Ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, attempts are being made to discredit the Electronic Voting Machines and create a sense of panic among the voters. On Wednesday, Onmanorama published a contentious report wherein it alleged that four Electronic Voting Machines erroneously registered votes in favour of the BJP during a mock poll in Kasaragod town in Kerala. “Three VVPAT machines …
Polling personnel and materials, including electronic voting machines, have reached the 1,895 polling stations in Virudhunagar district on Thursday ahead of the polling day for the Lok Sabha election. The district administration has set up two model polling stations and two all-women polling stations in each of the seven Assembly constituencies — Rajapalayam, Srivilliputtur, Sattur, Sivakasi, Virudhunagar, Aruppukottai and Tiruchuli. …
Opposition parties have questioned the reliability of electronic voting machines. New Delhi, India – As he launched the main Indian opposition alliance’s election campaign in the middle of March, Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi hit out at two targets: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, whom he described as the “king”, and the electronic voting machines that the country uses to cast …
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 …
The fourth meeting of the INDIA partners is scheduled to be held in Delhi on December 19. Sources said that one of the key issues to be discussed at this meeting will be the reliability of the electronic voting machines and need for increased tallying of the voter verifiable paper audit trail to ensure that the votes go to the …
Bihar, which has 243 assembly seats, will go to polls in three phases – October 28, November 3 and November 7. Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora, while announcing the dates, had also said that the Election Commission of Bihar has been provided an additional number of EVMs including VVPATs. Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail machines are used during election process …
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