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Cash has become harder to use in election fraud, but it turns out that votes may now be going to the person with the fattest digital wallet. Maharashtra officials who were on election duty in Karnataka found that, for the first time, e-wallets were being widely used to illegally pay voters. The rattled authorities will now keep a close eye on the upcoming Lok Sabha by-elections in Palghar and Bhandara-Gondia to ensure the polls are clean.