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Endless Election Fraud Claims

1993

1993-05-20 Clinton signed the “Motor Voter Act” or National Voter Registration Act to help register voters. The GOP used this bill to demonize women, minority and immigrant voters and claim voter fraud.

https://www.rockthevote.org/explainers/what-is-the-national-registration-act-of-1993/

https://www.justice.gov/crt/national-voter-registration-act-1993-nvra

GOP FRAUD CLAIMS https://www.npr.org/2017/07/07/535920463/the-controversy-over-the-motor-voter-law

GOP FRAUD CLAIMS https://steube.house.gov/in-the-news/house-republicans-introduce-bill-to-repeal-motor-voter-law-over-fraud-fears/

GOP FRAUD CLAIMS https://www.cato.org/testimony/motor-voter-act-voter-fraud

2012

2012-10-18 Trump called the 2012 vote a “total sham”.

https://www.cnn.com/2016/10/18/politics/donald-trump-rigged-vote-twitter-2012

2016

2016-10-16 Trump posted, “The election is absolutely being rigged by the dishonest and distorted media pushing Crooked Hillary - but also at many polling places - SAD.”

https://www.cnn.com/2016/10/15/politics/donald-trump-rigged-election-hillary-clinton

https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-37673797

2016-11-27 Trump posted, “In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally” the posted accusations of voter fraud in Virginia, New Hampshire, and California.

https://www.npr.org/2016/11/27/503506026/trump-makes-unfounded-claim-that-millions-voted-illegally-for-clinton

https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/802972944532209664

2017

2017-05-11 Trump signed executive order “Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity”. Trump tweeted out in July, calling the board of this executive order his “VOTER FRAUD PANEL”.

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/background-trumps-voter-fraud-commission

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/meet-members-trumps-voter-fraud-commission

https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/articles/presidential-advisory-commission-election-integrity/

https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/881137079958241280

2018

2018-11-05 Just before the midterms Trump posted, “Law Enforcement has been strongly notified to watch closely for any ILLEGAL VOTING which may take place in Tuesday’s Election (or Early Voting). Anyone caught will be subject to the Maximum Criminal Penalties allowed by law”.

https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1059470847751131138

2020 May

2020-05-26 Trump made accusations on a Twitter post of alleged 2020 election interference. Josh Hawley reposted the tweet and added that Twitter was getting subsidized by the federal government for that interference in the form of “special immunity”.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-threatens-close-social-media-platforms-twitter-fact/story?id=70899912

2020 August

2020-08-17 Trump claimed publicly that “the only way we’re going to lose this election is if the election is rigged”.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/512424-trump-the-only-way-we-are-going-to-lose-this-election-is-if-the/

2020 November

2020-11-07 Trump posted “I WON THIS ELECTION, BY A LOT!” and, “this election is far from over”.

https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1325099845045071873?lang=en

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/trump-says-election-far-over-he-vows-fight-results-n1246934

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/read-president-donald-trumps-full-statement-on-the-election-results-vowing-to-head-to-the-courts

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-longstanding-history-calling-elections-rigged-doesn’t-results/story?id=74126926

2020-11-07 Trump made threats to prosecute over the Biden victory.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/read-president-donald-trumps-full-statement-on-the-election-results-vowing-to-head-to-the-courts

2020-11-09 Trump’s former press secretary Kayleigh McEnany repeatedly pushed false claims of election fraud and told Fox she wanted all Pennsylvanian ballots thrown out. After a financial disclosure statement was released showing she funds from both Trump and TPUSA the Fox broadcast system put out a statement saying that she “is not currently an employee or contributor at FOX News”.

FRAUD CLAIMS

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/fox-news-cuts-away-kayleigh-224725658.html

https://www.yahoo.com/news/fox-news-pulls-plug-on-trump-spokeswoman-making-baseless-claims-of-fraud-002241021.html

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2020/nov/10/whoa-fox-news-cuts-off-kayleigh-mcenany-for-votes-spiel-video

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-10/fox-cuts-white-house-briefing-trump-us-election-fraud-claims/12866816

OTHER SHADY BUSINESS

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/30/kayleigh-mcenany-liar-opportunist-trump-alyssa-farah-griffin

https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-investigations/kayleigh-mcenanys-personal-financial-disclosure/

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-kayleigh-mcenany-insult-white-house-b2349164.html

2020 December

2020-12-01 Jeanine Pirro contributed to voting system misinformation during the 2020 elections, as she was the center of a $1.6B defamation suit against Fox by Dominion over false claims. Allegedly a Fox News producer called her a “reckless maniac” in an internal company email, and Conservative legal experts wrote a report in 2022 saying Trump and his allies never provided any actual evidence of fraud.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_Voting_Systems_v._Fox_News_Network

https://www.npr.org/2022/09/30/1126286121/fox-news-jeanine-pirro-election-defamation

https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/04/03/fox-dominion-jeanine-pirro-brain-room/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/07/31/judge-jeanine-pirro-2020-election-lies-trump/85363846007/

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/jeanine-pirro-named-1-6-041809298.html

LOST NOT STOLEN DOC, JULY 2022 https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25116913-lost-not-stolen-the-conservative-case-that-trump-lost-and-biden-won-the-2020-presidential-election-july-2022/

2020 “Get Moving, Republicans”

2020-12-15 After Biden won Trump posted, “This Fake election can no longer stand. Get moving Republicans”.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/timeline-donald-trumps-election-denial-claims-republican-politicians/story?id=89168408

2020-12-19 Trump posted, “Big protest in D.C on january 6th Be there, will be wild!”

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/tweets-december-19-2020

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-january-6-univision-town-hall/

https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/january-6-committee-hearing-trump-extremists/

https://www.fox6now.com/news/see-you-in-dc-president-trump-tweets-ahead-of-wild-protest-planned-for-jan-6

https://www.democracynow.org/2022/7/13/trump_summoned_mob_after_unhinged_meeting

https://virginiamercury.com/2022/07/13/trump-tweet-invited-wild-mob-to-block-transfer-of-power-on-jan-6-house-panel-says/

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62140410

https://truthout.org/articles/informant-told-fbi-trump-tweet-was-call-to-arms-weeks-before-jan-6-attack/

https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-reports/trump-incited-january-6-defendants/

2021 January

2021-01-02 Just prior to the J6 insurrection, Ted Cruz and a group of Republican senators publicly announced their intention to vote against accepting the electoral college results.

https://abc7.com/post/ted-cruz-electoral-college-congress-certification-mike-pence/9289536/

https://www.cruz.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/joint-statement-from-senators-cruz-johnson-lankford-daines-kennedy-blackburn-braun-senators-elect-lummis-marshall-hagerty-tuberville

2021 February

2021-02-22 Dominion filed a suit against My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell for libel.

https://www.dominionvoting.com/latest-news-dominion-files-defamation-suit-against-mike-lindell-and-mypillow/

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/20489801/2-22-21-dominion-v-my-pillow-michael-lindell-complaint.pdf

2021 March

2021-03-01 Dominion Voting Systems filed a suit against the Fox News Channel and Fox Corporation for broadcasting false statements about their voting machines being rigged. Fox argued it was reporting “pure opinion”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_Voting_Systems_v._Fox_News_Network

2021 June

2021-06-21 Following false claims of voter fraud in 2020, multiple states enacted bills to make it harder to vote.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/21/politics/voting-rights-senate-republicans-trump-biden

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/19-states-enacted-voting-restrictions-2021-rcna8342

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/senate-republicans-defeat-voting-rights-reform-bill/story?id=80643465

2021-06-24 An OAN host repeated election-fraud claims and suggested “traitors” who stole the election should be executed

https://www.mediamatters.org/one-america-news-network/how-oan-figures-call-mass-executions-connected-arizona-ballot-audit#:~:text=One%20America%20News’%20Pearson%20Sharp,6%20violence%20at%20the%20Capitol.

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/oan-executions-conspiracy-theory-qanon-b1872104.html#:~:text=A%20host%20on%20the%20far,a%20single%20ballot%20was%20cast.

2022

2022-04-22 Kari Lake and Mark Finchem demanded that Arizona stop using accessible voting and electronic ballot tabulation machines for the 2022 midterms. They requested Arizona instead count ballots by hand. In October 2022, Kari Lake told reporters, “I’m going to be your worst f-ing nightmare”.

https://statesunited.org/resources/lake-v-hobbs/

2022-05-01 Allegedly Larry Ellison participated in a conference call after the 2020 election focusing on strategies for challenging the legitimacy of the vote. The call included members such as Sean Hannity, Lindsey Graham, Jay Sekulow, James Bopp.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Ellison

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/20/larry-ellison-oracle-trump-election-challenges/

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/oracles-ellison-joined-nov-2020-call-about-contesting-trumps-defeat-2022-05-20/

https://www.yahoo.com/news/billionaire-larry-ellison-reportedly-participated-211805216.html

https://www.businessinsider.com/larry-ellison-oracle-discussed-challenging-2020-election-trump-loss-report-2022-5

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/841361/oracles-larry-ellison-joined-call-contesting-trump-election-loss-report/

2022-12-03 Trump posted, “So, with the revelation of MASSIVE & WIDESPREAD FRAUD & DECEPTION in working closely with Big Tech Companies, the DNC, & the Democrat Parter, do you throw the Presidential Election Results of 2020 OUT and declare the RIGHTFUL WINNER, or do you have a NEW ELECTION? A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution. Our great “Founders” did not want, and would not condone, False & Fraudulent Elections!”.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-63851751

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-claims-grounds-termination-us-constitution-twitter/

https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/03/politics/trump-constitution-truth-social

https://archive.ph/u0vZk

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/109449803240069864

2023

2023-02-16 In a $1.6B defamation lawsuit between U.S. Dominion v. Fox News Network, Sean Hannity, Rupert Murdoch and Tucker Carlson allegedly did not find election fraud claims fully credible or found them “crazy” but reported election fraud claims anyways.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fox-news-hosts-2020-election-fraud-claims-dominion-defamation-suit/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/03/07/fox-news-lawsuit/

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/feb/17/fox-news-hosts-dominion-lawsuit-trump-election-fraud-tucker-carlson-sean-hannity-laura-ingraham

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RuPvv0maCQ&list=WL&index=7

2023-09-17 Trump again claimed in an NBC interview that the 2020 election was rigged.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/17/politics/trump-election-results-decision

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/17/trump-2020-election-rigged-00116428

2024

2024-09-05 Vance claimed during a rally, “There is a logic to what the Democrats are trying to do. It’s disgusting, but there’s a logic to it. They want illegal aliens to steal everybody’s job, and now they want illegal aliens to steal everybody’s vote.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtRPLCso0Sw

2024-10-11 During an interview with the New York Times, JD Vance refused to answer questions about Trump losing the 2020 election.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/10/11/politics/video/jd-vance-nyt-interview-2020-election-lulu-garcia-navarro-ebof-bts-digvid

2024-11-05 Lara Trump shared on a Fox interview that her committee used lawyers to gain access to polling sites.

https://www.facebook.com/FoxNews/posts/had-to-act-rnc-co-chair-laratrump-says-the-committee-had-to-get-their-lawyers-in/955067239816472/

2024-11-05 Trump posted, “A lot of talk about massive CHEATING in Philadelphia. Law Enforcement coming!!!”.

https://www.factcheck.org/2024/11/trump-makes-unsupported-claim-about-massive-cheating-in-philadelphia/

https://www.uppermichiganssource.com/2024/11/06/trump-alleges-massive-election-cheating-philadelphia/

https://www.vpm.org/npr-news/npr-news/2024-11-05/officials-refute-trumps-claims-of-massive-cheating-in-philadelphia

2024-11-14 The day of the election and hours before polls closed Trump claimed election fraud in Pennsylvania.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/29/politics/trump-voter-fraud-claims-pennsylvania

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-victory-online-claims-election-fraud-quieted/

https://www.pa.gov/agencies/vote/elections/fact-checking-pa-related-election-claims

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54794198

2024-12-17 Trump filed a lawsuit against Des Moines Register Poll, alleging interference.

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2024/12/17/donald-trump-lawsuit-gannett-des-moines-register-iowa-election-poll/77051510007/

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2025/06/30/trump-files-new-suit-over-iowa-poll-1-day-before-new-slapp-law-begins/84421357007/

2025

2025-11-04 Trump ranted on Truth Social about voting, swampthevoteusa.com, terminating the filibuster, terminating mail in ballots, ratings, and so on.

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115493792769655959

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115495081097004172

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115494928414626214

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115494873923565600

2026 March

2026-03-09 John Solomon claimed on his far-right outlet Just the News that the FBI was “secretly obtaining a large tranche of voting records” from Maricopa County (Arizona).

https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/trumpfbi-subpoena-2020-records-maricopa-county-arizona/

https://www.newsfromthestates.com/article/maricopa-county-pushes-back-trumps-viral-claim-fbi-election-records-subpoena

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/monfbi-secretly-seizes-election-records-arizonas-largest-county-voting

2026-03-31 Trump signed an executive order instructing DHS to gather a voters list and the USPS to transmit ballots, thereby nationalizing elections, burdening the postal service, complicating mail voting, and suppressing turnout.

https://www.npr.org/2026/03/31/nx-s1-5508948/trump-voter-list-mail-ballots-executive-order

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/trump-signs-executive-order-create-federal-voter-lists-rcna266092

https://www.bostonherald.com/2026/04/01/healey-responds-to-trump-executive-order-creating-verified-voter-list-restricting-mail-in-voting/

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/03/ensuring-citizenship-verification-and-integrity-in-federal-elections/

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-trump-signs-executive-order-to-create-national-list-of-eligible-voters

https://coloradosun.com/2026/04/01/trump-signs-executive-order-in-hope-of-tightening-mail-in-voting/

https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/voting-rights-groups-challenge-executive-order-on-mail-in-ballots-as-illegal-interference-in-elections

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/31/trump-order-election-voting-explainer

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/us/politics/trump-mail-in-ballots-voting-executive-order.html

2026 April

2026-04-20 Kash Patel told Fox that arrests connected to the 2020 election would be forthcoming.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2026/04/20/fbi-chief-patel-says-2020-election-fraud-arrests-coming-soon/89707799007/

https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/fbi-director-says-arrests-coming-soon-on-2020-rigged-election-conspiracy/

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/19/trump-doj-redoubling-election-scrutiny-efforts-00880159

2026-04-21 The DOJ demanded Wayne County to turn over more than 860,000 ballots along with envelopes and receipts from the 2024 general election. Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said, “Once again, President Trump is weaponizing the Justice Department in an attempt to sabotage our democratic process and turn it into his own personal agency to interfere in State elections”.

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/4/21/headlines/justice_department_demands_wayne_county_michigan_turn_over_2024_ballots

https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/department-of-justice-demands-2024-ballots-wayne-county/

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/justice-department-demands-michigan-county-turn-2024-ballots-rcna340891

https://apnews.com/article/justice-department-elections-trump-wayne-county-michigan-4341df00ea8a2814a9fd42f2225d4495

2026 May

2026-05-15 Colorado Governor Jared Polis granted election denier Tina Peters clemency.

https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/colorado-governor-grants-election-denier-tina-peters-clemency-reduces-sentence/

https://www.cnn.com/politics/video/src-gov-polis-defends-granting-clemency-to-tina-peters

https://www.ms.now/opinion/tina-peters-colorado-polis-clemency-election-denier

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/05/jared-polis-tina-peters-commutation-clemency-trump/

2026 June

2026-06-03 Bill Pulte was tasked with reopening election investigations pertaining to alleged voter fraud.

https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/trump-bill-pulte-acting-intel-chief-probe-elections

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/07/02/house-democrats-warn-pulte-election-intelligence

2026-06-24 Trump publicly admitted he asked a prosecutor to launch an election fraud investigation in California without any actual evidence.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/23/trump-california-election-probe-do-me-a-favor-00972919

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-privately-pressed-prosecutor-elections-conspiracy-theory

2026 July

2026-07-15 Trump announced an upcoming national address about declassified intelligence on voter fraud.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-give-speech-about-foreign-interference-2020-election-ms-now-reports-2026-07-13/

https://www.ms.now/news/trump-speech-thursday-election-2020-interference

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/13/trump-2020-election-intelligence-speech.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKZD8dXb4k&list=WL&index=2

2026-07-15 Trump’s pick to head national intelligence, Jay Clatyon, refused to tell senators Biden won the 2020 election.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/15/trump-dni-jay-clayton-senate-2020-election.html

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5969950-jay-clayton-dni-confirmation-hearing/

2026-07-16 Trump delivered a public address about election fraud claims from 2020. In it, he laid groundwork to make future election fraud claims, fueled doubt about election integrity, made conflicting claims that China meddled in elections despite his own team saying that never happened, claimed “deep state” cover ups, and touted newly declassified and heavily redacted documents available on the White House website.

https://time.com/article/2026/07/17/trump-speech-elections-china-save-act-takeaways/

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/16/republicans-brace-trump-speech-election-fraud-00999640

https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/16/politics/live-news/trump-speech-election

https://www.npr.org/2026/07/16/nx-s1-5896448/trump-election-address

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1ZAwSOI408&list=WL&index=3&t=329s

FEDERAL INTEL REPORT 2022 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aqorZ61AYFqZU-EDQBBzjqfvAoC5nKcB/view

FEDERAL INTEL REPORT 2020 https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/ICA-declass-16MAR21.pdf

WHITE HOUSE DECLASSIFIED DOCS PAGE https://www.whitehouse.gov/election-integrity/

2026-07-19 Steve Bannon blasted Fox for not covering Trump’s election-fraud speech.

https://www.modernghana.com/videonews/nbc/1/684721

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTboRPK5ZKc

2026-07-21 New Jersey Governor said more than 6600 non-citizens were accidentally registered to vote after a software glitch. Fewer than 400 actually ended up voting.

https://www.njspotlightnews.org/2026/07/thousands-of-non-citizens-registered-to-vote-in-nj-sherrill-says/

https://abc7.com/post/new-jersey-gov-mikie-sherrill-reveals-mvc-mistake-registered-6600-citizens-vote/19557471/