Elections
2,118 claims on this topic checked by other fact-checking organisations. Topics are sorted by the words in each claim and cover English-language checks.
“There’s “evidence of a massive transfer of completed, curated ballots” that are fraudulent in the 2022 election.”
“Video shows a Philadelphia poll worker committing election fraud.”
“Video shows Arizona ballots “break chain of custody in Arizona.”
“When 36% of the vote was in, Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Josh Shapiro had 370,706 votes and 56.6% of the vote while Doug Mastriano had 844,669 and 41.6%.”
“A TV graphic showing Republican Doug Mastriano with nearly 500,000 more votes than Democrat Josh Shapiro, but Mastriano trailing 41.6% to 56.6%, is proof of election fraud.”
FactCheck.org says: The graphic shows inaccurate numbers that were quickly corrected on air.
“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 says: Battleground states like Nevada and Arizona had races with close margins, so media organizations waited until more votes were counted to announce projected winners. Different paces for counting votes doesn't prove fraud.
“Video showing the recent 2022 election results of Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh”
FACTLY says: The first video was uploaded by ‘News18 India’ on its Official YouTube channel on 18 December 2017. It shows vote counting updates of the Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh Assembly elections that took place in 2017. This yea…
“Florida counted all of its more than 7 million votes in five hours on Election Day and states that took longer committed “voter fraud.”
FactCheck.org says: Florida law allows election officials to start counting early in-person and mail-in ballots before Election Day. Most states don’t allow vote counting to begin until Election Day or after polls close.
“Nostradamus foresaw the election of Bongbong Marcos”
“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.”
PolitiFact says: Bags did arrive at a Maricopa election site, but it’s not a sign of anything criminal or nefarious, and it is in keeping with the state’s election procedures manual.
“Republicans want to raise the voting to age 28.”
PolitiFact says: One pundit, Peter Schiff, tweeted on Election Day that the voting age should be raised to 28. The next day, another pundit tweeted that the age should be raised to 21. We found no broad effort by GOP to raise voting age.
“A video shows a whistleblower creating fraudulent military ballots during the 2020 presidential election.”
PolitiFact says: The clip does not depict the fraudulent creation of real ballots. A DOJ official confirmed that the video features the same content as one linked to a 2020 voter intimidation campaign. That video was a simulation.
“It’s a sign of fraud that “in 244 counties across the United States, there are more registered voters than there are people legally eligible to vote.”
PolitiFact says: Comparing the number of voting-age residents in a state or county to the number of registered voters in that state or county often lacks important context and gives a misleading impression.
“It’s not that there is no evidence the election was stolen, but that no court had the guts to HEAR the evidence. They dismissed the cases, NOT the evidence.”
PolitiFact says: Post-election lawsuits were thrown out for jurisdictional or procedural reasons, but several judges also said the Trump campaign’s allegations of election fraud lacked sufficient proof.
“Pennsylvania drop boxes were “pre-loaded” with ballots.”
PolitiFact says: Some people eligible to vote successfully inserted 18 ballots into three ballot drop boxes in Pennsylvania before the official window of time when the boxes were open to receive ballots. Those ballots do not prove fraud.
“Ferdinand Marcos Jr. obtained the highest number of votes by any candidate in Philippine history.”
Vera Files says: While Marcos did garner the highest number of votes in Philippine electoral history, his share of the vote (58.7%) in the May 2022 balloting is only the country’s third highest vote percentage, next to former presidents…
“Clark County, Nevada, has a corrupt voting system… Arizona even said 'by the end of the week!' – They want more time to cheat!”
“Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs is seen in a photo "inside the ballot rooms" during vote tabulation.”
FactCheck.org says: The woman in the photo was an official observer, not Katie Hobbs.
“In 2018, "when votes were being stolen by the corrupt Election process in Broward County ... I sent in the FBI and the U.S. Attorneys. ... I stopped his [Ron DeSantis'] Election from being stolen.”
FactCheck.org says: A spokesman for the county elections office said there was no "federal law enforcement presence" and "no evidence of corruption" in that election.