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Elections & voting fact checks

Explore claims publishers have checked about elections & voting. Read their original ratings and follow the evidence.

5,415 published reviews in this topic

PolitiFactElections & voting

Joe Biden’s campaign told an Iowa library where Jill Biden was holding an event “to remove the American flag as they did not want to say the pledge of allegiance.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactElections & voting

"We heard from the Department of Homeland Security ... that this was probably the most secure election that’s ever been run in the United States.”

Publisher’s rating: True

PolitiFactElections & voting

"Michigan has requested a full forensic audit."

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactElections & voting

"Elaine Chao BUSTED Sending $97 Million Contract To Help Mitch McConnell Win Reelection."

Publisher’s rating: Half True

PolitiFactElections & voting

“Everyone on this stage except Amy (Klobuchar) and me is either a billionaire or is receiving help from PACs that can do unlimited spending.”

Publisher’s rating: Mostly True

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“Almost a million people, mostly Democrats, have been kicked off the voter roll here in Florida” because of efforts to place a proposed amendment on abortion access on the state’s 2024 ballot.

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

فکت‌نامهElections & voting

نظارت استصوابی از کجا آمد و چگونه به مهندسی انتخابات ختم شد؟

Publisher’s rating: نگاهی به ورود نظارت استصوابی به قانون انتخابات

PolitiFactElections & voting

“Jaime Harrison is being left off of South Carolina ballots”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactElections & voting

Photo shows Klansmen and a burning cross at “the Democratic National Convention of 1924.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactElections & voting

“Liberal woman films herself eating dog food” because she said, “I’m eating dog food until Kamala is president.”

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

PolitiFactElections & voting

“There was tremendous cheating in New York”

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

PolitiFactElections & voting

Vice President Mike Pence on Jan. 6, 2021, could have approved the 2020 electoral votes on the condition that Congress pass an overhaul of election law.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactElections & voting

Says Joe Biden is on video "admitting to" election fraud in a "confession."

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactElections & voting

“Joe Biden announced to the world tonight that they are going to cheat by dumping ballots.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactElections & voting

“Pennsylvania had 2.6 million mail in votes that the court of appeals of PA held to be unconstitutional. Umm that alone means Biden lost PA.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactElections & voting

Split election results show the Arizona governor’s race was rigged.

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

PolitiFactElections & voting

"Sunday was never used before as a voting day in Georgia.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactElections & voting

Says Joe Biden’s Democratic National Convention speech “had to be taped in segments, and the segments had to be edited together.”

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

PolitiFactElections & voting

“Republicans want to raise the voting to age 28.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactElections & voting

Says Kamala Harris proposed on X that “we have the next debate at a venue Donald Trump feels more comfortable: Jeffrey Epstein’s townhouse.”

Publisher’s rating: False