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Elections & voting fact checks
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In California, there were “10 million mail ballots unaccounted for” in the November midterm election.
Publisher’s rating: False
“Milwaukee Elections Chief Lost Elections Flash Drive in Morning Hours of November 4th When Democrats Miraculously Found 120,000 Votes for Joe Biden.”
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
The audit of the 2020 presidential election in Maricopa County, Ariz., “cost the taxpayers $6 million.”
Publisher’s rating: Mostly False
“Biden did not win legally.”
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
Related reporting about the 2020 election says Trump falsely asserted that his loss to Joe Biden was rigged. It reports that numerous courts and vote recounts found no evidence of large-scale fraud. That evidence weighs against the claim that Biden did not win legally: the excerpt describes legal challenges and recounts, but reports no findings that would invalidate Biden’s victory. The excerpt does not identify particular court cases, recounts, or the precise wording or speaker of the quoted claim. It therefore supports a limited conclusion about the claim’s subject and the reported state of the evidence, not a detailed account of how individual legal challenges were resolved.
There’s “evidence of a massive transfer of completed, curated ballots” that are fraudulent in the 2022 election.
Publisher’s rating: False
Absentee voting is different from mail-in voting and has more protections against fraud.
Publisher’s rating: False
Nikki Haley is ineligible to be president or vice president.
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
“We’re going to be looking at dead persons’ ballots, which may actually be very, very substantial" in Pennsylvania.
Publisher’s rating: No Evidence
Poll watchers in Philadelphia prevented from entering polling places.
Publisher’s rating: Half True
Video muestra que “‘votantes’ ilegales SE COLARON a LA FILA OTRA VEZ! En Pensilvania estado clave”.
Publisher’s rating: False
Arizona House bill to “decertify” 2020 results “could effectively recall the Biden electors.”
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
Photo shows “2 sitting senators counting ballots” in Georgia.
Publisher’s rating: False
“If you were forced to use a Sharpie” to fill out your ballot, “that is voter fraud.”
Publisher’s rating: False
“The MOB in PA was HIRED by the Biden team to create fake ballots by the thousands!!”
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
A photo shows a Trump rally held on Aug. 5 in Wisconsin attracted a “massive” crowd.
Publisher’s rating: False
