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Fact check: Record for daily voter registration applications was set in 2019
Publisher’s rating: The deadline to register to vote in 2019 saw a higher number of registrations, meaning the record was not broken ahead of this year’s General Election.
Quem não tem biometria não pode participar das eleições municipais
Publisher’s rating: EXPLICA
The review says voters who are not identified biometrically will not be prevented from voting. It adds that a voter could face cancellation of their registration if their electoral zone called them to provide biometrics and they did not attend. [S1]
Fact check: Video from election night 2015 has been manipulated
Publisher’s rating: The video is clearly fake and likely intended as satire as it claims to be from the future, having been originally posted on June 18. The video is partly from the BBC’s election night coverage in 2015, but then at one point changes to include fake audio and a fake graphic.
೨೦೨೪ ರ ಲೋಕಸಭೆ ಚುನಾವಣೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಬಿಜೆಪಿಯ ರಾಜೀವ್ ಚಂದ್ರಶೇಖರ್ ಕಾಂಗ್ರೆಸ್ನ ಶಶಿ ತರೂರ್ ಅವರನ್ನು ಸೋಲಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ.
Publisher’s rating: ತಪ್ಪು
Fact check: Polling body told members to be clear what parties they prompt for
Publisher’s rating: The British Polling Council told the PA news agency that it has “definitely not” told its members whether they should prompt for Reform or not. It has told them that they must make it clear whether or not they have prompted for Reform.
Fact check: Little evidence of postal vote fraud in the UK
Publisher’s rating: Convictions for postal vote fraud are rare in the UK, and there have been only two in the last five years – both in local elections. The Electoral Commission says there “is no evidence of large-scale electoral fraud” in the UK over the past five years.
चुनाव हारते ही औकात समझ में आ गई ___
Publisher’s rating: Misleading. चुनाव प्रचार के वक्त मुस्लिमों से संबंधित माधवी लता के बयान को चुनाव में मिली हार के बाद का बता कर शेयर किया जा रहा है।
തെരഞ്ഞെടുപ്പ് ഫലം വന്ന് തൊട്ടടുത്ത ദിവസം സിപിഐഎം മുഖ്യപത്രമായ ദേശാഭിമാനി ഒന്നാം പേജില് നല്കിയ വാര്ത്ത
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
66 fake EVMs were seized from a BJP leader’s residence.
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
The clipping is from 2018, not the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. The review says police recovered 66 symbolic promotional EVMs from a house in Beawar, Ajmer, and that the promotional material named independent candidate Surendra Goyal.
Fact check: Projected result for Lee Anderson comes from ‘user-defined’ data
Publisher’s rating: Mr Anderson has shared a “user-defined poll” prediction – a feature of the Electoral Calculus website that allows anyone to input any percentage of support for the main five parties they choose to generate a picture of how those numbers might translate into election results for whole areas of the UK or individual seats.
محمدرضا شفیعی کدکنی از مسعود پزشکیان در انتخابات حمایت کرده است.
Publisher’s rating: شاخدار
वाह उत्तर प्रदेश में बड़ी हार देख सुर ही बदल गए जी अब अंधभक्तों का क्या होगा
Publisher’s rating: Altered
The review says the viral clip was an incomplete excerpt from an April 23, 2024 interview with Yogi Adityanath, shared alongside the claim’s caption. In the full context, he was criticizing Congress and referring to a past statement by Manmohan Singh about Muslims and the country’s resources, rather than changing his tune after the election results.
തലശേരിയിലെ പ്രമുഖ മുസ്ലിം തറവാടിന്റെ പിന്തുണ ഹിന്ദു വോട്ടുകള് അകലാന് കാരണമായി എന്ന് കെ.കെ.ശൈലജ
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
In a post on X, formerly Twitter, on June 12, the Scottish National Party said: “Only the SNP can beat the Tories in Scotland. Voting for another party risks letting the Tories in through the back door.”
Publisher’s rating: Recent YouGov polling, broken down to constituency level, shows the SNP and Conservatives are the parties most likely to win in the highlighted constituencies, albeit with a reduced margin over other candidates. However, across Scotland, the current polling data shows that Labour and the SNP are much more likely to win a larger vote share overall than the Conservatives.