In late December 2020, a screenshot of a newspaper headline reading “How Election Was Stolen” was belched forth from the bowels of the internet and began to circulate, bearing additional commentary, “Funny how the rest of the world g
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Liste→ Conspiracy theory links false claim of AT&T election audit to bombing
Social media posts shared thousands of times claim AT&T was contracted to conduct a “forensic audit” of machines from election technologies firm Dominion Voting Systems, linking this to a bombing near one of the telecommunication company’s facili
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Purported Evidence in ‘The Plot To Steal America’ Video Does NOT Support Election Fraud Claims — Mostly Consists of Rehashed Hoaxes
Does an advertising video titled "The Plot To Steal America" contain hard evidence of election fraud? No, that's not true: the 18-minute pitch contains allegations based on video clips purporting to show "evidence" but several of these cl
Snopes→ Can Veep Play the ‘Pence Card’ and Reject US Election Results?
An error-riddled rumor was copied and pasted across social media in an exceedingly desperate attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
Snopes→ Counties Won vs. Popular Vote Does Not Signify Election Fraud
Counties are not a significant factor in U.S. presidential elections, but population density is.
Fact-Checking – Poynter→ Georgia is the new epicenter of US misinformation following the presidential election
Lee en español Attention has shifted from the U.S. presidential election and false claims of voter fraud to place the spotlight squarely on Georgia. Its two Senate runoffs will determine the balance of power in Congress after all the votes are counted
Fact-Checking – Poynter→ Georgia is the new epicenter of US misinformation following the presidential election
Lee en español Attention has shifted from the U.S. presidential election and false claims of voter fraud to place the spotlight squarely on Georgia. Its two Senate runoffs will determine the balance of power in Congress after all the votes are counted
Snopes→ Why Some Americans Don’t Believe the Election Results
When an unfavorable decision is very important to someone, they tend to look for flaws demonstrating that the process used to make the decision was unfair.
Snopes→ Fox, Newsmax Shoot Down Their Own Aired Claims on Election
Smartmatic sent a letter threatening legal action to Fox and two other networks popular with Trump supporters, Newsmax and One America News Network.
TruthOrFiction→ Far Right News Organizations Issue Statements, Admit ‘No Evidence’ Exists to Support Wall-to-Wall Coverage of Election Fraud
Far right propaganda purveyors like Newsmax, One America News Network, and certain Fox personalities became hot topics after the November 3 2020 election, when they captured a significant number of former Fox News viewers thanks to their regular ̶
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘Sudden Injection’ Of Nearly 385,000 Votes In Michigan Does NOT Prove Election Fraud
Does a "sudden injection" of close to 385,000 votes in Michigan prove election fraud? No, that's not true: There's often a delay between when absentee ballots are counted and when they are reported, leading to what may look like a sudden
Liste→ Report alleging election fraud in Michigan county is ‘baseless’
A report that is part of a lawsuit against Antrim County, Michigan claims the county’s quickly-corrected election night vote tally glitch was not due to human error, as the state said, but rather intentional election fraud. This is false; Michigan’
Snopes→ Barr: ‘No Reason’ for Special Counsel on Election, Hunter Biden
Outgoing Attorney General William Barr made the statement in his final press conference.
Snopes→ Was Biden’s 2020 Election Win the ‘Lie of the Year’?
As of this writing, U.S. President Donald Trump has yet to reckon publicly with his loss to Joe Biden.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: There Were NOT Just 133 Million Registered Voters In November 2020 US Presidential Election
Were there just 133 million registered voters in the United States for the November 2020 presidential election? No, that's not true: While we could not find a total for voters registered in for all 50 states as of November 4, 2020, we did
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Fulton County, Georgia, Election Worker Ruby Freeman Has NOT Been Arrested
Has Fulton County, Georgia, election worker Ruby Freeman been arrested for voter fraud? No, that's not true: A top official at the Georgia secretary of state's office, which is constitutionally in charge of investigating voter fraud alleg
TruthOrFiction→ Is EO 13848 Trump’s ‘Ace in the Hole’ for Election Challenges?
As political disinformation about the 2020 election continued into December 2020, its purveyors turned to Executive Order 13848 — more precisely, claims that EO 13848 existed to ensure that U.S. President Donald Trump would remain in power for a
Snopes→ Debunking Trump Tweets: Popular Vote Totals Indicative of ‘Rigged Election’?
Understanding the U.S. presidential election process is key to explaining its results.
Snopes→ Does Electoral College End Election for Conservative Media?
Throughout the Trump era, conservatives who opposed the president have generally lost their media platforms while pro-Trump voices have been ascendant.
Liste→ Map does not show ‘actual results’ of 2020 US election
A map claiming to show “actual results” of the 2020 US election with Donald Trump as the winner has been shared thousands of times on social media. This is false; Democrat Joe Biden has secured more than the 270 electoral votes needed to win the pr
AllSides - Facts and Fact Checking→ Did Twitter Disable Engagement with Trump’s Election-Related Tweets?
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/twitter-disable-engagement-trump/ On Dec. 12, 2020, Twitter users not
Snopes→ Michigan Congressman Quits GOP Over Bid to Overturn Election
A retiring Michigan congressman said he is leaving the Republican Party and becoming an independent to protest efforts to overturn Democrat Joe Biden’s victory over President Donald Trump.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Supreme Court Did NOT Signal It Would Reconsider Texas’ Bid To Overturn 2020 Election If Refiled As ‘Bill Of Complaint’
Did the U.S. Supreme Court signal it would reconsider the Texas lawsuit seeking to overturn the results of the 2020 election, if refiled "with the correct terms"? No, that's not true: Election law experts consulted by Lead Stories agreed
TruthOrFiction→ Trump Tweets About ‘Fake Water Main Break’ on Election Night in Georgia
As electors of the gathered on December 14 2020 in order to finalize the incoming Joe Biden administration, sitting U.S. President Donald Trump continued advancing baseless claims that his decisive loss in the 2020 election was fraudulent, claiming
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier Fleets Were NOT Positioned Off Both U.S. Coasts Bracing For Unrest After Supreme Court Rejects Suit To Overturn Election
Were U.S. Navy aircraft carrier fleets positioned off both U.S. coasts after the Supreme Court refused to hear the lawsuit seeking to overturn election results that cost Trump a second term? No, that's not true: A Pentagon source confirme
Snopes→ As He Rails on Election, Trump Largely Mum on Toll of Virus
Of Trump's recent tweets, 82 percent have been focused on the election and just 7 percent on the COVID-19 coronavirus.
Snopes→ Baseless Claims Fill Trump-Backed Election Case
A lawsuit before the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to subvert the will of the voters who elected Joe Biden president over Donald Trump makes a barrage of claims that don't hold up under basic scrutiny.
FactCheck.org→ Nine Election Fraud Claims, None Credible
A list of bogus election fraud claims, cobbled together from dubious websites and failed lawsuits aimed at overturning President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election, has spread widely online. It appeared in a recent story posted in a p
Top Fact Checks→ Georgia election officials packed uncounted ballots into suitcases and prepared to lock up for the evening on Nov. 3.
Georgia election officials refuted the fraudulent activity claims and said the unedited video footage shows regular ballot processing by the workers.
Liste→ Georgia video of ballots in suitcases does not show election fraud
Social media posts claim security footage shows election workers in the US state of Georgia committing fraud by counting ballots from suitcases. This is false; the Georgia investigator who conducted a probe into the video, the state’s voting system i
Snopes→ Wisconsin Courts to Consider Trump’s Election Lawsuits
President Donald Trump's extraordinary effort to overturn Joe Biden's win in Wisconsin returns to the courtroom, with hearings in federal and state lawsuits seeking to invalidate hundreds of thousands of ballots and give the GOP-controlled Legislature
Snopes→ Trump Election Dispute Puts Republicans Into Contradictions
The drive to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s victory over President Donald Trump in the battleground state of Pennsylvania is forcing Republicans to take positions that contradict with one another’s.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Eight States Have NOT All Joined Texas AG’s Suit Asking Supreme Court To Overturn Other States’ Election Results
Have Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and South Dakota all joined Texas's lawsuit filed with the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to overturn election results in four battleground states? No, that's n
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘Actual Results Of The Election’ Do NOT Show Donald Trump With More Electoral College Votes Than Joe Biden
Do "actual results of the election" show Donald Trump winning the Electoral College with 410 electoral votes to Joe Biden's 128 votes? No, that's not true: December 8, 2020, was the deadline for states to certify their 2020, election resu
The Dispatch Fact Check→ Has a Candidate Ever Lost Florida and Ohio but Won the Election?
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Lead Stories→ Fact Check: The Supreme Court Did NOT Vote 6-3 To Take Up Texas AG’s Lawsuit Over Election, NOR Did Tennessee Join
Did the U.S. Supreme Court vote 6-3 to take up the Texas Attorney General's lawsuit seeking to overturn four other states' 2020 election results? No, that's not true: There is no such vote recorded on the Supreme Court's public list of or
Snopes→ Trump Looks Past Supreme Court Loss to New Texas Election Lawsuit
The suit from the Texas attorney general, Republican Ken Paxton, demands that the 62 total Electoral College votes in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin be invalidated.
Snopes→ Trump Camp Loses Nevada Court Bid to Nullify Election
President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign has lost its legal bid to nullify President-elect Joe Biden’s 39,000-vote electoral win in Nevada.
Top Fact Checks→ The Trinamool Congress won a seat in the Panchayat Samiti elections.
AITMC has not won any seats as of now in Rajasthan Panchayat Samiti elections 2020. The counting is still in progress.
Snopes→ Georgia Again Certifies Election Results Showing Biden Won
Georgia's top elections official recertified the state's election results after a recount requested by President Donald Trump confirmed once again that Democrat Joe Biden won the state.