US Election-Fraud Claims
Since 2020, a family of claims has held that American elections are systematically stolen: that voting machines flip votes, that mail ballots are forged, that noncitizens or the dead pad the rolls, or that organized operations stuff drop boxes. Recounts, hand audits, court cases, and bipartisan election officials have examined these claims closely and found no fraud on any scale that changed an outcome. These files separate the documented record from each rated claim, and are grouped here because the same tropes resurface every cycle.
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Artificial intelligence, from chatbots like Grok to AI deepfakes, is being used as part of a coordinated covert scheme to secretly control or rig the 2026 US midterm elections
Going into the 2026 US midterm elections, a claim has spread that artificial intelligence is the hidden instrument of a plot to rig the vote: that AI chatbots such as Grok, together with AI-generated deepfake audio and video of candidates, are being coordinated to covertly control who wins. The claim braids together two things that should be kept separate. One is documented and real: generative AI tools have a well-recorded habit of producing false election information, and synthetic media impersonating candidates has genuinely circulated, both of which election officials and security agencies treat as serious threats to information integrity. The other is the rated conspiracy: that this amounts to a single coordinated covert scheme to secretly predetermine the 2026 result. This file states the documented record plainly and with sources, then explains why the leap to a centralized rigging operation is, on the public evidence, unproven. It attributes every allegation as an allegation, names no culprit, and accuses no one of a crime.
Read the case file →The 2020 US presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump through mass fraud
In the days after the 2020 US presidential election, Donald Trump and his allies declared that the vote had been stolen through mass fraud, and 'Stop the Steal' became a movement that fed months of lawsuits, rallies, and, on January 6, 2021, the storming of the US Capitol. This case file separates the documented record from the rated claim. It is documented that the election was contested: more than 60 lawsuits were filed, several states recounted or audited, and the result was disputed for months. The rated claim is the sweeping one, that the election was actually stolen and Trump truly won. On the evidence, that claim is debunked. The Trump-aligned lawsuits lost almost without exception, many for lack of any evidence and several before Trump-appointed judges; federal officials found no sign any vote was altered; the Attorney General said the Justice Department found no outcome-changing fraud; Georgia counted three times including a full hand recount; a partisan Arizona review found no fraud and nudged Biden's margin up; Fox News paid 787.5 million dollars to settle a defamation suit over false machine-fraud claims; and every state certified. The file names no fraud because the record establishes none. Two narrower pieces of this story are treated in their own files: the specific voting-machine allegations in the voting-machine-fraud case, and the 2026 federal seizures in the stolen-election-2026-probe case.
Read the case file →'2000 Mules' proved thousands of paid operatives illegally stuffed ballot drop boxes in 2020
In May 2022, conservative filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza and the activist group True the Vote released '2000 Mules,' which claimed that anonymized cellphone geolocation data, combined with drop-box surveillance video, proved that thousands of paid operatives had illegally collected and deposited ballots across five swing states in 2020. The film became a rallying point for people who believed the election was stolen. Its method does not hold up: experts and the Associated Press explained that phone-location data is far too imprecise to show that a device visited a particular drop box, the surveillance clips depicted lawful ballot returns rather than crimes, and not a single 'mule' was ever identified or charged. Georgia's State Election Board dismissed the related ballot-harvesting complaint, and True the Vote later admitted in court it had no underlying names or proof. In 2024 the film's distributor retracted it, pulled the book, and apologized to a Georgia man it had falsely cast as a criminal. This file separates the documented record (the film was made, then retracted) from the rated claim (that it proved mass fraud), which is debunked.
Read the case file →The 2026 federal seizures of 2020 ballots and voting machines are uncovering the fraud that stole the election
In early 2026 the federal government took two unprecedented actions around long-settled election claims. On January 28 the FBI raided Fulton County, Georgia's election operations center and seized more than 650 boxes of original 2020 ballots, images, tabulator tapes, and voter rolls; days later it emerged that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, under Tulsi Gabbard, had obtained and forensically examined voting machines from Puerto Rico. Supporters framed both as the beginning of the end for a cover-up: proof, at last, that the 2020 election was stolen and that the machinery of fraud was about to be exposed. This case file separates the documented record, the seizures happened and are being fought in court, from the rated claim, that they are uncovering real election fraud. On the evidence, that claim is debunked: the 2020 Georgia result was checked three separate ways, the affidavit behind the raid recycled complaints the state had already found did not change the count, and the intelligence review turned up no foreign hack. The file names no fraud because the record establishes none.
Read the case file →Mail-in and absentee voting is riddled with fraud that swings elections
As mail and absentee voting expanded, so did the claim that it is the soft underbelly of American elections: that mailed ballots are forged, harvested, and dumped by the thousands, and that this fraud is large enough to flip races. This case file separates two things that are usually blurred. Mail-ballot fraud is real and does occur, and one modern case, a ballot-harvesting operation in North Carolina's 9th congressional district in 2018, was serious enough that the state threw out the result and ordered a new election. But the measured rate of such fraud is tiny, states have voted largely by mail for decades without stolen outcomes, and no evidence shows mail fraud deciding a presidential election. The rated claim, that mail voting is systematically rigged, is debunked; the real, rare cases are treated here honestly rather than waved away, because they are also the clearest proof that the safeguards catch it.
Read the case file →Large numbers of noncitizens vote illegally in US elections and decide the outcomes
The claim is that noncitizens, especially undocumented immigrants, are voting in US federal elections in large numbers and tipping the results, and that only proof-of-citizenship rules can stop it. This case file separates the narrow truths from the large claim. Noncitizen voting in federal elections is illegal and does happen in isolated cases that are caught and prosecuted; separately and lawfully, a few localities let noncitizens vote in local races only. But the audits are consistent and one-directional: across millions of ballots reviewed, confirmed noncitizen votes number in the single or low double digits, far too few to affect a federal outcome. The rated claim, that noncitizens vote in election-deciding numbers, is debunked. The real cases and the local-voting exceptions are laid out honestly rather than denied, because the honest version of the facts is already enough to answer the claim.
Read the case file →US elections are systematically rigged through hacked or pre-programmed voting machines that secretly flip votes to change the outcome
The claim is that American elections are not really decided by voters but by machines: that electronic voting equipment is hacked, pre-programmed, or remotely manipulated to secretly flip votes from one candidate to another or to invent votes outright, and that the true tallies are hidden. This case file separates two things that get blurred together. The documented record is that voting machines are computers, that computers can have flaws, and that independent researchers have shown specific vulnerabilities under laboratory conditions; that record is real and it is exactly why the United States relies so heavily on paper ballots and post-election audits. The rated claim is different and much larger: that any real US election was actually decided by secret machine manipulation. On the evidence, that claim is debunked. Full hand recounts and risk-limiting audits have matched machine counts; federal cybersecurity authorities and bipartisan election officials found no evidence of manipulation changing a result; and courts and defamation settlements established that the most prominent rigging accusations were false. The file draws a firm line between legitimate election-security scrutiny, which is valuable, and the false story that machines quietly chose the winners.
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