrelenting assault from Republican governors, attorney generals, secretaries of state, state legislators. They?re following my predecessor deep into the abyss. The struggle is no longer just who gets to vote or making it easier for eligible people to vote. It?s about who gets to count the vote and whether your vote counts at all. It?s a sinister combination of voter suppression and election subversion. It?s un-American, it?s un-democratic, it?s unpatriotic. And, sadly, it is not unprecedented now."
And speaking to reporters on Jan. 13 after meeting the Senate Democratic Caucus, Biden said: "State legislative bodies continue to change the law not as to who can vote, but who gets to count the vote ? count the vote. Count the vote! It?s about election subversion, not just whether or not people get to vote. Who counts the vote? That?s what this is about. That?s what makes this so different than anything else we?ve ever done."