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Elections & voting fact checks
Explore claims publishers have checked about elections & voting. Read their original ratings and follow the evidence.
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PolitiFactElections & voting
“The legislature has long maintained that the law never allowed these illegal drop boxes.”
Publisher’s rating: Mostly False
PolitiFactElections & voting
“Active crime scene in Spalding County, Ga., where ballots for President Donald Trump were discovered in a dumpster.”
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactElections & voting
Says Joe Biden and Democrats "have not legitimately won" the presidency.
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
PolitiFactElections & voting
Says shredded ballots were found in Dell boxes in Georgia.
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
Washington PostElections & voting
“You have to remember what I went through in my 2018 election, where they completely violated the law. They found 95,000 votes after election night.”
Publisher’s rating: Four Pinocchios
PolitiFactElections & voting
“Video shows Kamala (Harris) responding to someone talking through her earrings that she allegedly wore during the Trump vs. Harris debate.”
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
PolitiFactElections & voting
Rep. Adam Kinzinger “admits Trump won” the 2020 presidential election.
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactElections & voting
Democrats “used COVID to cheat” in the 2020 election
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
PolitiFactElections & voting
“Two mail in ballots in PA (were) sent to the same person with their names on both a week and a half apart.”
Publisher’s rating: Half True
PolitiFactElections & voting
"There’s danger involved in drop boxes. People need to think about it. Okay. Imagine someone decides ‘oh, there’s a drop box I’m just going to put some explosive and and blow it up and burn all of those ballots’ and now those votes don’t count at all."
Publisher’s rating: Ignores long safe record
PolitiFactElections & voting
CNN reported July 3 that “Joe has decided to drop out of the 2024 Presidential race and will be replaced by Hunter Biden.”
Publisher’s rating: False
PesaCheckElections & voting
Prezzo' to vie in Kibra by elections on Wiper ticket
Publisher’s rating: False.
FactCheck.orgElections & voting
Former Vice President Mike Pence said, “Vote for Kamala Harris as president of the United States or Tim Walz as her running mate."
Publisher’s rating: False
Facebook postsElections & voting
Says singer Charlie Daniels said, "voting for Trump is like playing country music backwards … you get your house back, your car back, your job back, your country back!"
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
FactCheck.orgElections & voting
Photos show Joe Biden and Kamala Harris at a campaign rally and there is "not a mask in sight."
Publisher’s rating: Misleading
PolitiFactElections & voting
Says voter registration in Wisconsin ends Oct. 14.
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactElections & voting
The Freedom to Vote Act is “a sprawling takeover of our whole political system.”
Publisher’s rating: False
FactCheck.orgElections & voting
Joe Biden "got more of the popular vote than any other President in history" is a "lie."
Publisher’s rating: False
