The Chief Electoral Officer, Karnataka, has issued a formal notice to Rahul Gandhi, asking him to provide documents supporting his allegations of duplicate voting. In his August 7 press conference in New Delhi, Gandhi had presented what he described as Election Commission (EC) data, alleging that a voter named Smt Shakun Rani had cast her vote twice. “In your press conference, you stated the documents were from EC records and claimed that a polling officer marked two votes on one ID card. However, our inquiry shows that Smt Shakun Rani voted only once and that the tick-marked document displayed was not issued by any polling officer,” the notice stated.
