The Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security have conducted investigations into the 2020 election and voter fraud.
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The NPR Politics PodcastAug 28, 2026
Sources directly document that the DOJ and DHS investigated 2020 election fraud claims, including a 2021 joint DOJ-DHS statement on foreign interference and a 2020 BBC report on Barr saying DOJ and DHS had investigated the voting-machine claim.
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… Both of those have been blocked so far at the courts, and then it's really kind of funneled out to a lot of different aspects of the federal government. Notably, the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security have both made efforts to try to investigate the 2020 election and investigate voter fraud more broadly in all of these different ways, which has raised a lot of concerns, uh, about what potentially could still be coming for this election cycle. …
The NPR Politics Podcast · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Supports. The DOJ and DHS issued a joint statement in March 2021 saying they had investigated multiple public claims about foreign governments manipulating the 2020 election and found those claims not credible.[4][7][8]
Supports. BBC reported that Attorney General William Barr said the DOJ and DHS had investigated claims that voting machines were hacked, and that the DOJ said it had not concluded its investigation.[6]
Supports. AP reported that Officials at Homeland Security and the Justice Department said there was no pervasive fraud, and that Trump allies pressured the DOJ to investigate unsubstantiated fraud claims.[1]
Supports. A 2026 Senate letter describes reports that DOJ and FBI resources were being diverted to re-investigate the 2020 election in Georgia.[5]
Context. Investigations found no evidence of widespread fraud or foreign manipulation that changed the 2020 results, which is the context the post omits but does not contradict the claim that investigations occurred.[2][3][4]
Sources
8 sources: 3 fact-checkers, 2 primary, 1 tier 1, 2 not rated
- 1Emails show Trump pressured Justice Dept. over 2020 ...apnews.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports
- 2Trump's false claims debunked: the 2020 election and Jan. 6 riotreuters.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 3Trump Repeats Baseless, False Claims About the Electionfactcheck.org · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 4Joint Statement from the Departments of Justice and ...justice.gov · primary source · cited for: supports, context
- 5[PDF] July 9, 2026 The Honorable Todd Blanche Acting Attorney General ...warner.senate.gov · primary source · cited for: supports
- 6US attorney general finds 'no voter fraud that could ...bbc.com · tier 1 · cited for: supports
- 7DOJ and DHS find no evidence that foreign actors flipped ...washingtonexaminer.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 8Top U.S. officials lay waste to the right-wing lies about the 2020 election in conclusion of a sweeping probealternet.org · not rated · cited for: supports
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