{"id":37404,"date":"2019-05-29T20:16:21","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T14:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=37404"},"modified":"2019-05-29T20:24:57","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T14:54:57","slug":"images-of-past-protests-circulated-as-recent-protests-against-evms-after-2019-ls-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/images-of-past-protests-circulated-as-recent-protests-against-evms-after-2019-ls-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Images of past protests circulated as recent protests against EVMs after 2019 LS Polls"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Breaking: In Surat Public Started Protests Against #EVM Without Any Politician Or Political Support & The Bootlicker Media Isn’t Showing This On Any News Channels The Public Is On Streets Seems This Will Be The Start Against Weakening Of Indian Democracy& #EVMHacking #RT Spread”<\/em><\/p>\n

The above message is circulated on social media with a set of images where people can be seen holding placards in opposition to the use of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs). According to the message, people in Surat are protesting against the use of EVMs without the backing of any political party. It also attempts to create a narrative that media organization won’t cover the event that how independent citizens are raising their concern over the alleged EVM hacking.<\/p>\n

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Breaking : In Surat Public Started Protests Against #EVM<\/a> Without Any Politician Or Political Support & The Bootlicker Media Isn’t Showing This On Any News Channels The Public Is On Streets Seems This Will Be The Start Against Weakening Of Indian Democracy& #EVMHacking<\/a> #RT<\/a> Spread pic.twitter.com\/u1VHXQyeZ4<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 \ud83d\udc9eSohail Khan Bobby\ud83d\udc9e (@SohailBobby) May 27, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Few more individuals on Facebook<\/a> have shared these images with the identical narrative.<\/p>\n

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Fact-check<\/h2>\n

It was found that the images circulating on social media as of a recent protest against the use of EVMs are old and unrelated to the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Upon the reverse image searching the images on Google and Yandex, Alt News was able to establish that the images existed on the internet before the commencement of the Lok Sabha polls.<\/p>\n

Image 1<\/h3>\n

An article published by Outlook<\/a><\/em> on May 13, 2017, carried the below image. This photo is related<\/a> to a protest held by a group of Aam Aadmi supporters, outside the Election Commission India office, with a demand that VVPAT-equipped electronic voting machines be used in all the future elections.<\/p>\n

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Image 2<\/h3>\n

This image was uploaded on a blog<\/a> published on January 20, 2018. By Google searching the name board, seen in the background of protesters, which reads “Mahatma Gandhi Nagar Gruh”, <\/em>we found that the protest took place in Vadodara.<\/p>\n

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We also found a corresponding video of the protest uploaded on YouTube on December 20, 2017.<\/p>\n