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Elections & voting fact checks

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

5,412 published reviews in this topic

SBT NewsElections & voting

Ministro Barroso disse no STF que eleição não se ganha, se toma.

Publisher’s rating: ENGANOSO

The review says the clip was edited to remove “Roraima” and take Barroso’s words out of context. He was recounting a senator’s account of elections in Roraima before electronic voting; the review says he repeated the phrase while speaking at the Chamber of Deputies, not at the STF.

Lighthouse JournalismElections & voting

An article about Indian elections in New York Times

Publisher’s rating: False

The review found that the text attributed to the New York Times was actually a user comment on a 2009 article, not an article by “V Mitchell.” The underlying New York Times article, “As Elections Near, Tightrope Awaits in India,” was published on April 14, 2009.

dpaElections & voting

In Bradford (Engeland) hebben Islamisten de lokale verkiezingen gewonnen omdat ze in de meerderheid zijn.

Publisher’s rating: Labour won de lokale verkiezingen in Bradford met 32 procent van de stemmen. Mensen met een moslimachtergrond zijn niet in de meerderheid in de Engelse stad. Volgens de laatste volkstelling in 2021 identificeert een derde van de bevolking zich als moslim.

Labour won Bradford’s local elections with 32 percent of the vote; the review says Muslims were not a majority of the city’s population. It also says the video of a large Islamic gathering was filmed in London in 2021, not at the Bradford elections.