Tag: ECI

December 31, 2024Many epithets have been used to describe...

Villagers in Markadwadi in Sholapur district planned a symbolic "repoll" with paper ballots to address EVM concerns on December 3; Police imposed a curfew and filed FIRs against 200 people, including 17 villagers of Markadwadi, halting the mock election. Pune, Solapur and Akola demonstrated against the election outcome through a manipulated election on December 5 at the same time as the ‘newly elected Maha Yuti state government’ was sworn in.

In a detailed memorandum, the Indian National Congress alleges unprecedented voter turnout anomalies and calls for an investigation into procedural lapses and EVM battery performance.

In a detailed memorandum to the Election Commission of India, the Congress alleges arbitrary deletion of voters, suspicious additions of over 47 lakh names to the rolls that benefited the BJP-led alliance. The party demands an urgent investigation to ensure transparency and restore public confidence in electoral integrity.

Opposition leaders question the integrity of the electoral process, citing delayed poll dates, unexplained vote surges, and anomalies in EVM tallies, while calling for a return to paper ballots to restore faith in democracy

Complaint flags political ads in top newspapers as unlawful electioneering, urging strict measures to uphold fairness in electoral process

In April, 2024, the CIC had slammed the ECI for not replying to a RTI application for over a year. Thereafter, again, after the CIC order the ECI again avoided the issue by riding on the shoulders of the Supreme Court’s ADR judgement!

The report highlights the alleged malpractices occurred during the Lok Sabha elections 2024 and provides statistical insights into vote hikes and numerical discrepancies in recorded votes

Calling for a close re-examination of the issue by the Supreme Court of India, the author: asks what did the inexplicable delay in declaration of total polled votes mean for the 2024 result? Arguably a significant difference of seats in favour of the NDA! With a 12.54% vote hike in Odisha, NDA got 20 out of 21 seats, in Andhra Pradesh with a 12.54% hike NDA cornered 21 out of 25 seats, in Assam with a 9.19% hike, seats of NDA stood at 11 of 14 and in Chhattisgarh, the hike of 4.66 % in votes meant that the NDA won 10 seats out of 11. This deliberate delay plus a discrepancy in EVM votes, is likely to have affected results in another (minimum) eight seats.

ECI's allocation of visually similar symbols in several constituencies raises concerns over its independence and autonomy