Money power, fake news key worries: CEC

Chief Election Commissioner OP Rawat on Wednesday said that in 2013 Karnataka elections, total seizure of cash, freebies and liquor was about Rs 14 crore. “Today, when we are few days away from polls, we have already seized Rs 128 cr worth of cash, gold, silver, freebies, liquor etc. EC is worried about two things, one is abuse of money in different manifestations. Second is fake and paid news, data harvesting, targeted communication to affect voting behavior,” he said adding EC is doing its bit to innovate to ensure that these ills don’t affect integrity of the elections.