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In a hotly-contested December 2017 special election for an open U.S. Senate seat in Alabama, Doug Jones edged out Republican candidate Roy Moore by the slim margin of about 21,000 votes in an election that saw more than 1.3 million ballots cast. Moore decline to concede, as his campaign said they wanted to hold out and see if provisional and overseas ballots counted later would close the vote gap. (The Alabama Secretary of State’s office later said they received 5,333 such ballots, not nearly enough to overcome Jones' margin of victory.) The day after the election, the Ladies of Liberty web site published an article reporting that Jones had received over 5,000 votes in an Alabama town whose voting population was only about 1,800, with the discrepancy attributed to ballots being cast in the names of dead people: A follow-up article published on the reaganwasright.com web site soon afterwards held that a total of more than 12,000 ballots cast for Jones had been traced to voters who were no longer among the living: Both of these reports were false. They were nothing more than fabrications originating with two web sites belonging to a network of clickbait fake news outlets, bearing identical disclaimers identifying their content as fiction:
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