It’s common to hear false claims on Election Day, election night and as votes are counted. Here are some things to know so you don’t fall for the falsehoods.
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Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Pennsylvania’s ABC News Affiliate WNEP-TV Did NOT Air Authentic Results Before 2024 General Election — It Was A Test
Is an ABC News affiliate's airing of apparent Pennsylvania election results that declared Vice President Kamala Harris the winner proof of election interference? No, that's not true: The station, WNEP-TV, already stated online that the di
PolitiFact→ Not knowing all the results on election night is normal. Here's why.
All results won’t be known on election night, and that’s normal. State laws about receiving, processing and tabulating mail ballots, and close margins, play a role. If it takes some states longer to finish counting, it is not a sign of wrongdoing.
The Dispatch→ ‘Election Results’ Shown on a Pennsylvania TV Station Were a System Test
The station has said the results aired mistakenly.
PolitiFact→ Viral image – An ABC News affiliate in Pennsylvania accidentally aired test election results; it’s not cheating
A Pennsylvania TV station aired the 2024 presidential election results early.
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – No, Kamala Harris didn’t say she wouldn't accept the 2024 election results
Kamala Harris "proclaimed she would not accept the outcome of the election and has a team of lawyers ready to overturn them"
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NOT Proof Of Cheating If Michigan, Georgia, Pennsylvania Do Not Have Final Results Election Night
Have key battleground states Michigan, Georgia and Pennsylvania officially announced that they will not have election results available on election night, pointing to election cheating already in the works? No, that's not true: The rules
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Data Do NOT Show ‘More Than 40,000 People In Houston’ Tested Positive For STDs In One Week — It’s ALL Tests For The Entire State, Regardless Of Results
Did more than 40,000 Houstonians test positive for sexually transmitted diseases during the week of June 17, 2024, as a post on Facebook claimed? No, that's not true: The Houston Health Department told Lead Stories that the "post includes
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – No, Biden didn’t tell West Point graduates he won’t accept 2024 election results
Joe Biden told West Point graduates that “he is not planning to accept the results of the 2024 election” and he wants them to “stand back and stand by” to ensure Donald J. Trump doesn’t win.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence 300,000 Ballot Images Are Missing From 2020 Election In Fulton County, Georgia; Results Are NOT Invalid
Is the 2020 presidential election tally in Fulton County, Georgia invalid on account of 300,000 missing ballot images? No, that's not true: The original paper ballots still exist and it's important to understand that the ballot image is n
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – No, CNN coverage of results doesn’t prove 2020 election was stolen
Photos of Pennsylvania vote tallies on CNN prove the 2020 election was stolen.
Health Feedback→ Incorrect claim that COVID-19 vaccines caused a 143,233% surge in cancer results from flawed calculations that misuse adverse event reporting data
REVIEW An Instagram post published in January 2024 claimed that “official data” from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showed a “143,233% surge in fatal cancers among Vaxxed Americans”. The figure most likely originat
PolitiFact→ New York Citizens Audit – No, difference in voter roll data and election results does not indicate crime
A discrepancy in the number of ballots and voters in the 2022 general election in New York “appears to be a federal crime.”
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘Memento Homo’ and Untrustworthy Google Results
On June 26 2023, Google took another turn toward actively disinforming readers when the search engine propagated a joke tweet by Twitter account @WeirdMedieval as a legitimate translation: crying bc google is propagating my fake news pic.twitter.c
Logically→ Congress’ war room video viral as ‘Bengaluru IT firm celebrating Karnataka poll results’
AllSides→ No, NCAA Didn’t Strip Lia Thomas of National Championship After Test Results
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ncaa-strip-lia-thomas-national-championship/ Claim: The NCAA stripped
AllSides→ No, NCAA Didn’t Strip Lia Thomas of National Championship After Test Results
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ncaa-strip-lia-thomas-national-championship/ Claim: The NCAA stripped
Truth or Fiction?→ Can the Texas Governor Now Overturn Election Results?
On May 11 2023, Imgur account u/Lanhdanan shared a meme claiming that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) bas been granted the ability to overturn Texas election results: No link was attached to the post providing context for the claim. However, three of the
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: CDC Did NOT Suppress Results Of Study On Safety Of Hepatitis B Vaccine In Infants — Results Available For Decades
Did the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suppress the results of a study that purportedly showed an increased risk of neurodevelopmental delays in newborns who were given a Hepatitis B vaccine during the first month of lif
Logically→ A photo shows Nigerian politician Babatunde Fashola accessing INEC’s server, which contains election results.
Logically→ Election results were removed from INEC’s viewing portal.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Study Does NOT Prove Drinking Coke, Pepsi Results In Larger Testicles, Increases Testosterone
Does a study published by Chinese researchers prove that drinking Coke or Pepsi causes larger testicles and increases testosterone? No, that's not true: The study was only done on mice, not humans, so it doesn't directly apply. An associa
Logically→ Results for Ekiti State were published prior to the Nigerian general elections.
PolitiFact→ Viral image – Human error caused brief misreporting of Georgia U.S. Senate runoff results
Fluctuating Georgia U.S. Senate runoff vote count is evidence of election fraud.
PolitiFact→ Viral image – No, early Georgia election results aren’t evidence of fraud
News clip showing Herschel Walker with early lead in Georgia U.S. Senate runoff is evidence of fraud.
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Maricopa’s final election results aren’t missing thousands of votes
“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.”
Health Feedback→ Results from a Swiss team didn’t show an 800-fold increase in myocarditis in vaccinated people compared to unvaccinated individuals
REVIEW After the onset of mass COVID-19 vaccination campaigns against COVID-19, public health agencies worldwide began to detect rare cases of myocarditis, a type of heart inflammation, among people who had received one of the authorized COVID-19 mR
Truth or Fiction?→ An Arizona County Won’t Certify Election Results After 2022 Midterms
On November 29 2022, an Imgur account shared a text-based image containing the claim that a county in Arizona is refusing to certify the results of the November 2022 midterm election: The text said: A thing is going on in Arizona. A few counties, wher
FactCheck.org→ Posts Misrepresent How Florida Arrived at Quick Election Results
Quick Take Florida law allows election officials to start counting early in-person and mail-in ballots before Election Day. But social media posts falsely claim Florida counted all of its more than 7 million votes in five hours on Election Day and stat
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Florida midterm results came out fast. Why do other states need more time?
It’s proof of “voter fraud” that it takes some states days to count 2 million votes while Florida results were available on election night.
PolitiFact→ Arizona’s widespread use of mail-in voting and close margins created longer wait for results
As election officials in Maricopa and other Arizona counties continued to count ballots, misinformation spread that falsely suggested the pace of the count was a sign of fraud. The pace is a result of vote by mail laws and close margins.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Delayed Election Results In The US ARE Normal And Not Proof Elections Are Rigged
Are delayed election results not normal, a Democratic Party plot that slows counting until days after Election Day? No, that's not true: It's becoming increasingly routine to get U.S. election results after election night because of state
PolitiFact→ Ask PolitiFact: What would speed up election results?
Close races and millions of mail ballots means that it takes several days or longer to tabulate unofficial results. But state laws that set earlier deadlines to mail out and return ballots can speed up the process. It also helps if voters submit mail b
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Biden’s Presidential Term Did NOT Start Right After 2020 Election Was Called — Results’ Timing Does NOT Influence Term Limits
Did President Joe Biden's term start immediately after the 2020 election was called, thus influencing Donald Trump's decision to announce a second presidential bid for 2024? No, that's not true: Biden was not formally sworn into office un
FactCheck.org→ Counting Mail-In Ballots Delays Results, But Doesn’t Denote Fraud
Quick Take Mail-in ballots have become a popular way to vote in the U.S. But the unfounded claim persists that mail ballots lead to rampant fraud and, if counted after Election Day, they are suspect. By law, many states don’t start counting mail
PolitiFact→ Donald Trump – Trump’s claim that a PA Supreme Court ruling proves the 2020 results were rigged is Pants on Fire!
“So the Pennsylvania Supreme Court just ruled, in effect, that the 2020 presidential election was rigged.”
The Dispatch→ Fact Check: Did a Phoenix TV Station Air Results From the State’s Gubernatorial Election?
Viral social media posts are claiming that Fox 10 Phoenix aired election results of the Arizona gubernatorial race prior to the election, showing Democratic candidate Katie Hobbs winning in favor of her Republican opponent, Kari Lake. An Instagram post
PolitiFact→ Liz Cheney – In Arizona, GOP candidates Kari Lake and Mark Finchem won’t commit to accepting election results
Kari Lake and Mark Finchem “have said that they will only honor the results of an election if they agree with it."
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Phoenix TV station accidentally airs mock election results
A Phoenix TV station aired the election results more than a week early.
Truth or Fiction?→ Lara Logan Rant Results in Newsmax Ban, Statement
Former CBS News correspondent Lara Logan was banned from far-right American cable network Newsmax in October 2022 after a bizarre antisemitic rant on October 19 2022 — the latest in a long string of appearances featuring escalating, fully conspi