The craziest election myths Snopes has had to debunk this year



Click ahead to read the craziest debunked election stories of the year... Clones, Russian spy plots and more!

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We are finally at the end of the road. And boy, what a strange, meme-filled road it has been.

Thanks to social media, political hoaxes have the power to spread like never before. You've probably seen a few (dozen) on your Facebook feed, shared from odd-sounding sites like The Denver Guardian and National Report. And with an already insane election taking place around us, it's been all too easy for fake news peddlers to take wild stories and turn them into viral sensations.

"Competition for social media's large supply of willing eyeballs is fierce, and a number of frequent offenders regularly fabricate salacious and attention-grabbing tales simply to drive traffic (and revenue) to their sites," debunking site Snopes notes.

Snopes has been working overtime the last six months to cover the myriad election hoaxes, many of them surrounding the health of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. We've combed through their archives to find the wackiest election hoaxes of the year — and there are some doozies.

To see the craziest election myths that Snopes had to debunk, check out the gallery above.

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