EC outreach: Choice for ‘aggrieved candidates’ to pick and check EVMs
5 months ago

EC outreach: Choice for ‘aggrieved candidates’ to pick and check EVMs

New Indian Express  

NEW DELHI: The Election Commission of India on Tuesday issued the technical Standard Operating Procedure and stipulated choices for aggrieved candidates, who have applied for Supreme Court-directed checking of Electronic Voting Machines for possible tampering post Lok Sabha and assembly results. In an official statement, the poll panel said that the aggrieved candidates, who have applied for checking, would be allowed to pick machines from any polling station in an assembly segment and could opt for a mock poll and VVPAT slip count. The poll panel has received eight applications from aggrieved candidates, including those from the BJP and the Congress, for verification of tampering or modification in microcontroller chips embedded in the EVMs post declaration of the Lok Sabha election results on June 4. Will allow to pick EVMs from any booth, says EC The election commission said that the aggrieved candidates, who have applied for checking, would be allowed to pick machines from any polling station in an assembly segment and could opt for a mock poll and VVPAT slip count.

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Maharashtra polls: 1,440 VVPATs verified, results matched, says EC amid INDIA bloc's EVM concerns
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1 week, 5 days ago

Maharashtra polls: 1,440 VVPATs verified, results matched, says EC amid INDIA bloc's EVM concerns

India TV News  

Amid INDIA bloc's concerns over EVM tampering in the recently concluded Maharashtra Assembly elections, Maharashtra's Additional Chief Electoral Officer Kiran Kulkarni said in all 1,440 Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trails were verified during the last month's state assembly polls with their results matching perfectly with Electronic Voting Machine counts. 659 cases of Model Code violation reported Speaking to PTI, Kulkarni …

VVPAT verification done but Oppn ups ante over EVMs
1 week, 5 days ago

VVPAT verification done but Oppn ups ante over EVMs

Hindustan Times  

MUMBAI: Amid large-scale protests by the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi, which has alleged manipulation of Electronic Voting Machines during the recent assembly elections, the Election Commission of India has said the mandatory a VVPAT slip count in five randomly selected polling stations in each assembly constituency had been conducted on November 23, and the outcome matched the results delivered by …

No EVM-VVPAT mismatch found, says Maharashtra’s Chief Election Officer amid Opposition’s allegations
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1 week, 6 days ago

No EVM-VVPAT mismatch found, says Maharashtra’s Chief Election Officer amid Opposition’s allegations

Live Mint  

Amid opposition battling for 100 per cent counting of Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail slips and allegations about a vote mismatch in the recently held Maharashtra Assembly election, state Chief Election Officer on Tuesday said that there was no mis-match found in any of the VVPAT slips matching with their concerned EVM numbers. “In all 288 assembly constituencies, a total …

EC releases techincal SOPs to verify functioning of EVMs used in polls
5 months ago

EC releases techincal SOPs to verify functioning of EVMs used in polls

Hindustan Times  

The Election Commission on Tuesday released the technical standard operating procedure to be followed while checking and verifying the functioning of the electronic voting machines used after the declaration of election results. The process will allow candidates who get the second and the third highest votes in a parliamentary or assembly constituency to check and verify for themselves the firmware …

ECI releases SOP for EVMs burnt memory checking, verification with expanded choices for candidates
5 months, 1 week ago

ECI releases SOP for EVMs burnt memory checking, verification with expanded choices for candidates

India TV News  

The Election Commission of India on Tuesday released a Standard Operating Procedure for Electronic Voting Machines burnt memory checking and verification with expanded choices for candidates. It includes the selection of EVMs from any polling station in an assembly constituency, the mix and match of EVM units from any polling station, connecting BU-CU-VVPAT in any sequence and the option of …

ECI receives 11 requests for EVM and VVPAT memory verification post results
6 months ago

ECI receives 11 requests for EVM and VVPAT memory verification post results

The Hindu  

The Election Commission of India has received 11 requests for memory verification of Electronic Voting Machines and Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trails from the recently concluded Lok Sabha and Assembly polls. While eight requests were received for the Lok Sabha elections, including three each from the BJP and Congress, three requests were for the Assembly polls, according to a statement …

'ECI should announce reward for hacking EVMs': Congress leader Pratap Khachariyawas again beats the dead horse
6 months, 2 weeks ago

'ECI should announce reward for hacking EVMs': Congress leader Pratap Khachariyawas again beats the dead horse

Op India  

Congress leader Pratap Singh Khachariyawas on Tuesday said that the Election Commission of India should announce a reward for hacking Electronic Voting Machines adding that if anyone successfully hacks the device in front of it then this counting mechanism should be replaced immediately. Amid the opposition parties raising concerns over the counting process of the votes, Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv …

EVM VVPAT verification case: Supreme Court Upholds Integrity of Electronic Voting Machines, Rejects Demand for 100% cross verification of votes
7 months, 3 weeks ago

EVM VVPAT verification case: Supreme Court Upholds Integrity of Electronic Voting Machines, Rejects Demand for 100% cross verification of votes

The Hindu  

The Supreme Court of India’s rejection of the demand for 100% verification of the paper trail left by the votes cast through electronic voting machines comes as no surprise, as there is no hard evidence that the current verification system suffers from any irremediable lacuna. This is not the first time that the Court has declined to interfere with the …

Plea For 100% EVM-VVPAT Verification : Supreme Court Seeks Clarifications From ECI | LIVE UPDATES
7 months, 4 weeks ago

Plea For 100% EVM-VVPAT Verification : Supreme Court Seeks Clarifications From ECI | LIVE UPDATES

Live Law  

The Supreme Court will pass orders today on petitions seeking complete verification of the votes recorded in the Electronic Voting Machines with Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail slips. During the hearing, the bench also orally expressed reservations about the manual counting process, saying that human interventions can lead to problems. As per the current practice, the ECI randmoly verifies the …

Plea For 100% EVM-VVPAT Verification : Supreme Court Seeks Clarifications From ECI | LIVE UPDATES
7 months, 4 weeks ago

Plea For 100% EVM-VVPAT Verification : Supreme Court Seeks Clarifications From ECI | LIVE UPDATES

Live Law  

The Supreme Court will pass orders today on petitions seeking complete verification of the votes recorded in the Electronic Voting Machines with Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail slips. During the hearing, the bench also orally expressed reservations about the manual counting process, saying that human interventions can lead to problems. As per the current practice, the ECI randmoly verifies the …

Plea For 100% EVM-VVPAT Verification : Supreme Court Seeks Clarifications From ECI | LIVE UPDATES
7 months, 4 weeks ago

Plea For 100% EVM-VVPAT Verification : Supreme Court Seeks Clarifications From ECI | LIVE UPDATES

Live Law  

The Supreme Court will pass orders today on petitions seeking complete verification of the votes recorded in the Electronic Voting Machines with Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail slips. During the hearing, the bench also orally expressed reservations about the manual counting process, saying that human interventions can lead to problems. As per the current practice, the ECI randmoly verifies the …

Plea For 100% EVM-VVPAT Verification : Supreme Court Seeks Clarifications From ECI | LIVE UPDATES
7 months, 4 weeks ago

Plea For 100% EVM-VVPAT Verification : Supreme Court Seeks Clarifications From ECI | LIVE UPDATES

Live Law  

The Supreme Court will pass orders today on petitions seeking complete verification of the votes recorded in the Electronic Voting Machines with Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail slips. During the hearing, the bench also orally expressed reservations about the manual counting process, saying that human interventions can lead to problems. As per the current practice, the ECI randmoly verifies the …

Supreme Court Likely To Pass Direction On Pleas Seeking Mandatory EVM-VVPAT Tally Tomorrow
7 months, 4 weeks ago

Supreme Court Likely To Pass Direction On Pleas Seeking Mandatory EVM-VVPAT Tally Tomorrow

News 18  

The Supreme Court is likely to pass directions or seek clarification over a batch of public interest litigations seeking a direction to the Election Commission of India to mandatorily cross-verify the votes cast in Electronic Voting Machines with Voter-Verifiable Paper Audit Trail slips. In April 2019, the Supreme Court ordered the ECI to increase the VVPAT slips from one Electronic …

Over 4 Crore VVPAT Slips Verified, No Mismatch Ever Found; EVM Tampering Impossible : ECI Tells Supreme Court
8 months ago

Over 4 Crore VVPAT Slips Verified, No Mismatch Ever Found; EVM Tampering Impossible : ECI Tells Supreme Court

Live Law  

The Election Commission of India has told the Supreme Court that no mismatch has been detected ever between the votes counted in the Electronic Voting Machines and the Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail slips. The ECI said that it has matched the EVM votes with more than 4 crore VVPAT slips and no instance of mismatch has been found so …

SC directs ECI to look into ‘extra vote to BJP’ allegation in Kerala mock poll; ‘alarming,’ says Supriya Sule
8 months ago

SC directs ECI to look into ‘extra vote to BJP’ allegation in Kerala mock poll; ‘alarming,’ says Supriya Sule

Live Mint  

The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the Election Commission of India to investigate the allegations that during a mock poll in Kasaragod, Kerala, four EVMs recorded one extra vote for the Bharatiya Janata Party. Hearing petitions seeking cross-verification of votes cast on Electronic Voting Machines with paper slips generated through the VVPAT system, the bench of Justice Sanjiv Khanna and …

Reforms needed in the voting process | Explained
8 months ago

Reforms needed in the voting process | Explained

The Hindu  

The story so far: The Supreme Court has decided to hear petitions seeking 100% cross-verification of the Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail slips with the vote count as per Electronic Voting Machines. Second, invalid votes that were a bane of paper ballots and also a bone of contention during counting process have been eliminated through EVMs. These include random allocation …

How SC pushed the VVPAT transparency envelope so far
8 months, 1 week ago

How SC pushed the VVPAT transparency envelope so far

New Indian Express  

NEW DELHI: When the Supreme Court recently sought responses from the Election Commission of India and the Centre on a plea seeking full count of VVPAT slips in polls, several political parties saw in it an important first step to make the election process free and fair. At present, VVPAT paper slips of only five randomly-selected EVMs in each assembly …

SC assures to list pleas to cross-verify EVM-VVPAT vote count before Lok Sabha polls
8 months, 2 weeks ago

SC assures to list pleas to cross-verify EVM-VVPAT vote count before Lok Sabha polls

The Hindu  

The Supreme Court on April 3 has agreed to list a series of petitions seeking direction to the Election Commission of India to mandatorily cross-verify the count in Electronic Voting Machines with votes verifiably recorded as cast by counting all Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail slips ahead of the Lok Sabha polls. The petitions have sought a complete count of …

Supreme Court seeks ECI, Centre's response on plea to count all VVPAT slips
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Supreme Court seeks ECI, Centre's response on plea to count all VVPAT slips

Hindustan Times  

The Supreme Court on Monday issued notices to the Election Commission of India and the BJP-led central government on a petition seeking the complete counting of all Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail paper slips in the general elections. Read here: Congress again asks Election Commission for meeting on EVMs, VVPATs The petition further challenged the commission's guidelines that mandates VVPAT …

SC seeks responses from EC, Centre on plea for complete count of VVPAT slips
8 months, 3 weeks ago

SC seeks responses from EC, Centre on plea for complete count of VVPAT slips

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: In a significant development, the Supreme Court on Monday sought responses from the Election Commission and the Centre on a plea seeking a complete count of VVPAT slips in polls as opposed to the current practice of verification of only five randomly-selected EVMs through VVPAT paper slips. The top court, on April 8, 2019, had ordered the poll …

VVPAT verification : Supreme Court Issues Notice to Election Commission on plea to cross-verify EVM and VVPAT counts
8 months, 3 weeks ago

VVPAT verification : Supreme Court Issues Notice to Election Commission on plea to cross-verify EVM and VVPAT counts

The Hindu  

The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to the Election Commission on a writ petition seeking a direction to mandatorily cross-verify the count in Electronic Voting Machines with votes verifiably recorded as cast by counting all Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail slips. Ms. Rathi argued for a complete count of VVPAT slips in elections as opposed to the current practice …

Supreme Court notice to Election Commission on plea to count all VVPAT slips
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Supreme Court notice to Election Commission on plea to count all VVPAT slips

India Today  

The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to the Election Commission on a petition seeking the counting of all Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail paper slips in elections, instead of verifying only five randomly selected Electronic Voting Machines in each assembly segment of a parliamentary constituency. A bench of Justices BR Gavai and Sandeep Mehta issued notice to the poll …

Ahead of 2024 polls, EC starts awareness programme on EVMs
11 months ago

Ahead of 2024 polls, EC starts awareness programme on EVMs

Hindustan Times  

Ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the election commission has started a nationwide awareness programme on Electronic Voting Machine and Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail to provide citizens with a first-hand experience of the voting process and familiarity with the machines. The programme includes outreach and awareness activities in 3,464 assembly constituencies spread across 613 districts in 31 states …

Congress again asks Election Commission for meeting on EVMs, VVPATs
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Congress again asks Election Commission for meeting on EVMs, VVPATs

Hindustan Times  

Congress leader Jairam Ramesh has once again written to the Election Commission, asking for a meeting with INDIA bloc parties to discuss issues related to the use of electronic voting machines and Voter verifiable paper audit trails. The letter dated January 7 was sent in response to the poll body’s January 5 public response to his earlier letterin which EC …

ECI dismisses Jairam Ramesh's concerns on VVPATs, asserts full faith in EVMs
11 months, 2 weeks ago

ECI dismisses Jairam Ramesh's concerns on VVPATs, asserts full faith in EVMs

The Hindu  

The Election Commission of India on January 5 dismissed concerns raised by Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Electronic Voting Machines and Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail saying there were “no new assertions or reasonable and legitimate” doubts which require “further clarifications”. On Friday the ECI letter, signed by Pramod Kumar Sharma, Principal Secretary in the Election Commission, said that “Rule …

Election Gear Up: Officials Prepped for Flawless Andhra Polls
11 months, 4 weeks ago

Election Gear Up: Officials Prepped for Flawless Andhra Polls

Deccan Chronicle  

VIJAYAWADA: In anticipation of the upcoming elections, the Election Commission of India has geared up its machinery in Andhra Pradesh. Senior deputy election commissioners Dharmendra Sharma and Nitish Kumar Vyas conducted a comprehensive review meeting with state officials, emphasising transparency, accountability, and impartiality as core principles for the electoral process. Sharma and Vyas stressed the importance of a proactive approach, …

EC Had Once Pegged Cost for Procuring Additional EVMs, VVPATs for Simultaneous Polls at Nearly Rs 9,300 Cr
1 year, 3 months ago

EC Had Once Pegged Cost for Procuring Additional EVMs, VVPATs for Simultaneous Polls at Nearly Rs 9,300 Cr

News 18  

The Election Commission had pegged the cost of procuring additional Electronic Voting Machines and paper-trail machines for holding synchronised Lok Sabha and assembly polls at nearly Rs 9,300 crore. One of the agendas before the high-level committee set up under former president Ram Nath Kovind is to examine the logistics required for holding simultaneous elections to the Lok Sabha, state …

EC begins preparations for Assembly elections
1 year, 7 months ago

EC begins preparations for Assembly elections

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Social media teams will be constituted in all 33 districts to counter false information with regard to the Assembly elections due later this year. The ECI has asked district election officers and collectors to send names by April 30. The first-level checking of EVMs and voter-verifiable paper audit trail by nodal officers will be completed by June, in the …

‘ECI should…’: Opposition raises concern over EVM's efficacy
1 year, 8 months ago

‘ECI should…’: Opposition raises concern over EVM's efficacy

Hindustan Times  

Opposition leaders have raised concerns over the viability of the electronic voting machines and said that they will urge the Election Commission of India to clarify their suspicion over the use of voting machines in elections. Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar with Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal and Congress leader Digvijaya Singh addresses a press conference after the Opposition …

Erode (East) bypoll | Arrangements at counting centre inspected
1 year, 10 months ago

Erode (East) bypoll | Arrangements at counting centre inspected

The Hindu  

Erode District Election Officer and Collector H. Krishnanunni inspected the arrangements at the counting centre, Government College of Engineering in Chithode, for the upcoming bypoll, and held discussions with officials. After polling for the Erode Assembly constituency concludes on February 27, all the electronic voting machines and other machines used in 238 polling stations will be taken to the college …

Erode (East) bypoll | 1,021 additional ballot and control units to be readied
1 year, 10 months ago

Erode (East) bypoll | 1,021 additional ballot and control units to be readied

The Hindu  

With 77 candidates in the fray for the byelection to the Erode Assembly constituency, 1,021 additional ballot and control units were shifted from the strong room at the Railway Colony Corporation Higher Secondary School in Kollampalayam to the one at the Revenue Divisional Office for first-level checks on Friday. Polling is scheduled for February 27 at 238 polling stations in …

Erode (East) bypoll | Polling personnel undergo training in handling EVMs and VVPAT
1 year, 10 months ago

Erode (East) bypoll | Polling personnel undergo training in handling EVMs and VVPAT

The Hindu  

The personnel to be deployed in polling stations for the upcoming Erode Assembly constituency byelection were trained in handling electronic voting machines and voter verifiable paper audit trail here on Monday. Polling is scheduled for February 27 at 238 polling stations in the constituency for which a total of 286 presiding officers, 858 polling officers and 62 additional officers were …

Mock poll held in Erode to check readiness of electronic voting machines
1 year, 10 months ago

Mock poll held in Erode to check readiness of electronic voting machines

The Hindu  

A mock poll was conducted on Tuesday to check the functioning of electronic voting machines and voter verifiable paper audit trail that will be used for the bypolls to the Erode Assembly constituency, scheduled for February 27. A team comprising eight engineers from the Bharat Electronics Limited, Bengaluru, began first-level checking of EVMS and VVPAT at the strongroom on the …

Why EVMs with VVPATs can’t be used in Delhi civic polls, asks HC
2 years, 9 months ago

Why EVMs with VVPATs can’t be used in Delhi civic polls, asks HC

Hindustan Times  

NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court on Friday asked the State Election Commission why Electronic Voting Machines with Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail cannot be used for the civic polls in Delhi. Ruling Aam Aadmi Party lawmaker Saurabh Bhardwaj has filed a plea seeking directions for the use of VVPAT machines for the polls to rule out chances of tampering. …

Assembly Elections: EVM is No Issue Now, More Than 315 Crore Voters Have Used It, Says CEC Sushil Chandra
2 years, 11 months ago

Assembly Elections: EVM is No Issue Now, More Than 315 Crore Voters Have Used It, Says CEC Sushil Chandra

News 18  

The use of electronic voting machines is no issue now, Chief Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra said on Saturday, asserting that there is a sense of pride that India has developed a machine which gives accurate and faster results. Responding to a question on parties losing elections questioning the credibility of EVMs, Chandra said, ”EVM is no issue now.” ”EVM is …

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