Trump says there’s widespread voter fraud and dead people will vote for Dems. False. Trump has claimed repeatedly in recent days that the election system is "rigged." We looked at his claims of widespread voter fraud and that undocumented immigrants are voting and swaying elections. Neither is true. Trump campaign cited a 2012 study that found inaccuracies and inefficiencies in the election system. For example, about 24 million voter registrations were significantly inaccurate or no longer valid. There were more than 1.8 million records for people who died, but whose registrations were still on voter rolls. But these problems don’t indicate isolated or widespread voter fraud. Trump even said the 1.8 million dead people are “voting for somebody else." A handful of people have tried to vote on behalf of dead people but there’s no evidence such voter rolls are being manipulated on a large scale. There were 31 incidents of specific, credible allegations of voter impersonation at the polls in 2000-2014, out of more than 1 billion ballots cast, according to a comprehensive study on this. So voter impersonation is very rare. Illegal immigrants are not voting and swaying elections, either. The campaign is using research that was published two years ago in the Monkey Cage, a blog hosted by The Washington Post. But Trump is incorrectly using the data, and does not note that there have been critiques of this research. Some critiques are now being incorporated into a revision of the original study. The researcher debunked Trumps’ use of the data. We awarded Four Pinocchios. By the way, it’s nearly impossible to rig an election. We're talking about a nationwide effort of local, state and federal election officials colluding to commit a felony. Lawyers for both major parties and every poll watcher would have to be in on it. Enjoy this newsletter? Forward it to someone else who'd like it! If this e-mail was forwarded to you, sign up here for the weekly newsletter. Hear something fact-checkable? Send it here, we’ll check it out. Clinton earns Four Pinocchios and the fact-checkers’ trifecta Clinton tried to suggest Trump was heartless about the auto industry's plight, saying that “Donald Trump said rescuing the auto industry didn't really matter very much. He said, and I quote again, 'Let it go.' Now, I can't imagine that.” She is creating an imaginary Trump here, and she took his “let it go” comment from 2015 out of context. He made the comment in 2015, not in 2008, in response to whether the government should have let the industry go bankrupt (“let it go”). In that interview, Trump seemed more uncertain about how the U.S. government should have handled the situation. But he also said “you could have done it the way it went,” indicating support for the bailout. | 
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