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Mixed60% confidence5 sourcesOct 26, 2026There were 140 million votes cast in the 2024 U.S. election.The official record puts 2024 presidential votes at about 155 million (Full Fact and CFR cite 155,238,302 and 156,302,318), so 140 million understates the total by roughly 10%. PBS's 'more than 140 million' is literally consistent with the record, and the Census CPS estimate (about 149.5 million) also exceeds 140 million, so the figure depends on the measure used.Mixed50% confidence6 sourcesOct 26, 2026The Justice Department has brought 64 cases involving non-citizen voting.Said by CThe 64 figure matches NPR's count of 64 DOJ noncitizen-voting cases and Fox News's figure of 64 defendants charged in roughly the last five weeks, so the number is sourced. However, other DOJ-attributed totals in the sources are larger (104 charged since 2025, 112 to 113 people), so whether 64 is correct depends on whether the measure is recent cases or the cumulative total. The extraction faithfully reflects the post's 'these 64 cases'.Mixed60% confidence7 sourcesOct 26, 2026The Republican governor of Wyoming stated that DOJ monitors were aggressive and disregarded state election law during the 2026 primaries.Said by BThe governor's statement that DOJ monitors were 'aggressive' and 'irregular' is well supported by multiple tier-1 and tier-2 sources. However, the sources attribute the 'complete disregard for our state laws' language to Laramie County Clerk Debra Lee, while Gov. Gordon said the monitors' behavior 'seemed to exceed what the authority that Congress had given them was,' so the claim that the governor said they disregarded state election law is not supported.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.Mixed55% confidence6 sourcesSep 29, 2026The 2026 midterm elections are currently taking place.Under the reading that the midterm cycle is underway, the sources support the claim: early voting had been under way for weeks as of 2026-11-02. Under the literal reading that the elections themselves are taking place on 2026-11-02, the sources contradict it, because Election Day and in-person voting are on Tuesday, November 3, 2026. The claim was made on 2026-11-02 and the sources do not show it changed afterward, and the post's reference to searching for polling places fits the pre-Election Day period.Minor detail. The sources confirm the claim; only a minor detail differs, such as a name's spelling, a title's wording or a rounding.Mixed60% confidence8 sourcesSep 29, 2026The Supreme Court blocked the Trump administration's executive order regarding mail-in voting regulations.Said by BThe Supreme Court did block the Trump administration's mail-voting effort on September 14, 2026, declining to let the Postal Service enforce its rule implementing the March executive order. But on August 24 the Court lifted a lower-court block on the executive order itself, so the claim that it blocked the order is only partly accurate. The post's 'effort to police mail voting' is best read as the USPS rule and implementation, which the Court did block.Mixed60% confidence8 sourcesSep 29, 2026More than one million voters in Missouri who were eligible to vote in one district during the primary have been redistricted into a different district for the general election.Said by BSources agree that roughly a quarter of Missouri voters were moved to different districts for November, but they give competing counts: the NYT reports about 970,000 across six districts, while AP-derived reports, WPBF and Newsday say more than a million potential voters were shifted. The 8th Circuit's 1.4 million figure, based on a conservative group's estimates, uses a different measure (voters who cannot vote for their nominees). As of 2026-09-29 the 2022 map was in use, so the state of affairs the claim describes was in place.Mixed60% confidence6 sourcesAug 28, 2026Mike Johnson was a primary litigant in cases filed by Donald Trump and his allies to challenge the 2020 presidential election results.Said by CThe sources support that Johnson played a leading role in the effort to overturn the 2020 results, chiefly by organizing and leading a GOP amicus brief backing Texas's Supreme Court suit. They contradict the characterization of him as a primary litigant: he was not a party to the cases, and PolitiFact says he was not the public face of the litigation. The claim also drops the post's qualifier 'some of the cases'.