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Elections & voting fact checks
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PolitiFactElections & voting
Says Georgia’s secretary of state won’t let the people recounting ballots check the signatures for fraud.
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
PolitiFactElections & voting
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called voter ID “racist,” calls NRA a “terrorist organization” and supports affirmative action.
Publisher’s rating: Half True
PolitiFactElections & voting
Image of people boarding up a window shows Michigan election officials are “preparing to steal this election”
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactElections & voting
A consent decree approved by Gov. Brian Kemp “invalidated all voter ID law” and “allowed fraudulent ballots to be accepted” in the 2020 race.
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
PolitiFactElections & voting
"The use of ballot drop boxes and ballot harvesting is illegal.”
Publisher’s rating: Mostly False
PolitiFactElections & voting
H.R. 1 would “prevent removal of ineligible voters from registration rolls.”
Publisher’s rating: False
Cedar Rapids GazetteElections & voting
In ads running in Iowa about John Delaney, a Democratic candidate for president and former U.S. representative from Maryland, Delaney says, "According to the CDC, guns were responsible for nearly 40,000 deaths in 2017, more than the annual number of automobile deaths." A graphic appears on screen that reads: "39,773 firearm deaths in 2017."
Publisher’s rating: A
Washington PostElections & voting
“I have never denied that I lost. I don’t live in the governor’s mansion; I would have noticed.”
Publisher’s rating: Spins the facts
PolitiFactElections & voting
"I will do everything I can to get who we nominate for (U.S. Senate from) Montana elected. It won't be me. I also think as we are having this discussion, you know, we talk about Colorado and Texas."
Publisher’s rating: Analyzing president plan Bs
PolitiFactElections & voting
Kari Lake’s lawsuit “exposes Arizona used no signature verification.”
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactElections & voting
“In the 2020 election, President Trump voted from behind the desk in the White House in Florida.”
Publisher’s rating: Half True
فکتنامهElections & voting
آیا میتوان انتخابات مجلس اول را آزادترین انتخابات بعد از انقلاب دانست؟
Publisher’s rating: بررسی انتخابات مجلس اول
PolitiFactElections & voting
The Commission on Presidential Debates wrote a letter after the 2016 presidential debates apologizing to Donald Trump.
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactElections & voting
A majority of Americans have voted for a party that … wants a world in which you cannot call your parents mom and dad."
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactElections & voting
“The Republicans and Trump funded $400 million in March of 2020 for mail ballots.”
Publisher’s rating: Half True
PolitiFactElections & voting
Student ID cards are a “source of fraud” at the polls.
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactElections & voting
“Joe Biden calls Pennsylvania voters who don’t support him ‘chumps.’”
Publisher’s rating: Mostly False
FactCheck.orgElections & voting
Dominion voting machines "were seized" in Ware County, Georgia.
Publisher’s rating: False
