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.
“Sen. David Perdue "only serves himself by voting for pay raises for himself while he votes against military pay raises.”
FactCheck.org says: Perdue has said he opposed the large spending bills in question for reasons that had nothing to do with the provisions concerning congressional or military pay, which were only part of the bills.
“There was a 68% error rate in vote counting in Antrim County in Michigan”
“Voting machines found in bus in Arizona.”
“His own cybersecurity chief overseeing this election said it was the most secure in American history.”
“Says Biden's vote tally should raise eyebrows because it's way more than Obama got in 2008, but Biden won far fewer counties.”
PolitiFact says: Voter turnout surged in 2020, and more in urban areas where Biden ran strong.
“Wisconsin is one of the few states that doesn’t allow absentee ballots to be processed before Election Day.”
PolitiFact says: Just a handful of states ban election workers from beginning work on absentee ballots before Election Day. Wisconsin is one of them.
“Statistical anomalies" in Georgia suggest Biden benefited from fraudulent votes.”
“In Wisconsin, there are approximately 70,000 absentee ballots that do not have matching ballot applications as required by law.”
PolitiFact says: Voters seeking an absentee ballot filled out an application attached to the ballot envelope. State law has no requirements for the application's form.
“Joe Biden killed a Kelly Loeffler campaign staffer.”
“No candidate has ever won both Florida and Ohio and lost.”
PolitiFact says: Richard Nixon won Florida and Ohio in 1960 even as he lost the presidential election to John F. Kennedy.
“No candidate has ever won both Florida and Ohio and lost. I won them both, by a lot! #SupremeCourt”
Washington Post says: Nixon in 1960 won Florida and Ohio -- and lost
“Claim: Rajinikanth not applied with Election Commission”
“Dominion voting machines "were seized" in Ware County, Georgia.”
“People in Germany saw this electoral map that shows Trump beating Biden with 410 electoral votes before Dominion’s servers were seized.”
“No state in the country verifies United States citizenship as a condition for voting in federal elections.”
PolitiFact says: When people register to vote, they sign a form attesting under penalty of perjury that they are a citizen and eligible to vote.
“There is "VIDEO EVIDENCE" of election workers in Georgia pulling and scanning "thousands of ballots" from "suitcases"—proving "FRAUD.”
“Out of 42 European nations, all but two prohibit absentee ballots entirely for people who reside inside the country, or else they require those who need absentee ballots to show a very, very powerful ID.”
Washington Post says: Eight European countries, including some of the largest, allow absentee voting.
“Residents the Wisconsin Election Commission suspected of moving are “illegal voters.”
PolitiFact says: Nothing about being on the list makes a person ineligible to vote, it's just clarifying where they live.
“The USPS backdated 100K ballots so they could be counted illegally.”
PolitiFact says: All Wisconsin election results were reported by 4 a.m. Nov. 4, before the alleged backdating referenced by this purported whistleblower.