'It appears that the Election Commission has so far traced 3,11,057 fake voters who cast their votes in Varanasi in the Lok Sabha election earlier this year. The district administration is expecting the number of fake voters to reach around 6,47,085 by the end of the examination process. Remember – Narendra Modi ‘won’ this seat by 3 lakh 71 thousand 784 votes. This news was first reported in Navbharat Times on November 25, 2014...
"According to exit polls, Narendra Modi is likely to be declared the next Prime Minister of India. The only thing that might stand in his way is an electronic voting machine (EVM). The problems with EVM security have been widely known since the large-scale irregularities in Florida during the 2000 elections. Many countries have moved to get rid of them. In 2006 Dutch TV aired a documentary showing how easy it was to hack the EVMs that were about to be used in their general election. The machines were subsequently withdrawn and the Netherlands went back to paper ballots.
"Polling ended with a fair bit of drama in the ninth and final phase of the general elections. In Varanasi, the epicentre of the electoral war, voters claimed that nearly 6,000 names were deleted from the records without prior intimation. At the National Inter College in Pilikothi, where a large number of Muslim weaver families are registered to vote, conditions turned riotous by afternoon when people were denied permission to vote because their names had allegedly been deleted from the voters' list..."
What is the scale of bogus voting and electoral fraud? Some BJP voters are boasting on twitter about the number of times they have voted, while some non-BJP voters are finding their votes have already been cast.
