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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

Maldita.esElections & voting

La CNN retira como ganador en Arizona a Biden y lo quita como ganador de las elecciones en Estados Unidos

Publisher’s rating: Falso

FactCheck.orgElections & voting

The Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act "emails ballots overseas without any citizenship check or verification of identity, whatsoever."

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactElections & voting

"Joe Biden tells voters he's 'going to beat Joe Biden.'"

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactElections & voting

“Minnesota was stolen from Scott Jensen.”

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

PolitiFactElections & voting

"Look at the men on this stage. Collectively, they have lost 10 elections. The only people on this stage who have won every single election that they’ve been in are the women, Amy and me."

Publisher’s rating: True

PolitiFactElections & voting

“Utah OFFICIALLY starts RECALL for Mitt Romney.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactElections & voting

“ABC News has confirmed that attendees to Trump WH Rally were paid. $150. ea and had to sign an NDA.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactElections & voting

Video shows “illegal ‘voters’ cutting the line” to vote in Pennsylvania.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactElections & voting

Ballots are “mailed unconstitutionally” to every voter in Colorado.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactElections & voting

No, pens provided by Arizona election officials aren’t part of a plot to rig state primary

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgElections & voting

Photo shows "Trump supporters are blocking access to polling sites" at Clifton City Hall in New Jersey.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactElections & voting

You can vote in Wisconsin with a photo ID "even if that ID is expired or you've moved."

Publisher’s rating: Mostly True

PolitiFactElections & voting

North Carolina removed 747,00 voters from the voter rolls to try to “steal the election.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactElections & voting

It’s a sign of fraud that “in 244 counties across the United States, there are more registered voters than there are people legally eligible to vote.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactElections & voting

If elected, “I will be the youngest vice president in American history.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactElections & voting

“Fairfax County (Va.) is not requiring the last four digits of Social Security Numbers on absentee ballots in this election.”

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

PolitiFactElections & voting

Virginia voters are being turned away from polling locations because they were told they already requested absentee ballots when they haven’t.

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

FactCheck.orgElections & voting

KKK marchers carried a Trump-Pence campaign banner.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactElections & voting

Says Donald Trump’s reelection campaign emailed supporters to “donate to help him recover from” COVID-19.

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

PolitiFactElections & voting

Voters in Maricopa County, Ariz., were forced to vote using Sharpie pens that aren’t read by voting machines.

Publisher’s rating: False