‘Vote chori’: Rahul Gandhi says 223 voters used same image, Amit Malviya hears 1 woman voted 223 times

Soon after Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s press conference alleging massive voter fraud in the 2024 Haryana assembly elections, BJP IT cell chief Amit Malviya dismissed these charges, calling them laughable.

Dubbing it an ‘H Bomb’, Gandhi highlighted several discrepancies in voter lists, one of them being the same image used by 223 voters across two polling booths. He also claimed that a Brazilian model’s photo was apparently used 22 times across ten booths. 

Mocking Gandhi, Malviya pointed out that if a woman voted 223 times across two booths, it would mean that she cast a vote every three minutes during the 11-hour polling period, which seemed unlikely to go unnoticed by officials. He said the remark reflected Gandhi’s ignorance and desperation for headlines ahead of Bihar’s polls, adding that such claims were a deliberate attempt to undermine public trust in democratic institutions like the Election Commission and the Supreme Court.

Rahul Gandhi’s press conferences on so-called Vote Chori are downright laughable.

Here’s one gem — he claimed that a woman voted 223 times across two booths.

Let’s do some simple maths: polling runs from 7 AM to 6 PM, an 11-hour window.
So, according to Rahul Gandhi, this woman…

— Amit Malviya (@amitmalviya) November 5, 2025

Fact Check: Did Gandhi say a woman voted 223 times across two booths?

The short answer is no, he did not.

At the November 5 press conference, Gandhi spoke about the same image appearing against names of several voters on the electoral rolls at two booths in Haryana. Gandhi cited ‘the worst example’ and showed that one woman’s image was used against 223 different voter IDs.

The details appear at the 17:57-minute mark of the press conference above. Below is a transcript of what he says:

“This is the list of two polling booths. She appears 223 times in two polling booths. She can vote any amount of times she wants. Election Commission has the data on how many times she voted. We have a sense of it. Election Commission needs to tell us how many times this lady, whose name we don’t know, whose age we don’t know, but we know she occurs 223 times in two booths. In the Lok Sabha elections, she was there 223 booths in one booth — and then they decided to split it two booths.. right? So this is the reason Election Commission destroys CCTV footage because multiple times, the same person has the opportunity to vote. She can vote as Seema; she can vote as anything she wants. And this is not one example; this is the worst example. There are thousands.. of examples like this in Haryana. 200 votes, 50 votes, 100 votes, 150 votes.. Anybody can go and vote. Why are they doing it? Because they want to create space and what is the proof they are doing it, they are destroying CCTV records. If we ask for CCTV records of this booth, we will know 100% what happened in this booth.”

At no point did Rahul Gandhi claim that a single woman voted 223 times. His point was that these names acted as placeholder, fictitious or proxy voters, and that’s why the Election Commission was withholding CCTV footage. Gandhi argues that such voters, who likely never physically voted, were still being counted.

This stance was made clearer through a post made by Gandhi on X after the press conference. Citing the core points of the presser, he said,” एक ही फोटो के साथ 223 वोट एक बूथ में – नाम हर बार नया” (Translation: 223 votes in one booth with the same photo – a new name every time). As one can see, he does not explicitly say that the same woman voted 223 times in one day, as was misconstrued by Malviya.

वोट चोरी से हरियाणा में कांग्रेस की सरकार चोरी की गई है – और इसका ब्लैक एंड व्हाइट सबूत आपके सामने हैं।

– ब्राज़ील की एक मॉडल हरियाणा की वोटर लिस्ट में 10 बूथों पर 22 वोट – अलग-अलग नाम से
– एक ही फोटो के साथ 223 वोट एक बूथ में – नाम हर बार नया
– एक ही घर में 501 वोटर दर्ज – वो… pic.twitter.com/mCfNLc62P2

— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) November 5, 2025

As it stands, it is not true that LoP Rahul Gandhi claimed that the same voter voted 223 times across two booths in Haryana during the assembly elections in 2024. He points out an anomaly, which he insinuates was done intentionally to commit voter fraud; BJP leader Amit Malviya’s remarks quoting Gandhi are misleading.