{"id":288507,"date":"2023-02-18T17:55:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-18T17:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2023\/02\/18\/man-shares-fake-video-of-evm-that-sends-all-votes-to-bjp-arrested\/"},"modified":"2023-02-18T17:55:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-18T17:55:00","slug":"man-shares-fake-video-of-evm-that-sends-all-votes-to-bjp-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2023\/02\/18\/man-shares-fake-video-of-evm-that-sends-all-votes-to-bjp-arrested\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Shares Fake Video Of EVM That Sends All Votes To BJP, Arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2019-05\/aq7kpjgc_evm-generic_625x300_21_May_19.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A man was arrested in Meghalaya&#8217;s West Garo Hills district for allegedly sharing a video on social media which purportedly showed that any button pressed on an EVM leads to a vote in favour of the BJP, Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) FR Kharkongor said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The man, identified as Bolong R Sangma, had on February 16 shared the clip, alleging that EVMs were manipulated, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Sangma was arrested after the returning officer of Rongjeng assembly constituency filed a police complaint, he added.<\/p>\n<p>A case was filed against him under IPC section 171G, which deals with false statement in connection with an election, Kharkongor said.<\/p>\n<p>EVMs or electronic voting machines are tamper-proof and go to factory reset mode if any manipulation is attempted, he said, adding that numerous safeguards are present at every level.<\/p>\n<p><i>(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/india-news\/meghalaya-man-arrested-for-sharing-video-of-evm-that-showed-all-votes-go-to-bjp-3794085\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] A man was arrested in Meghalaya&#8217;s West Garo Hills district for allegedly sharing a video on social media which purportedly showed that any button pressed on an EVM leads to a vote in favour of the BJP, Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) FR Kharkongor said on Saturday. The man, identified as Bolong R Sangma, had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":288508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288507"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}