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“Amid the 2024 General Elections, visuals of a polling agent manipulating votes of women voters in the polling booth.”
Social media posts Claim dated 27 May 2024.
FACTLY rated thisFALSE

What FACTLY found

The video shared in the post shows an old ‘booth capture’ incident that took place during the 2019 General Elections in Faridabad, Haryana. In May 2019, during the 2019 General Elections, a polling agent was caught manipulating women voters and the voting process inside a polling booth in Asawati village in the Prithala constituency. The Faridabad District Election Officer filed an FIR and immediately arrested the polling agent. The video shared in the post is old and has nothing to do with t...

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In short

This claim spread on social media around 27 May 2024. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 29 May 2024, 2 days later. Its rating was “FALSE”.

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