Election Commission refutes Opposition's claims of VVPAT discrepancy in Maharashtra polls: 'No mismatch found'

Maharashtra Assembly elections 2024: The Election Commission said on Tuesday denied the Opposition's charge of discrepancy in VVPAT verification of votes in recently held Maharashtra assembly polls, saying that "no mismatch found in any VVPAT voter slips with their EVM numbers." No discrepancy found As per Supreme Court of India and Election Commission of India guidelines, the poll officials must count the VVPAT slips of randomly selected five polling stations per assembly constituency, which the commission did on November 23 to match it with the numbers in EVM. "As per that, slip count of 1,440 VVPAT units of 288 assembly constituencies of Maharashtra state has been tallied with respective control unit data," ECI said in a statement. Congress delegation flags concerns over Maharashtra poll process This comes a week after a Congress delegation met Election Commission officials in New Delhi and raised concerns over alleged inconsistencies in the electoral process for the Maharashtra Assembly polls, including the issue of large numbers of deletions and additions in the voters’ list.