Rahul Gandhi’s claim on voting ignores facts: ECI officials

“Any misinformation spread by anyone is not only a sign of disrespect for the law, but also will lose the thousands of representatives appointed by their own party and lose the election effortlessly and transparently transparent election personnel,” said ECI sources.
During his visit to the United States, Gandhi once again raised questions about the sanctity of the election list in Maharashtra elections, with a large number of voters voting in the following hours and the ECI amending the rulebook to deny evidence that IT videos were filmed from polling stations. Gandhi believes that “the Election Commission is damaged and it is obvious that there is something wrong with the system”. ECI sources on Tuesday refuted Gandhi’s “unconfirmed allegations” and focused on six points, first of which 6.5 million voters can vote within the last two hours of the voting day. ECI believes that between 7 a.m. and 6 p.m., 640,87,588 electors voted in Maharashtra polls, with an average of about 5.8 million votes per hour. “From these average trends, nearly 116 million voters have probably voted in the past two hours. So, the number of voters who voted in two hours was below the average hourly voting trend,” a poll team source said.
It said that voting agents appointed by candidates/party appear at polling stations including the National Assembly of India (INC) at each polling station. ECI sources said neither the INC candidate nor its authorized agents filed any “confirmation charges” that were any form of “abnormal voting” when reviewed at the time of the review the next day.
As the increase in the Maharashtra election list was repeatedly suspected, the ECI stressed that under the People’s Law of 1950 and the Representative of the People’s Rules of 1960 and the Registration of 1960 and the Final Copy of 1960 and the Final Copy of 1960 and the Final Copy of 1960 and the Final Copy of 1960 and the Final Copy of 1960 and the Final Copy of 1960 and the Final Copy of 1960 and the Final Copy of 1960 and the Final Copy of 1960 and the Final Copy of 1960 and the Final Copy of 1960 and the Final Copy of 1960 and the Final Copy of 1960 and the Final Copy of 1960 and the Final Copy of 1960 and the Final Copy of 196 However, in the finalizing Maharashtra election list, only 89 appeals were filed before the First Appeal Authority (DM) and only one appeal before the Second Appeal Body (CEO). “It is obvious that there are no complaints from Inc or any political party before the 2024 Maharashtra elections,” ECI said. It has enabled all parties to appoint booth-level agents system to ensure fairness in the polling process.
In Maharashtra, during the period of the revision of the election volume, about 1,03,727 booth-level agents were appointed by all parties at 1,00,427 polling stations; therefore, 27,099 of them were deployed by Inc.