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Elections & voting fact checks

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

5,413 published reviews in this topic

Folha de S.PauloElections & voting

Postagens nas redes sociais reproduzem uma captura de tela de post de Lula sobre o resultado da eleição na Argentina, com a seguinte resposta de Javier Milei, presidente eleito do país vizinho: “Lula ladrón, tu lugar está en la prisión”.

Publisher’s rating: Falso

The claim concerns a screenshot purporting to show Javier Milei replying to a post by Brazil’s president, Lula, after Milei won Argentina’s presidential election. The review says Lula did publish the message shown in the screenshot on X after the November 19 election, but that the supposed reply from Milei was fabricated: “Lula realmente postou a mensagem apresentada no post falso em seu perfil no X, logo após a vitória de Milei nas eleições presidenciais argentinas, no dia 19 de novembro. Entretanto, não houve resposta alguma do argentino.” The review describes visual signs of manipulation in the screenshot. The purported reply showed no replies, reposts, likes, or views, which the review treated as an initial indication of a montage. It also notes that text appears beneath the supposed reply, visible through white dots over the words “está en la prisión.” These are the review’s stated reasons for doubting the screenshot itself: “não há respostas, republicações, curtidas ou visualizações na suposta resposta de Milei” and “percebemos que há outro texto por baixo.” The review says the Comprova checked Lula’s original post and found no reply from Milei—not the quoted insult or any other response. It distinguishes this screenshot from a separate occasion when Milei did call Lula a thief in a post: “O Comprova também verificou a publicação original do presidente Lula e constatou que não houve resposta por parte de Milei, seja a frase da montagem ou qualquer outra.”

FACTLYElections & voting

జాతీయ సమాజ్ వాదీ పార్టీ రాబోయే అసెంబ్లీ ఎన్నికల్లో పోటీ చేయబోతుంది. ఈ పార్టీ మరియు టీడీపీది సైకిల్ చిహ్నం. సమాజ్ వాదీ పార్టీ జాతీయ పార్టీ కనుక ప్రాంతీయ పార్టీ అయిన టీడీపీకి ఎన్నికల సంఘం ఇంకో గుర్తు ఇస్తారు

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

FACTLYElections & voting

BJP candidate from the Jaora constituency in Madhya Pradesh lost the 2018 Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha Elections by just one vote

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim concerns a social-media image said to show BJP candidate Rajendra Pandey losing the 2018 Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha election in Jaora by one vote. The review explains that the image itself showed a count still underway: it had the header “Counting in Progress.” It therefore was not a record of the constituency’s final result. To check the outcome, the review says it consulted the constituency-wise results in the 2018 Vidhan Sabha Elections Result Book of Madhya Pradesh, published on the Chief Electoral Officer Madhya Pradesh website. It reports that Pandey received 64,503 votes and Congress candidate K. K. Singh Kalukheda received 63,992. Those totals put Pandey ahead by 511 votes, rather than behind by one. The review’s conclusion follows from the distinction between the interim count pictured in the post and the final result documented in the results book. The shared screenshot indicated a one-vote lead for Kalukheda while counting was in progress; the review says the final tally instead showed Pandey winning Jaora by 511 votes.

Folha de S.PauloElections & voting

Vídeo com trecho de diálogo entre os ministros do Tribunal Superior Eleitoral Alexandre de Moraes e Raul Araújo Filho, durante um julgamento na Corte. O conteúdo traz uma frase em que Moraes cita entender “que houve fraude”. Neste momento, uma locução sobrepõe a fala de Moraes: “ele assume que teve fraude”. O vídeo contém ainda as seguintes frases: “Olha aí a casa ‘caído’. Julgamento no caso das eleições”, dando a entender que Alexandre de Moraes estivesse fazendo alusão a uma suposta fraude nas urnas eletrônicas.

Publisher’s rating: Enganoso

The video uses a real exchange between TSE ministers Alexandre de Moraes and Raul Araújo Filho, but presents it as if Moraes were discussing fraud in Brazil’s electronic voting or the presidential election. The source places the exchange during a court hearing on May 23, 2023, and notes that the clip includes Moraes saying, “eu entendo que houve fraude.” It says some viewers interpreted the remark as referring to the 2022 presidential election, although Moraes does not name an election in the quoted phrase. The hearing concerned a different matter: an allegation of gender-quota fraud by the PTB in 2020 municipal council elections in Roteiro, Alagoas. The source says the session had no connection to electronic voting machines or vote counting. The TSE’s full hearing video was available on the Electoral Justice’s YouTube channel, and the source reports that the court concluded the case that day, with a four-to-three majority confirming the quota fraud and overturning an earlier decision by the Regional Electoral Court of Alagoas. That context changes what the clip establishes. Moraes’s words referred to fraud in the case the ministers were judging, not an admission of fraud in the 2022 presidential election or in the voting system. The misleading implication comes from using a genuine fragment of a hearing while omitting the case under discussion.

FACTLYElections & voting

Posts display the results of exit polls in the Rajasthan Assembly elections of 2023

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

FACTLY examined posts presented as showing exit-poll results for the 2023 Rajasthan Assembly elections. Its review found that the posts did not establish that the material depicted genuine 2023 exit-poll results: one circulated image was an old Rajasthan election graphic, while a separate district-wise claim was unsupported. The review’s conclusion was that the posts either circulated results from past assembly elections or shared unverified claims about current exit polls. [S1]

FACTLYElections & voting

This video shows a Pakistani flag being waved in a Congress rally held in Rajasthan in 2023 during the Assembly elections

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim is that a video shows a Pakistani flag being waved at a Congress rally in Rajasthan during the 2023 Assembly elections. FACTLY says the footage is not from that election period: it identifies the video as dating to 2018 and reports that the flag shown is not Pakistan’s national flag. The review also says Rajasthan Police had addressed the same footage when it circulated in 2018. [S1] To investigate whether the video showed a recent incident, FACTLY says it searched online for reports of such an occurrence in Rajasthan but found no credible evidence. It also examined the green flag in the video and compared it with Pakistan’s national flag, concluding that the two differ. These checks address both the claimed setting and the identification of the flag, rather than relying only on the absence of recent reporting. [S1] FACTLY traced the footage to a 2018 Rajasthan Police tweet. According to the review, police said the same video was being falsely described as showing a Pakistani flag at a Congress victory procession. That earlier identification makes the video’s reuse in a 2023-election claim misleading: the footage predates the claimed event, and the flag had already been disputed by police. [S1]