Explained: Are votes really being illegally deleted from the electoral rolls?

In the past few weeks, you’ve likely heard a lot – and will continue to hear a lot – about votes being “deleted” and “added” from the electoral rolls, allegedly favouring one political party over another. 

These are claims being flung back and forth by parties in the run-up to the Delhi assembly polls, following similar patterns of claims ahead of other major elections last year.

But can someone really delete your vote? What does the Election Commission say?

Through a combination of rigorous fieldwork and painstaking data journalism, we found the answers to these questions during a three-month investigation. The outcome is Broken Ballots, a series exclusively for subscribers that investigated violations of EC norms in voter roll revisions in three Lok Sabha seats.

But we’ll also break it down for you in this video. Watch. 

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