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Competing accounts of whether the 2020 U.S. presidential election outcome was altered by widespread fraud, versus accounts that irregularities were investigated without overturning certified results.
Open the caseDocumented7
- Documented · Academic research examined links between 2020 election fraud claims, false beliefs about voter fraud, and citizen trust and attitudes.
- Documented · Analyses of the 2020 election described both the resilience of voters and election administrators and harms associated with false fraud claims, including deadly violence.
- Documented · BBC News published fact-checks assessing major fraud claims advanced by the Trump team after the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
- Documented · Donald Trump publicly claimed that large-scale electoral fraud occurred in the 2020 presidential election and that he would win if only legal votes were counted.
- Documented · Election officials and election security experts have long stated that voter fraud is extraordinarily rare and that multiple checks protect voting-process integrity.
- Documented · Multiple states conducted recounts or audits of 2020 presidential ballots after Election Day.
- Documented · Numerous lawsuits challenging 2020 presidential results were filed in state and federal courts after Election Day.
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- Official · CISA and election infrastructure partners issued a joint statement in November 2020 describing the election as the most secure in American history.
- Official · FBI Director Christopher Wray told a U.S. Senate committee that the FBI had not seen historically widespread voter fraud efforts in a way that could affect a national election outcome and that such fraud is extraordinarily rare.
- Official · Joseph R. Biden received a majority of Electoral College votes certified for the 2020 presidential election.
- Official · The Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General investigated the Department’s public statements about a Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, election fraud matter from September 2020.
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- Contested · Expanded mail and absentee voting during the COVID-19 pandemic was a central focus of pre-election and post-election disputes over fraud risk and election administration.
- Contested · Some court filings and affidavits after the 2020 election alleged foreign interference and widespread election fraud affecting election processes and infrastructure.