Fact Check: That's Not Gujarat's Chief Electoral Officer Showing How EVMs Malfunction
NDTV
The viral video does not show the Gujarat chief election officer but members of EVM Hatao Sanyukt Morcha briefing the media about the possible flaws in EVMs at the Delhi Press Club on February 20.
A video (archived here) of a man showing an allegedly malfunctioning Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) that appears to show votes going to a party different from the one the voter polled for is now viral amid the ongoing general elections.
In the video, the man says, "After we cast a vote for BSP (Bahajun Samaj Party), the light shows the symbol of BSP (elephant), which the voter sees and moves out. However, after this, the light switches off, but the slip the VVPAT machine generated is for the party you want to win - that slip is printed; for instance, the BJP slip is printed instead. This happens in the dark..."
The video was shared by a social media user on Instagram with the claim that the man in the clip is Gujarat's Chief Election Officer (CEO) with text labels that read, "Gujarat CEO shows live demo of glitches in EVMs, BJP government shocked after seeing glitches in EVMs live. Live proof of glitches in EVMs (translated from Hindi)."
The video garnered over 1,19,000 likes on Instagram at the time of writing. An archived version of a similar post can be viewed here.
