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.
“Brownouts tied to potential election rigging”
FactRakers says: Vote counting machines are equipped with external batteries as backup in case of brownouts
“Duterte ahead of VP race with more than 1M votes as of May 9 noon”
FactRakers says: Votes haven't been tabulated yet
“Election fraud in Narvacan, Ilocos Sur”
FactRakers says: Allegations of election fraud have not been proved
“Makabayan bloc and Neri Colmenares are disqualified from the 2022 elections”
“Marcos leading with more than 22M votes as of 4:30 p.m. May 9”
FactRakers says: Votes don't get counted until polling precincts close at 7 p.m.
“Marcos leads presidential race with 1.5M votes as of 6:30 p.m. of May 9”
FactRakers says: Counting of votes hadn't begun at the time the post was published
“Marcos received 16.9M votes and Duterte 14.6M by May 9 mid-afternoon”
FactRakers says: Counting hadn't begun because voting was still ongoing
“Post has vote count updates on the presidential race”
FactRakers says: Vote counting will only begin after the ballots close at 7 p.m. on May 9
“Robredo leading tally of votes”
FactRakers says: Counting of votes for the national elections will only start after polls close at 7pm
“Robredo-Pangilinan tandem enjoys landslide victory among overseas voters”
FactRakers says: Counting of overseas votes hasn't begun
“Voting for certain partylist groups will triple a vote for Leni Robredo”
FactRakers says: A partylist vote has no bearing on one’s presidential vote
“Marcos was cheated in the 2016 elections”
FactRakers says: Supreme Court ruled no cheating took place when it dismissed Marcos electoral protest
“Teachers order to tamper with poll results to favor Marcos-Duterte tandem”
FactRakers says: No evidence given that the claim is true; insconsistence found in claim
“Photo shows Leni Robredo and Kiko Pangilinan surrounded by graves and their campaign posters while doing the finger heart hand sign”
“A STOLEN ELECTION: State totals minus illegal ballot trafficking numbers give President Trump decisive victories in AZ, GA, MI, PA, and WI.”
PolitiFact says: The claim rests on assumptions not supported by evidence.
“Marcos says Moreno is 'showing off' because of poor poll numbers”
FactRakers says: Quote card is bogus, impersonating a newspaper's
“Photo of poll results depicts Francis Escudero’s stellar rating”
FactRakers says: Image of the poll results was altered
“Robredo, Pangilinan campaign inside a cemetery”
FactRakers says: Altered photo was drawn from two photos
“There were “400,000 illegal votes” cast in the 2020 presidential election”
PolitiFact says: Experts say the evidence D’Souza points to is inherently flawed. Voter fraud charges in the 2020 election were isolated and not enough to change the outcome.