From Bihar’s sudden half-million jump in voters in a single month to seemingly targeted deletions of Muslims in Uttar Pradesh and Karnataka, India’s electoral process faces growing questions of credibility with elections due in five states over the next seven months. Our analysis shows three fault lines—tampering with electoral rolls, manipulation of the voting process, and skewed counting of votes—fuelled by partisan misuse, opaque systems, and an Election Commission increasingly unaccountable after new legal immunities.