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Can’t tell50% confidence7 sourcesOct 15, 2026Democrats are planning to reopen the southern border and open the prisons and jails of the planet to release criminals into the United States.Said by AThe post made a conditional forecast ('if the Democrats get back into power, they will...'), but the extracted claim restates it as a present plan ('are planning'), which departs from the passage. The sources contain partisan characterizations that Democrats want open borders and a Democratic Socialists of America cochair's answer on abolishing prisons, but none shows a Democratic plan to empty the world's prisons into the U.S. The Marshall Project fact-check debunks Trump's claims about prison releases from Venezuela, a different referent, so it does not settle this claim.Can’t tell40% confidence4 sourcesSep 16, 2026Turnout among registered voters in 2020 was 94.1%.The only source giving a registered-voter turnout figure near 94% is an unrated 2022 outlet citing Pew, which prints the number as a garbled "94.%"; the primary Pew validated-turnout page (source 4) is shown without the figure. Other sources use different measures (Census: 66.8% of citizens 18+; Colorado county tables), which neither confirm nor refute a registered-voter figure. The claim matches the passage's wording, so no extraction departure applies.Can’t tell40% confidence8 sourcesSep 16, 2026The federal government provided aid and comfort to the state of Colorado in its efforts to remove Donald Trump from the ballot.Said by BThe claim that the federal government gave 'aid and comfort' to Colorado in its effort to remove Trump from the ballot is a characterization the sources do not directly address: they cover the 2023 Colorado ballot case and later federal DOJ actions against Colorado, but none states the federal government aided Colorado's removal effort, and the passage's own assertion is the speaker's opinion, not evidence. The claim also reads a Biden-era/DOJ-era federal role into the removal case, which the sources do not show.Can’t tell40% confidence5 sourcesSep 16, 2026The Department of Justice changed its position on the Tina Peters litigation in Colorado after January 20, 2025.Said by BThe claim departs from the passage: the speaker says the DOJ's position changed before January 20, 2025, while the extracted claim says after January 20, 2025, so it is not graded as the poster's statement. On the sources alone, the DOJ's public shift to backing Peters appears in filings from early 2025, after January 20.Can’t tell30% confidence6 sourcesSep 16, 2026The Postal Service received more comments on its proposed rules than on any rule in its history.None of the sources report how many comments the USPS received on its mail-ballot proposed rule or compare that count with any other rule in the agency's history, so the superlative is neither confirmed nor refuted. The claimant's own passage cannot corroborate it, and the sources that cover the rule (Snopes, AP, Reuters) do not contradict it.Can’t tell35% confidence8 sourcesSep 16, 2026Judge Tawani issued a formal preliminary injunction eight days after the temporary restraining order.Said by CThe sources confirm a 14-day temporary restraining order granted on August 27, 2026 in the new USPS rule cases, but none reports a formal preliminary injunction issued eight days later (about September 4). The only preliminary injunction in the record was Judge Talwani's August 11 order, which came before the TRO, so the claimed sequence is not supported.Can’t tell30% confidence4 sourcesSep 16, 2026The Wisconsin Election Commission advised election officials to continue preparing for mail voting.Said by CNone of the provided sources reports the Wisconsin Election Commission advising election officials to continue preparing for mail voting as of 2026-09-16. Reuters (2026-09-15) describes election officials preparing for disruptions from the federal mail-voting plan, and the Wisconsin Commission's later guidance (Oct 2026) concerns absentee deadlines and clerk instructions, which are nearby but different. The claim is not contradicted, so it cannot be graded either way.Can’t tell50% confidence4 sourcesSep 16, 2026The Center for Election Innovation and Research (CEIR) is under federal investigation.Sources show that DHS Secretary Mullin asked the Justice Department in early September 2026 to investigate CEIR under the Driver's Privacy Protection Act, and CEIR denied the allegations. No source confirms that DOJ actually opened an investigation of CEIR as of 2026-09-16, so the claim's central assertion is neither confirmed nor contradicted.Can’t tell40% confidence4 sourcesSep 16, 2026Fulton County officials filed lawsuits regarding election records without the permission of the board.Said by ASource [10] shows Chairman Robb Pitts and the Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections filed a petition over the seizure of 2020 election records, which partly fits the claim's subject. No source addresses whether those filings were made with or without board permission, so the central 'without permission' element cannot be graded.Can’t tell50% confidence6 sourcesSep 16, 2026Nevada officials identified 185 possible non-citizens on their voter list during meetings with the Department of Homeland Security.The claim departs from the passage: the post attributes the 185 figure to DHS, which 'met with' Nevada and 'stood by' 185 possible non-citizens, not to Nevada officials identifying them. The sources agree that DHS confirmed or identified the 185 cases, and Nevada officials disputed that, saying their records showed all 185 were citizens.Can’t tell20% confidence3 sourcesSep 16, 2026The speaker served as a DOJ monitor for seven years.Said by CThe claim attributes to the speaker (David Becker, per the episode title) seven years of service as a DOJ monitor, which the passage states. None of the provided sources addresses Becker's monitoring history, so neither confirmation nor contradiction is possible; the sources only give general background on the monitor program.Can’t tell30% confidence5 sourcesSep 16, 2026Tamar Hagler served as Chief of the Voting Section at the Department of Justice for 25 years.Said by CThe extracted claim says Hagler served as Chief of the Voting Section for 25 years, but the post says only that she was a former chief and that she "was there for 25 years" (at DOJ), so the claim departs from the passage. Sources confirm she was chief of the Voting Section, but none gives her total tenure or her tenure as chief, so the 25-year figure is neither supported nor contradicted.