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FACTLYElections & voting

Video shows Punjab farmers campaigning against AAP in Gujarat Assembly Elections 2022

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim concerned a video said to show Punjab farmers campaigning against the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) during Gujarat’s 2022 Assembly elections. The review concludes that the video was instead recorded in Haryana during the Aadampur constituency by-election in November 2022, so the setting and election attached to the footage were misidentified. The review describes checks of the video itself and a longer version. It reports that a banner in the footage names Khairampur, a village in Haryana. In the extended version, a man is heard saying that Punjab is suffering and that he does not want Haryana to suffer, before asking people not to vote for AAP in Aadampur. The review says the Aadampur by-election took place in the first week of November 2022. The review also reports finding a video from the same place, uploaded with a description identifying Punjab ex-servicemen opposing AAP in Aadampur, and says Amar Ujala published a similar visual in coverage of events related to that by-election. Taken together, the location clue, the extended audio and the related footage place the video in Haryana’s Aadampur by-election—not Gujarat’s Assembly election.

El Detector / Univision NoticiasElections & voting

De aprobarse la votación anticipada en Connecticut, se dará luz verde a “eliminar el requisito de un sello certificado de ciertas papeletas cuando se presenten al Secretario de Estado”.

Publisher’s rating: Falso

The claim tied Connecticut’s November 8, 2022 early-voting proposal to removing a certified seal from certain ballots sent to the Secretary of State. The review found that this conflated ballots with the transmission of election results: the proposed constitutional change concerned how results are delivered, not the ballots themselves. To check the claim, the review contacted Connecticut’s Secretary of State’s Office by email. Gabe Rosenberg, the office’s chief of staff and general counsel, explained that a constitutional provision dating to the late 1700s and early 1800s required municipal clerks to submit election results sealed with wax. He said the amendment would remove that wax-seal requirement. Rosenberg also stated that ballots have never been made or submitted with a wax seal, and that the proposal would not affect them. The review also checked the wording of the election question against the Secretary of State’s website and examined local ballots. It reported that voters were asked whether the state constitution should be amended to allow the General Assembly to establish early voting. The change described by the office would update the process for delivering results: electronic submission was already required, and a sealed paper copy was also being sent. Thus, the alleged ballot-seal change was not what the proposal did.