Elections

“In the 2018 Florida governor's race "votes were being stolen by the corrupt election process in Broward. … I sent in the FBI and the U.S. Attorneys, and the ballot theft immediately ended. … I stopped his Election from being stolen.”

PolitiFact says: DeSantis won narrowly as confirmed by a recount. There was no evidence of efforts to steal the election in Broward.

“Diaspora Pakistani Sarim Rashid flew out to Pakistan from the UK to cast a vote for PTI in the October 2022 by-elections. He flew in just in time for the elections and flew out three hours later back to the UK.”

“2 hour wait minimum at most polling places in Maricopa. Democrats running elections here knew this would happen. Traffic jam by design. DONT LET THEM DO 2020 AGAIN.”

FactCheck.org says: Some machines in Maricopa County, Arizona, couldn’t process ballots during part of Election Day, but some conservative commentators made the unfounded claim that the setback indicated an attempt to “steal” the election.

“‘ABP News’ opinion poll predicting Congress victory in the upcoming Himachal Pradesh elections 2022”

FACTLY says: The post shared an edited version of the ‘ABP News’ opinion poll that was telecast before the Himachal Pradesh Elections in 2017. The actual visuals of this old ABP News opinion poll predicted BJP winning a majority of …

“Ballots filled out with Sharpies could not be counted by Dominion voting machines in Pennsylvania’s 2022 election.”

FactCheck.org says: Dominion voting machines have had no issues reading ballots filled out with Sharpie pens.

“In Detroit, “people are showing up to vote only to be told, ‘sorry, you have already voted.’”

PolitiFact says: A computer glitch wrongly signaled that ballots about to be given to some voters had already been issued as absentee ballots. The computer error did not indicate that the voters themselves had cast absentee ballots.

“The Absentee Ballot situation in Detroit in REALLY BAD. People are showing up to Vote only to be told, 'sorry, you have already voted.' ... Protest, Protest, Protest!”

FactCheck.org says: A "harmless data error" resulted in a glitch at some Detroit polling precincts, but it was resolved and ballot security measures remained in effect.

“BJP’ candidate K. Rajagopal Reddy led by 2000+ votes by the end of 4th round in Munugode by-election counting”

FACTLY says: According to the official figures released by Election Commission of India, after 4th round of counting in Munugode by-election, TRS candidate secured 26,443 votes whereas BJP’s Rajagopal Reddy secured 25,729 votes. Thi…

“Counting ballots and reporting the results after Election Day is "how you cheat when your party is about to lose a major election.”

FactCheck.org says: Voting by mail is popular, but the claim persists that it leads to rampant fraud. But many states don’t start counting mail ballots until after polls close, and some accept them for days afterward if they are postmarked.

“Delayed election results are proof of fraud.”

PolitiFact says: There are valid reasons why election results could be delayed, including the tabulation of mail-in ballots.

“You are probably aware that I just signed a law that is being challenged by my Republican colleagues. … It’s passed. I got it passed by a vote or two.”

Washington Post says: Biden did not pass a law, he took executive action.

“Former President Jimmy Carter said “don’t ever use” mail in ballots because “they can be so easily corrupted.”

PolitiFact says: The 2005 report co-written by Jimmy Carter raised security concerns about absentee voting, but it did not call for eliminating it. The report called for further study. Carter embraced mail voting in 2020.

“Pennsylvania’s Department of State has “sent out 249,000 ballots to unverified voters.”

FactCheck.org says: Pennsylvania marks mail-in ballot applications as “not verified” if a voter’s identity couldn’t be immediately verified; voters have six days after an election to submit a valid ID.

“The U.S. “could easily count every vote in every state on election night until a few years ago.”

PolitiFact says: We found several examples of races in recent history that took days, weeks or months to determine a winner. The 2020 U.S. presidential election is one prominent example.

“Two thirds of eligible voters don’t vote.”

PolitiFact says: In 2018, 50% of eligible voters cast a ballot. In 2020, overall turnout was 66.7%.

“We need to make sure that school buses loaded with people at the polls don’t come in and vote.”

FactCheck.org says: Buldoc resurrected a zombie claim that has been repeatedly debunked about busloads of people coming from out of state to vote illegally in New Hampshire.

“If you use the US Postal Service certified mail or registered mail, they can do anything they want with those ballots." They “can burn your mail and they won't get in any trouble.”

PolitiFact says: The U.S. Postal Service is the country's only mail service and was established in 1970 as an independent government agency. Postal employees are prohibited by law from tampering with or destroying mail.

“Mailing in a ballot “gives the bad guys a chance to know how many ballots they need to make.”

PolitiFact says: Washington implemented statewide vote-by-mail in 2011. There is no history of widespread voter fraud in Washington linked to this voting method.

“Over 240,000 'unverified' ballots have already been sent out in Pennsylvania, a total mess. The Democrats are playing games again.”

PolitiFact says: The “NV” coding doesn’t mean the voter is ineligible — it means the voter’s identification needs to be verified. Voters have six days after Election Day to provide identification.

“Pennsylvania is under a court order to count their ballots on election day and not after!!”

PolitiFact says: The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that undated or incorrectly dated ballots must be segregated and not counted, but that doesn't change the law about counting of results which will continue after Election Day.