2024 Elections: EVMs Counted Extra Votes In UP's Varanasi?

Claim: A viral video claims that the Electronic Voting Machines counted 12,87,000 votes when only 11 lakh people voted in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 2024 Lok Sabha constituency.

Fact: BOOM found that the video is false. We also found that the video went viral just before the 2024 Lok Sabha elections in April, and the Election Commission of India (ECI) had refuted the claim on April 7, 2024.

Tools used: The ECI called out the viral video and stated that it's from 2019 Lok Sabha elections. The total number of electors in Varanasi during the 2019 elections was 18,56,791. The total votes polled and counted in EVMs were 10,58,744, with an additional 2,085 postal votes. BOOM cross-checked the numbers mentioned in ECI's X post with the ECI website and found them to be correct. In the 2024 elections, the total number of electors in Varanasi was 19,97,578. The total number of EVM votes were 11,27,081 and postal votes were 3,062, amounting to 11,30,143 total votes.

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