Arizona Election

Does "The Deep Rig" unveil new or credible evidence that the 2020 election was fixed? No, that's not true: The film recycles claims that have been debunked. Without proof, it states as fact that there were "big injections of faulty votes" in key cities; it leans on a discredited report on Antrim County, Michigan, and it repeats false claims about…

Did the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issue a report that compared how states voted in the 2020 presidential election with their vaccination rates? No, that's not true: There is no such report, according to a CDC spokesperson. That said, the agency does collect and release vaccination statistics and it's easy enough for anyone with internet access to…

Did One America News Network (OANN) report 254,000 "bad ballots" in Maricopa County, Arizona? No, that's not true: The claim, made by Sidney Powell, did not include any sourcing. Shortly after she made the claim, she walked it back. An election audit, commissioned by Republicans in the state Senate, was ongoing at the time this was written. The claim appeared…

Does this photo show that ballots in Maricopa County, Arizona, have watermarks? No, that's not true: The photo was first posted by Vernon Jones, a former state representative in Georgia who is running for governor in that state. His post says the photo shows ballots that Arizona officials are considering for use in future elections. The claim appeared in an…

Is Georgia the first state to decertify 2020 election results? No, that's not true: Georgia officials have done no such thing. The claim appears based on speculation, not the circumstances as of the day it was published. The claim relates to the audit of absentee ballots in Fulton County, Georgia's most populous county. The claim apparently assumes both that the…

Did a whistleblower claim that Dominion changed 3.8 million votes in the 2020 election? No, there's no evidence that's true: A post making the allegation against Dominion Voting Systems did not identify the alleged whistleblower and did not offer any proof to substantiate its claim. Previous claims about purported vote flipping have been repeatedly disproven. A spokesperson for Dominion dismissed…

Is Joe Biden not in charge and is the military in control of the White House? No, that's not true. Biden is the president of the United States per the U.S. Constitution Article 20. The military is not in charge of the White House, and the president is the commander in chief of the military according to Article 2 Section…

Summary: Mike Lindell's video series allegedly proving fraud in the November 2020 elections relies heavily on digital evidence in the form of files and animations that Lindell claims show attacks on the U.S. election infrastructure coming from China and other places. Lindell has never acknowledged where these files and animations came from. Lead Stories traced them back to a website…

Did protesters at a governing board meeting for the Vail Unified School District in Arizona elect a new school board and legally vote for the district's mask policy to be lifted? No, that's not true: While the protestors did stage what appeared to be an impromptu election for a new school board on April 27, 2021, their election was not…

Were a quarter of a million illegal votes found in the Arizona audit? No, that's not true: At the time of writing, April 27, 2021, no results from the audit commissioned by Republicans in the state Senate have been released. An exact release date is not known. The claim appeared in a Facebook post (archived here) published on April 26,…