'No Mismatch Between VVPAT Slips And EVM': Poll Body Clarifies Amid Oppn's Claim During Maharashtra Poll
ABP News"During the Maharashtra assembly elections 2024 as per Supreme Court of India and Election Commission of India guidelines, 5 VVPAT slips at each assembly segment were to be counted, to match it with the numbers in EVM. In all 288 assembly segments, a total number of 1445 VVPAT slips were counted on the same day of counting, which was 23rd November, and there was no mismatch found in any of the VVPAT slips matching with their concerned EVM numbers," the Electoral body said in a statement. The statemenc comes amid allegations from the opposition parties in Maharashtra of electoral malpractices and Electronic Voting Machines tampering in the assembly elections in the state after the ruling BJP-led Mahayuti coalition won a landslide victory in the November 20 elections. On the first day of the special session of the Maharashtra Assembly, the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi protested over alleged electoral malpractices claiming that "democracy has been murdered" through the misuse of EVMs.