All votes are reportedly counted across all 50 states for the 2020 U.S. election, but the Trump administration is making claims of voter fraud in multiple states. Some of those states are swing states, three of which are Georgia, Pennsylvania and Michigan. All three were being heavily watched by the nation on Nov. 3. 

Before the election, Trump claimed that if he lost, it would be because of a rigged election. With the vote counts relatively close in these states, Trump has moved forward with legal challenges to try to overturn the results. Trump is suing six states over potential voter fraud and the vote counting process.  For example, the Trump campaign is suing Michigan. He and his team are making claims that “illegal and ineligible ballots were counted”; it also claims that the observers were not allowed to get close enough to watch, that double counting occurred and that poll workers had political bias because some were wearing Black Lives Matters apparel. 

At this moment, the Trump campaign has not released any evidence proving that any votes were miscounted out of political motives. No court hearings were scheduled and other cases were either dismissed or are pending. According to The New York Times, as of Nov. 12 there is no evidence of widespread voting fraud.

From Sharpie markers making votes invalid to dead people voting, many claims of voter fraud have been debunked as false by the BCC and many other news sources. However, our system is not perfect; The White House and The Heritage Foundation did provide historic examples of voter fraud, election fraud and cases when a judge overturned results of an election. 

While claims are reaching the courts, we have to see what government officials have to say and see whether individual states’ results will be certified as expected. Time will tell.