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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

In 2020, Trump “did much better” in the Wisconsin election than 2016, and “after the wrongdoing was found, people said, ‘Well, he actually did win.’”

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

PolitiFactElections & voting

Ballots recovered from a Santa Clara County, California, ravine are evidence of “how the left cheats to win.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactElections & voting

“Pete Buttigieg is a favorite candidate of Wall Street and the health care industry.”

Publisher’s rating: Half True

Donald TrumpElections & voting

"Well, I got 52% (of women voters). And I will tell you — in my opinion I might have won women. ... Hey, Hillary Clinton focused on women, and I did phenomenally well."

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

FactCheck.orgElections & voting

"[T]he so-called Commission on Presidential Debates ... 3 years ago they were forced to publicly apologize for modulating my microphone in the first debate."

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactElections & voting

“Pennsylvania sent out 1,823,148 mail-in ballots. They got back 2,589,242.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactElections & voting

Says Democratic members of Congress who represent Cuban Americans in Florida and have been critical of Sanders “just so happen to be supporting other candidates.”

Publisher’s rating: Half True

FactCheck.orgElections & voting

"MORE ELECTION FRAUD: 32,400 Votes Removed from Senator Perdue’s Vote Tally Live on TV."

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgElections & voting

Yearbook photo shows Senate candidate Mark Kelly "dressed as Adolf Hitler."

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactElections & voting

Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Mike Rogers “wants to cut Medicare and Social Security.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactElections & voting

“Maricopa County announced that on Election Day over 540,000 voters visited one of the 223” vote centers, but final official results data claimed that “only 248,070 people voted.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactElections & voting

“Biden says he doesn’t need voters to get elected.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactElections & voting

When 36% of the vote was in, Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Josh Shapiro had 370,706 votes and 56.6% of the vote while Doug Mastriano had 844,669 and 41.6%.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactElections & voting

That J.D. Vance said, “People who voted for Trump voted for him for racist reasons.”

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgElections & voting

Lawsuit claims that Detroit's voter rolls have "4,788 duplicate registrations" and "2,503 dead people registered."

Publisher’s rating: Misleading

PolitiFactElections & voting

A $2 million grant for Georgia’s DeKalb County amounts to a “private takeover of election offices.”

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgElections & voting

Viral video shows man "BURNING" 80 "TRUMP BALLOTS!"

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactElections & voting

Joe Biden plagiarized Donald Trump in his Democratic National Convention speech.

Publisher’s rating: False

Pesa CheckElections & voting

Dumped ballot papers in Arizona US

Publisher’s rating: MISSING CONTEXT

PolitiFactElections & voting

Says Nancy Pelosi said, "It is dangerous to let the voters decide Trump’s fate."

Publisher’s rating: False