Read and share: election fraud in the US is rare The 2022 midterm elections are underway, with many Americans, in particular Republicans, increasingly fearful that the outcome will be affected or even determined by election fraud. These fears have been further fanned by the constant refrain by former president Donald Trump and his allies that Joe Biden triumphed in the 2020 race only because he stole the election — a lie that has been debunked over and over again. Here's the truth: — By every single metric, election fraud is rare in the United States. — Almost no elections in the past 50 years have been flipped because of documented voter fraud, with occasional exceptions at the local level. The decentralized system of American elections — where elections are run by more than 8,000 local governments and almost 90 percent of Americans vote on paper ballots, according to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission — make it impossible to steal a nationwide election through voter fraud. Please read our full report. Enjoy this newsletter? Forward it to someone else who'd like it! If this email was forwarded to you, sign up here. Did you hear something fact-checkable? Send it here; we'll check it out. Stephen Miller's disingenuous ads charging 'anti-White' racism America First Legal (AFL), founded by Trump immigration guru Stephen Miller, bills itself as a conservative version of the American Civil Liberties Union. The organization has filed many legal challenges to Biden administration policies, both domestic and foreign, that it says undermine fundamental rights of Americans. AFL is now running radio and television ads in Georgia that encapsulate a key argument of the group in explicitly racial terms. The group says that efforts by the federal government to prioritize aid for vulnerable communities — or to correct historic wrongs — is a form of racism against White people and is just as pernicious as racism against Blacks. We examined the factual claims made in the ads line by line. Many of the statements — such as "Joe Biden put white people last in line for covid relief funds" and "Liberal politicians block access to medicine based on skin color" — stem directly from lawsuits filed by AFL but were inaccurate. One of the statements — "Kamala Harris said disaster aid should go to non-White citizens first" — was derived from a misleading video that was highlighted on right-wing social media. These ads are a disingenuous stew that claim the Biden administration and liberals are harming Whites with policies intended to deal with racial inequities, such as minority communities being more affected by the coronavirus pandemic. The overall message that such policies constitute "anti-White" racism is worthy of Four Pinocchios, but the factual claims made in the ad earn Three. We're always looking for fact-check suggestions. You can reach us via email, Twitter (@GlennKesslerWP and @AdriUsero) or Facebook. Read about our process and rating scale here, and sign up for the newsletter here. Scroll down for this week's Pinocchio roundup. | 
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