Yesterday, ECI councel in SC said we lost the vote counting video in an assembly election dispute case. Is election commission hiding something?

[u/Electronic-Love-9941]

Yesterday, supreme court reprimanded election commission of India for not producing election counting video.

It's an election results related dispute matter in supreme cout. In which, the congress candidate T D rajegoda had won the sringeri assembly seat in Karnataka by a margin of 201 votes. But the bjp candidate challenged this in the Karnataka high court. The high court ordered a recount of postal ballot votes and re-verification of 279 rejected postal ballot votes. In recounting, the congress candidate lost the election by 255 votes.

Then the congress candidate approached the supreme court contending that the high court had only ordered the re-verification of 279 rejected postal ballots, but the returning official illegally reconsidered more postal ballots, which had gone to the BJP candidate.

Then, the supreme court asked for "observers report" as well as the video recordings of 2023 vote counting and recent counting.

The ECI councel said, it was unable to find the video of 2023 counting. To this, the visibly annoyed bench said "how can ECI say that it has lost the its record? Your whole purpose is to hold elections, and you need to have a document... There is no custody of record.

Then bench said... "Whatever there is, produce by the next date of hearing. Otherwise, we will have to draw adverse inference against you. We will not accept these kind of lame excuse".

As per election rules, ECI has to maintain all the rules related to elections for 45 days from the election result. If there is any legal dispute emerge regarding election, then it will preserve all the records related to that dispute as long as case is not settled. And any petition related to election dispute can be filled within 45 days.

So, how can election commission say that they have no record? Are they above the law? Or are they trying to hide something?

The integrity of the election commission is the all time lowest, people are losing faith in electoral democracy. We need to save it.

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[u/East_Secret5631]

What can the rw say even now? If the video proof is lost then this clearly proves that the CEC is incompetent if not compromised.

[u/HungryHungryHippoes9 → u/East_Secret5631]

[u/Worldly_Interview556 → u/East_Secret5631]

For those anti nationals, India is already a one party rule state. Their brain has been washed so much they don't have much of it left. 

[u/advaitist]

Rah-e-dur-e-ishq me rota hai kya

Aage aage dekhiye hota hai kya !

Mir Taqi Mir

[u/Kitchen_Watch7254 → u/advaitist]

This has been posted for the 100th time but no one reads past he headlines. The seats EVM burnt are won by TMC, EC employees in state are State employees.

[u/advaitist → u/Kitchen_Watch7254]

It does not really matter.

The actors keep changing, the stage changes.

The play remains the same !!!

[u/Pretend_Program_4828]

Even IT cell, andhbhakts and BJP supporters know ECI is compromised. They only have one argument that ECI was never fair even during Congress rule.

[u/sparta_reddy → u/Pretend_Program_4828]

And andhbhakts don't want to protest to make system better because it might effect their millionaire rapist politicians.

[u/chacha_Nuru → u/Pretend_Program_4828]

Why contest elections then boycott it na?

[u/datadumbo → u/chacha_Nuru]

Because that's the way to change those in power. Are you stupid?

[u/chacha_Nuru → u/datadumbo]

Phir road pe kya kar rahe ho?

[u/datadumbo → u/chacha_Nuru]

Nhi pata kya? Are bhai fair elections k liye to h road pe sab. Shuturmurg ki tereh ret me sar daalne se sab thik nhi ho jayega.

[u/broboganda123]

Why modiji do thiss

[u/RevolutionaryFig9437]

This is a fit case for Re-poll.

[u/Kitchen_Watch7254]

Do people get that they have lost the video of a Congress candidate winning wrongfully? Basically ECI has helped INC Candidate stay in power. Comments here don't seem like anyone read the article.

[u/HungryHungryHippoes9 → u/Kitchen_Watch7254]

So are you saying that the eci has corruption and that's why they helped congress or are you saying that they are incompetent?

[u/Kitchen_Watch7254 → u/HungryHungryHippoes9]

I am saying 2 things:
1. Most people commenting haven't read the news and are busy making conspiracy theories
2. ECI is incompetent and always have been. Its hella decentralised body which employs lakhs of people who already have a primary job, it will be incompetent.

[u/HungryHungryHippoes9 → u/Kitchen_Watch7254]

When there is little evidence it's a conspiracy, but if you put all the scattered events together then it shows that there is a large pattern of either corruption or incompetence. Neither of those things will change unless there is accountability and reform from top to bottom.