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AFP Fact Check→ Wisconsin poll clerks did not illegally add witness addresses to mail-in ballots
Articles shared tens of thousands of times on social media claim Wisconsin, a state crucial to president-elect Joe Biden’s victory, may have broken the law by allowing poll clerks to fill in missing witness addresses on absentee ballots. This is fals
AFP Fact Check→ This photo shows US mail-in ballots that were never opened or filled out, local officials say
A photo of several US mail-in ballots lying on the ground has been shared hundreds of times in multiple posts on Facebook and Twitter alongside a claim they were votes for incumbent US President Donald Trump that were found “dumped by the side of the
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: US Postal Service Did NOT Fail To Deliver 27 Percent Of Mail-In Ballots From Urban Florida Districts
Did the USPS fail to deliver 27% of mail-in ballots from Florida's urban areas? No, that's not true: The 27% figure originates from a misinterpretation of USPS data that cropped up the day after Election Day. U.S. Postal Service officials
Logically→ Trump: Mail-in ballots are one-sided and an advantage to Democrats.
Electoral fraud via mail-in ballots is extremely rare, it does not help one party over another
Snopes→ Did Lancaster County Count More Mail-in Ballots Than It Received?
A flawed graphic on a local news program is not compelling evidence of widespread fraud.
FactCheck.org→ Bogus QAnon Claim that Mail-In Ballots Are Illegitimate
Quick Take A bogus QAnon-related claim that many of the mail-in ballots for the Nov. 3 election were illegitimate has spread widely on social media. But the claim is based on the faulty assumption that ballots are produced by the federal government. F
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: TV News Graphic Does NOT Show Pennsylvania Mail-in Voter Fraud
Does a TV news graphic show voter fraud in Pennsylvania with more mail-in votes counted than were sent to voters or received by the elections office? No, that's not true: The on-air graphic used a number that mistakeningly combined the to
Snopes→ Did a Georgia County Reject 40K Mail-In Ballots?
The entire state of Georgia expected only about 3,000 rejected mail-in ballots altogether.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Photograph IS Of An Official Ballot Box In Philadelphia And A City Employee Is Taking The Mail-In Ballots To Be Processed And Counted
Does a photograph of a person moving a ballot box in Philadelphia show an official ballot box? Yes, it that's true. The Philadelphia GOP Tweeted out a photo of an person next to a ballot box and a car on election day and questioned what w
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Mail-In Ballots And Other Mail WERE Stolen From Locked Mailboxes, Dumped In A Park In Washington State — But Police Suggest Motive Was Financial, NOT Political
Is it true that mailboxes in Camas, Washington, were broken into and that mail including election ballots was taken and dumped at a local park, where the mail was then rained upon? Yes, this is true. Camas police confirmed the incident an
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Pennsylvania Did NOT Reject 372,000 Mail-In Ballots — They Were Ballot Applications
Did Pennsylvania reject 372,000 mail-in ballots? No, that's not true: Pennsylvania rejected 372,000 applications for mail-in ballots -- not actual ballots -- and the vast majority of them for being duplicate applications. The claim appear
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Thousands Of Mail-In Ballots For Registered Republicans In Pennsylvania Were NOT Destroyed
Were thousands of mail-in ballots for registered Republicans in Pennsylvania destroyed? No, that's not true. The paper items shown in the video are mailers from the Pennsylvania Republican Party to encourage people to request a mail-in ba
AFP Fact Check→ Mail-in ballot errors spark voter fraud claims in US
Social media users, including one of US President Donald Trump’s sons, are citing isolated cases of mail-in ballots being sent in error as evidence of the potential for widespread voter fraud. This is misleading; election officials say steps includ
Snopes→ Does the Obama Foundation Own 82% of Mail-In Ballot Printers?
A routine review of content labeled satire.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Photo Does NOT Show Abandoned 2020 Mail-In Ballots
Is this a photo of 2020 general election mail-in ballots abandoned on the side of the road? No, that's not true: This a photo from 2018. A New Jersey-based U.S. Postal Service worker dumped this mail and later resigned. The claim appeared
Snopes→ Texas Governor Restricts Mail-In Ballot Drop-Off Locations
Abbott called his order a move to enhance poll security, while Democrats blasted it as a naked effort to suppress voters.
Snopes→ Were Trays of Mail, Including Mail-In Ballots, Found in a Ditch?
The U.S. Postal Service has been under fire for several problems concerning mail-in ballots in 2020.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: FBI Did NOT Say Military Mail-In Ballots Were Found In A Pennsylvania Ditch
Did the FBI release a statement saying that "multiple" military mail-in ballots were found thrown away in a ditch in Pennsylvania? No, that's not true: First, the FBI never said anything about Pennsylvania ballots. The U.S. attorney for t
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Democratic Senator Knope NOT Caught With 8000 Mail-In Ballots
Did Democratic Senator Leslie Knope get caught with 8,000 pre-marked ballots while at Joe Biden's headquarters in Pawnee, Indiana? No, that's not true: This was published by a satire website that publishes fictional claims intended to tro
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Thousands Of 2020 Mail-In Ballots Were NOT Discovered Dumped In A Sonoma County, California, Landfill
Were thousands of mail-in ballots for the 2020 election found dumped at a Sonoma County, California, landfill in September 2020? No, that's not true: Sonoma County voting officials issued an alert Friday to shoot down the claim, noting th
New York Times→ Mail-In Voting Fact-Check: What Is True and False?
Voters are facing a deluge of misinformation about voting by mail, some prompted by the president. Here’s a guide to those false claims.
Snopes→ Were These Mail-In Ballots Discovered in a California Landfill?
Images and stories like these are being used to mislead people about the integrity of the 2020 U.S. election and of mail-in ballots in particular.
FactCheck.org→ Trump’s Repeated False Attacks on Mail-In Ballots
In the past 48 hours, President Donald Trump repeatedly has refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he loses, claiming that mail-in voting is a “disaster” and “out of control” and suggesting without evidence that De
New York Times→ Fact-Checking Falsehoods on Mail-In Voting
Voters are facing a deluge of misinformation about voting by mail, some prompted by the president. Here’s a guide to those false claims.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: An Application For A Mail-In Ballot Is NOT The Same Thing As A Ballot
Does a photo show a mail-in-ballot that a voter did not request? No, not in this photo. It is clear that this is an application for a mail-in-ballot, and not the ballot itself. If this person wanted an actual ballot to vote by mail, they
Snopes→ 6 Ways Mail-In Ballots Are Protected from Fraud
The mail-in voting process has several built-in safeguards that together make it hard for one person to vote fraudulently, and even more difficult to commit voter fraud on a scale capable of swinging election outcomes.
AFP Fact Check→ Adding a stamp will not expedite US mail-in ballots with pre-paid postage
Social media posts claim that adding a stamp to a “postage paid ballot” will result in it being handled as first-class mail instead of the slower bulk. But the US Postal Service says pre-paid envelopes for ballots are already first class, so adding
FactCheck.org→ Trump’s Bad Advice for Mail-In Voters
Elections officials and voting experts say President Donald Trump gave bad advice when he encouraged mail-in voters to show up at polling places on Election Day and cast an in-person ballot if poll workers can’t confirm that their mail-in ballot
Snopes→ Trump Suggests Polling Place Double-Check for Mail-In Voters
Trump claims, without evidence, that the Nov. 3 election will be awash in fraud because so many voters will mail in their ballots to avoid being exposed to the coronavirus at polling sites.
FactCheck.org→ Mail-in Voting Envelopes Don’t Reveal Party During General Election
Quick Take Facebook posts falsely suggest that envelopes used for mail-in ballots in general elections reveal party affiliation, saying postal workers may “toss” votes. Voting experts say they don’t know of any such labels in general el
Snopes→ US Officials: No Signs of Foreign Targeting of Mail-In Vote
U.S. officials said there has been no intelligence to suggest that foreign countries are working to undermine mail-in voting and no signs of any coordinated effort to commit widespread fraud through the vote-by-mail process.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Mail-In Ballots Marked Democrat Or Republican Were NOT For November Election — They Were For Florida Primary
Did some mail-in ballots received by voters identify the voter's party on the envelope? Yes, but those ballots were for the primary election in Florida only. A meme that has gone viral shows ballot envelopes with D or R on them. In Florid
AFP Fact Check→ Photo of large crowd shows Black Lives Matter protest, not mail-in vote rally
An aerial photo of a large crowd in an urban area was shared on Facebook with the claim it shows Democrats in the US city of Seattle protesting for mail-in voting. This is false; the photo is from a June 2020 Black Lives Matter protest in Seattle, and
FactCheck.org→ Tweet, Shared by Trump, Misrepresents Photo as ‘Mail-in Voting’ Protest
Quick Take A photo taken at a Black Lives Matter protest in June is now being shared on social media, including by President Donald Trump, with the false claim that it shows a recent rally in Seattle to “demand mail-in voting.” Full Story
Truth or Fiction?→ Did Thousands of Seattle Democrats Gather to Demand Mail-In Voting Because Voting in Person Is Too Dangerous?
On August 18 2020, a photograph purportedly showing “thousands of Seattle Democrats” (at least, according to random people online) circulated on Twitter: This is a photo of thousands of Seattle Democrats gathering to demand mail in votin
Truth or Fiction?→ Can You Have Your Mail-In Ballot Delivered as First Class Mail?
As social media users expressed alarm over United States President Donald Trump’s administration’s apparent efforts to sabotage the U.S. Postal Service (USPS), one Twitter user’s suggestion caught traction on August 14 2020. That acc
FactCheck.org→ Trump Campaign Exaggerates Potential for Mail-In Voting Fraud After Election
The latest concern raised by the Trump campaign about mail-in voting is that some states run by Democrats will allow votes to be cast and counted after Election Day. Specifically, Hogan Gidley, the national press secretary for the Trump campaign, war
Truth or Fiction?→ Did Trump Say That Without a Deal ‘They Can’t Have Universal Mail-in Voting, They Just Can’t Have It’?
During ongoing controversy over United States Postal Service slowdowns and mail-in voting in August 2020, historian Heather Cox Richardson posted a status update to Facebook quoting United States President Donald Trump as saying that withholding USP
FactCheck.org→ Trump Proves Biden Right on USPS Funding, Mail-In Ballots
In late June, Joe Biden claimed President Donald Trump “wants to cut off money for the post office so they cannot deliver mail-in ballots.” At the time, we wrote that the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee had no evidence of Trump’s