Elections
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“Image shows a live exit polls survey by India News predicting a win for BJP in 2024 Indian Lok Sabha elections.”
“News 24 graphic shows various satta bazar predictions for 2024 Lok Sabha elections”
“Clip shows BBC has predicted 347 seats for the NDA in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls”
“India Today exit poll for Amritsar Lok Sabha constituency.”
“‘India Today Group’s’ exit poll survey predicts a win for the BJP in the Amritsar Lok Sabha constituency.”
FACTLY says: ‘India Today Group’ has not released any exit poll result as of 30 May 2024. They have refuted this claim by calling it fake and saying that their survey results will be released only after the ban on exit polls by the …
“News 24 opinion poll predicts INDIA will win 6 out of 7 seats in Delhi in Lok Sabha 2024”
“The video features a massive crowd at PM Modi’s public meeting in Jalandhar, Punjab for the 2024 General Elections.”
FACTLY says: The viral video is not from PM Modi’s 2024 General Elections campaign in Jalandhar, Punjab. The video is from a Narendra Modi rally held in Kolkata on 3 April 2019.
“A day after the sixth phase of voting for the ongoing 2024 Indian general elections concluded on May 25, a video was shared on social media, with several social users alleging that it showed evidence of votes being manipulated”
“Amid the 2024 General Elections, visuals of a polling agent manipulating votes of women voters in the polling booth.”
FACTLY says: The video shared in the post shows an old ‘booth capture’ incident that took place during the 2019 General Elections in Faridabad, Haryana. In May 2019, during the 2019 General Elections, a polling agent was caught mani…
“Rep. Ruben Gallego "supports … allowing illegals to vote.”
FactCheck.org says: Gallego has said that he opposes allowing noncitizens to vote in Arizona and in federal elections. But in 2023, he voted to allow a D.C. law letting noncitizens vote in local elections -- a law that he now opposes.
“There is a drop of 19.4 crore voters in the first five phases of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections compared to the 2019 polls.”
FACTLY says: The absolute number of votes cast in the first five phases of the 2024 elections increased compared to 2019. In the first five phases of 2024, 50.7 crore votes were cast, while 47.5 crore votes were cast in the same pha…
“When Secretary of State Antony Blinken was in Ukraine recently "he announced that they were going to suspend elections in Ukraine.”
PolitiFact says: Ukraine’s presidential election would have been held in March, but Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in November that elections would not take place.
“ABP-CVoter survey predicts an INDIA victory in 2024 Lok Sabha elections”
“Amit Shah called PM Modi's poll promises meaningless”
“The video shows a mentally unstable person repeatedly chanting, ‘Is baar 400 paar’, the BJP’s 2024 Lok Sabha election slogan.”
FACTLY says: This is a scripted video, not an actual incident. The person featured in this video is Dr. Rajinder Thappa, a retired CMO and actor from Jammu and Kashmir.