Marc Elias, Democracy Docket (@marceelias) Amy Sherman, PolitiFact (@AmySherman1). For deep dives into some of the battleground states, we include journalists, political scientists, and others who ...

Inflation has eased somewhat during Trump’s second term, but "plummeting" is an exaggeration. The year-over-year rise in prices for January 2026 was about 2.4%. That’s lower than the year-over-year ...

Media outlets project election winners, and that can happen anytime from election night to more than a week later. State laws dictate when mail ballots must be received and when election officials can ...

With a busy 2024 heading toward a close, PolitiFact readers sent us thoughtful questions and plenty of election-year feedback through email and social media comments. Readers weighed in on the ...

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem made comments that could lead people to misinterpret her agency’s role in elections as she lobbied for legislation that would require photo ID to vote and ...

A hit-and-run cover-up. Sexual abuse allegations from 27 years ago. An election worker ripping up ballots. Haitian immigrants admitting to voter fraud. These were some of the stories featured in a ...

Many local election officials have taken steps to increase election security in response to threats and other incidents since 2020. Steps include installing panic buttons, adding security cameras and ...

On election night 2020, then-President Donald Trump prematurely declared hours after polls had closed, "We already have won." He hadn’t, and we rated that Pants on Fire. When Trump began to speak in ...

PolitiFact has a deep archive of stories and fact-checks explaining why a delay in election results that extends past election night is not evidence of fraud and it’s not new — it’s normal. But with ...

Hassinger sent PolitiFact a calendar showing the risk-limiting audit for Georgia’s 2024 general election will take place Nov. 14 to Nov. 15. He said the audit typically takes two to three days.

Arizona’s Pima County Elections Department had a discrepancy in two Nov. 8 reports involving the number of uncounted ballots remaining. The state had a two-page ballot and, in the first of Pima’s ...

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said Russian influence actors created this video. Georgia Secretary of State Brad ...