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The impact of persistent, false allegations of election fraud on voting laws and turnout.
The factual record for the shows isolated, documented instances of — local arrests, state investigations and a handful of legal challenges — but no vetted evidence that widespread fraud altered the na...
Independent reviews and exhaustive fact-checking found that votes cast in the names of deceased people in the 2020 U.S. presidential election were vanishingly rare and amounted to a tiny fraction of t...
The short, evidence-based answer: there were dozens to a few hundred investigated or alleged instances tied to the , but confirmed criminal prosecutions and convictions related specifically to alterin...
Verified instances of voter fraud tied to the were vanishingly small compared with the tens of millions of ballots cast: major post‑election reviews and reporting projects found fewer than 475 potenti...
Yes—there were isolated, proven instances of , as there are in most elections, but exhaustive reporting, court rulings, statistical analyses, and statements from specialists found no evidence of wides...
Select Committee's most consequential witnesses combined frontline law-enforcement testimony with insider and campaign revelations: former White House aide and multiple officers were focal figures, wh...
The most comprehensive public reporting found that formal referrals and investigations tied to alleged were very small in number and overwhelmingly declined by prosecutors — counted just under 475 pot...
The available public records and official investigations show only a tiny, documented number of potentially illegal ballots tied to ’s — a handful of cases referred for prosecution (four felons, four ...
Four states—, , and —have brought criminal charges connected to the so‑called “” who signed rival certificates after the 2020 election; the indictments differ sharply by state, ranging from multi‑coun...
Past have had mixed and context-dependent effects on midterm turnout and party performance: sometimes they galvanized opposition voters and reshaped congressional control, while at other times they pr...
The best available reporting and research show that in elections is vanishingly rare and has not altered recent national outcomes; multiple studies put proven or referred instances at only a few hundr...
Yes — there is proof of in , but it is overwhelmingly a matter of isolated, provable incidents rather than widespread conspiracies that have changed major election outcomes; multiple databases and cou...
The dominant fraud claims in accused of using its machines and software to switch votes from to , to delete large numbers of Trump votes, and to be tied into broader conspiracies about foreign or part...
Since 2020 have appeared in elections as a mix of novelty, targeted deception and trolling—ranging from phony robocalls and cloned voices to AI-created images used in attack ads—while platforms and po...
State-level prosecutions and administrative referrals tied to alleged irregularities in the were real but numerically limited, scattered across many states, and concentrated both in some high-profile ...
The question of whether any state violated a federal election statute in produced many lawsuits and partisan claims, but available reporting shows courts and federal authorities did not sustain a find...