Fact Check: Election Fraud Misinformation (Nov 14)

False/Unproven Election Fraud Allegations as of 11-14-20:

1. A secret supercomputer was used to switch votes from Donald Trump to Joe Biden. False. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has flatly rejected such claims. CISA has said that safeguards — including auditable logs and software checks — used by states ensure accuracy in the vote totals. Election/computer experts provided examples of why the claim is not valid. Trump lawyers discussed on conservative media but refused to provide evidence to FactCheck.org, saying “stay tuned.”
2. Trump Tweet: “REPORT: DOMINION DELETED 2.7 MILLION TRUMP VOTES NATIONWIDE. DATA ANALYSIS FINDS 221,000 PENNSYLVANIA VOTES SWITCHED FROM PRESIDENT TRUMP TO BIDEN. 941,000 TRUMP VOTES DELETED. STATES USING DOMINION VOTING SYSTEMS SWITCHED 435,000 VOTES FROM TRUMP TO BIDEN.” False. See response to #1. “There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised,” says a statement emailed to reporters Thursday by the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency, a federal agency that oversees U.S. election security. “The November 3rd election was the most secure in American history.” Dominion Voting Systems said in a statement that it “denies claims about any vote switching or alleged software issues with our voting systems.” There have been only a “small handful” of issues that were the result of human error involving voting technology, not the software itself, said Eddie Perez, a voting technology expert at the OSET Institute, a nonpartisan election technology research and development nonprofit.
3. Same claim as #1 and #2. False. According to USA Today, OAN’s Lilia Fifield made the claim on air, per a clip on Mediaite. Election systems across the country are found to have deleted millions of votes cast for President Trump," she said. "According to an unaudited analysis of data obtained from Edison Research, states using Dominion Voting Systems may have switched as many as 435,000 votes from President Trump to Joe Biden, and the author also finds another 2.7 million Trump votes appear to have been deleted by Dominion including almost one million truckloads in Pennsylvania alone." Trump and Donald Trump Jr. then magnified the claim. A national coalition announced Thursday that there is no evidence that any voting software deleted or changed votes in last week's election, per USA TODAY.
4. Trump Tweet: “Report: Dominion deleted 2.7 million Trump votes nationwide. Data analysis finds 221,000 Pennsylvania votes switched from President Trump to Biden. 941,000 Trump votes deleted.” False. See response above. In addition, Dominion calls the claim from Trump that its machines deleted 941,000 votes for him in Pennsylvania alone "impossible." Dominion only serves 14 counties in the state, which produced a total of 1.3 million votes — 52%, or 676,000, of which went to Trump. That only leaves 624,000 other votes, fewer than what Trump claims were switched.
5. A large number of votes in Michigan switched from Trump to Biden. False. The biggest example of a tabulation problem in the 2020 election involved a few thousand votes in Antrim County, Michigan, and was the result of human error, Perez said. It turned out Dominion was not to blame, according to the Michigan Department of State. “There was no malice, no fraud here, just human error,” County Clerk Sheryl Guy told The Associated Press. The tabulation error was corrected.
6. A CNN video from election night is evidence of the supposed vote-stealing operation in action. False. The error was actually a simple mistake by a research firm that gathers results data for CNN and others; it wasn’t a change in the reporting by election officials. (Those vote tallies are unofficial tallies, not final, official results.) The mistake was corrected about an hour later.
7. Trump Tweet: “The Consent Decree signed by the Georgia Secretary of State, with the approval of Governor @BrianKempGA, at the urging of @staceyabrams, makes it impossible to check & match signatures on ballots and envelopes, etc. They knew they were going to cheat. Must expose real signatures!” False. There is nothing in the consent decree that prevents Georgia election clerks from scrutinizing signatures. The legal settlement signed in March addresses accusations about a lack of statewide standards for judging signatures on absentee ballot envelopes. L. Lin Wood Jr. filed a federal lawsuit Friday questioning whether the secretary of state had the authority to require the process of signature verification outlined in the agreement. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, said that not only is it entirely possible to match signatures, but that the state requires it.
   

Sources:
FactCheck.org
AP Fact Check
USA Today Fact Check