False2026-10
What is circulating
“Posts from 20 October 2026 said a woman's account of a message on a Cook County, Illinois, voting machine, suggesting the candidate she picked was unpopular, proves the election is "rigged."”
Claimed by Social media posts · social media
The facts
PolitiFact rated the claim Pants on Fire. The county clerk's office said there were no Republican judicial candidates on the ballot, the woman later said she had named the wrong race, and it was the only such report among nearly 1.8 million registered voters. Federal standards since 2002 require machines to warn voters when a contest is left blank, with a message reading "This contest is undervoted!"