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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

Wisconsin is “run by Democrats right now,” so they should address election social distancing concerns

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

PolitiFactElections & voting

Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein cost Democratic nominee Kamala Harris an election win in Wisconsin.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactElections & voting

Says U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, his prospective opponent, has received $1.2 million from the gun lobby.

Publisher’s rating: Half True

PolitiFactElections & voting

Democrats “are trying to ban voter ID.”

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

PolitiFactElections & voting

“Pennsylvania is under a court order to count their ballots on election day and not after!!”

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

FactCheck.orgElections & voting

Sen. Bernie Sanders, after losing his initial bid for a House seat in 1998, “didn’t talk about the assault weapons ban” when he ran again and won two years later.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactElections & voting

The 2020 election could not have been fair because “Los Angeles County agreed, during litigation, that there were 1.2 million ineligible voters after the election.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactElections & voting

“If you count the legal votes, I easily win. If you count the illegal votes, they can try to steal the election from us.”

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

PolitiFactElections & voting

In the 2018 Florida governor's race "votes were being stolen by the corrupt election process in Broward. … I sent in the FBI and the U.S. Attorneys, and the ballot theft immediately ended. … I stopped his Election from being stolen."

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

PolitiFactElections & voting

U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said on X, “New York and California are absolutely flipping red.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactElections & voting

"Kari Lake has been appearing at rallies with neo-Nazis," while "two federal juries have found" Katie Hobbs "guilty of racial discrimination."

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

PolitiFactElections & voting

Video shows movers carrying boxes out of the White House as President Trump discusses 2020 election results.

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgElections & voting

"Voter Fraud in Michigan – Massive Dump of Over 200,000 Ballots for Biden All the Sudden Appear Overnight."

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactElections & voting

If Donald Trump “didn’t win Michigan why does the actual government site say he did?”

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgElections & voting

"There were in fact watermarks on the ballots in Arizona."

Publisher’s rating: False