President Donald Trump said the Nov. 4 California redistricting election was rigged. The White House pointed to the state’s system of sending mail ballots to everyone. That isn’t evidence of fraud.
Pete Ballmer votes while his dogs Poppy, center, and Lilah wait at International Cafe on Nov. 4, 2025, in San Francisco. As evidence, the White House said California ’s system of sending mail ballots to all voters is"ripe for fraud.
" A spokesperson pointed to one case of a woman charged with voter fraud. In its statement, the White House also misrepresented data.Rigging an election would require a criminal conspiracy of election officials across the state. There is no evidence that happened."The Unconstitutional Redistricting Vote in California is a GIANT SCAM in that the entire process, in particular the Voting itself, is RIGGED," Trump wrote Nov. 4 on "All ‘Mail-In’ Ballots, where the Republicans in that State are ‘Shut Out,’ is under very serious legal and criminal review. STAY TUNED!""It is just a fact," Leavitt said."They have a universal mail in voting system, which we know is ripe for fraud. …Fraudulent ballots that are being mailed in, in the names of other people and the names of illegal aliens who shouldn't be voting in American elections."When PolitiFact contacted the White House, a spokesperson responded with several points, many of which had also been shared in an. These points criticized California’s voting system, but included only one case of a person charged with voter fraud. The White House also misrepresented the numbers on voter registration and voter removal to support its claims.. Rigging a state election would require election officials across the state to work together to commit felonies. There is no evidence that happened.to redistrict the congressional map to increase the chance of adding five Democratic seats to negate added likely Republican seats in Texas.Much of the White House’s evidence criticizes California’s system of mailing ballots to all active registered voters. It is one ofthat conduct elections by such a system. Millions of ballots are sent to Californians and not returned, as the White House noted, but that doesn’t prove fraud. Election workersAlthough voters are mailed ballots, they can choose to cast a ballot in person instead. Voters generally don’t have to provide an ID. Election workers can ask for an ID if the person is voting for the first time and didn’t provide an ID when registering to vote.that said,"Absentee ballots remain the largest source of potential voter fraud." Although the report generally communicated a dim view of absentee voting, it didn’t call for its elimination. It recommended ways to improve security and further study.non-citizens to vote in local elections which creates a high risk of fraud in federal elections," and acknowledged noncitizens aren’t allowed to vote in federal elections. The city allows noncitizens to vote only inin June after it redacted personal identifying information when it provided records to the department about 17 noncitizens on the voter rolls. Bob Page, the county registrar of voters, said the 17 people self-reported that they wanted to cancel their voter registrations, including eight who voted before they cancelled their voter registration."California reported 2,178,551 duplicate registrations in the 2024 election cycle — 15.6% of total registered voters," the White House said. The statement misleadingly gives the impression that those people appear on the voter rolls more than once."Duplicate registrations" refer to the number of registration applications that California election officials received but didn’t process because they were identical to existing registrations. Duplicate registration can happen by accident; some people register and forget they did so, or submit registration both through the mail and online. The number the White House cited represents the number of times California election officials caught the mistake, not made one.The White House said,"California only removed 378,349 registered voters for death , which was well below the national average," between the 2022 and 2024 elections. This figure is cherry picked. The White House cited voters removed because of death, which is just one reason for striking a voter from the rolls. From 2022 to 2024, California removed more than 3.177 million voters from its rolls for all reasons, including death, according to the same election survey. That’s a 12.4% removal rate of all registered voters, compared with the national average of 9.1%. California removed a larger proportion of voters for reasons other than death, such as moving or failure to return a confirmation notice., with five felonies for illegally registering her dog to vote. The dog’s vote was counted in the 2021 gubernatorial recall election, but rejected in the 2022 primary. The Orange County District Attorney’s officeThe White House’s explanation misrepresented data about duplicate registrations, cherry-picked data about dead voter removals from registration rolls, pointed to one woman charged with voter fraud among about 23 million registered voters, and baselessly blamed San Francisco’s allowance for noncitizen voting in school board elections.White House, Statement to PolitiFact, Nov. 5, 2025 U.S. Election Assistance Commission,"EAVS Datasets Version 1.0 ," downloaded Nov. 5, 2025The Jeffrey Epstein files “were made up by Comey. They were made up by Obama. They were made up by Biden.”Photos and videos show Washington, D.C., protests against White House adviser Elon Musk are “staged & paid — bussed in, scripted, clocked out.” In Florida, “68 to 70% of property tax revenue” is from “second homes, investment properties, commercial properties, Airbnb,” not primary residences. Walmart will close to in-store shoppers and allow only online orders and curbside pickup starting Nov. 1 because of an expected Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program funding lapse.
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