Author: Manoranjan Roy

For the moment, set aside the political din around Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs): Rahul Gandhi’s “vote chori” slogan, opposition sound bites and the routine dismissal of concerns as conspiracy. What demands attention instead is a growing body of documentary evidence relating to the 2024 Maharashtra Assembly election. An investigation grounded in Right to Information (RTI) disclosures and official records raises serious, unresolved questions about the integrity of India’s electoral machinery. The material points to a disturbing sequence of anomalies: excessive procurement of EVM components, unexplained changes in machine models, irreconcilable discrepancies between official records, and vote counts per machine that…