On 24 December, TVE announced that votes would be deducted from entries due to fraudulent voting.

The election involved fraudulent voting.

Congressional investigations in both cases have failed to show that fraudulent voting determined either outcome.

Another Seshan move that has infuriated politicians was an order to issue a photo identification card to every voter to prevent fraudulent voting, a scourge of Indian elections.

United States attorney's offices in four other states did turn up instances of fraudulent voting in mostly rural areas.

The name comes from the colour that voters' index fingers were stained to prevent fraudulent multiple voting.

Questions were raised about the integrity of the public voting process including allegations of fraudulent online voting using multiple e-mail addresses.

Protests claiming fraudulent voting resulted in the electoral commission removing Célestin from the race.

He said the then government had failed to put its "house in order" to prevent fraudulent voting and accused the government of "systematically ignoring" pleas from the Electoral Commission.

They had reached these results by throwing out all ballots from 29 precincts due to "fraudulent voting".