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To avoid damage from heavy rains, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials have opened floodgates along Arizonaâs border fencing during monsoon season since 2009. But social media users, including Sen. Ted Cruz, shared posts with the misleading claim that the Biden administration opened the gates âby designâ to allow illegal immigration.
The nearly 50 migrants Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis flew from San Antonio to Marthaâs Vineyard in September were later moved to a shelter at a military base several miles away in Massachusetts. After that, most of them found housing in other parts of the state.
Social media posts falsely suggest there was fraud in the Pennsylvania gubernatorial race, citing a TV graphic that showed Republican State Sen. Doug Mastriano with nearly 500,000 more votes than Democratic Attorney General Josh Shapiro, but Mastriano trailing 41.6% to 56.6%. The graphic showed inaccurate numbers that were quickly corrected on air.
Florida law allows election officials to start counting early in-person and mail-in ballots before Election Day. But social media posts falsely claim Florida counted all of its more than 7 million votes in five hours on Election Day and states that took longer committed âvoter fraud.â Most states donât allow vote counting to begin until Election Day or after polls close.
Former President Donald Trump claimed he âsent in the FBI and the U.S. Attorneysâ to Broward County during the 2018 election to stop âballot theftâ and help Ron DeSantis become Floridaâs governor. But a spokesman for the county elections office said there was no âfederal law enforcement presenceâ for that election.
Former President Donald Trump is making yet another unsubstantiated claim of voter fraud, this time relying on a disputed, partisan report to assert that âthousands and thousands and thousands of crooked votesâ came out of nursing homes in Wisconsin.
Q: Has the Biden administration sent âpalletsâ of infant formula to the border amid a nationwide shortage?
A: Yes. Customs and Border Protection, the agency that first encounters and then processes immigrants, is legally required to provide formula to infants in its care and has been doing so during the recent shortage.
Sen. Tom Cotton falsely equated the nearly 2 million apprehensions of immigrants attempting to illegally cross the southern border during Joe Bidenâs presidency to âadding the entire population of Nebraska to this country.â Heâs wrong for several reasons, including that most of those apprehended were immediately turned around.
Infectious disease experts say low vaccination rates, resistance to protective measures such as wearing a mask and the highly transmissible delta variant are driving the current surge of COVID-19 cases in the U.S.
An audit of ballots and a forensic audit of voting equipment earlier this year found no problems in the 2020 elections in Maricopa County, Arizona. But debunked claims about voter fraud revealed by secret âwatermarksâ are flowing again on social media amid a Republican-led audit. County officials say no watermarks were used on the ballots.
One America News Network recently spotlighted one manâs analysis that wrongly suggests precinct-level voting data in Georgia proved a computer algorithm was used to swing the election to President Joe Biden. A hand tally of paper ballots confirmed the election outcome, one of many indications the claim is false.
Social media posts falsely claim that the November election in Myanmar was conducted using Dominion Voting Systems, the company that was the focus of bogus theories about the 2020 U.S. presidential election. The company said its systems arenât used in Myanmar, and thereâs no indication that the country uses any voting machines.
A postal worker in Erie, Pennsylvania, claimed that his superiors were backdating postmarks on ballots, then told federal investigators that he didnât actually know that â and then went back to his original position. Despite the flimsiness of the claim, President Donald Trump and his supporters have used it in their effort to blame widespread election fraud for his electoral defeat.
A bogus post on Instagram purports to be from an Erie County, Pennsylvania, poll worker who claimed he threw out over 100 pro-Trump ballots. The chair of the Erie County Board of Elections says the man âdoes not work in any way with Erie County or have any part of Erie Countyâs election process.â
We briefly recap the false, misleading and unsupported arguments that the president has made this year about the potential for voter fraud â starting with the case that he made for delaying the 2020 election.
President Donald Trump continues to add false and exaggerated statements to his already lengthy list of bogus voter fraud claims.
With votes continuing to be counted in very close elections in Florida, Georgia and Arizona, President Donald Trump and some other Republicans have been crying foul, making false and misleading claims of supposed election fraud perpetrated by Democrats in an attempt to âstealâ the elections.
Q: Is California registering noncitizens to vote?
A: No. A state motor-voter program and a San Francisco school board measure have fueled that false claim.
Q: Were there âmajor signs of voter fraudâ in Ohioâs congressional special election?
A: No. The Ohio Secretary of Stateâs office says there have been no reports of voter fraud.
Q: Is California planning to âautomatically register illegal immigrants to voteâ?
A: No. The headline making that claim is false and misrepresents the law in California.
