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False claims near the ballot process are spreading online in wake of the 2020 vote. The USA TODAY Fact Check team is dedicated to verifying claims and fighting misinformation. Here'southward a listing of recent fact-checks related to the 2020 election:

On counting votes

Fact check: Typo led to false post virtually Michigan votes showing upwardly 'magically' for Biden

A typo past a local Michigan county accounts for a sudden increase in Biden votes. The mistake was rapidly corrected, and framing the incident equally show of fraud is a gross mischaracterization.

Fact cheque: Democrat-led states did not stop counting votes for no reason

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

Fact check: That spike in the Wisconsin vote tally was expected and legitimate, not fraud

The vote tally in Wisconsin jumped at 3:30 a.1000. on Nov. 4 considering that's when officials finished counting the city of Milwaukee'southward absentee ballots, a group of votes expected to lean heavily left. It's false to call the spike in the voting count fraud.

Fact cheque: No, Wisconsin did not take a intermission from counting election results

Some of the state's election results arrived tardily due to an influx of mail-in ballots, not because officials took a break. And President-elect Joe Biden never held a big lead there.

Fact check: Mail-ballot ballot counting not dependent on country'south party

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

Fact check: Claim saying ongoing ballot counting is cheating, voter fraud is inaccurate

A claim that ongoing ballot counting in Pennsylvania is adulterous or fraudulent is false.

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

There were 100,000 Central Absentee Precinct ballots that were mistakenly entered for Joe Biden in Fairfax County'southward unofficial election results spreadsheet, but the error was quickly noticed and stock-still. The county's spreadsheet has been amended, and the state Board of Ballot's total votes counted tally never reflected the fault.

Fact bank check: Georgia ballot curing is not election fraud

Ballot curing is a legal process that ensures voters who cast their ballots past Election Solar day accept a chance to encounter their vote counted. It's immune in many states, and there is no prove ballot curing was used to commit election fraud in Georgia.

Fact check: Wisconsin county did not have a glitch that stole votes from Trump

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

Fact bank check: No, Wisconsin votes don't accept to be counted past 8 p.m. on Nov. 3

Voters in line at 8 p.m. on Election Mean solar day can legally cast their vote. No judge made this ruling, and an earlier ruling from a federal judge — since upheld by an appeals console — actually did the opposite, assuasive any absentee ballots returned by Nov. 9 to exist counted, every bit long as they were postmarked by Election Day.

People vote at Staples Center on Nov. 3, 2020 in Los Angeles.

On the event, by election comparisons

Fact check: Trump lost the 2020 presidential election

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

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

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

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

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

Fact check: Joe Biden outperformed Hillary Clinton in most major metro areas

Biden received more 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 besides false.

Fact check: Biden won popular, Electoral College votes in several battleground states

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

Fact cheque: Biden won the most total votes – and the fewest full counties – of whatever president-elect

With over 81 one thousand thousand votes, Biden received the most votes of any presidential candidate in history. It is also true that he won a record-low number of counties – only counties vary by population size, so those wins don't correlate with the pop vote.

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

People vote, not places, and Biden won the most populous counties in the country, co-ordinate to a Census 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 pocket-size entrada events

The Trump campaign disregarded many COVID-19 precautions and hosted large crowds, while Biden made following coronavirus guidelines central to his efforts. Biden'south lack of crowds does non translate to a lack of support from voters, but rather a consequent adherence to pandemic rubber guidelines.

Fact check: Subsequently endorsing him, New York Post now pushes Trump to accept Biden'south victory

Based on our enquiry, the claim that the New York Post published a cover and staff editorial urging President Trump to accept defeat is truthful; the items were published in print and online on December. 27.

Fact check: These five election statistics do not ignominy Joe Biden'due south victory

Social media shared a meme with statistics that they claim discredits Joe Biden's victory. The meme compares information about former President Barack Obama in 2008 and President Donald Trump and Biden in 2020. It lists full 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'due south political political party won seats in the House of Representatives.

On calling states, certifying votes

Fact check: xiv of the first 25 states chosen went to Trump, reverse to viral claims

The claim that blue states were called immediately, while red states were non is false. Of the first 25 states called by the Associated Press, 14 were for Trump. There's likewise no show vote counting was paused to "notice" ballots.

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

The 5 states even so not called on Nov. 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 brusk-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 be expected to lean even more than that direction since Trump had attacked that method of voting leading upward to the ballot while Biden encouraged information technology.

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

A spokesperson for CNN said the news network never called Arizona for Biden, and U.s.a. TODAY found no evidence indicating otherwise.

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

The board of canvassers did initially split in a two-two vote, officials reversed course a few hours afterward and certified election results in Wayne Canton based on the condition 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 ballot "by a landslide," the exclamation is imitation. Joe Biden is the president-elect after having garnered enough balloter votes as a result of the popular vote across the country earlier this calendar month.

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

The argument regarding allegations that votes were changed by a signature verification machine was fabricated by the former attorney general of Nevada, a Republican and co-chairman of the Nevada Trump entrada, and not past current Attorney General Aaron Ford, a Democrat.

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

Real Articulate Politics never called Pennsylvania or switched it from Biden every bit many social media posts claim, according to its co-founder and president, Tom Bevan, besides as its Washington bureau chief, Carl One thousand. Cannon.

Fact check: Some electoral maps testify Trump leading with 232 votes. They're wrong.

Epoch Times, Gateway Pundit, and EveryLegalVote.com show a different electoral vote count for two reasons: They exclude states with awaiting litigation or recounts, subtracting votes from Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Arizona, and in one case Virginia, from Biden. They too called Northward Carolina for Trump, though the land was non done counting every bit of publication fourth dimension and has non been called by the Associated Press. Their counts are incorrect.

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

While all presidential elections have the potential to be decided in the House of Representatives under the Constitution, the post fails to mention key steps needed in order for the election to go to the Business firm. Even if the ballot results were contested and Trump doesn't concede, experts take agreed that it is unlikely for Trump to win the election this fashion.

Fact check: Map showing Trump landslide based on false report of seized election servers in Germany

The false merits that Donald Trump received 410 balloter 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 bank check: Wisconsin pecker does not decertify results and requite Trump the win

A Wisconsin Legislature bill would prioritize legislation addressing ballot laws. Simply it says nothing related to decertification or application the state to Trump. And in any example, the country'southward balloter votes were already cast for Biden weeks ago. The claim is false.

Fact bank check: False news report indicates Biden plans to footstep down as president-elect

A claim that President-elect Joe Biden is stepping down because of health concerns is false, the news report that makes the argument is faked.

Fact check: Trump pressured officials in Georgia to recalculate country's vote in his favor

On Jan. three, the Washington Mail service broke the news of an hourlong telephone call in which President Donald Trump asked Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to "find 11,780 votes." Since then, Trump has doubled down on his groundless claims of electoral fraud, while Democrats have expressed outrage.

Fact cheque: No, court did non dominion 200,000 Wisconsin ballots were illegitimate

A Wisconsin statute allows voters to declare themselves as "indefinitely confined." They can then cast an absentee ballot without providing a photograph ID, as would be required for in-person voting or a traditional absentee ballot. Trump and other Republicans have attacked this method of voting as improper. A final ruling from the country Supreme Courtroom released Dec. xiv said it'south up to each voter whether they meet the requirements for being "indefinitely confined" — not clerks or anyone else.

Voting on Nov. 3, 2020, in Cincinnati, Ohio.

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.six million voters were registered in the land every bit of Nov. 1, according to the Wisconsin Elections Commission, which denied there beingness more ballots than registered voters.

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

Turnout is measured as a percentage of eligible voters, not registered voters. Donald Trump Jr.'s figures employ eligible voters for the 2016 figure but registered voters for 2020. Using the proper denominator for 2020 shows a turnout around 72%, firmly in the range of past presidential elections.

Fact check: Milwaukee wards did non accept more votes for president than registered voters

The numbers cited past Milwaukee Metropolis Wire do non lucifer data from the Milwaukee County clerk's office, which evidence the number of registered voters exceeded ballots cast.

Fact cheque: Merits of Georgia vote fasten for Biden later on pipage burst at counting site is false

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

Fact bank check: Over 159 million people voted in the Usa general election

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

Fact bank check: Simulated claim that 'simulated votes' found during recount in Dane County, Wis.

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

Fact cheque: Image from 2017 White House effect altered to make claim almost votes for Biden

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

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

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

Fact check: There was stiff Navajo back up for Biden, but numbers cited in claim accept changed

The statistics in the social media posts are inaccurate – possibly because they came from an article that cited returns before the total vote count was in. However, 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 ninety% for Biden.

Fact check: Claim that voting noncitizens affected 2020 election issue is unverified

Voting in federal elections is reserved for U.S. citizens and few noncitizens knowingly annals to vote. The claim that voter turnout from noncitizens affected the popular vote in the 2020 presidential race in battleground states is plausible only unproven.

Fact cheque: Dual language ballots create confusion in Georgia'southward Gwinnett County information

The Voting Rights Act ensures language assistance to individuals not skilful in English by providing balloter material and other information in their native language. Gwinnett County meets the thresholds to crave electoral material in some other language due to its sizable Latino or Hispanic population. Unmarried ballots are thus printed on two sheets, one in English and one in Spanish, which are both counted in the county's election summary results and cannot be omitted under federal police.

Fact bank check: Due north Carolina vote total for governor didn't exceed ballots bandage

Our research of the official vote tally shows the assertion that but four.5 million votes were bandage is wrong, rendering moot whatsoever result near a purported half-million or more "extra" votes. The vote totals for two gubernatorial candidates are correct for the time the merits was made, but they are incomplete, missing three candidates. Whatsoever suggestions of fraud are baseless

Fact check: Kanye West, other third-party candidates, not leading in Kentucky voting

The screenshot showing a number of third-party presidential candidates leading at the polls in Kentucky depicts fake election results. Kanye West has not received 40,000 votes in Kentucky.

Fact check: Michigan townships had more registered voters than votes

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

Fact check: Simulated claim of fraud in Arizona voter registrations

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

Election Day debunks

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

Pennsylvania officials did not "endeavor to silence voters" exposed to COVID-xix by telling them via letter they can't vote in person. Messages accept been sent to Pennsylvanians exposed to the coronavirus since the beginning of the pandemic, and the letter 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, just he was immune back in after the error was recognized. This appears to exist an isolated incident.

Fact bank check: 'Nothing wrong' with Kentucky county's voting November. iii, clerk says

A Facebook post made on Oct. 13 nigh a voting holdup in Fayette County, Kentucky, was shared every bit if information technology was fabricated on Nov. three. While there was a brief hold up in voting the 24-hour interval the mail service was created, the Fayette County clerk said the filibuster was mischaracterized in the post – and the timing of the mail's share is misleading.

Fact check: Video misrepresents timing and severity of Scranton election-scanning motorcar outage

Voting machines did go downwardly in several polling districts in Scranton, Pennsylvania, the forenoon of Ballot Day, but all machines were up and running in under 2.5 hours. The video, labeled "BREAKING," was shared several hours after the issues were fixed.

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

The image at hand does not bear witness a massive wall in front of the White House; it'due south made from a 2009 prototype. The National Park Service confirmed the photo does not resemble the actual fencing at the White Firm that federal authorities did put up.

Fact check: Bricks in Detroit are for construction projects, not to incite violence

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

Fact check: No one was allowed to vote subsequently Nov. 3

Despite the mail service's claims, all Americans, including Democrats, must vote on or before Election Solar day. Post-in ballots must be postmarked by that day.

Workers process mail-in and absentee ballots on Nov. 4 in West Chester, Pa.

On ballot engineering

Fact cheque: Rule Voting machines create ballots just 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. Merely assertions that machines can be hacked, votes were dumped and test ballots can be counted are false. The federal government and election experts discovered no election fraud on the part 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 ballot security coalition announced on Thursday that "there is no evidence that any voting arrangement deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised." Other experts and Dominion itself too condemned the claims.

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

It is true that Nancy's Pelosi's onetime chief of staff is a lobbyist for Dominion Voting Systems, which supplied the ballot software in Michigan and other states. But Republicans have lobbying ties to Dominion, every bit well, making this claim partly false.

Fact check: Video merits that Dominion tech manipulated Georgia votes is simulated

State and local ballot officials and a spokesperson for Dominion explain such manipulation is not possible. Our inquiry uncovered no evidence to support the claim.

Fact check: False merits that electronic voting software companies Dominion and Smartmatic have closed

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

Fact check: A 37-vote change in Georgia was the outcome of human error, non vote-flipping

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

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

Archived and electric current versions of Rule Voting System'due south logo show that the company'southward actual logo is a cherry ballot going into a red election box, suggesting the prototype in posts online is a doctored version of the authentic logo.

Fact check: School omnibus in Arizona was full of office equipment, not voting machines

The Buckeye Police Department confirmed that the bus contained "role equipment," not voting machines.

Fact cheque: No, Joe Biden's blood brother-in-law does not own Dominion Voting Systems

At that place is no familial relationship between Joe Biden's relatives with the terminal name Owens and Stephen Owens, the co-founder of a private disinterestedness business firm that acquired Rule Voting Systems in 2018.

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

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

Claims of discarded, destructed ballots

Fact bank 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 not in whatsoever way associated with the county, and the claim has been denied by Carl J. Anderson III, the chair of Erie County'southward Board of Elections. Additionally, poll workers practise not have access to marked-up ballots in a way that would allow disposal.

Fact bank check: Faux merits that viral video shows Trump ballots being burned

City officials in Virginia Beach, Virginia, have confirmed that a video shows sample ballots. There is no prove that ballots burning in a viral video were real ballots.

Fact 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, but the incident was an error past a contractor, not evidence of cheating. The Pennsylvania secretary of state besides stated that the situation was non "intentional fraud."

Fact check: Post nearly stolen – and returned – Arizona ballots lacks context

Information technology'south true that stolen ballots were plant under a rock in Arizona. Merely the ballots had not yet been opened or filled out, and all xviii of the stolen ballots were returned to the voters three days prior to Election Day.

Fact cheque: Viral video claiming to testify 'shredded post-in ballots' is of printing waste material

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

Fact cheque: False claim that photo of discarded mail service shows ballots cast for Trump

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

Fact check: 2018 empty post-in ballot envelopes in California dumpster spur faux fraud claims

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

On absentee, early voting

Fact cheque: False QAnon merits that Trump secretly watermarked mail-in ballots to prove fraud

A QAnon-adjacent conspiracy theory claims President Donald Trump had mail-in ballots secretly watermarked to prove Democrats committed fraud, but federal officials and ballot printers confirmed to USA TODAY that's incommunicable. Post-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 Election Commission may take violated land law past allowing clerks to "fix" ballots is missing context, considering the policy in question has been in identify since 2016, without objection, was brought along by Republicans and was unanimously passed by a nonpartisan commission.

Fact check: Mail-in ballots arriving later on Ballot Twenty-four hours will count in some states

Some states won't count ballots received subsequently Ballot Day, merely many have extensions that allow for ballots to arrive and be counted after November. 3.

Fact check: Michigan governor encourages voters to drib off ballots, not mail them

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

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

Absentee ballots had to exist received by the time polls closed on Ballot Solar day to exist counted, and all state election results were reported past the early morn hours of Nov. 4. Pease's claims chronicle to actions allegedly taken Nov. four and five. Whatever happened to ballots and then, no ane was going to count and include them, so this claim is missing context.

Fact check: Adult female in Indiana charged with modifying absentee election applications, non postal service-in ballots

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

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

Numbers from the Pennsylvania Section of State show that over 2.vi one thousand thousand mail in ballots had been counted and over 3 meg voters requested mail ballots by the Oct. 27 deadline. The false effigy used in the claim originates from the number of mail in ballots requested for the Pennsylvania master election or the number of registered Democrats that requested a mail ballot.

Fact bank check: Pennsylvania mail-in votes demand two envelopes to be counted

The Pennsylvania Supreme Courtroom ruled that officials tin can refuse ballots that aren't properly enclosed in the required envelopes, and the state's secretarial assistant of country further confirmed the information is in an online voter guide. This merits is truthful.

Click here for more ge neral fact checks on voting past mail.

Workers process ballots Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020 at the City of Milwaukee Central Count Facility, 501 W. Michigan Ave. in Milwaukee, Wis. Split into three shifts, tabulators are positioned in pods of around 50 people to limit the amount of interaction among the hundreds working there because of the coronavirus.

On poll workers, challengers and electors

Fact cheque: 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 procedure. The damaged ballots have been preserved, and Pennsylvania'southward Ballot Code states damaged ballots must be duplicated.

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

Viral videos depict crowds of challengers stuck outside Detroit'south TCF Middle equally election workers count ballots inside behind obstructed windows. Statements from officials and witnesses clarify that Republican challengers were not more frequently denied entry, and the TCF Centre'due south windows were covered because ballot workers felt intimidated.

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

The quotes from FEC Chair Trey Trainor are existent and came from an interview with Newsmax. But he's not the "acme boss of all the election officials," and the FEC's jurisdiction isn't related to vote counting or election security — only campaign finances. The post'southward claims are partly false, true only in that Trainor expressed his opinion about the election.

Fact check: State legislatures cull electors, but electors vote how state dictates

 It is true the Constitution grants state legislatures the ability to choose electors for the Balloter College. But it is imitation to suggest that legislatures retain this authority afterward a popular vote on Election Mean solar day.  A "safety harbor" provision of the Electoral Count Act dictates changing the slate of electors after election day is a violation of federal police.

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 Secretarial assistant of State's part debunked the claim every bit "misinformation," and United states of america TODAY constitute 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 authentic, but the posts fail to note that the case was filed in December and settled in June. It was not an consequence in the 2020 election.

Fact check: No testify vote was bandage in Joe Frazier's proper noun

At that place is no evidence to support this, and numerous election and canton officials have confirmed that at that place is no evidence that expressionless people voted in Philadelphia.

Fact check: No evidence that 14,000 expressionless people cast ballots in Wayne Canton, Michigan

The list has been investigated and it was found that some individuals on the list were either still alive, or not living in Michigan. Other examples cited were the result of appointment of nascence errors. Ballots cast by expressionless people in Michigan are rejected and there is no evidence of fraud.

Fact cheque: Merits that Pennsylvania case is proof of 'expressionless people' voting is under investigation

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

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

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

On 'Sharpiegate,' Ukraine, Italia

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

Multiple ballot officials confirmed that filling out ballots with a blue or black Sharpie is adequate – and in some cases, even "preferred."

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

The Maricopa County Elections Department confirmed that Sharpies are preferred for filling out ballots. Arizona Secretary of Country Katie Hobbs has also confirmed that ballots marked with Sharpie pens would be counted.

Fact cheque: No connexion between Biden victory, Ukraine

Diverse iterations of conspiracy theories alleging wrongdoing on the role of Joe Biden in Ukraine have been investigated and debunked. Claims that the 2020 presidential election was the result of corruption are also false.

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