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295: This is How VVPATs Can Be Manipulated During Elections


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We’re BANG in the middle of state assembly elections in Maharashtra and Haryana, with more states going to vote later this year.
And that brings us to our topic today – are your votes being manipulated? The information we’ve discovered, says they very well could be! And today we’ll tell you how.
Today we look into how VVPATs, which were introduced to ensure voters that their votes have been correctly registered in EVMs, can be manipulated to give specific results.
Poonam Agarwal, who heads The Quint’s investigative team, will be joining me today. She’s the one broke this Quint Exclusive story. On this podcast, we also hear from IAS officer Kannan Gopinathan, who was an Election officer in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

Guest: Poonam Agarwal
Host: Vishnu Gopinath
Producer: Shelly Walia
Editor: Vishnu Gopinath
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