How to Verify Election Claims: Audits, Procedures and Evidence
A practical guide to evaluating claims about ballots, machines, audits and election administration without relying on partisan shorthand.
Headlines360 focuses on methods readers can use to verify political claims, understand polling and audits, and separate sourced reporting from interpretation.
If a political claim cannot be written as a testable sentence with a person, action, place, date and source, it is not ready for verification.
Check a claimPolitical reporting often combines verifiable events with strategic interpretation. Separate the vote, filing, speech, budget line, poll or official action from claims about motive and likely consequence. A strong check therefore uses the primary record first, then compares coverage that disagrees about meaning without confusing disagreement itself with proof that the underlying event is uncertain.
For election procedures, polls, viral allegations and headline framing.
A practical guide to evaluating claims about ballots, machines, audits and election administration without relying on partisan shorthand.
Turn toplines into a better estimate by checking sample, field dates, wording and uncertainty.
A plain-language guide to risk-limiting audits, ballot-image reviews, recounts and common misconceptions.
A quick test for identifying reporting, analysis, commentary, advocacy and sponsored material.
A framing-analysis method for seeing what different outlets emphasize while keeping facts and evidence central.
Compare discovery, coverage-analysis and source-control tools by the job they perform, including algorithmic news discovery, framing comparison and RSS-based monitoring.
Several high-visibility 2020 claims that circulated on this domain are retained as evidence-context pages. They summarize what was alleged at the time and what later official records, court filings and investigations showed.
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