The election results of Maharashtra-Haryana were shocking for all the opposition parties including Congress. They are unable to understand why this happened. From Rahul Gandhi to Sharad Pawar and Uddhav Thackeray, everyone is questioning EVMs for this. They are blaming the Election Commission. They are demanding elections to be conducted through ballot boxes. Congress has even warned of a nationwide movement for this. But you will be surprised to know that not only in India, wherever elections were held in 2024, the losing parties questioned the Election Commission. In many places, elections were conducted through the same ballot box with which there is a demand to conduct elections in India, but fraud was found in that too. There is a demand to remove the ballot box.

Elections will be held in at least 70 countries in 2024. But in most places, it was seen that after the results, the losing parties created a ruckus. Questions were raised on the election process. From Romania to India, let us know how questions were raised on the election process. How elections are held there. This will tell you whether conducting elections through the ballot box is safe or not.

Romania
Romania held the first round of presidential elections earlier this week. The elections were conducted using ballot papers. When questions arose after the first round of counting, the counting was done again on the court's order. But the results were surprising. Right-wing leader Calin Georgescu won a landslide victory there. Seeing his victory, the parties in power for decades were shocked. They could not understand how such a result came. Even the European Union and NATO countries are in tension. The special thing is that Calin Georgescu contested the elections as an independent. He does not have any party. He also campaigned on the social media platform TikTok. Despite this, he is far ahead in the first round. The second round of voting will be held on December 8. Now there is a demand to remove the ballot paper there. Opposition leaders are claiming that fraud has been committed in the elections due to this.

When elections were held in Georgia
, questions were raised about the ballot papers there too. European Union leaders said that the elections in Georgia were not held fairly. They demanded that elections be held again. In these elections, the party running the government of Georgia got a huge majority. It was then said that there was large-scale fraud and they also have evidence of it. Members of the European Union demanded that the elections in Georgia be declared illegal based on the argument that the results were not according to the wishes of the people.

Similarly, India
held Lok Sabha elections in June. BJP made a strong comeback. But all opposition parties including Congress were shocked. Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge raised questions about conducting elections with EVMs. Many people including Rahul Gandhi, SP chief Akhilesh Yadav, and Uddhav Thackeray demanded to conduct elections with ballots. Everyone said, we don't want EVMs, we want ballot papers. The opposition has been demanding the abolition of EVMs for a long time, because it believes that ballot papers are more secure and transparent. The matter reached the Supreme Court, but the court rejected the demand to ban EVMs. The Supreme Court said, that when you win the election, EVMs are not tampered with, but when you lose the election, EVMs are tampered with. This is not right.