In this episode of Facts and Figures by Hemant uncovers how India’s democracy is being shaken by massive irregularities in the voter lists. A groundbreaking investigation by The Reporters’ Collective reveals shocking facts from Bihar and Karnataka that expose how votes are being manipulated, stolen, and duplicated on a massive scale. The report shows that in 39 constituencies of Bihar, nearly 1.87 lakh suspicious voters exist, capable of casting more than 3.7 lakh fraudulent votes. In Karnataka’s Kalaburagi district, thousands of voters were secretly removed from the electoral rolls through forged Form-7 applications, with only 24 out of over 6,000 forms found to be genuine. Even more alarming is the Election Commission’s failure to detect blatant duplication—cases where names, relatives, and even addresses are simply copy-pasted or slightly altered to create multiple voter IDs. Software like ERONET 2.0, meant to prevent such fraud, is failing miserably—or perhaps being deliberately undermined. This episode breaks down the numbers, exposes the ground-level realities, and questions whether the upcoming elections will truly be free and fair. Is the Election Commission protecting democracy, or silently enabling its compromise? When the foundation of democracy—the voter list itself—becomes unreliable, can we still trust the election process? Watch the full video to understand the scale of this crisis.