Election Day has arrived, and with it, a flurry of false and misleading claims about supposed election interference. Tension among voters is high as polls show Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are neck-and-neck in battleground states.
From false claims about typos, glitches and stray marks invalidating voters' ballots to misleading claims about voting machines changing people's votes, social media has been flooded with ballot-related misinformation as Americans across the country hit the polls.
Here's a roundup of ballot-related fact checks from the USA TODAY Fact Check Team. See all of our latest work during and after Election Day on this page.
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Our rating: False
The listing of former President Donald Trump on the last page of the ballot is not evidence of voter fraud. The candidates' order on the California ballot is determined by a randomized letter drawing corresponding to the first letter of the candidates' last names. The order rotates by assembly district so Trump was listed last in some districts.
Full fact check: Trump's name on second page of ballot is random, not 'election fraud'
Our rating: Missing context
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