Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below: 

Statement: The Election Commission (EC), over the course of the 2014 general election, has reported a massive infusion of cash and gifts to buy votes and influence results. 

(A) The EC seized over two billion rupees in unaccounted money from across the country.

(B) Political parties and leaders can win elections by excluding people’s social choices.

(C) These malpractices actively restrict wider participation and representation of interests, that create conditions to sustain governments with strong authoritarian tendencies.

(D) Electoral corruption is direct dispossession of the right to representation and governance.

Q: Which of the following among A, B, C and D may be the cause of behind the statement made by election commission? 

• 1
  Only A
• 2
  Only B
• 3
  Either A or D
• 4
  Only A and B
• 5
  None of these