Neil Cavuto asked specifically: “Well, what is getting out from Judicial Watch that you're trying to clarify?”

“Well, they pulled some numbers out of the air that they're trying to indicate that we have more registered voters than we have eligible voters in certain counties, and that's absolutely not correct,” Pate said. “We work very hard to make sure those numbers are accurate, and our county auditors in our office update those on a regular basis. So, they're just, in my opinion, trying to make it look like we've got ghosts as potential voters in our state. And that's just simply not true.”

Cavuto then changed the subject to other aspects of the Iowa caucuses — rather than digging down on the fact that fellow hosts and frequent guests at Fox News are avidly spreading falsehoods.

Pate also released a statement declaring: “My office has told this organization, and others who have made similar claims, that their data regarding Iowa is deeply flawed and their false claims erode voter confidence in elections. They should stop this misinformation campaign immediately and quit trying to disenfranchise Iowa voters.”

So now that a Republican elected official went on Fox to say that the voter registration system is in fact all clean and proper, can we bank this for the next round of right-wing “voter fraud” fear-mongering?

Not really. After all of this whole ordeal, Sean Hannity is still tweeting this thing around: