2024 Election
Kamala Harris
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Republican Official Clarifies Overblown Claim of Texas Ballots 'Flipping' Votes from Trump to Harris

Written by:
Jordan Liles
Oct. 25, 2024 Tarrant County GOP Chairman Bo French posted on X on Oct. 23, 2024, "116,000 people have voted i ...
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Despite Trump's Claims, Large Numbers of Noncitizens Don't Vote in US Elections

Written by:
Jack Izzo
Oct. 16, 2024 The idea that large numbers of noncitizens vote in U.S. elections has been disproven.
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No, Using Sharpies on Election Ballots Doesn't Invalidate Your Vote

Written by:
Joey Esposito
Oct. 15, 2024 A persistent rumor about the use of Sharpie markers on voting ballots surfaced again in the lead ...
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No, 10M 'Illegal Aliens' Weren't Newly Registered To Vote in 2024 in US

Written by:
Alex Kasprak
Sept. 6, 2024 The numbers came from a government agency, but they did not mean what memes claimed they meant.
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Rumors Claim You Must Use Pencils — Not Pens — on UK Ballots. Here's the Truth

Written by:
Nick Hardinges
June 25, 2024 Some social media users falsely claimed "you must vote with pencil" or "don't write in pen."
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Wisconsin Allows Noncitizens to Get IDs to Vote?

Written by:
Anna Rascouët-Paz
April 15, 2024 We found details about the process by which a person can obtain a voting ID in Wisconsin.
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Mail-In Voting Is Banned in All These Countries?

Written by:
Anna Rascouët-Paz
April 3, 2024 We looked closely at the voting methods allowed in each country.
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Were 10M Mail-In Ballots 'Lost' During California's 2022 Midterms?

Written by:
Alex Kasprak
Jan. 20, 2023 The Public Interest Legal Group has been pushing the same misleading claims for years.
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With the general election drawing close, it’s important to know your rights in case your vote is challenged.

Here's What to Do if Your Vote is Challenged on Election Day

Written by:
The Conversation
Nov. 3, 2022 Nov. 8 is fast approaching. Know your rights as a voter.
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Verbal Threats, Disruptive Acts: What Voter Intimidation Looks Like

Written by:
Jessica Lee
Nov. 3, 2020 It's illegal to force someone to vote against their preferences, or to prevent or discourage the ...
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Votes being counted

Virginia Man Pleads Guilty to Falsely Registering Dead People as Voters

Written by:
Arturo Garcia
June 29, 2017 Andrew J. Spieles admitted to filling out eighteen fake voter registration forms.
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Person, Human, Architecture

Do Senators Who Support Voting Reform Bill Represent 43M More People Than Those Against?

Written by:
Dan MacGuill
June 23, 2021 A filibuster by Senate Republicans halted a major piece of Democratic legislation, the For the P ...
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voter voting ballot election

Things Every Voter Should Know

Written by:
Bond Huberman
Oct. 23, 2018 Don't get caught off guard at the polls. Know where your state stands on these commonly confused ...
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Jared Kushner (left) and Ivanka Trump (right)

Did Jared Kushner Register to Vote in New York as a Woman?

Written by:
Alex Kasprak
Sept. 28, 2017 The New York City Board of Elections has said that their computer system is to blame for a mix-u ...
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Lapel with several stickers saying "I Voted"

Did 5.7 Million 'Illegal Immigrants' Vote in the 2008 U.S. Election?

Written by:
Alex Kasprak
June 23, 2017 A controversial 2014 study used survey data to demonstrate that 38 people might have voted as no ...
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Texas Vote Switching

Written by:
Kim LaCapria
Oct. 25, 2016 Although rumors of "vote switching" in Texas are rampant, we found only one case in which a repo ...
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Machine Voting Pens Switching Votes from Clinton to Trump?

Written by:
Kim LaCapria
Oct. 22, 2016 A first-person account of a voting pen glitch allocating Clinton votes to Trump went viral but s ...
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Ezra Taft Benson's 'If You Vote for the Lesser of Two Evils' Quote

Written by:
David Emery
Oct. 13, 2016 A viral quote attributed to former LDS Church President and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T ...
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straight ticket voting

Are There Problems with Voting Straight Ticket?

Written by:
David Mikkelson
Oct. 15, 2008 Voters who select a 'straight ticket' may not end up voting at all in some races.
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