Elections
2,118 claims on this topic checked by other fact-checking organisations. Topics are sorted by the words in each claim and cover English-language checks.
“Kamal Nath is repeatedly exposing his chameleon nature. After creating the drama of bowing down in Shri Bageshwar Dham, the entire focus is on Muslim votes.”
“Says Elizabeth Warren said, “Allowing Republicans to vote could threaten the integrity of an election.”
“53% of Americans made aware of the Hunter Biden laptop story would have changed their vote in 2020.”
PolitiFact says: The pool of respondents leaned more heavily Republican than the general population. The people who said they would switch their vote were likely already voting for Trump.
“President Joe Biden admits to faking the election.”
“Student ID cards are a “source of fraud” at the polls.”
PolitiFact says: The Idaho lawmaker did not provide evidence to support her claim that student IDs are a source of fraud at the polls. Voter fraud in Idaho is rare.
“17 percent of Biden voters would not have voted for the Biden-Harris ticket if they had known about the Biden laptop.”
Washington Post says: The polls was structured with misleading questions
“After winning the election of Mcd @ArvindKejriwal a big gift to the people of Delhi 👉 Due to the collapse of the under construction Metro pillar in Najafgarh many people died and there was no count of the injured… Who is responsible for this corrupt system?? Will the free government take any action against the careless officers??? 😡”
“Kejriwal’s prediction is 100% correct. Before the 2019 Parliament elections, Kejriwal had openly declared in the Kolkata Momta Mahagathbandhan public rally that Pakistan would be ruined if Modi won. And if we win in 2024 Congress and China will end, so my vote is for BJP.”
“Claim: old video shared as erode east people condemning dmk election agents”
“Same-day voter registration "does not allow election officials to verify the validity and accuracy of voter information.”
PolitiFact says: Election officials take multiple steps to verify applications, including reviewing identity and residency documentation.
“In California, there were “10 million mail ballots unaccounted for” in the November midterm election.”
PolitiFact says: The California Secretary of State’s office and election experts said the 10 million ballots are simply ones that were not used or returned by voters. They do not consider the ballots to be unaccounted for or missing.
“Nostradamus predicted Bongbong Marcos' win in the 2022 Philippine elections”
“The election in Brazil “was very clearly a rigged election.”
PolitiFact says: There is no evidence the election was rigged. Election observers in Brazil and internationally have reviewed the processes and determined the election was safe.
“There was no chain of custody for 300,000 mail-in ballots in Maricopa County, Arizona, during the 2022 election.”
FactCheck.org says: Every mail-in ballot in the county had a unique barcode and chain of custody documents to ensure security, election officials said.
“Historically, our spring elections (including for state Supreme Court) have a smaller turnout associated with them.”
“Maricopa County announced that on Election Day over 540,000 voters visited one of the 223” vote centers, but final official results data claimed that “only 248,070 people voted.”
PolitiFact says: The data is missing context. More than 540,000 people visited vote centers Nov. 8, but only about 251,000 of them were there to vote in person. The majority were dropping off early ballots.
“Claim: BBC not released this poll result on Rahul Gandhi”
“Recent video of Deepika Padukone emotionally responding to the online hate campaign against her film ‘Pathaan’”
FACTLY says: The post shared an old video of Deepika Padukone emotionally talking about her battle with clinical mental depression. Deepika Padukone shared her story as part of the ‘Live Love Laugh Foundation’s awareness campaign on…