The incident of angry locals vandalizing EVMs at a polling booth in Manipur on the allegation of ‘proxy voting’ is being shared with fake claims of voting mismatch and votes being registered in favor of a particular party.
New Delhi (Vishvas News). Amidst the ongoing voting for the Lok Sabha elections 2024, a video is going viral on social media, which is being claimed to be during the voting in the north-eastern state of Manipur, when voting could be done through any button in the EVM. But after the slip with the election symbol of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was released, angry women voters broke the Electronic Voting Machine (EVM).
Vishvas News found this to be wrong in its investigation. The video going viral is from Manipur, but it was not a case of voting or mismatch during voting, as is being claimed in the viral post. EVMs were broken in local voters due to allegations of ‘proxy voting’. Besides, re-polling has also been conducted at these polling stations on 22nd April.
What is viral?
Social media user went viral Video (archive Link) को शेयर करते हुए लिखा है, “In Manipur women broke the EVM after they saw that after pressing any button they could see only lotus being printed A call for immediate intervention of SupremeCourt Y does not happen that BJP workers get angry seeing some other party symbol being printed.”
Many other users on different platforms of social media have shared this video (archive Link) with similar and similar claims.
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By reverse image searching the key frames of the viral video, we also found many reports in which this incident from Manipur is mentioned. NDTV’s April 19 report (archive) LinkAccording to ), EVMs have been vandalized in Manipur over allegations of proxy voting.
The Indian Express report also mentions this incident in a similar context.
In a social media search, we found a post shared by the official LinkResponding with ) it was called fake.
CEO Manipur said, “The video seen here is from the polling station of Imphal East (3/21 Khurai assembly part), where re-polling has taken place on 22 April 2024. There was no mismatch between the buttons pressed in the ballot unit and the slip issued from the VVPAT, nor was any such allegation made by anyone. “Legal action is being taken in case of spreading fake news.”
News agency ANI report (archive LinkAccording to ), re-polling was conducted at 11 polling stations in Manipur on 22 April.
In news search we found NDTV Report Found, in which there is information about a case being filed against Jitendra Awhad in this case.
Other news of NDTV Report According to, the Election Commission has ordered re-polling at six polling stations of Outer Manipur Lok Sabha seat. Voting will take place at these centers on April 30.
We contacted the Central Election Commission spokesperson regarding the viral video clip. Refuting the claim made in the viral post, he said that a clarification has been given by the Chief Electoral Officer of Manipur in this regard.
Election Commission (archive) LinkAccording to ), the Lok Sabha elections 2024, to be held in a total of seven phases, began on April 19 with the first phase of voting, under which votes were cast on a total of 102 seats. Whereas, under the second phase, voting took place on a total of 89 seats on April 26. The next and third phase of voting will be held on May 7.
Those sharing viral video clips with fake claims user About 11 thousand people follow him on Facebook. Fact check report investigating other misleading and fake claims related to elections in the election section of Vishvas News read May go.
Conclusion: The incident of angry locals vandalizing EVMs at a polling booth in Manipur on the allegation of ‘proxy voting’ is being shared with fake claims of voting mismatch and votes being registered in favor of a particular party.
- Claim Review : EVMs vandalized due to voting mismatch in Manipur.
- Claimed By : FB User-Daily Fazar-DF
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2024-04-30 04:30:52
