[Once again, the BJP appears to have little faith in EVMs.] 'The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) suspected foul play after it lost all the three seats in the bypolls held in West Bengal. National Secretary and Bengal BJP leader Rahul Sinha said that the state machinery openly helped the ruling Trinamool Congress and that they will report this to the Election Commission. Sinha told IANS, "Though the Election Commission monitors all the elections but the execution of bypolls is being done by the state. TMC can do anything to win the elections." He even raised doubts about the EVMs.
'A video of the ruling BJP candidate from Assandh purportedly making controversial remarks about EVMs emerged on social media on the eve of Haryana Assembly polls, following which the Election Commission issued him a show-cause notice and appointed a special observer to the constituency to take “corrective action”.
'District election authorities on Thursday issued a notice to Maharashtra minister and BJP candidate Babanrao Lonikar over his controversial comments seen as an attempt to influence voters in an unethical way. Lonikar was caught on camera purportedly saying he faces no problem in winning the upcoming assembly polls since he has ‘distributed money’ in a hamlet here. Lonikar, who holds the water supply portfolio, is the BJP candidate from Partur in Jalna district of central Maharashtra. He has denied any wrongdoing...'
'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 The machines were subsequently withdrawn and the Netherlands went back to paper ballots.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.
