Write the different unfair practice used by political party
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Use of black money for rallies, ads and votes. Between 4-15 crores is spent by many candidates in Lok Sabha elections whereas the EC limit is Rs 70 lakhs. Naturally, most money used is black money, undeclared to the EC. Although crores of rupees are found by EC in raids during elections, the EC largely has been rather ineffective against black money.
Over-expenditure. India spends an amount comparable to American elections whereas India’s GDP is nowhere close to the American GDP.
Cash for votes. A large chunk of money spent by candidates is used to pay voters for votes in cash or liquor, or to pay the visitors of rallies for their time.
Misuse of religion or caste. Classic divide and rule. Members of one or more communities are aroused to vote on religious or caste lines.
Hate speech. A severe form of misuse of religion or caste. Not many people are aware that such hate speech amount to the Violation of the RPA and may result in disqualification of the candidates who make such speeches.
Getting "apoliticals" to take political stand. Eminent persons not directly associated with politics are called upon to support one party or oppose an adversary.
False promises. Making promises with no intention or possibility of fulfilling them once in power.
Paid news. Paid news include news tarnishing the image of an adversary and inordinately positive news about a crony politician. In order to counter this, public debates between candidates should be made compulsory---however, not the noisy Aajtak's sytle but on the style of US Presidential debates.
Fake stings. A rather severe form of paid/biased news.
Online opinion rigging. Paid keyboard operators run by PR firms are deployed to shape public opinion online.
Rigging of opinion and exit polls. Rather than prediction, these polls are used to shape public opinion for or against certain political parties and politicians.
Dummy candidates. Several candidates of the same name as an adversary are fielded in order to cut his or her votes.
Dividing votes. Candidates of other parties are overtly or covertly supported in order to divide votes of the adversary.
Horse trading. Some parties have developed systematic methods for horse trading in which a few candidates of some other party are bought into one's own party.
Dummy and duplicate voters in the EC's electoral list. Lakhs of duplicate voters (register in multiple constituencies) were found in Delhi before the 2015 Assembly elections.
Malpractices in the registration of voters before the elections. New applicants weeks before an election may find their voter registration process failed and they could not get registered. In many cases, this is because the ruling administration does not like these new voters.
Violence. Against adversarial candidates and voters.
Misuse of the state machinery. The use of Police and other state machinery by the ruling party to harass adversarial candidates.
Booth capturing. This used to be a big problem in the past, but is slowly dying.
Rigging EVMs before or after the polling process. Some EVMs have been found to vote for only one party. There is also a possibility that EVM can be tampered after the polling and before counting.