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“Democrats have voted for national independent redistricting. Republicans have not.”
Publisher’s rating: Mostly True
The video shows a massive crowd gathering at Rahul Gandhi’s recent ‘Voter Adhikar Yatra’ rally held in August 2025 in Bihar.
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
The review finds that the crowd video is from a bullock cart race at Hindkesari Ground in Pedgaon, Satara, Maharashtra, not from Rahul Gandhi’s Voter Adhikar Yatra. It reports that an organiser identified the event as a race held on 21 June 2025.
Video of a protest over the ‘vote chori’ issue directed at BJP MP Kangana Ranaut.
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
Video shows Rahul Gandhi addressing a gathering from the rooftop of a bus during the ‘Vote Adhikar Yatra’ in Bihar in August 2025.
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
The footage does not show the Vote Adhikar Yatra in Bihar. FACTLY identifies it as Rahul Gandhi addressing university students from a bus rooftop during the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra at the Meghalaya–Assam border in January 2024.
A video shows people thrashing a BJP MLA in Haryana over the vote chori issue.
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
FACTLY reports that the video is old and unrelated to the 2025 vote chori row. It identifies the footage as a 2020 clash between two groups in Haryana over a power line dispute, with no reported involvement of a BJP leader or political party.
President Trump said the U.S. is "now the only Country in the World that uses Mail-in Voting.”
Publisher’s rating: False
With voting machines, "They say we're going to have the results in two weeks. With paper ballots, you have the results that night."
Publisher’s rating: False
"States are merely an 'agent' for the Federal Government in counting and tabulating the votes. They must do what the Federal Government, as represented by the President of the United States, tells them, FOR THE GOOD OF OUR COUNTRY, to do."
Publisher’s rating: False
ఆగష్టు 2025లో జరిగిన పులివెందుల, ఒంటిమిట్ట జెడ్పీటీసీ ఉప ఎన్నికలలో రిగ్గింగ్ చేస్తున్నప్పటి వీడియో
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
“We are now the only country in the world that uses mail-in voting.”
Publisher’s rating: False
வாக்கு திருட்டு ரிசல்ட் வரத் துவங்கிவிட்டது..!! சாகிபாபாத் காய்கறி மார்க்கெட்டில் பாஜகவின் லோனி MLA நந்த் கிஷோருக்கு அடி..!! அடிச்ச அடியில் இன்னா ஓட்டம்
Publisher’s rating: false
"Congressional districts are never redrawn mid-decade [but Republicans in Texas are] flagrantly breaking the rules so they can hold on to power."
Publisher’s rating: Misleading
"There are no states more gerrymandered than California and Illinois and New York."
Publisher’s rating: Partly false
The Judicial and Bar Council has disqualified Department of Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin “Boying” Remulla from the race for Ombudsman.
Publisher’s rating: False
ఈవీఎంలను (Electronic Voting Machine) నిషేధించాలని ఆగష్టు 2025లో జరిగిన భారీ ఆందోళనలకు సంబంధించిన వీడియో.
Publisher’s rating: MISLEADING
மின்டா தேவி என ஒருவரே இல்லை, மோடி அவர் பெயரை வைத்து போலி வாக்காளர்களை உருவாக்குகிறார் -காங்கிரஸ். என் பெயர் மின்டா தேவி, வயது 34, நான் போலி இல்லை -மின்டா தேவி மெண்டல்களை மிரள விட்ட மின்டா.
Publisher’s rating: misleading
Visuals of 'vote chori' protests held across India following Rahul Gandhi's 'vote chori' claims.
Publisher’s rating: MISLEADING
The review found that neither viral visual showed a ‘vote chori’ protest: one showed a May 2025 MNREGA employment protest in Durg, and the other a December 2024 candle march in Delhi against normalisation in the BPSC examination. It notes that ‘vote chori’ protests did take place, but says the videos were unrelated to them.
The video shows a village sarpanch being assaulted by locals in Bihar while campaigning for votes in support of an MLA who had left the AIMIM.
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
The review finds that the video is not from Bihar and does not show the claimed campaign-related assault. It identifies the footage as a clash at the Jamuna (Jamunamukh) Gram Panchayat office in Doboka, Assam.
A notification issued by the Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Department states that Panchayat elections in Jammu and Kashmir will be held after November 2025.
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
The review reports that the purported notification was fake: it found no corresponding official notification or credible media reports, and noted spelling errors in the viral letter. It also cites clarifications from the Chief Minister of J&K and the Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Department that the notification was fake.
2024 ఆంధ్రప్రదేశ్ ఎన్నికల్లో EVM స్కామ్ జరిగిందని తృణమూల్ కాంగ్రెస్ పార్టీ ఎంపీ సయోని ఘోష్ పార్లమెంటులో అంటున్న వీడియో
Publisher’s rating: FALSE