Let Me Explain: Inside India’s voter list scandals

It’s been a week since Rahul Gandhi made allegations of ‘vote chori’ – stealing of votes – in Bengaluru’s Mahadevapura,

The Election Commission of India has done nothing significant after the press meet, other than demand answers from Gandhi and replace Bihar’s machine-readable list of voters online with scanned images, which are difficult to scrutinise. 

Ever since that press meet, we have all been inundated with stories of fake voters and EPIC ID duplication from across the country – from Bihar, Kerala, Maharashtra, and many other states. 

Forget party lines or ideology: this is about the foundation of our democracy. 

If our electoral rolls are compromised, it should matter to every single one of us.

Which is why, this week on Let Me Explain, we’re hitting the ground in two hotspots – Mahadevapura in Karnataka and Thrissur in Kerala.

To understand what exactly is going wrong and how.