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Elections & voting fact checks

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

5,415 published reviews in this topic

FACTLYElections & voting

Sachin said Irrespective of the amount of pressure from Modi, I will not fight elections against the Congress party. There is no question of me campaigning for Modi.”

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim attributed to Sachin Tendulkar a statement that, despite pressure from Modi, he would not contest elections against Congress and would not campaign for Modi. FACTLY reports that it found no credible source confirming he made those comments and concludes that he did not. The review describes the statement as part of a Facebook post, rather than presenting it as a verified quotation from Tendulkar. To check the attribution, the review says it searched Google for the posted comments, looked for coverage in major newspapers, and checked Tendulkar’s Twitter account; it reports finding no such comments in those places. It also notes that similar comments had circulated earlier, but says those were about opposing Congress requests, and that India Today had debunked that earlier claim. The review treats that older, differently worded claim as a separate instance, not evidence that Tendulkar made the statement at issue here.

Fact CrescendoElections & voting

Claim: Thirumavalavan denied vanniyar caste votes in Chidambaram

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The review investigated a Facebook post alleging that Thirumavalavan, campaigning in the Chidambaram constituency, had said he did not need votes from DMK-supporting Vanniyars after Vanniyars prevented him from entering a village. The post also described Vanniyars as caste-minded. The review presents this as a circulating allegation, not as an established event. Fact Crescendo says it searched for supporting evidence and found a denial video Thirumavalavan had posted on his official Twitter account on April 12. In the video, he said that no political leader could say the votes of a particular community were unnecessary, that all voters’ support mattered to political parties, and that he had never said he did not need Vanniyar votes. The article identifies the relevant portion as beginning at the video’s 12th second. The review concludes that the Facebook post was false. Its account supports that conclusion by contrasting the post’s allegation with Thirumavalavan’s recorded denial, while the supplied text does not independently establish whether the alleged village-access incident occurred.

Divya ChandraElections & voting

BJP/RSS not allowing Muslims to vote

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim attached to the viral video was that the BJP, RSS and Shiv Sena were preventing Muslims from voting and that people, including women, children and older adults, were being beaten. The review identifies the footage not as evidence of voter suppression but as a recording of a clash between two communities in Viramgam, in Ahmedabad district, Gujarat. To check the video’s provenance, the Quint says it used InVID to analyze the footage frame by frame and reverse-searched the frames with Yandex. This led to an earlier tweet, posted on 3 April, that shared the same video and identified it as being from Viramgam. The review also reports that Alt News searched using Gujarati keywords and found an Akila News article published on 1 April about a Thakor-Muslim group clash over a cemetery wall. Photographs in that article matched individual frames from the circulating video. The review places the clash in Viramgam’s Bhathipura area on 31 March. According to the Indian Express reporting it cites, a dispute arose after a woman tried to hang washed clothes on a burial-ground wall and some people objected. At least six people were injured and 15 were detained; police registered two FIRs, including one after stones were thrown at officers who went to identify and arrest suspects. These details support the review’s conclusion that the video depicts a local inter-community clash, not Muslims being prevented from voting. The excerpt does not establish who originally filmed the footage or identify every person shown.

YouturnElections & voting

2016 ஆம் ஆண்டில் சட்டமன்ற தேர்தலில் போட்டியிட்ட சீமானின் தேர்தல் உறுதிமொழிப் பத்திரத்தில் சைமன் என அவரின் பெயர் இடம்பெற்று உள்ளதாக கீழ் காணும் பத்திரம் பரவி வருகிறது.

Publisher’s rating: Fake