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.
“Joe Biden told us a few days before the election, that he had the best voter fraud team in the world.”
PolitiFact says: Giuliani is referencing a video excerpt that takes Biden’s words out of context and misrepresents the substance of what he said.
“Philadelphia mob boss Joseph “Skinny Joey” Merlino stuffed ballot boxes for Joe Biden and the Democrats — and would testify about the scheme in exchange for a presidential pardon.”
FactCheck.org says: Joseph Merlino’s attorney says Merlino denies the claim, and the original article names no sources and provides no evidence.
“They didn’t even allow Republican Observers into the building to watch [mail ballots being counted in Philadelphia]. A terrible insult to our Constitution!”
“Trump installed this wall at the White House on Election Day”
MediaWise says: While the White House did put up smaller non-scalable barriers around its perimeter around Election Day, the photo depicting the tall grey wall is not real. The photo of the White House comes from 2009 and was doctored …
“Video of a polling officer revealing the BJP’s fraud in Bihar elections”
FACTLY says: Woman in the video is Congress party leader Prem Chand Guddu’s daughter Rashmi Borasi, not the Bihar polling officer. In the video, Rashmi Borasi accused the BJP of counting mismanagement in Madhya Pradesh by-polls
“Biden campaign director arrested for electoral fraud.”
“Donald Trump posed as an anonymous “Nevada poll worker” on Laura Ingraham’s show.”
“Map shows 2020 election results.”
“Smartmatic and Dominion systems ... were built to do this very thing, for changing the results of elections.”
PolitiFact says: Dominion and Smartmatic make electronic voting systems. Neither was created for “changing the results of elections.”
“The media called the 2016 election for Hillary Clinton.”
“The U.S. Army seized a computer server from a company called Scytl that would prove there was fraud in the 2020 election.”
FactCheck.org says: Conservative outlets are spreading a claim that the Army seized a server in Frankfurt, Germany, that could prove fraud in the 2020 election. There was no such seizure; the company doesn’t have a server in Frankfurt.
“Video shows trashed ballots for Donald Trump.”
“Big victory moments ago in the State of Nevada. The all Democrat County Commissioner race, on same ballot as President, just thrown out because of large scale voter discrepancy.”
“Says “47 additional counties used the same software that caused a ‘glitch’ in Antrim County (that switched 6,000 votes from Trump to Biden in that county)” and votes in the state are “potentially fraudulent.”
PolitiFact says: An inaccurate vote count in Michigan’s Antrim County was never an official result and was due to a human error by the county clerk, not a failure in Dominion Voting Systems software.
“Says Georgia’s secretary of state won’t let the people recounting ballots check the signatures for fraud.”
PolitiFact says: Signature verification and vote counting are totally separate by design. The goal is to preserve the secrecy of your vote.
“The 2020 election is in “recount territory” and “I’ve seen elections change as a result of” recounts.”
PolitiFact says: Yes, some local races have flipped after recounts, but no race in the U.S. flipped with a margin near the 20,000-vote lead Biden has in Wisconsin.
“The MOB in PA was HIRED by the Biden team to create fake ballots by the thousands!!”
PolitiFact says: There is no evidence the Biden campaign hired a mob boss named “Skinny Joey” Merlino to fabricate hundreds of thousands of ballots in Philadelphia. Officials have said the election was “transparent and secure."
“The recent statement by Chris Krebs on the security of the 2020 Election was highly inaccurate, in that there were massive improprieties and fraud.”
PolitiFact says: Fifty-nine election and cybersecurity experts agreed in a public statement that claims of a "rigged" election "either have been unsubstantiated or are technically incoherent."
“Voter FRAUD exposed in Georgia. Over 2600 votes 'FOUND.”
PolitiFact says: Election officials found more than 2,600 uncounted votes in Floyd County, Ga., but they are not evidence of voter fraud in Georgia.