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Deutsche Presse-AgenturElections & voting

Wahlzettel, die rechts oben gelocht sind, sind ungültig.

Publisher’s rating: Der Stimmzettel ist gültig. Er ist gelocht, damit blinde und sehbehinderte Menschen mit einer Schablone eigenständig wählen können.

The claim concerned photos circulating on social media before the March 2021 state elections in Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate. The photos showed a ballot with a hole in its upper-right corner, and the accompanying suggestion was that the ballot was therefore invalid. The review explains that the hole is an orientation aid for blind and visually impaired voters, not a sign that the ballot cannot be counted. The review cites section 45(2) of the Federal Electoral Regulations, which provides for the upper-right corner of a ballot to be punched or cut off for use with ballot templates. A template lets a blind voter orient the ballot and mark a choice independently. The review says corresponding provisions also exist in the election rules of both states. It further notes that postal ballots are made alike, so a punched ballot is not issued only to voters with visual impairments. The review also points to section 39 of the Federal Electoral Act as setting out when a ballot is invalid. Its account therefore distinguishes the accessibility feature shown in the photos from the separate conditions that make a ballot invalid: the hole itself does not invalidate it.

टीम वेबकूफElections & voting

PFI की रैली में बांधे गए RSS कार्यकर्ताओं के हाथ पश्चिम बंगाल में कुछ बीजेपी नेताओं ने पथराव किया कोलकाता में अमित शाह गिरे मंच से पश्चिम बंगाल में चुनावों की तारीखें तय केरल में सीएम योगी के स्वागत में बनाया गया ह्युमन फ्लैग

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

Fact CrescendoElections & voting

भारतीय चुनाव आयोग द्वारा घोषित पश्चिम बंगाल विधान सभा चुनावों की तिथियों का बताया जा रहा है जिसमें ७ चरणों में चुनाव कराएंगे | ग्राफिक में यह भी कहा गया है कि वोटों की गिनती इस साल २३ मई को होगी

Publisher’s rating: False

FACTLYElections & voting

West Bengal 2021 assembly election schedule

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The post presented a purported schedule for West Bengal’s upcoming 2021 assembly elections. FACTLY’s review found that the schedule had not been released: it reports finding no schedule on the Election Commission of India website and no news articles saying one had been issued. The review also says that the Press Information Bureau stated that the schedule was not yet released. The key comparison was with an existing schedule on the West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer’s website. FACTLY reports that this was the schedule for the 2019 Lok Sabha general elections. Its polling dates matched those in the social-media post apart from the year, and the constituencies listed in the post were Bengal’s 42 parliamentary constituencies—not assembly constituencies. Those details indicate that a 2019 parliamentary-election schedule had been relabelled as a schedule for the 2021 assembly polls. The review further says that the Press Information Bureau posted a debunking tweet on 16 February 2021, reiterating that the West Bengal election schedule had not yet been released. On the evidence described in the review, the post’s dates and constituency information came from the wrong election, rather than from an announced 2021 assembly schedule.

Vishvas NewsElections & voting

অসম বিধানসভা নিৰ্বাচনৰ বাবে তাৰিখ ঘোষণা কৰা হৈছে

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim concerned a Facebook post by Bikash Baruah saying that dates had been announced for the Assam assembly election. The post also listed purported dates for elections in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry. The investigation reports that the Election Commission had not announced dates for the upcoming assembly elections in these states at the time. It says the viral dates were fabricated, rather than an authentic election schedule.