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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 2020 presidential election was "rigged"

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

Related reporting addresses the claim that the 2020 presidential election was rigged against Donald Trump. It describes his assertion as part of a pattern of claims of widespread voter fraud and says the election’s legitimacy was confirmed by courts. The excerpt does not give details of the court proceedings or explain how the courts assessed particular allegations, so it supports only that limited account—not a reconstruction of the underlying evidence or of a PolitiFact investigation. A separate excerpt reports that, in December 2020, Attorney General Bill Barr said there was no evidence supporting the claim that the election was rigged. It also recounts former aide Cassidy Hutchinson’s later testimony about Trump’s reaction to Barr’s statement. These accounts document contemporaneous and subsequent responses to the claim, but do not independently provide a review of election results or evidence of fraud.