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FalseWhile possessing dual voter cards is illegal, there is no evidence that opposition victories relied on duplicate voters.
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A Delhi resident has put forward a striking question during the ongoing controversy over the Special Intensive Revision of voter rolls, showing two voter cards…
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A migrant worker has illegally used two voter identity cards to vote in two different states for two decades without detection by electoral authorities.
"Mr. Sahu, however, has been using his two cards every election in the two States for two decades now." The Hindu, 2025-01-18
"Possessing two or more Electoral Photo Identity Cards, popularly known as voter ID, of more than one area is against the law." The Hindu, 2025-01-18
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What the Reel doesn't tell you
- The Aam Aadmi Party has accused the Delhi electoral roll revision of unfairly removing large numbers of genuine migrant voters from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.
What each side says
How it plays you
It wants you to think: "Opposition parties like AAP and Congress win elections primarily through illegal duplicate voters and infiltrators."
The speaker uses his personal anecdote of holding two cards to claim that millions of opposition voters are illegal infiltrators. There is no empirical evidence or official report linking past election victories of AAP or Congress to duplicate or illegal voters.
- Causal oversimplification: "उन जो घुसपैठिये हैं वह कट जाएगा तो इसके पहले तो सीट मिलती थी। 10 साल केजरीवाल रह लिया।". It attributes complex election outcomes over a decade entirely to a single alleged factor—illegal duplicate voters and infiltrators—without any supporting data.
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