Fact Check: Was there vote rigging in Lok Sabha elections 2024? Know the truth of this viral video

New Delhi: Voting is being held today for the last phase of the Lok Sabha elections. Before voting, a video is being shared widely on social media. In which a polling agent is seen roaming in the polling booth and going to a woman who is casting her vote. Now this video is being shared by calling it rigging during the Lok Sabha elections. However, this video viral on social media is old. While sharing this video on Facebook, a User wrote- Election Commission is cheating the country. Has the Election Commission gone to sleep? How far is it right to call Election Commission a commission? See the archive Post

When BOOM started investigating this video, it turned out that this video was from the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. This video was from Faridabad. When a polling agent was arrested on charges of influencing voters.

How the truth came out in the investigation

When BOOM started investigating this video, their team did a reverse image search of the key frames of the viral video on Google with the help of Invid tool. After which they found a video uploaded on Hindustan Times and Amar Ujala in May 2019. Amar Ujala’s report said that he/she was accused of influencing voters during the sixth phase of voting in Faridabad, Haryana. After which he/she has been arrested.

When this video went viral in 2019, the then Chief Election Officer of Haryana had replied to it and ordered action.

Faridabad District Election Officer also replied to this reply and wrote- The person seen in the video is a polling agent against whom an FIR has been lodged and he/she has been arrested. he/she had tried to influence at least 3 female voters.

Our website presswire18 Times had also written a report on a case at that time. In which it was told that voting took place here on 12 May. The Election Commission has ordered re-polling on 19 May. Let us tell you that this video was also made viral during the Bihar assembly elections.

conclusion: BOOM investigated and found that this video going viral on social media is old. This video is being shared with a misleading claim during this Lok Sabha election.

(This story was originally published by BoomAnd republished by NBT as part of Shakti Collective.)