Post-election fact check: from claims of stolen votes to inflated figures
The fact-checking project Re:Check concludes that after the elections in Latvia, besides myths about falsified results, politicians also misled the public by exaggerating voter turnout and their parties' membership.
After the elections in Latvia, claims have once again surfaced that votes were stolen and that results were manipulated. Such claims appear after many elections, and this time they were part of the public debate as well.
Re:Check, the fact-checking project of the investigative journalism centre Re:Baltica, examined statements made by politicians. Its conclusion: besides myths about rigged elections, the public was also misled on other issues.
Which figures were wrong
According to Re:Check, politicians exaggerated how active Latvian voters are compared with the rest of Europe. Some also misrepresented where their party stands in terms of membership numbers.
The short introduction in the source gives no further details on individual claims or who made them. For that reason, no specific politicians or figures are named here.
