A Maricopa County voter shared an image of two mail ballots she received. An elections official said this happened because the voter changed her address as voter registration ended and only one ballot will be counted. This doesn’t signal fraud.
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PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Abraham Lincoln wasn’t removed from 1860 ballots; comparison to Trump removals faulty
"Last time Democrats removed a Republican from the ballot” was Abraham Lincoln in 1860.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Iowa Caucus Voters Throwing Random Scraps Into Paper Bag — Ballots Are Watermarked, Preprinted
Do social media reactions to video showing Republicans putting ballots in a brown paper bag during the Iowa Caucus correctly assume an absence of election integrity measures at the caucus? No, that is not true: Kelley Koch, the Republican
The Dispatch→ Florida Man Blocked From Colorado Ballots
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ABC News / AP Fact Check→ Trump misleadingly cites ‘duplicate’ ballots as proof of election fraud
Donald Trump is continuing to cast doubt on the 2020 election results in Georgia as he seeks a return to the White House amid myriad legal cases.
PolitiFact→ Ron DeSantis – DeSantis’ critique of Trump election spending omits that not all $400 million went for mail ballots
“The Republicans and Trump funded $400 million in March of 2020 for mail ballots.”
PolitiFact→ Vivek Ramaswamy has called for ‘paper ballots.’ Most Americans vote that way already
Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, a candidate for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, has called for paper ballots to improve election security. Most Americans already live in jurisdictions that use paper ballots.
PolitiFact→ TikTok posts – No, Congress isn’t printing election ballots without Donald Trump's name
“Congress say they will start printing 2024 ballot without Trump name in October 2023.”
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ Arkansas isn’t ditching voting machines for paper ballots, despite claims online
CLAIM: Arkansas is switching to election ballots that are marked by hand rather than by machine. AP’S ASSESSMENT: False.
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ Misinfo about ‘suitcases’ of ballots and a burst pipe in 2020 return after Trump’s Georgia indictment
CLAIM: On election night in 2020, a burst water pipe at a ballot processing site in Georgia’s Fulton County allowed workers to steal the election from former President Donald Trump.
PolitiFact→ Donald Trump – Fact-check: Trump’s bogus claim on Fox News that ballots in 2020 were ‘fake’
In 2020 the ballots that were counted "were fake ballots."
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Postal Service Report Did NOT Confirm Driver’s Claims Of Missing Ballots
Did a U.S. Postal Service report confirm a driver's claims of missing ballots from the 2020 presidential election? No, that's not true: The report released did not corroborate the driver's claims and instead noted that "Investigators conf
PolitiFact→ TikTok posts – Impeached Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton didn’t discard millions of mail ballots
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was “caught on tape saying he discarded 2.5 million mail-in ballots in Texas.”
PolitiFact→ Fact-checking ‘Succession’: What happens if a fire destroys 100,000 absentee ballots in Milwaukee?
Decision Desk Darwin is right, Shiv Roy: A revote for a presidential election really would be unprecedented.
PolitiFact→ Public Interest Legal Foundation – Millions of California ballots were simply unused, not ‘unaccounted for,’ experts say
In California, there were “10 million mail ballots unaccounted for” in the November midterm election.
FactCheck.org→ No Evidence for Kari Lake’s Claim that Maricopa County Ballots Lacked Chain of Custody Records
Quick Take A judge on Dec. 24 dismissed Kari Lake’s claim that there was no chain of custody for 300,000 mail-in ballots in Maricopa County, Arizona, during the 2022 election, yet posts on social media continue to spread the baseless claim. E
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Kari Lake’s lawsuit does not show Arizona failed to verify signatures on mail ballots
Kari Lake’s lawsuit “exposes Arizona used no signature verification.”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ZIP Codes For 31,000 Mail-In Ballots Were NOT Changed In Arizona
Were ZIP codes for 31,000 mail-in ballots changed before they were sent out, quietly changed back when they were returned as undeliverable and then fraudulently used to vote in Arizona? No, that's not true: The secretary of state's office
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Maricopa County Did NOT Lose Hundreds Of Thousands Of Voters Or Ballots On Election Day
Did Maricopa County, Arizona, lose some 292,000 votes in its final vote tally for the November 8, 2022, elections? No, that's not true: The tweet making that claim left out voters who returned their mail-in ballots in person and people wh
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Arizona Ballots Spilling From Trash Cans — Scene Was In Australia Two Months Before US Midterm Elections
Does a video show Arizona ballots falling out of trash can on an escalator, implying possible election fraud? No, that's not true: The footage, taken in Australia, was uploaded two months before the November 2022 Arizona mid-term election
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – This video doesn’t prove ballots broke chain of custody in Maricopa County, Arizona
Video shows Arizona ballots “break chain of custody in Arizona.”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Arizona DOES Allow Dropping Off Mail-In Ballots For Other Voters
Does a video showing people dropping off multiple ballots at one time in a drop box prove election fraud and what "really happened" in Arizona? No, that's not true: Delivering more than one ballot for other voters is legal in Arizona. Ind
PolitiFact→ Viral image – No evidence that ballots found in California county signal Democratic scheme
Ballots recovered from a Santa Clara County, California, ravine are evidence of “how the left cheats to win.”
PolitiFact→ Viral image – Photo of bagged ballots in California isn’t evidence of misconduct, contrary to claims
Photo shows “ballots not counted in California and this is only one polling location. Yet Gavin Newsom was declared governor minutes after polling stations closed.”
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – No, bags of ballots are not a sign of fraud in Maricopa County, Arizona
Bags arriving at the Maricopa County vote counting site are evidence of “Democrats with the help of the media and GOP establishment stealing another election.”
Logically→ A viral image shows “thousands of ballots in the trash” after the 2022 midterm election in the U.S.
The images are originally from 2020 and 2021, wrongly linked to the 2022 Midterm elections. The claim originated on a satirical Twitter account.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Arizona Ballots Did NOT Make Unsupervised Stop At Runbeck Company On Way To Counting Room
Did Maricopa County, Arizona ballots make a stop with no observers at "Runbeck Printing Company" to be sorted before they were sent to the county for counting? No, that's not true: The claim was made without direct evidence. Maricopa Coun
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Pictures Of Thrown-Out Ballots Are NOT From 2022 — They Were Reported In 2020
Did garbage collectors "from L.A. County California, to Chavez County New Mexico," find "thousands of midterm ballots" in the trash before the 2022 midterm elections? No, that's not true: The photos used in this claim are from news articl
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Arizona ‘Poll Watcher’ Did NOT Have Access To Voter Check-In Data — 200 Extra People Did NOT Cast Ballots
Did a Republican poll watcher in Arizona have access to voter check-in information where she claims to have seen evidence that 200 extra ballots were counted? No, that's not true: The Maricopa County Elections Department told Lead Stories
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘Iranian Whistleblower’ Did NOT Reveal Successful Hack Of Voter Registration Database To Create Fraudulent Military Ballots
Does a video show an "Iranian whistleblower" revealing how they hacked a federal voter registration database during the U.S. 2020 election and created fraudulent overseas ballots? No, that's not true: The footage -- shown at an election i
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: It’s NOT Suspicious – Just Factual — That Allegheny County Requested More Dem Mail-In Ballots Than Philadelphia Despite Having Fewer Dems
Was it suspicious that more Democrats in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, requested mail-in ballots than Democrats in Philadelphia County, even though 273,765 fewer registered Democratic voters live in Allegheny County in 2022? No, that's
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – No, Democrats didn’t steal ‘every election in the country’ with mail ballots
Democrats used “47 million mail-in ballots” to steal “every election in the country.”
PolitiFact→ Viral image – No, these aren’t photos of trashed 2022 election ballots
Photos shows 2022 “midterm ballots in trash.”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Photos Do NOT Show Detroit Ballots Arriving After ‘Legal’ Deadline
Do online photographs show absentee ballots arriving at a Detroit processing center on Election Day "hours after the legal deadline" for counting ballots? No, that's not true: Election officials in Detroit say late-night deliveries are th
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Wisconsin Poll Worker Was NOT Caught ‘Rigging Ballots On Live TV’
Did a poll worker in Dane County, Wisconsin get caught rigging ballots on live television? No, that's not true: The Dane County Clerk, whose office records election information, explained that this poll worker was doing routine work, prep
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Recirculated 2020 video was a simulation and does not depict fraudulent creation of real ballots
A video shows a whistleblower creating fraudulent military ballots during the 2020 presidential election.
The Dispatch→ Fact Checking Claims That ‘It Should Take One Day’ to Count Ballots
A viral tweet from Arizona GOP Rep. Paul Gosar claims,“It shouldn’t take days or weeks to count all legal votes in an election. It should take one day, and one day is all it took until very recently.” It shouldn't take days or weeks to co
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Fetterman lawsuit seeking to count undated ballots not akin to election stealing
John Fetterman “is suing for the right to cheat and steal the election.”
Poynter→ No, Maricopa vote tabulators didn’t lead to ballots with ‘no chain of custody’
Soon after polls opened in Arizona’s Maricopa County, a number of automatic vote counting machines, called tabulators, stopped working smoothly. Twitter abounded with claims of election shenanigans. “Democrats running elections […] The po
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: PA Judge Did NOT Allow For Ballots To Be Received And Counted Up To November 14, 2022
Did a Pennsylvania judge's ruling allow mail-in ballots to be accepted and counted up until November 14, 2022? No, that's not true: According to the Pennsylvania Department of State, mail-in ballots must be received by the voter's respect