Fact-Checking Republicans' Misleading Claims About Problematic Elections

President Trump has for months promoted a number of baseless claims about rampant voter fraud to try to justify a federal takeover of the country's election system. It is an effort that has spread to other parts of government, which have peddled questionable assertions.

In public remarks and executive orders, Mr. Trump has escalated his attacks on mail-in voting and made misleading comparisons to other countries' election systems. In lawsuits and affidavits, the Justice Department has repeated debunked claims about the 2020 election and selectively highlighted data to criticize how certain states maintain voter rolls. And in Congress, Mr. Trump's allies are pushing to pass a bill restricting voting and voter registration by falsely suggesting that noncitizens were voting en masse.

Here's a fact-check.