Overview

• On August 10, Karnataka’s chief electoral officer issued a formal notice to Rahul Gandhi seeking documentary proof for his claim that a 70-year-old voter cast two ballots, noting a preliminary inquiry found she voted only once and that the tick-marked paper he presented was not from a polling officer.
• The Election Commission has asked Gandhi to back his “vote chori” allegations with a sworn declaration under electoral rules or apologise publicly, dismissing his broader fraud claims as unverified.
• Rahul Gandhi has countered by launching votechori.in to rally public support for releasing digital, machine-readable voter lists and framing the dispute as essential to uphold “one man, one vote.”
• INDIA bloc MPs, led by Gandhi, are set to march from Parliament to the ECI office on Monday to protest alleged voter list manipulation and press for full transparency in electoral rolls.
• Senior Congress figures such as Kamal Nath have cited a 2019 Supreme Court filing showing the ECI deleted 24 lakh suspicious entries yet refused to provide machine-readable lists, highlighting the party’s ongoing push for audit-ready voter data.