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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

Maldita.esElections & voting

La Cámara de Representantes de Pensilvania declara los resultados electorales del Estado en disputa.

Publisher’s rating: Falso

PolitiFactElections & voting

At Vice President Kamala Harris’ Houston campaign rally, when an attendee had a medical emergency, none of the “abortion doctors” onstage helped.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactElections & voting

“They are trying to make it illegal to question the results of a bad election.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactElections & voting

Fox News aired a chyron that said, “Kamala could be the oldest elected female president.”

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

Washington PostElections & voting

“We have claimed, for Electoral Vote purposes, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (which won’t allow legal observers) the State of Georgia, and the State of North Carolina, each one of which has a BIG Trump lead. Additionally, we hereby claim the State of Michigan if, in fact,..... .....there was a large number of secretly dumped ballots as has been widely reported!”

Publisher’s rating: Four Pinocchios

FactCheck.orgElections & voting

Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs is seen in a photo "inside the ballot rooms" during vote tabulation.

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgElections & voting

"Computer software must have used an algorithm to change the votes" in Georgia, according to a mathematician.

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgElections & voting

CNN clip shows "HAMMER SCORECARD caught on camera in PA" and votes getting "taken from...Trump" and "given to Biden."

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactElections & voting

“America has 133 million registered voters,” but “159 million votes” were cast in the 2020 presidential election.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactElections & voting

Early morning election results from Michigan and Wisconsin show voter fraud.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactElections & voting

"I'm one of only two candidates in the field that 10% or more of Donald Trump voters say they would support in the general" election.

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

PolitiFactElections & voting

“We indicted someone in Texas, 1,700 ballots collected from people who could vote, he made them out and voted for the person he wanted to.”

Publisher’s rating: False

Washington PostElections & voting

“What I’m worried about is how un-American this whole initiative is. It’s sick. It’s sick … deciding that you’re going to end voting at five o’clock when working people are just getting off work.”

Publisher’s rating: Four Pinocchios

PolitiFactElections & voting

An “audit report” found that a voting system used in Michigan in the 2020 presidential election was designed to “create systemic fraud.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactElections & voting

Photo shows people protesting the 2020 election in Washington D.C. on Jan. 5, 2021.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactElections & voting

“Wisconsin took a break, and when they returned, Biden coincidentally came back ahead by 100k.”

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

PolitiFactElections & voting

During the pandemic, “I’ve been in D.C. voting regularly.”

Publisher’s rating: Half True

PolitiFactElections & voting

"Across the state the rejection rate for ballots went way down” in the Nov. 3 election.

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

Viral imageElections & voting

There were no American flags at the first Democratic presidential debate.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactElections & voting

Detroit has “2,503 dead people registered” including “one voter born in 1823.”

Publisher’s rating: False