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Elections & voting fact checks

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

5,414 published reviews in this topic

Deutsche Presse-AgenturElections & voting

https://dpa-factchecking.com/germany/211101-99-821759/

Publisher’s rating: Die Aussage stammt weder von dem britischen Science-Fiction-Autor Ian Watson, der 1943 geboren wurde, noch von dem Mann auf dem Foto, der ebenfalls Ian Watson heißt. Tatsächlich erschien das Zitat auf der Facebook-Seite eines Homöopathen - namens Ian Watson.

The review examines a quotation circulated to criticize COVID-19 measures and vaccination. Posts attributed it to Ian Watson, a British science-fiction author born in 1943, and showed a photograph of a grey-haired man with glasses beside his name. The review distinguishes the quote’s Facebook source from the two better-known men called Ian Watson. [S1]

FACTLYElections & voting

Video of people blocking BJP election campaign in Uttar Pradesh

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim concerns a video presented as recent footage of people blocking BJP leaders from entering a village in Uttar Pradesh ahead of the state’s 2022 Assembly elections. FACTLY reports that the footage instead shows an election campaign encounter in Devpar village, in Bihar’s Kalyanpur constituency, involving Maheshwar Hazari, a JDU leader and sitting MLA. The review says the incident took place during the 2020 Bihar Assembly election campaign, not in Uttar Pradesh.

Fact Crescendo Sri LankaElections & voting

FACT CHECK: ඉදිරි ජනාධිපතිවරණය සඳහා ජ.වි.පෙ ප්‍රචාරණ කටයුතු වෙනුවන් Ogilvy සිදුකළ යෝජනාවක්?

Publisher’s rating: False

The claim concerned a document circulated online as an Ogilvy Digital proposal for a JVP campaign called “අලුත් මාවතකට හැරෙමු” (“Let’s turn to a new path”), aimed at the 2024 presidential election. The document alleged that the agency would promote JVP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake through media and social platforms, and even involve Fact Crescendo in rating posts. The review says the posts presented the papers as official campaign documents, although the letter shown carried no signature on Ogilvy Digital’s behalf. [S1: “මෙම ලිපියේ Ogilvy Digital ආයතනය වෙනුවෙන් කිසිවෙකුගේ අත්සනක් ද යොදා තිබුනේ නැත.”; “2024 පැවැත්වීමට නියමිත ජනාධිපතිවරණයට ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණ විසින් මැතිවරණ ප්‍රචාරණ ව්‍යාපෘතියක් දියත් කිරීම සඳහා ප්‍රචාරණ ඒජන්සියක් හරහා කටයුතු කිරීමට සූදානම් යෝජනා පත්‍රයක්”] To check the specific proposal, the review reports contacting people and organizations named in it. The Hari TV presenter and the creator of the Ratta YouTube channel said they had not been approached about such a project; Verité Research said it knew of no such project. Producers of the named Hiru, Sirasa and Swarnavahini political programs also said Ogilvy Digital had not submitted such a proposal to them. [S1: “තමන්ට මෙවැනි යෝජනාවක් Ogilvy Digital ඒජන්සිය හරහා හෝ ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණින් හෝ නොලැබුණු බවයි.”; “එවැනි ව්‍යාපෘතියක් සම්බන්ධයෙන් සිය ආයතනය කිසිඳු දැනුවත්භාවයක් නොමැති බවයි”; “Ogilvy Digital ඒජන්සිය විසින් එවන් යෝජනාවක් මෙම වැඩසටහන් සඳහා තම ආයතනයට ඉදිරිපත් කර නොමැති බවයි”] The review also reports that JVP media secretary Upul Ranjan denied receiving a letter from Ogilvy Digital and denied that the party was undertaking the described campaign for 50 million rupees. It says the circulated letterhead differed from the agency’s official letterhead and that the agency had posted a response on its official Facebook account. Taken together, these checks contradict the document’s presentation as an agreed, official proposal. [S1: “තමන්ට Ogilvy Digital ප්‍රචාරණ ආයතනයෙන් මෙවැන් ලිපියක් යොමු නොකළ බවයි.”; “සමාජ මාධ්‍ය ඔස්සේ හුවමාරු වන ලිපියේ Ogilvy Digital සම්බන්ධයෙන් දැක්වීමට යොදාගෙන තිබුනේ ඔවුන්ගේ වෙබ් අඩවියේම කොටසක දක්වා තිබූ තොරතුරු බව ද පෙනී ගියා.”]