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Facebook posts stated on November 8, 2020 in a Facebook post:

Overnight, election workers “found” 140,000 mail in ballots in Wisconsin; 200,000 in Michigan and 1 million in Pennsylvania. “All for Biden. None for Trump.”

By Samantha Putterman • November 10, 2020

Facebook posts stated on November 4, 2024 in a Facebook post:

Nevada ballots “don’t even have to be postmarked to be counted” after the election.

By Jeff Cercone • November 5, 2024

X posts stated on October 30, 2024 in in X posts:

Video shows “ballot mule in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, (dropping) off a large amount of ballots.”

By Jeff Cercone • November 1, 2024

Ron DeSantis stated on October 24, 2023 in a town hall in New Hampshire:

“The Republicans and Trump funded $400 million in March of 2020 for mail ballots.”

By Amy Sherman • October 31, 2023

TikTok posts stated on June 1, 2023 in a TikTok:

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was “caught on tape saying he discarded 2.5 million mail-in ballots in Texas.”

By Sara Swann • June 6, 2023

Facebook posts stated on December 11, 2022 in a Facebook post:

Kari Lake’s lawsuit “exposes Arizona used no signature verification.”

By Amy Sherman • December 15, 2022

Instagram posts stated on November 9, 2022 in an Instagram post:

Democrats used “47 million mail-in ballots” to steal “every election in the country.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • November 11, 2022

Donald Trump stated on October 31, 2022 in an interview:

Former President Jimmy Carter said “don’t ever use” mail in ballots because “they can be so easily corrupted.”

By Amy Sherman • November 4, 2022

Instagram posts stated on October 27, 2022 in a video:

“If you use the US Postal Service certified mail or registered mail, they can do anything they want with those ballots." They “can burn your mail and they won't get in any trouble.”

By Andy Nguyen • October 31, 2022

Instagram posts stated on October 23, 2022 in a video:

Mailing in a ballot “gives the bad guys a chance to know how many ballots they need to make.”

By Andy Nguyen • October 27, 2022

Instagram posts stated on October 22, 2022 in an Instagram post:

Ballots are “mailed unconstitutionally” to every voter in Colorado.

By Madison Czopek • October 26, 2022

Mark Finchem stated on August 25, 2022 in a radio show:

“In Arizona, we have flood the zone with fake ballots.”

By Amy Sherman • August 30, 2022

Viral image stated on August 8, 2022 in a Facebook post:

“Pennsylvania sent out 1,823,148 mail-in ballots. They got back 2,589,242.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • August 11, 2022

Viral image stated on August 3, 2021 in an Instagram post:

“Due to the new ‘delta variant’ California will be mailing in ballots for recall election.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • August 6, 2021

Facebook posts stated on July 19, 2021 in a Facebook post:

Mail-in voting requires no signature verification.

By Amy Sherman • July 30, 2021

Donald Trump stated on July 15, 2021 in a statement:

Says that in the 2020 presidential election in Maricopa County, Ariz., "74,243 mail-in ballots were counted with 'no clear record of them being sent.'"

By Tom Kertscher • July 19, 2021

Kevin Sorbo stated on February 15, 2021 in a tweet:

“So California is requiring signature verification for Gavin Newsom’s recall, but didn’t require it for the mail in ballots.”

By Bill McCarthy, Chris Nichols • February 16, 2021

Matt Schlapp stated on November 8, 2020 in a Fox News appearance:

As an example of voter fraud, “we have literally 9,000 people who voted in this election (in Nevada) who don’t live in Nevada.”

By Bill McCarthy • November 11, 2020

Bloggers stated on November 4, 2020 in a Facebook post:

“USPS failed to deliver 27% of mail-in ballots in South Florida”

By Jon Greenberg • November 5, 2020

Viral image stated on November 4, 2020 in a Facebook post:

More mail-in ballots were counted in Lancaster County, Pa., than were returned.

By Ciara O'Rourke • November 5, 2020

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Articles (278)

From booze-filled parties to mail ballots: How did American voting actually evolve?

By Amy Sherman • June 29, 2026

Voters in Butler Township, Pa. 11-05-2024

Analysis: How PolitiFact fact-checked 2024 election claims on vote counting, mail ballots, machines

By Loreben Tuquero, Jeff Cercone • November 26, 2024

Maricopa election workers sort early ballots 11-8-22

Yes, a Maricopa County voter received two mail ballots. That’s not a sign of wrongdoing or fraud.

By Amy Sherman • February 29, 2024

Joe and Jill Biden vote at polling place in Sept. 2022

Absentee voters can still cast ballots by mail in Delaware

By Madison Czopek • October 13, 2022

Maricopa election worker with ballot and machine 8-3-22

The pace of Arizona’s primary ballot count isn’t ‘suspicious.’ Verifying mail ballots takes time

By Amy Sherman • August 4, 2022

Will 458,000 Vote-By-Mail Ballots Go To Californians Who Have Died Or Moved? Experts Are Skeptical

By Chris Nichols • July 3, 2020

Were Oregon voters mailed the ‘wrong’ ballots for the primary election?

By Tom Kertscher • May 22, 2020

Trump press conference reporter hands in air 4-6-26

After spreading falsehoods about mail voting fraud, Trump cast mail ballot in Florida primary

By Amy Sherman • August 18, 2026

President Trump wants to slash voting by mail. About 1 in 4 Republicans voted that way in 2024

By Amy Sherman • March 11, 2026

Burned ballots from drop box in Clark County, Wash.

Overwhelming majority of ballot boxes are secure, rare for ballots to be lost or destroyed

By Jill Terreri Ramos • October 31, 2024

Donald Trump onstage in Indiana, Pa., 9-23-2024

Trump renews voter fraud claims as voting by mail begins. Here’s why they are still false.

By Amy Sherman • October 2, 2024

That photo of a mail truck in a cemetery? It’s an ode to past relationships, not about dead voters

By Amy Sherman, Sara Swann • January 17, 2024

Cast of "Succession" at NY premiere, 3-20-2023

Fact-checking ‘Succession’: What happens if a fire destroys 100,000 absentee ballots in Milwaukee?

By Loreben Tuquero • May 19, 2023

Arizona’s widespread use of mail-in voting and close margins created longer wait for results

By Amy Sherman • November 15, 2022

Why it’s misleading to compare Los Angeles recall petition rejections with mail ballot rejections

By Amy Sherman • August 19, 2022

Mail ballot drop box Maricopa County 10-20-20

The faulty premise of the ‘2,000 mules’ trailer about voting by mail in the 2020 election

By Amy Sherman, Bill McCarthy • May 4, 2022

Voting by mail has been popular in Arizona for decades. Now the state GOP wants to ban it

By Amy Sherman • March 17, 2022

A claim about serial numbers on ballots is misguided

By Amy Sherman • February 1, 2022

stock image of woman receiving email on her phone

Mailbag: ‘Gotta do better,’ and ‘thank you for your service’

By Amy Sherman • October 5, 2021

mail ballot drop off in Las Vegas 11-2-2020

Much has changed since Jimmy Carter’s report on fraud in mail voting

By Amy Sherman • September 22, 2021