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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

“The recent statement by Chris Krebs on the security of the 2020 Election was highly inaccurate, in that there were massive improprieties and fraud."

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

Related reporting describes the circumstances behind Chris Krebs’s statements about the 2020 election. Truthout reports that CISA, the agency Krebs led, joined secretaries of state and voting-machine vendors in vouching for the election’s integrity. It also says Krebs publicly rebutted White House-amplified claims as “unsubstantiated” or “technically incoherent,” after which Trump fired him. This is direct reporting about Krebs’s election-security statements, though the excerpt does not reproduce the particular statement targeted by the claim. The account also describes actions taken as officials prepared to certify the results. It reports that CISA and the FBI convinced Attorney General Bill Barr that conspiracy theories embraced by Trump could be explained by human error rather than systemic fraud or hacking. The supplied excerpt does not provide the underlying evidence, a detailed audit, or a tally of alleged improprieties, so it cannot establish those points independently; it does show that the assertion of massive fraud conflicts with the account’s description of the agency’s election-integrity statement and officials’ assessment.

PolitiFactElections & voting

“Finally, a judge has ruled Dominion voting machines were designed to create fraud.”

Publisher’s rating: False

Research from related reporting identifies the allegation but does not provide evidence that a judge actually made the claimed ruling. A roundup published by AMG News attributes the statement to a Telegram post and says it concerned a forensic audit of Dominion voting machines following alleged problems with Michigan’s 2020 election. The excerpt presents the quoted language as something that “was released by a judge,” but names neither the judge nor the court, and supplies no ruling, audit report, or other primary record to verify that account. The excerpt ends before the quoted statement is complete. It therefore cannot establish the full context or provenance of the alleged findings, or whether the words came from a judicial decision rather than a claim about an audit. This source supports that the allegation circulated; on its own, it does not substantiate the claim that a judge ruled Dominion machines were designed to create fraud.