Once Again Voter Rolls That Have Not Been Maintained Lead to Corruption

Imitation claims almost the election process are spreading online in wake of the 2020 vote. The United states TODAY Fact Cheque team is dedicated to verifying claims and fighting misinformation. Here'due south a list of recent fact-checks related to the 2020 ballot:

On counting votes

Fact check: Typo led to simulated post about Michigan votes showing upwardly 'magically' for Biden

A typo by a local Michigan county accounts for a sudden increase in Biden votes. The error was speedily corrected, and framing the incident equally evidence of fraud is a gross mischaracterization.

Fact bank check: Democrat-led states did non end counting votes for no reason

Mail-in ballots take longer to count, then many states counted overnight. Reports of counting delays or stoppages were either explained or fake.

Fact cheque: That spike in the Wisconsin vote tally was expected and legitimate, non fraud

The vote tally in Wisconsin jumped at iii:xxx a.yard. on Nov. four because that'south when officials finished counting the city of Milwaukee'south absentee ballots, a grouping of votes expected to lean heavily left. It's false to call the fasten in the voting count fraud.

Fact check: No, Wisconsin did not have a break from counting election results

Some of the country's election results arrived belatedly due to an influx of mail-in ballots, not because officials took a break. And President-elect Joe Biden never held a large pb in that location.

Fact bank check: Post-ballot ballot counting not dependent on state's party

None of the vii fundamental states left in play on Nov. iv were fully Democrat-run, some more than than others. And, the time it took to count ballots in each country can exist explained by circumstances or state law.

Fact check: Merits saying ongoing election counting is cheating, voter fraud is inaccurate

A claim that ongoing election counting in Pennsylvania is cheating or fraudulent is imitation.

Fact bank check: Votes in Virginia accidentally tallied for Biden, error speedily fixed

At that place were 100,000 Central Absentee Precinct ballots that were mistakenly entered for Joe Biden in Fairfax Canton'due south unofficial election results spreadsheet, but the error was speedily noticed and fixed. The canton's spreadsheet has been amended, and the state Board of Election's total votes counted tally never reflected the fault.

Fact check: Georgia ballot curing is not ballot fraud

Election curing is a legal process that ensures voters who cast their ballots by Election 24-hour interval have a gamble to see their vote counted. It's allowed in many states, and there is no bear witness ballot curing was used to commit election fraud in Georgia.

Fact bank check: Wisconsin canton did not take a glitch that stole votes from Trump

A data entry error by the Associated Printing left presidential totals transposed for several minutes, but election officials were not involved. The votes in Rock County were counted following standard procedure.

Fact check: No, Wisconsin votes don't take to exist counted by eight p.yard. on Nov. 3

Voters in line at 8 p.m. on Election 24-hour interval can legally cast their vote. No judge made this ruling, and an earlier ruling from a federal judge — since upheld by an appeals panel — actually did the contrary, allowing any absentee ballots returned past Nov. 9 to be counted, as long as they were postmarked by Ballot Solar day.

On the outcome, past election comparisons

Fact cheque: Trump lost the 2020 presidential election

Analyses of the 2020 election results explain Trump'south loss to Biden.

Fact cheque: Joe Biden has secured plenty electors from certified results to be elected president

In the fake map, Gateway Pundit excludes results from Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. President-elect Joe Biden won all six states, and all six accept certified their results.

Fact bank check: Joe Biden legally won presidential election, despite persistent opposite claims

Biden legally won the popular vote and obtained enough electoral votes to merits the win. There'due south no evidence of voter fraud, despite widespread, unfounded claims.

Fact cheque: Joe Biden outperformed Hillary Clinton in about major metro areas

Biden received more than votes than Hillary Clinton in many of the country's major metro areas. The claims that the four swing states listed are led by Democrats and that votes exceeded the number of voters registered in those states are too false.

Fact cheque: Biden won popular, Balloter College votes in several battlefield states

The claim references unproven and falsified allegations to support statements nearly flipping votes in battleground states from Biden to Trump. There is no evidence to support claims of adulterous, outstanding software glitches or illegal voting in the 2020 presidential election.

Fact check: Biden won the well-nigh full votes – and the fewest total counties – of any president-elect

With over 81 million votes, Biden received the almost votes of any presidential candidate in history. Information technology is likewise true that he won a tape-low number of counties – but counties vary by population size, so those wins don't correlate with the pop vote.

Fact check: Meme is missing context, potentially misleads on support for Biden, Trump and Obama

People vote, non places, and Biden won the nigh populous counties in the country, according to a Demography Bureau study. It's also disingenuous to suggest Biden's small campaign events indicated a lack of support, given the ongoing viral pandemic.

Fact check: Biden got record number of popular votes despite modest campaign events

The Trump campaign overlooked many COVID-nineteen precautions and hosted large crowds, while Biden made following coronavirus guidelines cardinal to his efforts. Biden'due south lack of crowds does non translate to a lack of back up from voters, but rather a consistent adherence to pandemic prophylactic guidelines.

Fact check: After endorsing him, New York Postal service now pushes Trump to accept Biden's victory

Based on our research, the claim that the New York Mail published a cover and staff editorial urging President Trump to accept defeat is true; the items were published in print and online on Dec. 27.

Fact check: These 5 election statistics practise not discredit Joe Biden'southward victory

Social media shared a meme with statistics that they merits discredits Joe Biden'south victory. The meme compares data about one-time President Barack Obama in 2008 and President Donald Trump and Biden in 2020. Information technology lists total number of votes received, includes the number of counties each candidate won; the fraction of bellwether counties each candidate won; whether they won Florida, Ohio and Iowa; and whether each candidate's political party won seats in the Firm of Representatives.

On calling states, certifying votes

Fact check: 14 of the get-go 25 states chosen went to Trump, contrary to viral claims

The merits that blueish states were called immediately, while red states were non is false. Of the offset 25 states called past the Associated Press, 14 were for Trump. There'south besides no testify vote counting was paused to "find" ballots.

Fact cheque: Key Senate races left uncalled due to uncounted ballots, not fraud

The v states withal not called on November. 5 still had unreported votes outstanding. None of those states had elected new Republican senators when the post was made, though some races appear as if they may eventually.

Fact check: Statistical analysis supporting pro-Trump Supreme Courtroom case is 'ludicrous'

The votes still uncounted when Trump had his short-lived atomic number 82 were largely absentee ballots from major cities. Those cities have consistently voted Democratic historically, and mail-in votes within them should exist expected to lean even more that direction since Trump had attacked that method of voting leading up to the ballot while Biden encouraged it.

Fact check: CNN never made – or retracted – Arizona call for Joe Biden

A spokesperson for CNN said the news network never called Arizona for Biden, and United states TODAY found no prove indicating otherwise.

Fact check: Wayne County Lath of Canvassers voted twice on certifying election results

The board of canvassers did initially split in a 2-2 vote, officials reversed course a few hours later and certified election results in Wayne County based on the status that a comprehensive audit be conducted on precincts with out-of-balance tallies.

Fact check: Trump lawyer Sidney Powell falsely stated he won election 'by a landslide'

Sidney Powell did make the claim that Trump won the election "past a landslide," the assertion is false. Joe Biden is the president-elect after having garnered enough electoral votes as a outcome of the popular vote across the country before this month.

Fact check: Nevada'southward AG did non admit to changing signature verification manually in election

The statement regarding allegations that votes were inverse by a signature verification automobile was fabricated by the erstwhile attorney full general of Nevada, a Republican and co-chairman of the Nevada Trump campaign, and not by current Attorney Full general Aaron Ford, a Democrat.

Fact check: Political news website never called Pennsylvania for Joe Biden

Existent Clear Politics never called Pennsylvania or switched it from Biden as many social media posts merits, according to its co-founder and president, Tom Bevan, likewise as its Washington bureau chief, Carl M. Cannon.

Fact check: Some electoral maps show Trump leading with 232 votes. They're incorrect.

Epoch Times, Gateway Pundit, and EveryLegalVote.com show a different electoral vote count for 2 reasons: They exclude states with pending litigation or recounts, subtracting votes from Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Arizona, and in one example Virginia, from Biden. They also chosen North Carolina for Trump, though the land was not done counting as of publication time and has not been called by the Associated Press. Their counts are incorrect.

Fact check: Election unlikely to be decided in the Firm, even if Trump refuses to concede

While all presidential elections accept the potential to be decided in the House of Representatives under the Constitution, the mail service fails to mention key steps needed in order for the election to get to the House. Fifty-fifty if the election results were contested and Trump doesn't concede, experts have agreed that it is unlikely for Trump to win the election this mode.

Fact bank check: Map showing Trump landslide based on simulated report of seized election servers in Federal republic of germany

The false claim that Donald Trump received 410 electoral votes and Joe Biden received 128 is based on false reports that the U.South. Army seized servers with election data on them in a recent raid in Federal republic of germany.

Fact check: Wisconsin pecker does not decertify results and give Trump the win

A Wisconsin Legislature bill would prioritize legislation addressing election laws. But information technology says naught related to decertification or awarding the land to Trump. And in whatsoever example, the state's electoral votes were already cast for Biden weeks ago. The claim is simulated.

Fact check: False news written report indicates Biden plans to stride down every bit president-elect

A claim that President-elect Joe Biden is stepping downwardly because of health concerns is false, the news study that makes the statement is faked.

Fact bank check: Trump pressured officials in Georgia to recalculate state'due south vote in his favor

On Jan. 3, the Washington Post broke the news of an hourlong phone call in which President Donald Trump asked Georgia Secretary of Land Brad Raffensperger to "notice eleven,780 votes." Since then, Trump has doubled down on his baseless claims of balloter fraud, while Democrats have expressed outrage.

Fact bank check: No, court did non rule 200,000 Wisconsin ballots were illegitimate

A Wisconsin statute allows voters to declare themselves equally "indefinitely confined." They tin then cast an absentee ballot without providing a photo ID, as would be required for in-person voting or a traditional absentee ballot. Trump and other Republicans have attacked this method of voting equally improper. A final ruling from the land Supreme Court released December. 14 said it's upwardly to each voter whether they run across the requirements for being "indefinitely bars" — not clerks or anyone else.

On voter registration, turnout

Fact check: Wisconsin has more than registered voters than ballots cast

The number for registered Wisconsin voters stated by a Facebook image is incorrect. Over 3.half-dozen million voters were registered in the state as of November. 1, according to the Wisconsin Elections Commission, which denied there being more ballots than registered voters.

Fact check: Wisconsin turnout in line with past elections, didn't jump 22% as claimed

Turnout is measured equally a pct of eligible voters, non registered voters. Donald Trump Jr.'s figures use eligible voters for the 2016 figure simply registered voters for 2020. Using the proper denominator for 2020 shows a turnout effectually 72%, firmly in the range of past presidential elections.

Fact check: Milwaukee wards did not take more votes for president than registered voters

The numbers cited by Milwaukee City Wire do not lucifer data from the Milwaukee County clerk'southward part, which testify the number of registered voters exceeded ballots cast.

Fact bank check: Claim of Georgia vote fasten for Biden subsequently pipe flare-up at counting site is false

The pipe leak happened early in the morning of November. 3, while ballot counting without monitors took place November. 4 and was not related to the pipe incident.

Fact cheque: Over 159 1000000 people voted in the Usa general election

The claim cites correct vote totals for Trump (74 meg) and Biden (81 million), simply it falsely reports the number of registered voters. More than 159 one thousand thousand registered voters cast ballots in the full general election, out of 239 1000000 eligible voters.

Fact check: False claim that 'false votes' plant during recount in Dane County, Wis.

The repeated initials referred to in the claim aren't those of a voter; they're initials of the clerk who issued the absentee ballots.

Fact check: Prototype from 2017 White House issue altered to make claim near votes for Biden

The original image is from a 2017 consequence where Trump spoke about deregulation goals and cutting a ribbon beyond stacks of paper that represented current regulations and 1960 regulations.

Fact check: States don't have more than 100% voter turnout in an election

Updated information and individual state reporting show no state had more than 100% voter turnout for the 2020 ballot. The implication that Democrats doctored election results to show college turnout than possible is based off outdated data that has since been updated.

Fact bank check: At that place was stiff Navajo support for Biden, but numbers cited in merits accept changed

The statistics in the social media posts are inaccurate – possibly because they came from an article that cited returns earlier the full vote count was in. Even so, information technology is true that among the three Arizona counties that overlap the Navajo Nation, the vote went 58% to Biden and 42% to Trump, with some individual precincts on the Navajo Nation up to 90% for Biden.

Fact check: Claim that voting noncitizens affected 2020 ballot upshot is unverified

Voting in federal elections is reserved for U.Due south. citizens and few noncitizens knowingly register to vote. The claim that voter turnout from noncitizens affected the pop vote in the 2020 presidential race in battleground states is plausible but unproven.

Fact check: Dual language ballots create confusion in Georgia's Gwinnett Canton data

The Voting Rights Human action ensures linguistic communication assistance to individuals not proficient in English language past providing electoral material and other information in their native linguistic communication. Gwinnett Canton meets the thresholds to require electoral fabric in another linguistic communication due to its sizable Latino or Hispanic population. Single ballots are thus printed on 2 sheets, one in English and i in Spanish, which are both counted in the county's ballot summary results and cannot be omitted nether federal police.

Fact check: N Carolina vote total for governor didn't exceed ballots cast

Our research of the official vote tally shows the exclamation that merely 4.5 million votes were cast is wrong, rendering moot any consequence about a purported one-half-one thousand thousand or more than "extra" votes. The vote totals for two gubernatorial candidates are correct for the time the claim was made, merely they are incomplete, missing 3 candidates. Any suggestions of fraud are baseless

Fact check: Kanye Due west, other third-political party candidates, not leading in Kentucky voting

The screenshot showing a number of third-party presidential candidates leading at the polls in Kentucky depicts simulated ballot results. Kanye Due west has non received 40,000 votes in Kentucky.

Fact bank check: Michigan townships had more registered voters than votes

The claim that four townships in Michigan logged 290,000 more votes than there are people is false. Voter turnout data shows no township in Michigan had more than 100% turnout for the 2020 presidential ballot. There were some cases of errors in voter turnout rates, however, the errors were fixed, and there is no bear witness that iv townships logged more votes than there are people.

Fact check: False claim of fraud in Arizona voter registrations

There is no proof behind the claim that 2,012 Arizona voters are registered under one address.

Election Day debunks

Fact bank check: Pennsylvania voters exposed to COVID-nineteen can still vote

Pennsylvania officials did not "try to silence voters" exposed to COVID-19 by telling them via letter they can't vote in person. Letters have been sent to Pennsylvanians exposed to the coronavirus since the beginning of the pandemic, and the alphabetic character makes no mention of the election.

Fact check: Poll watcher turned away at Philadelphia polling station in misunderstanding

A poll watcher was turned away from a Philadelphia polling station due to a legal misunderstanding, but he was allowed back in later the mistake was recognized. This appears to be an isolated incident.

Fact check: 'Null wrong' with Kentucky county'southward voting November. 3, clerk says

A Facebook post fabricated on October. 13 about a voting holdup in Fayette County, Kentucky, was shared as if information technology was made on Nov. 3. While there was a brief concord up in voting the 24-hour interval the post was created, the Fayette Canton clerk said the filibuster was mischaracterized in the mail service – and the timing of the post's share is misleading.

Fact check: Video misrepresents timing and severity of Scranton ballot-scanning automobile outage

Voting machines did go downwards in several polling districts in Scranton, Pennsylvania, the morning of Election Day, but all machines were up and running in under ii.5 hours. The video, labeled "BREAKING," was shared several hours afterward the issues were fixed.

Fact check: Paradigm does not show massive wall in front of White House

The image at hand does non show a massive wall in front of the White House; it's fabricated from a 2009 image. The National Park Service confirmed the photo does non resemble the bodily fencing at the White House that federal regime did put up.

Fact cheque: Bricks in Detroit are for structure projects, not to incite violence

At that place's no evidence bricks were purposely staged in Detroit to incite violence. Detroit police and the owner of a local structure company confirmed the bricks photographed are for construction projects.

Fact check: No one was immune to vote after Nov. iii

Despite the mail service's claims, all Americans, including Democrats, must vote on or before Election Day. Mail-in ballots must be postmarked by that twenty-four hours.

On ballot technology

Fact check: Dominion Voting machines create ballots simply for audits, testing

It is true that Dominion Voting machines create ballots, for testing, audits and after a voter has voted and approves the ballot creation. Simply assertions that machines tin be hacked, votes were dumped and test ballots tin can be counted are false. The federal government and election experts discovered no election fraud on the office of Dominion Voting Systems or its voting machines.

Fact check: Dominion voting machines didn't delete votes from Trump, switch them to Biden

A national election security coalition announced on Thursday that "there is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in whatsoever fashion compromised." Other experts and Dominion itself besides condemned the claims.

Fact check: Claims linking Dominion Voting Systems to Democrats are wrong or misleading

It is true that Nancy's Pelosi's one-time chief of staff is a lobbyist for Dominion Voting Systems, which supplied the election software in Michigan and other states. But Republicans accept lobbying ties to Rule, equally well, making this claim partly false.

Fact check: Video claim that Dominion tech manipulated Georgia votes is false

State and local election officials and a spokesperson for Dominion explain such manipulation is not possible. Our research uncovered no prove to support the claim.

Fact bank check: False claim that electronic voting software companies Rule and Smartmatic take closed

Neither Dominion nor Smartmatic has airtight in the aftermath of the election and their CEOs are non "on the run."

Fact check: A 37-vote modify in Georgia was the consequence of human error, not vote-flipping

State and local elections officials have denied the claim and explained that a 37-vote deviation was the result of a human tabulation fault, not the error of Dominion.

Fact check: Viral photograph shows fake logo and slogan for Rule Voting Systems

Archived and electric current versions of Dominion Voting System's logo show that the company's actual logo is a red ballot going into a ruby election box, suggesting the image in posts online is a doctored version of the authentic logo.

Fact check: School bus in Arizona was full of office equipment, non voting machines

The Buckeye Police Department confirmed that the double-decker contained "office equipment," not voting machines.

Fact bank check: No, Joe Biden'south brother-in-constabulary does not own Dominion Voting Systems

There is no familial relationship betwixt Joe Biden'southward relatives with the last name Owens and Stephen Owens, the co-founder of a individual disinterestedness firm that acquired Rule Voting Systems in 2018.

Fact check: Hugo Chávez's family unit does not own Dominion Voting Systems

Hugo Chávez did non establish Rule Voting Systems, nor does his family ain a stake of the visitor. Dominion was founded in Canada in 2003 and its majority owner is Staple Street Capital letter, which is based in New York.

Claims of discarded, destructed ballots

Fact check: Trump ballots were not thrown out as claimed by fake poll worker

Instagram user @omg_seabass, who claimed to be an Erie County poll worker, is non in whatever way associated with the canton, and the claim has been denied by Carl J. Anderson III, the chair of Erie County'south Lath of Elections. Additionally, poll workers do not have admission to marked-up ballots in a way that would allow disposal.

Fact check: False claim that viral video shows Trump ballots being burned

Metropolis officials in Virginia Beach, Virginia, take confirmed that a video shows sample ballots. There is no evidence that ballots burning in a viral video were real ballots.

Fact bank check: Partly false claim about discarded ballots in Pennsylvania amplified by Eric Trump

Information technology is true that nine military ballots were incorrectly discarded in a dumpster — seven of which were cast for President Donald Trump — were incorrectly discarded in a dumpster, just the incident was an error by a contractor, non evidence of cheating. The Pennsylvania secretary of state also stated that the situation was not "intentional fraud."

Fact check: Mail service about stolen – and returned – Arizona ballots lacks context

It's true that stolen ballots were institute under a rock in Arizona. But the ballots had non nonetheless been opened or filled out, and all 18 of the stolen ballots were returned to the voters three days prior to Ballot 24-hour interval.

Fact cheque: Viral video claiming to show 'shredded mail-in ballots' is of printing waste

A company confirmed that the video is of press waste material, not ballots that were non delivered. The applications are blank, not "for Trump."

Fact check: Fake claim that photograph of discarded postal service shows ballots cast for Trump

7 discarded ballots for Trump were institute in Pennsylvania after an error past a temporary contractor, not the U.S. Postal Service. Based on our research, the merits that a photo shows mail-in ballots cast for President Donald Trump discarded on the side of a road is fake, and our research did not reveal discarded Trump ballots in California or Texas.

Fact check: 2018 empty mail-in election envelopes in California dumpster spur false fraud claims

Sonoma County officials confirmed that the photos on social media are of old empty envelopes from the November 2018 election and were recycled after the state's mandated 22-month ballot preservation menstruum.

On absentee, early on voting

Fact check: False QAnon claim that Trump secretly watermarked mail-in ballots to prove fraud

A QAnon-adjacent conspiracy theory claims President Donald Trump had mail service-in ballots secretly watermarked to evidence Democrats committed fraud, but federal officials and ballot printers confirmed to Us TODAY that's impossible. Mail-in ballots are designed by local governments and ordered from private printers.

Fact bank check: Wisconsin clerks followed guidance in place since 2016 about witnesses and absentee ballots

The claim that the Wisconsin Ballot Committee may take violated state law by allowing clerks to "fix" ballots is missing context, because the policy in question has been in place since 2016, without objection, was brought forth by Republicans and was unanimously passed by a nonpartisan commission.

Fact check: Postal service-in ballots arriving after Ballot Day will count in some states

Some states won't count ballots received after Election Day, but many take extensions that allow for ballots to arrive and be counted afterward Nov. 3.

Fact check: Michigan governor encourages voters to drop off ballots, not post them

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer told voters to deliver their ballots in person, only she never explicitly told voters not to mail their ballots. At the time the claim was fabricated, on Oct. 19, experts nationwide concurred that it was too belatedly to rely on the post to deliver ballots on fourth dimension.

Fact check: Alleged 'backdated' ballots wouldn't have been counted even if USPS claim truthful

Absentee ballots had to be received by the fourth dimension polls closed on Ballot Twenty-four hour period to be counted, and all land election results were reported by the early forenoon hours of Nov. 4. Pease'south claims relate to actions allegedly taken Nov. 4 and 5. Whatever happened to ballots and so, no one was going to count and include them, so this claim is missing context.

Fact bank check: Woman in Indiana charged with modifying absentee election applications, non mail-in ballots

Reed was arrested for modifying 300 absentee ballot applications, not 400 ballots, that signed voters up for the Democratic primary without their consent during the June 2020 main. Election officials were aware of the affair and were able to send voters new applications. No candidates were pre-marked, equally the posts merits.

Fact check: Pennsylvania postal service-in election claim mixes primary, general election data

Numbers from the Pennsylvania Department of State show that over ii.half dozen million mail in ballots had been counted and over three one thousand thousand voters requested mail ballots by the October. 27 deadline. The simulated figure used in the claim originates from the number of mail in ballots requested for the Pennsylvania primary election or the number of registered Democrats that requested a post ballot.

Fact check: Pennsylvania mail-in votes need 2 envelopes to be counted

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that officials can reject ballots that aren't properly enclosed in the required envelopes, and the state's secretary of state further confirmed the data is in an online voter guide. This claim is true.

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On poll workers, challengers and electors

Fact check: Viral video shows Pennsylvania poll workers fixing damaged ballots

County officials confirmed that workers were fixing damaged ballots and the video has been manipulated to crop out bipartisan observers who witnessed the process. The damaged ballots have been preserved, and Pennsylvania's Election Code states damaged ballots must be duplicated.

Fact check: Videos showing oversupply locked out of Detroit TCF Center with windows obstructed are missing context

Viral videos draw crowds of challengers stuck outside Detroit'southward TCF Center as election workers count ballots inside behind obstructed windows. Statements from officials and witnesses clarify that Republican challengers were not more oftentimes denied entry, and the TCF Middle'due south windows were covered considering election workers felt intimidated.

Fact check: Federal Election Commission chair echoes false claims of fraud

The quotes from FEC Chair Trey Trainor are real and came from an interview with Newsmax. But he's not the "pinnacle boss of all the election officials," and the FEC's jurisdiction isn't related to vote counting or election security — just campaign finances. The post'south claims are partly faux, true merely in that Trainor expressed his stance near the ballot.

Fact check: State legislatures choose electors, merely electors vote how state dictates

 It is true the Constitution grants country legislatures the power to cull electors for the Electoral College. But it is false to propose that legislatures retain this authorization later a pop vote on Ballot Day.  A "safe harbor" provision of the Balloter Count Act dictates changing the slate of electors later election twenty-four hours is a violation of federal police force.

Claims of dead voters

Fact check: False claim that deceased Michigan man voted in 2020

While the screenshots posted to social media are real and can be replicated, Michigan's Secretary of State'due south office debunked the claim every bit "misinformation," and Us TODAY plant evidence to support that.

Fact check: Lawsuit alleging errors in Detroit voter rolls was in 2019 and was settled

The report of a lawsuit alleging errors in Detroit voter rolls was accurate, but the posts neglect to note that the instance was filed in Dec and settled in June. Information technology was not an issue in the 2020 election.

Fact check: No show vote was cast in Joe Frazier's name

There is no testify to support this, and numerous election and county officials accept confirmed that at that place is no evidence that dead people voted in Philadelphia.

Fact cheque: No evidence that 14,000 expressionless people bandage ballots in Wayne County, Michigan

The listing has been investigated and it was found that some individuals on the listing were either still alive, or not living in Michigan. Other examples cited were the result of date of birth errors. Ballots cast by dead people in Michigan are rejected and there is no bear witness of fraud.

Fact check: Claim that Pennsylvania instance is proof of 'dead people' voting is under investigation

While Pennsylvania's ballot tracker does bear witness a recorded mail-in election for a Denise Ondick, county officials have yet to determine this was an instance of voter fraud. Moreover, experts say voter fraud involving the deceased is rare.

Fact check: Thousands of ballots were not sent to expressionless people or pets in Nevada, Virginia

Most 500,000 voters in Virginia were sent vote-past-mail applications, not an bodily ballot, that included incorrect return addresses. In Nevada, ballots for the primary ballot were returned due to a change of accost. Election officials have not mailed absentee ballots in Nevada. Virginia started mailing absentee ballots on Sept. 18.

On 'Sharpiegate,' Ukraine, Italy

Fact bank check: Sharpie is 'perfectly fine' for Michigan ballots. In some counties, information technology is 'preferred.'

Multiple election officials confirmed that filling out ballots with a blueish or blackness Sharpie is acceptable – and in some cases, even "preferred."

Fact check: Arizona election departments confirm Sharpies can be used on ballots

The Maricopa County Elections Section confirmed that Sharpies are preferred for filling out ballots. Arizona Secretarial assistant of Land Katie Hobbs has also confirmed that ballots marked with Sharpie pens would be counted.

Fact check: No connection betwixt Biden victory, Ukraine

Various iterations of conspiracy theories alleging wrongdoing on the office of Joe Biden in Ukraine have been investigated and debunked. Claims that the 2020 presidential ballot was the result of corruption are too imitation.

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