An election commissioner appointed hours after his resignation from government service. Two commissioners selected from a list of 212 and appointed within 24 hours. Weeks ahead of state assembly polls in Maharashtra, Jharkhand and bypolls in Uttar Pradesh, allegations over vote-counting fiddles in recent Haryana state elections renew concerns over the neutrality of the Election Commission of India. Documents we accessed via the right-to-information law reveal how controversial changes to the selection process of election commissioners enabled hasty overnight appointments with little scrutiny.