EC rubbishes Rahul Gandhi's vote chori accusations

The Election Commission of India on September 18 rubbished Rahul Gandhi's accusations regarding vote chori (vote theft) that he made at a keenly-watched press conference earlier in the day.

Allegations made by Shri Rahul Gandhi are incorrect and baseless, the EC said in an X post.

"No deletion of any vote can be done online by any member of the public, as misconceived by Gandhi," the post read.


The EC made it clear that no deletion can take place without giving an opportunity of being heard to the affected person.


In the presser, Rahul Gandhi made accusations that Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar was "protecting vote chors" and that he was fully aware the fraud involved in deleting/adding fake voters.

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According to the Congress leader's statement, at least 6 thousand votes have been deleted in the Aland Assembly constituency segment in Karnataka.

In an earlier presser, Gandhi had alleged similar fraud occurring in Mahadevpura (also in Karnataka).

In Aland, Gandhi said, around 6 thousand votes were deleted fraudulently by unknown people "who used software and impersonated real voters".

"In Aland, Karnataka, 6018 votes, somebody tried to delete these votes. We don't know the total number of votes deleted in 2023 elections, but somebody got caught. It was caught, by most crimes, by a coincidence. What happened was that the Booth Level officer noticed that her uncle's vote has been deleted," he said.

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The Opposition parties have been repeatedly claiming that the EC has colluded with the BJP in deleting/adding bogus votes in voter rolls.

According to Rahul Gandhi, similar fraud took place in the Maharashtra Assembly elections too.