A report alleges 1,100 fraudulent votes in Arizona during the 2020 election.
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Platypus Economics with Justin WolfersAug 28, 2026
… He starts by addressing the elephant in the room: even if the faulty claim were true – it couldn’t have swung anything. Biden won the popular vote by seven million. As for the decisive states: he won Arizona by 10,000 (the report alleges 1,100 fraudulent votes), Georgia by 12,000 (400 alleged), and Wisconsin by 21,000 (500 alleged). The math never gets close. But the stakes here are far greater than any one report. …
None of the sources mention the Census Bureau report or its 1,100-vote figure, so the claim that a report alleges 1,100 fraudulent votes cannot be checked. The sources do show that broader claims of fraud in Arizona's 2020 election were investigated and rejected, which is context rather than a ruling on this specific figure.
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What we found
Contradicts. The Arizona Attorney General's Office found that allegations submitted by election deniers were largely unsupported or mischaracterized, and no evidence of widespread fraud affecting the outcome has been found.[4][6][7]
Context. No source addresses the Census Bureau report or its claim of 1,100 fraudulent Arizona votes, so whether the report makes that allegation cannot be confirmed.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]
Context. Other Arizona fraud allegations, such as the 168,000 ballots claim and the 'lost votes' canvassing report, were refuted by fact-checkers and officials, but none of these is the 1,100-vote figure the claim names.[7][10]
Sources
10 sources: 3 fact-checkers, 2 primary, 1 tier 1, 4 not rated
- 1Maricopa County didn't apologize to Trump after uncovering fraud in 2020 election, despite claimssnopes.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 2Inside Arizona's election audit, GOP fraud fantasies live on | AP Newsapnews.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 3Fact check: List of partly false statements on the 2020 electionreuters.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 4Arizona Attorney General's Office Releases Documents Related to ...azag.gov · primary source · cited for: contradicts, context
- 5Table of Contentsapps.azsos.gov · primary source · cited for: context
- 6Arizona attorney general finds ‘vulnerabilities,' but says no mass fraud in 2020 electionthehill.com · tier 1 · cited for: contradicts, context
- 7Fact check: No evidence 'lost votes' or 'ghost votes' affected Arizona's election outcomecjonline.com · not rated · cited for: contradicts, context
- 8Fact Check: Maricopa County didn't apologize to Trump ...yahoo.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 9Are Arizona elections safe? There's an easy answer to thatsacbee.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 10AP FACT CHECK: Trump is relentless in election fabricationsazpm.org · not rated · cited for: context
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Related claims
- The Census Bureau report on noncitizen voting in 2020 alleged 1,100 fraudulent votes in Arizona.True
- The Heritage Foundation found 36 cases of fraud out of 42 million votes cast over 25 years and 36 elections in Arizona.True
- The Census Bureau released a report claiming that 24,000 noncitizens voted in the 2020 election.True
- Voting machines in Republican areas of Arizona were broken purposely during a past election.False
- There are over 1,600 voter fraud cases currently under investigation.True