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Suitcases of secret ballots were pulled from under a table in Fulton County
The "suitcases" were standard ballot boxes, and full surveillance footage shows routine counting. Georgia investigators found no fraud, and a jury later awarded the two falsely accused workers about $148 million.
Election Day special: 25 new entries on election denial
Added November 3, 2026. Each claim links to a full entry with sources.
- Sharpie pens invalidated Trump votes in Arizona False
- Suitcases of secret ballots were pulled from under a table in Fulton County False
- Two Fulton County election workers passed a USB drive to rig the count False
- Thousands of dead people voted in Georgia in 2020 False
- Antrim County proved voting machines flipped votes in 2020 False
- The Arizona audit proved the 2020 election was stolen False
- Mail-in voting is riddled with fraud Misleading
- More votes were counted than registered voters in Detroit False
- A 4 a.m. ballot dump in Milwaukee swung Wisconsin to Biden Misleading
- Mike Pence could have rejected electoral votes on January 6 False
- The FBI orchestrated the January 6 attack Misleading
- Voting machines are connected to the internet and can be hacked remotely Misleading
- Italian satellites switched votes from Trump to Biden False
- Courts refused to look at the evidence of 2020 election fraud False
- The Supreme Court refused to hear evidence of 2020 election fraud Misleading
- Kari Lake's 2022 loss was caused by sabotaged ballot printers in Maricopa County False
- Starlink was used to steal the 2024 election for Trump False
- Republican poll watchers were barred from counting rooms in 2020 Misleading
- Voter rolls are full of dead voters used to commit fraud Misleading
- Benford's Law proves Biden's 2020 votes were fabricated False
- Smartmatic software was built to rig elections for Hugo Chávez Unsupported
- Georgia absentee ballot signatures were never checked False
- 2000 Mules proved a ballot-trafficking network stole the 2020 election False
- Pennsylvania's mail ballot deadline extension was illegal and swung the election Disputed
- Voters can cast ballots by text message False
High-priority fact checks
Updated October 26, 2026. Each claim links to a full entry with sources.
- Claim: Touchscreen machines are switching early voters' votes in Texas, Florida, Ohio, South Carolina and Tennessee.
- Status: Unsupported. Officials in Texas, South Carolina and Ohio report no unusual problems; experts say such reports are touchscreen input errors that voters can see and correct on the review screen and paper ballot.
- Claim: Ballots marked by a poll worker will be disqualified.
- Status: False. Many states require poll workers to initial or code ballots. Officials in North Carolina, Tennessee and Illinois say these markings do not affect whether a vote counts.
- Claim: A video shows a 2026 voting machine refusing to let a voter pick the Republican.
- Status: False. The video splices a 2019 Mississippi Republican primary runoff with a 2014 Virginia race.
- Claim: A former student accuses Texas Senate nominee James Talarico of abuse.
- Status: Manipulated media. The real former student says the video is AI and not him; researchers link it to the Russian network Storm-1516.
- Claim: Talarico was secretly hospitalized in an Ohio psychiatric facility.
- Status: False. He had the flu; the facility says he was never there.
- Claim: Brazil's runoff was stolen because Bolsonaro's vote total fell.
- Status: False. The viral video showed a partial count. Final results gave Bolsonaro 3.7 million more votes than in the first round; Lula won.
- Claim: Muslim migrants caused the French riots and burned church steeples.
- Status: Unsupported. French authorities have not linked immigrants to the rioting and no houses of worship were directly attacked; the "steeple" was a town hall bell tower in Limoges.
- Claim: Zelenskyy bought a $42 million nuclear bunker in Nova Scotia.
- Status: False. The story ran on a week-old impostor of the Toronto Sun website; the newspaper says it is fake.
- Claim: Videos show China seizing Indian territory in Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh.
- Status: False. The Indian Army says the trucks were authorized cross-border trade at Nathu La and the video of a general was a deepfake.
- Claim: Prime Minister Mark Carney endorses a crypto investment platform.
- Status: Manipulated media. AI deepfake ads have drawn Canadians into scams costing some victims nearly $1 million.
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The 2020 presidential election was stolen
60+ lawsuits. No evidence of fraud on a scale that changed the result.
Latest verdicts
New cases, checked against sources and filed by an editor.
Politics & Elections ~ Election Denial
The Cyber Ninjas hand count actually added 360 votes to Biden's margin in Maricopa County. The report did not find fraud.
Politics & Elections ~ Voting Machines
A Republican clerk admitted a reporting error fixed within a day. A hand audit confirmed the result.
Politics & Elections ~ Voting Machines
No audit or court found Smartmatic altered a U.S. result, and Newsmax paid $40 million to settle a defamation suit.
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