Fact-check: “the majority of the countries in the OECD allow their citizens to use mail-in ballots for their national elections without restrictions”
Verdict: False (82% confidence)
International IDEA's special voting arrangements data — the principal comparative authority — shows only about 27% of OECD countries allow in-country postal voting for all voters without restriction, far short of the majority (>50%) threshold the claim requires. Even combining countries that allow it for all voters with those that allow it for only some voters reaches roughly 51%, but that mixed group explicitly includes restricted and conditional access, which contradicts the 'without restrict…
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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