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Elections & voting fact checks
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Counting ballots for weeks after Election Day “is totally inappropriate, and I don't believe that's by our laws."
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
Joe Biden tenía un micrófono en la manga durante el debate con Donald Trump
Publisher’s rating: Falso
"Strength through joy" is a slogan of the Harris-Walz campaign.
Publisher’s rating: False
"RIGGED FROM THE START Election Official busted for rigging the 2020 election!!”
Publisher’s rating: Misleading
A person is on film “burning 80 Trump ballots.”
Publisher’s rating: False
در هر انتخابات ریاست جمهوری ۷۳٪ مردم ایران شرکت میکنند.
Publisher’s rating: نادرست
“The Left and the Democrats were calling for alternate electors after the 2016 election."
Publisher’s rating: Misleading
"MILLIONS OF MAIL-IN BALLOTS WILL BE PRINTED BY FOREIGN COUNTRIES," resulting in a "RIGGED" election.
Publisher’s rating: Unsupported
Says Kamala Harris called Joe Biden “a racist” during a Democratic presidential debate.
Publisher’s rating: False
“I’m running against a kid named Jon Ossoff, who has been endorsed by the Communist Party.”
Publisher’s rating: Four Pinocchios
Post showing images of Trump supporters rally on November 14
Publisher’s rating: PARTLY FALSE
Related reporting provides a caption for one image connected to the date and subject in the claim: it identifies Nick Fuentes speaking at a Stop the Steal march in Washington, D.C., on November 14, 2020. That supports the identification of this particular image as depicting a Trump-era rally, but the excerpt does not verify the post as a whole or establish whether its other images show the same event.
HR 1 “gives the federal government the power to establish their own committees” to take over the redistricting process.
Publisher’s rating: Mostly False
“We lost the state of Michigan because everybody from Republicans to Russians were targeting the suppression of African American voters.”
Publisher’s rating: Four Pinocchios
“The Post Office advises never send cash in the mail. It’s not secure. Vote by mail?”
Publisher’s rating: Mostly False
"Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote???"
Publisher’s rating: Trump can’t delay election
TV ad suggests that Raphael Warnock, a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate in Georgia, supports defunding the police.
Publisher’s rating: Misleading