“Image claiming to show a campaign rally by DP Ruto in Homabay”
PesaCheck rated this: False.
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.
“BJP’s verified twitter profile announces the party’s alliance with AIMIM in upcoming WB elections”
Vishvas News rated this: FALSE
Vishvas News says: Fake Tweet
“Bongbong Marcos got 21 million votes for vice president during the 2016 elections.”
Vera Files rated this: False
“Bergen County in New Jersey gave more votes to the Democratic gubernatorial candidate after all the ballots were counted.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“Only a court can decide that somebody is incompetent to vote" -- the state Election Commission "cannot force facilities, private facilities, to allow special voting deputies”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly True
“President Rodrigo Duterte told Filipinos not to vote for Bongbong Marcos because he is a liar and his family are thieves.”
Vera Files rated this: Fake
“The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Bongbong Marcos over a petition seeking to cancel his candidacy in the 2022 elections”
Vera Files rated this: False
“Photo of Shahrukh Khan wearing a ‘Vote for MIM’ T-Shirt”
FACTLY rated this: FALSE
FACTLY says: The photo shared in the post is a morphed one. The original photo shows Shahrukh Khan wearing a plain white T-Shirt. This photo was captured in September 2009, when Shahrukh Khan visited Akshay Kumar on the sets of his …
“Pope Francis said Bongbong Marcos is an intelligent leader and that he hopes Marcos wins in the 2022 elections”
Vera Files rated this: Fake
“Campaign poster claiming to show musician Willy Paul vying for a political seat”
PesaCheck rated this: False.
“More fraud in New Jersey’s election uncovered – voting machines would not allow citizens to vote for Republican governor candidate.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
“Retired Supreme Court associate justice Antonio Carpio filed a petition at the Commission on Elections for the disqualification of Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. as a candidate for president in the 2022 elections.”
Vera Files rated this: False
Vera Files says: Carpio did not and “has no plans to file” a petition to disqualify Marcos in the upcoming presidential race.
“A dog relieving itself on Raila Odinga’s campaign vehicle”
PesaCheck rated this: Altered
“Palace Spokesperson Harry Roque says he "found a resolve to actually run" for a Senate seat in the 2022 elections "to prove that the people support me.”
Vera Files rated this: Flip-flop
Vera Files says: In earlier press briefings and interviews, Roque was firm in saying that he "will only run" for a Senate seat in 2022 if Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio vies for the presidency.
“Trash bins discovered outside the Gloucester County Board of Elections containing blank ballots as well as bags of shredded ballots from Tuesday’s election!”
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: Papers seen in trash bins in a video shot outside the Gloucester County, N.J., Board of Elections office have no viable election use, officials said. The papers included outdated envelopes and instructional inserts.
“States run elections, not the federal government.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
“There are over 1 million phantom voters on the Florida voter rolls.”
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
PolitiFact says: Stone's information comes from Defend Florida, a partisan citizen group. Election experts say that Defend Florida’s methodology is amateurish and flawed. State GOP officials have defended the integrity of the election.
“Fairfax County (Va.) is not requiring the last four digits of Social Security Numbers on absentee ballots in this election.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
PolitiFact says: The article garbled the nature of a lawsuit against Fairfax County’s elections office. Under state law, absentee ballots do not require Social Security numbers. Instead, the suit challenged applications for mail ballots.
“Virginia Democrat operatives” and Terry McAuliffe campaign staffers posed as white supremacists and stood by Republican Glenn Youngkin’s bus.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: The Republican anti-Trump Lincoln Project assumed responsibility for the stunt and said that neither McAuliffe’s campaign nor the state’s Democratic Party were involved.
“Virginia gubernatorial campaign signs reading, “Keep Parents Out of Classrooms,” were posted by Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe.”
FactCheck.org rated this: False
FactCheck.org says: McAuliffe and the local Democrats said, “these signs are not ours.”