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Is Congress becoming alienated within INDIA Bloc over EVM, Adani issues? Omar Abdullah, Sharad Pawar’s NCP say…

National Conference leader and Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has publicly challenged the Congress party's recent objections to Electronic Voting Machines following significant electoral defeats in Haryana and Maharashtra. Omar Abdullah's remarks come amid growing friction between the Congress and its allies within the INDIA bloc, particularly regarding the reliability of EVMs, and the Adani issue. Omar Abdullah …

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EVM row: INDIA hits different buttons, BJP calls bloc 'biggest scam'

India Today

Electronic Voting Machines have become the latest point of discord in the INDIA bloc, with the Trinamool Congress joining J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah to dismiss Congress's claims on the reliability of the voting method. If someone still believes the EVM can be hacked, they should demonstrate it to the Election Commission," Abhishek, who is the nephew of Bengal Chief …

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EVM stops working at Maharashtra's Nashik district polling booth

Deccan Chronicle

Nashik: Voting in Nandurbar, Maharashtra, was temporarily halted due to technical issues with the Electronic Voting Machines at multiple polling stations. The malfunction affected both Control Units and Balloting Units of the EVMs, leading election authorities to replace the faulty machines with backup units from reserve stock. Election officials ensured that the votes already cast were safely stored in the …

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7 months ago

Supreme Court Monthly Round-Up: April 2024

Live Law

Here's a comprehensive overview of the Supreme Court of India proceedings during April 2024. Supreme Court Stays MP Administration's Decision To Deny Permission For Christian Prayer Meet Case Title: SURESH CARLETONS vs. STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH., Diary No.- 16136 - 2024 Coram: Justices B.R. Karnataka's Plea For Drought Relief: Supreme Court Asks Union To Submit Inter-Ministerial Central Team's Report Case …

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7 months, 4 weeks ago

EVM VVPAT case: What are Supreme Court's two directives? | Verdict highlights

Hindustan Times

The Supreme Court on Friday, April 26, rejected pleas seeking 100% cross-verification of votes cast using EVMs with a Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail and said “blindly distrusting” any aspect of the system can breed unwarranted scepticism. EVM VVPAT case: Supreme Court issues two directives Justice Khanna directed the Election Commission of India to seal and store units used to …

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8 months, 1 week ago

Fixing India’s VVPAT-based audit of EVMs

The Hindu

The Election Commission of India has attracted criticism for reducing the Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail based audit of Electronic Voting Machines to an exercise in tokenism and for its lack of transparency in the matter. Thus, VVPAT-based audit of EVMs involves three essential elements — a clear definition of the ‘population’ of EVMs from which the statistical sample would …

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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 …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Sharad Pawar calls Opposition meeting today to discuss EVM issues

Deccan Chronicle

New Delhi: Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar has called a meeting of leaders of opposition parties on Thursday to discuss the Rural Electronic Voting Machine. In a letter written to all opposition leaders, the NCP chief said that he proposes to convene a meeting of all political parties who have doubts about the efficacy of the Rural Electronic Voting …

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1 year, 10 months ago

EVM VVPAT : Supreme Court Seeks Centre's Response On Plea To Introduce Technology To Aid Voters With Visual Disability

Live Law

The Supreme Court on Monday granted four weeks-time to the Ministry of Law and Justice to file its counter affidavit in a plea which seeks the introduction of a technology to allow visually impaired voters to verify their votes. The plea moved by petitioner, Akshay Bajad, aims to have image text to speech conversion software be added to the Electronic …

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1 year, 11 months ago

EC invites all political parties for demonstration of prototype Remote EVM

India TV News

The Election Commission has invited all recognised national and state political parties on January 16 to demonstrate the functioning of the multi-constituency prototype Remote EVM. Earlier, a concept note was circulated amongst political parties highlighting the challenges of defining domestic migrants, implementation of Model Code of Conduct, ensuring secrecy of voting, facility of polling agents for identification of voters, process …

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1 year, 11 months ago

ECI develops Remote EVM to enable remote voting for domestic migrants

Op India

To address the issue of low voter turnout due to voters not living in their constituencies due to various reasons like work, study etc, the Election Commission of India has proposed to introduce a remote voting facility for such outstation voters. The ECI has developed a new Electronic Voting Machine for remote voting, based on the currently used EVM, and …

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3 years, 8 months ago

A vote to turn the spotlight on mental health

The Hindu

For the second time, a section of residents of the Institute of Mental Health cast their votes at a booth set up on campus on Tuesday. Prior to the Assembly polls, the institute had made arrangements, including screening for eligibility, creating awareness and demonstration of how to use electronic voting machines for the residents. One of them wanted the fuel …

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4 years, 1 month ago

Bihar election: RJD Jamui candidate wants polling cancelled in 55 booths over repeated EVM issues, blames BJP

India Today

RJD’s candidate for Jamui assembly seat that went to polls in the first phase of Bihar assembly election, Vijay Prakash, has demanded polling be cancelled in 55 booths after repeated complaints of EVM malfunction. FOLLOW LIVE UPDATES ON BIHAR PHASE 1 POLLING RJD’s Vijay Prakash is pitted against BJP candidate Shreyasi Singh, a champion shooter and daughter of former Union …

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Is Congress becoming alienated within INDIA Bloc over EVM, Adani issues? Omar Abdullah, Sharad Pawar’s NCP say…

EVM row: INDIA hits different buttons, BJP calls bloc 'biggest scam'

EVM stops working at Maharashtra's Nashik district polling booth

Supreme Court Monthly Round-Up: April 2024

EVM VVPAT case: What are Supreme Court's two directives? | Verdict highlights

Fixing India’s VVPAT-based audit of EVMs

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

Sharad Pawar calls Opposition meeting today to discuss EVM issues

EVM VVPAT : Supreme Court Seeks Centre's Response On Plea To Introduce Technology To Aid Voters With Visual Disability

EC invites all political parties for demonstration of prototype Remote EVM

ECI develops Remote EVM to enable remote voting for domestic migrants

A vote to turn the spotlight on mental health

Bihar election: RJD Jamui candidate wants polling cancelled in 55 booths over repeated EVM issues, blames BJP