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Elections & voting fact checks

Explore claims publishers have checked about elections & voting. Read their original ratings and follow the evidence.

5,413 published reviews in this topic

DoğrulaElections & voting

Videonun Mansur Yavaş’ın seçim akşamı CHP Genel Merkezi’nden ayrıldığı anı gösterdiği iddiası

Publisher’s rating: Yanlış

The claim concerns a video circulated after the 14 May 2023 election as showing Mansur Yavaş leaving CHP headquarters on election night, and as evidence of a breakdown in the Nation Alliance. The review says it investigated that circulating video and found it was not current: it showed a May 2022 Ankara Metropolitan Municipality council meeting, not Yavaş leaving party headquarters after the election. The review therefore concludes that the video does not show the claimed post-election event. (The article describes the viral framing as showing alliance disintegration; it does not establish that this was the only wording used to describe the video.) To identify the footage, the review reports taking a screenshot from the video and conducting a reverse-image search. It says this led to coverage identifying the footage as having been recorded at a council meeting in May 2022. It also reports tracing the video through social-media posts from that period. These findings place the footage about a year before the election, contradicting the claim that it captured Yavaş’s departure on election night. The review adds that reports of the 2022 council meeting framed the same incident differently: some used headlines saying Yavaş had fled the meeting, while others highlighted an attempt to interrupt him as he discussed alleged corruption during the AK Party period. That difference concerns the interpretation of the old meeting footage; it does not make the footage evidence of the claimed 2023 departure.

DoğrulaElections & voting

Abdullah Öcalan posterleri ile Millet İttifakı afişinin aynı karede olduğu fotoğrafın gerçek olduğu iddiası

Publisher’s rating: Yanlış

The claim concerns a photo circulated as showing people in front of an Abdullah Öcalan poster holding CHP flags and a Millet Alliance election poster. Doğrula says it examined that image and traced the original photo to Iraq in 2021. The review reports that the people pictured were taking part in a hunger strike for Öcalan and political prisoners. [S1]

YouturnElections & voting

கர்நாடகாவில் தமிழக பாஜக தலைவர் அண்ணாமலை பிரச்சாரம் செய்த உத்தரகன்னடா மாவட்டம் கிட்டூர் தொகுதியின் ஒரு பூத்தில் பாஜகவிற்கு வெறும் 10 ஓட்டுகள் மட்டுமே பதிவாகியுள்ளன.

Publisher’s rating: Fake

FACTLYElections & voting

Video of Aravind Kejriwal appealing to vote for Congress party in Jalandhar Lok Sabha by-election

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim concerns a short video circulated as showing Aravind Kejriwal urging voters to support Congress in the Jalandhar Lok Sabha by-election. FACTLY reports that the clip is an excerpt from a message Kejriwal delivered during Punjab’s 2017 general elections, rather than an appeal about the 2023 by-election. The review says it found the longer version on Kejriwal’s official Facebook page, where it was shared in January 2017. [S1: “An Internet search led us to the longer version of the video shared on Kejriwal’s official Facebook page in January 2017.”] In that longer message, Kejriwal discusses reports that RSS and Akali Dal workers were urging voters not to support the Akali Dal and BJP, but instead to vote together for Congress. The review explains that the excerpt’s meaning changes when separated from the rest: Kejriwal presents those reports as evidence of other parties coordinating against Aam Aadmi Party, and appeals to voters to support AAP. [S1: “the actions of these political parties demonstrate a clear interconnection and shared goal to prevent the Aam Aadmi Party from winning the election and forming a government.”] [S1: “From this video, it is evident that Kejriwal is appealing to vote for AAP, by alleging a nexus between other parties, and that an excerpt from this video is shared out of context.”] The review’s conclusion therefore rests on the longer video’s provenance and context: the words about a united vote for Congress are part of Kejriwal’s description of what other groups were allegedly advocating, not his own appeal to vote for Congress in Jalandhar. The review identifies the circulated clip as an old excerpt presented as if it related to the by-election. [S1: “The viral video in question is an excerpt of Kejriwal’s message to voters that was delivered during the 2017 Punjab general elections”]

FACTLYElections & voting

తెలంగాణ కాంగ్రెస్ 2018 అసెంబ్లీ ఎన్నికల మేనిఫెస్టోలో ముస్లింలకు మాత్రమే ప్రత్యేక రెసిడెన్షియల్ స్కూల్స్, ఆసుపత్రులు మరియు మసీదులకు ఉచిత విద్యుత్ అందిస్తామని వాగ్ధానం చేసింది

Publisher’s rating: MISLEADING