{"id":1450007,"date":"2022-04-22T10:50:37","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T14:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1450007"},"modified":"2022-04-22T10:50:45","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T14:50:45","slug":"fact-check-no-46-states-have-not-performed-vote-recounts-for-the-2020-presidential-election-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-no-46-states-have-not-performed-vote-recounts-for-the-2020-presidential-election-2\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: No, 46 States Have Not Performed Vote Recounts For The 2020 Presidential Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-no-46-states-have-not-performed-vote-recounts-for-the-2020-presidential-election-2%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1450007&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jorge.n.samantha.4ever\/posts\/pfbid0j15mbPKaTJahJbENEPbwSPRTvqtasLSVUb1VNgrqtxxKvnb4ZHzV2nXG92RX1JnVl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> claims 46 states have performed vote recounts that confirmed President Joe Biden lost the 2020 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Only six states have conducted recounts for the 2020 presidential election. All of them confirmed Biden\u2019s win.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, former President Donald Trump and some Republican lawmakers have repeatedly demanded vote recounts over allegations of widespread voter fraud, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/oct\/07\/republicans-2020-recount-juggernaut-rumbles-on-despite-lack-of-evidence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Guardian<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>An image shared on Facebook claims 46 states acquiesced to these demands. \u201cSCREENSHOT BEFORE THIS GETS DELETED 46 of 50 states have now recounted and CONFIRMED that Biden lost the vote in their state,\u201d reads text included in the image. \u201cThe media has not said ANYTHING about this and continue to ignore it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The claim is incorrect. A <a href=\"https:\/\/healthyelections.org\/sites\/default\/files\/2021-06\/Recounts_Contests_Battleground_States.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">report<\/a> published by the Stanford-MIT Healthy Elections Project explains that as of March 2021, six states participated in election audits or recounts. States such as Georgia and Michigan conducted state-wide recounts, while Wisconsin performed recounts in Dane and Milwaukee Counties, according to the report. All three audits upheld Biden\u2019s victory in those areas.<\/p>\n<p>While Trump filed \u201csix challenges to the counting process\u201d in Pennsylvania, all of those challenges were dismissed, the Healthy Elections Project found. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/11\/05\/fact-check-maricopa-audit-find-700000-trump-votes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Did A Maricopa County Audit Find 700,000 More Votes For Donald Trump?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Following this, a series of election audits were performed in Maricopa County, Arizona, with a final report in March 2022 suggesting there was no evidence of fraud in the county, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/elections-arizona-donald-trump-phoenix-election-2020-7e730cb9482657e80cf0f68d8dcf1986\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Associated Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The latest audit is currently being performed in four counties in Texas, including Dallas, Collin, Tarrant and Harris County, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kxan.com\/news\/texas-politics\/2nd-phase-of-2020-election-audit-in-4-texas-counties-underway\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KXAN<\/a>, an NBC affiliate. The audit is currently in its second phase, covering an \u201cexhaustive document request\u201d from the four counties over their handling of the election, the outlet reported.<\/p>\n<p>Biden won the 2020 election with 306 electoral votes compared to Trump\u2019s 232, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/11\/03\/us\/elections\/results-president.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New York Times<\/a>. Check Your Fact has <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2020\/12\/04\/fact-check-video-show-ballots-suitcases-counted-georgia-poll-workers-leave\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">debunked<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2020\/11\/06\/fact-check-election-fraud-voting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">numerous<\/a> false <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/02\/05\/fact-check-mike-lindell-absolute-proof-election-fraud\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">claims<\/a> about the election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook claims 46 states have performed vote recounts that confirmed President Joe Biden lost the 2020 presidential election.Verdict: False Only six states have conducted recounts for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":1450030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1450007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1450007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1450030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1450007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1450007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1450007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}