Amidst ongoing assembly elections in 5 states across India, a video allegedly showing a rigged EVM is being shared on social media with a claim that it was taken during the first phase of elections which took place on February 10, 2022.
Facebook users shared the video with the caption, “पहले ही चरण की वोटिंग में खेल शुरू हो गया है… बीजेपी का वोट डालो हाथी पे जाता कमल पे”
Here’s the link to the above post.
FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the post and found that the video is OLD.
We ran a Reverse Image Search on keyframes from the video, along with some keywords and found that the video was also shared on Facebook (archive) in October 2020 during Bihar elections.
We found that the video was shared by a Facebook page (archive) on May 21, 2019, too. It should be noted that the video was shared soon after the General Elections concluded on May 19, 2019.
In the better quality version of the video, we noticed two fingers on the EVM, one on the BSP button and the other on the BJP button. This suggests that the video is possibly staged. However, NewsMobile independently couldn’t verify the authenticity of the video.
This proves that the video is old (and possibly staged). However, we couldn’t ascertain the location and the origin of this particular video.
We also looked for media reports and found multiple reports from 2019 where BSP alleged votes going in favour of BJP due to EVM malfunction.
The reports can be seen here and here.
However, the above fact check proves that the video in circulation is OLD and is not related to the ongoing Assembly Elections.
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