{"id":80172,"date":"2020-11-13T14:22:36","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T08:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=80172"},"modified":"2020-11-17T15:21:02","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T09:51:02","slug":"video-from-2019-lok-sabha-polls-viral-as-voter-fraud-in-recent-bihar-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/video-from-2019-lok-sabha-polls-viral-as-voter-fraud-in-recent-bihar-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Video from 2019 Lok Sabha polls viral as voter fraud in recent Bihar elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) tweeted a video of booth capturing alluding that it took place in the recently-concluded Bihar elections where the party lost to NDA. &#8220;Such elections are held under the supervision of the election commission,&#8221; read its tweet shared against the backdrop of RJD&#8217;s allegations of foul play in the counting of postal ballot papers in 2020 Bihar polls.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"hi\">\u0926\u0947\u0936 \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u091a\u0941\u0928\u093e\u0935 \u0905\u092f\u094b\u0917\u094d\u092f \u0915\u0940 \u0926\u0947\u0916\u0930\u0947\u0916 \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u0905\u092c \u0910\u0938\u0947 \u091a\u0941\u0928\u093e\u0935 \u0939\u094b\u0924\u0947 \u0939\u0948\u0902! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Y9OdlhQzX1\">pic.twitter.com\/Y9OdlhQzX1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rashtriya Janata Dal (@RJDforIndia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RJDforIndia\/status\/1328378859251589121?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 16, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The same video was earlier shared with a Hindi caption that said, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201dThis is the condition of our polling booth. It is being claimed that this video shows voting fraud in Bihar elections.&#8221; The video depicts an election polling station room where women are standing in a queue to cast their votes. When they approach the EVM machine, a man enters the booth.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"hi\">\u092f\u0939 \u0939\u0948 \u0939\u092e\u093e\u0930\u0947 \u092a\u094b\u0932\u093f\u0902\u0917 \u092c\u0942\u0925 \u0915\u093e \u0939\u093e\u0932! \u0907\u0938 \u0935\u0940\u0921\u093f\u092f\u094b \u0915\u094b &#8220;\u092c\u093f\u0939\u093e\u0930 \u0935\u094b\u091f\u093f\u0902\u0917 \u092e\u0924\u0926\u093e\u0928 \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u0927\u093e\u0902\u0927\u0932\u0940&#8221; \u0915\u093e \u092c\u0924\u093e\u092f\u093e \u091c\u093e \u0930\u0939\u093e \u0939\u0948 \u0905\u0917\u0930 \u092f\u0939 \u0938\u091a \u0939\u0948 \u0924\u094b \u0907\u0938 \u092a\u0930 \u0938\u0902\u091c\u094d\u091e\u093e\u0928 \u0932\u093f\u092f\u093e \u091c\u093e\u090f\u0964<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ndtv?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ndtv<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ndtvvideos?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ndtvvideos<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ECISVEEP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ECISVEEP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/abhisar_sharma?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@abhisar_sharma<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yadavtejashwi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@yadavtejashwi<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hJI3Myh0Mo\">pic.twitter.com\/hJI3Myh0Mo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u0645\u062d\u0645\u062f \u0632\u0628\u064a\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u062f\u0647\u0644\u0648\u064a (@MohdZub74951158) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MohdZub74951158\/status\/1326855564098330626?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 12, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This video is also shared on Facebook<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-video\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/100007776286147\/videos\/2732530763682773\/\" data-show-text=\"false\" data-width=\"\">\n<blockquote class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\" cite=\"https:\/\/developers.facebook.com\/100007776286147\/videos\/2732530763682773\/\"><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Poling booth<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/people\/Ummar-Matuvayil\/100007776286147\">Ummar Matuvayil<\/a> on Tuesday, November 10, 2020<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Alt News has received requests to fact-check the video on WhatsApp (+91 76000 11160) and on our <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.altnews\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">official Android application.<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-80172 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-full'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/video-from-2019-lok-sabha-polls-viral-as-voter-fraud-in-recent-bihar-elections\/aqib\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"787\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/aqib.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/aqib.png 787w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/aqib-300x172.png 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/aqib-768x439.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 787px) 100vw, 787px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/video-from-2019-lok-sabha-polls-viral-as-voter-fraud-in-recent-bihar-elections\/img_20201113_130105\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1496\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/IMG_20201113_130105.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/IMG_20201113_130105.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/IMG_20201113_130105-217x300.jpg 217w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/IMG_20201113_130105-739x1024.jpg 739w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/IMG_20201113_130105-768x1064.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<h4><strong>Old video From Haryana\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Alt News performed a reverse image search with the help of InVID and found the same video posted by a Twitter user on May 12, 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">What the is this? Is this what we call democracy? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XFuvq5dD1m\">pic.twitter.com\/XFuvq5dD1m<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ravi Nair (@t_d_h_nair) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/t_d_h_nair\/status\/1127616529367875585?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 12, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the same thread, he attached a tweet of the district election office <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">of Faridabad which said that the man was taken under arrest.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Prompt action taken. FIR lodged. Person behind bars. Observer enquired the matter personally and is satisfied that polling was never vitiated.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 DISTRICT ELECTION OFFICE FARIDABAD (@OfficeFaridabad) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OfficeFaridabad\/status\/1127638081295622144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 12, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/cities\/elections-2019-faridabad-polling-agent-on-video-seen-trying-to-influence-voters-in-haryana-2036676\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NDTV published<\/a> an article on May 13, 2019, according to which this incident happened during the 2019 Haryana Lok Sabha Election. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Faridabad election office said the polling agent was trying to influence &#8220;at least three lady voters&#8221; and that senior election officials visited the booth. The man was subsequently arrested.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-80175 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/Screenshot-2020-11-13-at-12.32.15-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"655\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/Screenshot-2020-11-13-at-12.32.15-PM.jpg 1312w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/Screenshot-2020-11-13-at-12.32.15-PM-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/Screenshot-2020-11-13-at-12.32.15-PM-1024x660.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/Screenshot-2020-11-13-at-12.32.15-PM-768x495.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 655px) 100vw, 655px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Therefore, an old video of polling in Haryana during 2019 Lok Sabha elections is falsely viral as voter fraud in the recently-concluded Bihar elections.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) tweeted a video of booth capturing alluding that it took place in the recently-concluded Bihar elections where the party lost to NDA. &#8220;Such elections are held under the supervision of the election commission,&#8221; read its tweet shared against the backdrop of RJD&#8217;s allegations of foul play in the counting of postal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":80178,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"an_content_type":[739],"coauthors":[669],"class_list":["post-80172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","fact_checks_claim_type-viral-videos","an_content_type-fact-check"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/Custom-dimensions-1200x628-px-3.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80172"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80190,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80172\/revisions\/80190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80172"},{"taxonomy":"an_content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/an_content_type?post=80172"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=80172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}