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True80% confidence9 sourcesOct 26, 2026Non-citizen voting has never been found to be a major issue in elections.Said by BThe claim, as extracted from the NPR Politics Podcast passage, is that non-citizen voting has never been found to be a major issue in elections. Multiple independent sources (Reuters, Brookings, BBC, Snopes, CNN, Migration Policy Institute, CEIR research) consistently report that non-citizen voting is rare and has not been found to be a major factor, while the only contrary study (Richman and Earnest, 2014) was widely refuted; the phrase 'never' is broad but the sources uniformly support the substance.True90% confidence8 sourcesOct 26, 2026The Alaska Supreme Court ruled that the second Dan Sullivan could be on the ballot.Said by BMultiple reliable sources (AP, Alaska Public, Courthouse News order text, FactCheck.org, NYT) confirm the Alaska Supreme Court ruled on June 29, 2026 that Dan J. Sullivan, the second Dan Sullivan, must be included on the ballot, affirming the lower court. The claim's peripheral wording matches the passage; the court also remanded how his name would be listed, which the claim does not dispute.True60% confidence6 sourcesOct 26, 2026The Department of Justice has announced approximately 100 prosecutions for non-citizen voting.Said by AMultiple sources, including a DOJ spokesperson statement, put the number of people the DOJ has charged or announced in noncitizen or illegal voting cases at roughly 100 or more by October. The count includes registration offenses, and a Stanford-style analysis warns that cumulative press-release counts overstate distinct cases, so the figure is approximate rather than precise.True92% confidence6 sourcesOct 26, 2026The Department of Justice delivered a thumb drive containing 20,000 names to election officials.Said by BMultiple tier1 and tier2 sources report that the DOJ delivered a password-protected thumb drive containing a list of about 20,000 names to Los Angeles County and California election officials. The claim matches the passage's wording, and the sources do not contradict it; officials refused to open the drive, but that does not change the delivery.True95% confidence7 sourcesOct 26, 2026The Department of Justice filed lawsuits in California and Alaska regarding election law.Said by BThe claim matches the post's own reference to 'these two lawsuits, California and Alaska,' and multiple independent sources confirm the DOJ filed suits in both states in October 2026, before the 2026-10-26 posting date. The Alaska suit was later dismissed by a federal judge (reported Nov 1-2), but that later development does not change the fact that the filings existed on the date of the claim.True95% confidence9 sourcesOct 26, 2026After the 2020 election, Attorney General William Barr stated that the Justice Department found no evidence of voter fraud that would affect the election outcome.Said by CMultiple independent reliable outlets, including AP (the original interview), Reuters/BBC, NPR, NYT, and PBS, report that Attorney General William Barr said on December 1, 2020 that the Justice Department had found no evidence of voter fraud on a scale that could change the 2020 election outcome. The claim faithfully reflects the passage, and the sources' wording ("widespread" fraud) is consistent with it.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.True90% confidence6 sourcesOct 26, 2026The Department of Justice notified counties last week that it intends to send election observers to their locations.Said by BMultiple sources show the DOJ began notifying counties in the week of October 19-25, 2026, that it intends to send election monitors to their polling places, matching the claim as of the October 26 posting date. The extraction is faithful to the post, which said counties were receiving these notifications from the DOJ last week.True85% confidence6 sourcesOct 26, 2026A Democratic clerk in Colorado reported that their county received a DOJ monitoring notification while a neighboring Republican-led county did not.Said by BNPR reported on 2026-10-21 that Adams County, Colorado (Democratic clerk Josh Zygielbaum) received a DOJ monitoring notification while the Republican clerk in neighboring Weld County did not, and Rawstory and KPBS carried the same account. A Sacramento Bee report of 2026-10-22 says Douglas County was also notified, which the claim does not address, but the Weld comparison as claimed is supported.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.True92% confidence4 sourcesOct 26, 2026The Department of Justice monitored primaries during the 2026 election year.Said by BThe DOJ monitored primaries in 2026, as shown by a DOJ press release on Florida and Wyoming primary monitoring and multiple reports (Reuters, AP, PBS) on monitors deployed during the primary season; the post's own remark that the monitoring was 'pretty uneventful' generally, aside from the Wyoming incident, is consistent with the sources. The claim is a faithful paraphrase of the passage and is graded normally.True85% confidence6 sourcesOct 26, 2026The Department of Justice has moved to intervene in Alaska's upcoming U.S. Senate election.As of 2026-10-26, the DOJ had already moved to intervene in Alaska's Senate election by filing a federal lawsuit (around Oct 22-23) to block certification if Sen. Dan Sullivan lost narrowly, which multiple sources describe as an intervention in the race. The judge dismissed that lawsuit on Nov 1 and the DOJ said it would appeal, but that later development does not make the claim false as of the posting date.True90% confidence6 sourcesOct 26, 2026The Department of Justice has pressured states to investigate allegations of illegal voting by noncitizens.The sources show the DOJ demanded that states act on its lists of alleged noncitizen voters, including a 48-hour deadline for Los Angeles County to investigate about 20,000 names and letters to five states. A federal judge later blocked some of these threats, but that does not undo the pressure that was applied as of 2026-10-26.True90% confidence6 sourcesSep 29, 2026It is illegal for armed agents of the federal government to be at a polling place.Said by AMultiple primary and tier1 sources (NJ AG guidance, NY AG press release, PolitiFact, AP) state that federal law (18 U.S.C. § 592) prohibits armed troops or armed federal officers from being at polling places, with only the narrow exception of repelling armed enemies of the United States. The claim's 'illegal' framing matches the sources; the claim departs from the passage only in dropping 'to have' phrasing, which is a faithful paraphrase.