A video purporting to be from the ongoing “General Elections 2024” and connecting an individual to the workers of the INDI Alliance, it shows someone smashing an electronic voting machine inside a polling booth.
Verified accounts on twitter, including @ippatel tweeted “Indy Alliance is expressing its anger over its defeat by breaking EVMs. The Naxal gang has also been slapped by the Supreme Court. #Election2024” on April 26, 2024. The tweet has received an about 258.8k views on X.
इंडी अलाइंस अपनी हार की खीझ EVM तोड़कर निकाल रहा है।
— Prashant Umrao (Modi Ka Parivar) (@ippatel) April 26, 2024
आप सुप्रीम कोर्ट से भी नक्सली गिरोह को चाँटा पड़ा है। #Election2024 pic.twitter.com/1fSIoLGEIX
Several other accounts, including @BrijeshRai4bjp, @shiv_up47, @INDVivekPandey_ made the same claim that the video purporting to be from the ongoing “General Elections 2024”, features someone destroying an electronic voting machine inside a polling booth. The video is associated with the INDI Alliance workers. The archive can be read from above.
What is the Actual Truth About this Incident? : Fact
The same , posted in May 2023, was discovered on YouTube. The media site claims that this footage is from Mysore, Karnataka, and that this incident happened there during the “Karnataka Elections 2023.” The video is outdated and unrelated to the current general elections. The video was posted in Youtube on May 12, 2023. So, the claim that the video isfrom the ongoing “General Elections 2024, featuring a person destroying an electronic voting machine inside a voting booth, and which has been connected to employees of the INDI Alliance is not true at all.
Check out the Youtube Video:
D-Intent’s Fact-Checking Results:
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ANALYSIS: Misleading
FACT: A video that shows an individual destroying an EVM inside a polling booth has been shared, claiming to be from the ongoing "General Elections 2024" and linked to INDI Alliance workers.We found the same video on YouTube uploaded in May 2023. (1/3) pic.twitter.com/Ze394hYYoj
Intent:
Political influencers are circulating old videos with false claims to set their narrative to influence the ongoing general elections. A video that shows an individual destroying an EVM inside a polling booth has been shared, claiming to be from the ongoing “General Elections 2024” and linked to INDI Alliance workers. We found the same video on YouTube, which was uploaded in May 2023. According to the media site, this footage is from Mysore, Karnataka, where the incident occurred during the “Karnataka Elections 2023.” The video is outdated and has nothing to do with the current general elections.
Conclusion:
Claim : A video of a man damaging an EVM inside a polling booth has been posted, claiming to be from the ongoing “General Elections 2024” and linking to INDI Alliance workers.
Fact : We found the same video on YouTube uploaded in May 2023. According to the media outlet, this video is from Karnataka’s Mysore, where this incident occurred during “Karnataka Elections 2023.” The video is old and has nothing to do with the ongoing general elections.
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