We're going to investigate the 2020 election.
Mark Alford will investigate the 2020 election.
Occurrences
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Evidence
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ABC17 reported that Alford's platform included a promise to investigate the 2020 presidential election and quoted him saying many questions had been glossed over.
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KCUR reported that election integrity was one of Alford's main campaign issues and that he said the 2020 presidential election was not secure.
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The Investigative Reporting Workshop/Washington Post review reported that Alford promoted a 2000 Mules watch party claiming coordinated 2020 voter fraud sufficient to change the result.
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The reported bill lists Mark Alford as a cosponsor and includes provisions for congressional election observers, post-election audits, and voting-equipment studies.
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The House Clerk recorded H.R. 22, the SAVE Act, as passed 220-208 on April 10, 2025; Alford voted Yea.
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Alford's official newsletter urged passage of the SAVE America Act, saying it would strengthen voter ID, mail-voting fraud protections, and citizen-only voting rules.
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During House debate, Alford framed the issue as securing elections and said voters in Missouri's Fourth District repeatedly ask what Congress will do to secure elections.
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The Congressional Directory lists Mark Alford as elected to the 118th Congress on November 8, 2022, and reelected to the 119th Congress on November 5, 2024.
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The 2026 Congressional Record Index entry for Rep. Mark Alford lists election-related activity including cosponsorship of H.R. 7300 on federal election integrity and H.R. 7296 on proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote. The indexed Alford entries do not show a completed retrospective investigation of the 2020 election.
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GovInfo records H.R. 7680 as introduced by Mark Alford and referred to the Judiciary and Education and Workforce Committees. The bill would require certain nonprofits involved in political work to comply with E-Verify.
Assessments
Alford promised during his 2022 federal House campaign to investigate the 2020 presidential election. The evidence shows same-term and later-term election-integrity activity, including cosponsoring election-administration bills, supporting voter-eligibility legislation, and making floor and newsletter statements about election security. Those actions are related to future election rules and election integrity, but they do not show that Alford launched, chaired, sponsored, or completed a retrospective congressional investigation of the 2020 election. Because there was meaningful related legislative effort but the promised investigative outcome was not delivered, this is best scored as never with an effort badge.
Alford’s 2022 federal House campaign promise was specifically to investigate the 2020 election. The evidence does not show that he completed or materially produced a retrospective congressional investigation into the 2020 election. During his first term, he did cosponsor and advocate for election-administration and election-security legislation, including H.R. 4563 with observer, audit, and equipment-study provisions, and later voted for the SAVE Act. Those actions are related election-integrity efforts, but they are prospective safeguards rather than the promised 2020-election investigation. This supports partial credit, not full delivery.