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.
“A Dominion representative in Gwinnett County improperly downloaded election data to “manipulate the data.”
PolitiFact says: Neither the video nor the Facebook post provides any proof that the worker manipulated the data.
“A video of a Dominion Voting Systems worker in Georgia shows him "manipulate the data" during a recount.”
FactCheck.org says: Conspiracy theorists falsely claimed that a video of an election worker during the Georgia machine recount revealed fraud in the 2020 election. All it showed was a worker performing a routine part of the process.
“A judge who reversed an order in Georgia to impound and preserve voting machines is "in someone's back pocket”
“Dominion Voting Systems "had glitches where they moved thousands of votes from my account to Biden’s account.”
FactCheck.org says: The Elections Infrastructure Government Coordinating Council & the Election Infrastructure Sector Coordinating Executive Committees said there is "no evidence that any voting system" deleted, lost or changed votes.
“Pennsylvania took votes from President Trump and gave them to Joe Biden”
“Joe Biden did not get 80 million votes.”
PolitiFact says: Biden got slightly more than 80 million votes.
“THOUSANDS of fake votes found at Wisconsin Recount in Dane County.”
PolitiFact says: Article claims MLW initials repeated on many ballots are evidence of "fake votes." But those are just the the initials of the Madison clerk who issued absentee ballots.
“Joe Biden won the election because of "communist money”
“Video shows parents rallying at the Commission on Elections to disqualify the Makabayan bloc from running for Congress”
“‘In Wisconsin, somebody has to be indefinitely confined in order to vote absentee. In the past there were 20,000 people. This past election there were 120,000.”
Washington Post says: Nothing in these statements is right; it's simply made up.
“Smartmatic voting systems "were created in Venezuela at the direction of Hugo Chávez" and used to commit fraud in the 2020 U.S. election.”
FactCheck.org says: A conspiracy theory of widespread fraud claims an election technology company called Smartmatic switched votes in the 2020 election. But Smartmatic provided ballot-marking machines to only one US county in the election.
“TV ad suggests that Raphael Warnock, a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate in Georgia, supports defunding the police.”
FactCheck.org says: Warnock has said multiple times that he doesn’t support defunding the police.
“Donald Trump’s sister tweeted, “My brother Don won this election and will fight this to the very end.”
“Georgia has no signature verification for mail-in ballots”
“Video shows movers carrying boxes out of the White House as President Trump discusses 2020 election results.”
PolitiFact says: The clip was altered and was produced for a “Jimmy Kimmel Live” segment. The original video shows Trump speaking about the impeachment inquiry in 2019.
“In certain swing states, there were more votes than people who voted, and in big numbers.”
PolitiFact says: Zero evidence of large scale double voting, nor are there more votes than registered voters.
“Says George Soros was arrested in Philadelphia for election interference.”
PolitiFact says: This is wrong. Soros has not been arrested. The indictment cited in the story was forged to include his name and was created from a real indictment involving Russian hackers.
“Want evidence of fraud. In 70% of Wayne County, Detroit, there were PHANTOM VOTERS. There were more votes than registered voters. 120%, 150%, 200%, even 300%.”
Washington Post says: This claim has already been previously debunked
“Almost ZERO ballots rejected in Georgia this election. In years past, close to 4%. Not possible.”
FactCheck.org says: The percentage of mail-in ballots rejected for signature issues this year was about the same as in the 2016 and 2018 general elections. He wrongly compares ballots rejected for all reasons to those with signature issues.