EC rejects Rahul’s claims of voting spike in Maharashtra | India News

NEW DELHI: Rebutting Rahul Gandhi’s allegation of an inexplicable spike in voter turnout between 5.30 pm and seven.30 pm throughout the 2024 meeting elections in Maharashtra, sources in Election Commission on Tuesday stated there was “nothing unusual” concerning the casting of 65 lakh votes in two hours, as alleged; moderately, a mean of 58 lakh electors had voted every hour from 7 am to six pm.
“During the assembly elections in Maharashtra 6,40,87,588 electors, who reached the polling station from 7 am to 6 pm, voted. About 58 lakh votes were polled per hour, on an average. Going by these average trends, nearly 116 lakh voters could have voted in the last two hours. Therefore, casting of 65 lakh votes by electors in two hours is much below the average hourly voting trends,” stated a senior EC functionary.
The functionary famous that Congress’s personal polling brokers had watched the conduct of elections at each sales space and didn’t as soon as increase any substantiated allegation relating to irregular voting, both on the time of scrutiny earlier than the returning officers or earlier than the election observers the following day. EC officers stated any misinformation being unfold, by anybody, is “not solely an indication of disrespect in the direction of legislation, but in addition brings disrepute to the 1000’s of representatives appointed by their very own political celebration and demotivates lakhs of election workers.