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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

“I don’t care for mail-in voting. That’s why I go to the polls.”

Publisher’s rating: Full Flop

PolitiFactElections & voting

“We already have won” the election.

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

FactCheck.orgElections & voting

CBS News report misrepresented a Latinos for Trump gathering as an event for Joe Biden.

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgElections & voting

"The satanic left removed Abraham Lincoln from ballots for fighting slavery. ... Now they’re trying to remove Donald Trump from ballots for fighting child sex slavery."

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactElections & voting

President Joe Biden is stepping down from the 2024 presidential race because he’s dead.

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

FactCheck.orgElections & voting

Online posts say Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted: "It's vital that Governors maintain restrictions on businesses until after the November Elections because economic recovery will help Trump be re-elected."

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactElections & voting

A poll worker in Erie County, Pa., threw out over 100 ballots for Donald Trump.

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgElections & voting

Independent Senate candidate Evan McMullin of Utah said that “the Republican base is racist.”

Publisher’s rating: Misleading

PolitiFactElections & voting

Says some of the names that may be purged from voter roll are people who have died.

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

FactCheck.orgElections & voting

"We are up BIG, but they are trying to STEAL the Election."

Publisher’s rating: No Evidence

PolitiFactElections & voting

Pennsylvania drop boxes were “pre-loaded” with ballots.

Publisher’s rating: Half True

Maldita.esElections & voting

Victoria legal para Trump, Biden deja de ser el presidente electo al encontrarse "evidencias de fraude" en los estados clave

Publisher’s rating: Falso

FactCheck.orgElections & voting

Queens Village voters in NYC "are receiving pre-filled out ballots for Joe Biden."

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactElections & voting

Photo shows 2024 ballots cast for Republicans in North Carolina that a postal worker said he was going to make “disappear.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactElections & voting

November election data shows a “stunning anomaly in the rejection rate of absentee ballots.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactElections & voting

Only Democratic cities take “‘days’ to count their votes” while “the rest of the country manages to get it done on election night.”

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

PolitiFactElections & voting

President Joe Biden “did a campaign ad at the graves in Arlington in 2020.”

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

PolitiFactElections & voting

Video shows a man interrupting Republican presidential candidate Will Hurd on “The View.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactElections & voting

Footage shows Dallas pollbooks fraudulently “adding hundreds of voters in real time as the poll was being closed.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactElections & voting

“AARP endorses Biden and gives financial support to Planned Parenthood.”

Publisher’s rating: False