On 10th November, Reporters Collective published a report claiming a mismatch between votes cast and votes counted in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections and some assembly elections. The report, published to coincide with the ongoing attack on the Election Commission and India’s election process by Congress and other opposition parties, claims the Election Commission didn’t record all the votes in some constituencies, and that the votes counted from EVMs mismatched the votes cast by lakhs. They made the allegations based on the ECI’s alleged internal record, which they claimed to have accessed.
However, a glance at the published results shows that the entire report is fundamentally flawed. Reporters Collective made the sensational claims relying on a glaring misinterpretation of basic electoral data. A closer look at the official records reveals that the authors, Sumedha Mittal and Venkatesh Nayak, have confused the total number of registered electors with the total number of votes actually polled. The only purpose of such fake news seems to be to fuel baseless campaigns against the election machinery of India. They undermine public trust without a shred of actual evidence.
The entire premise of the report falls apart when its core assumptions are examined. The authors implicitly suggest that the total registered electorate reflects the number of votes polled. But the fact is, a hundred per cent voter turnout in any Indian...
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