Calendar of time schedule related to Assembly elections likely to be reduced to 32 days Bengaluru: Like Gujarat Assembly elections held in 2022, when the normal 45-day election calendar was reduced to 32 days, Karnataka that is set to go for elections soon may witness a trimmed calendar. This news is in circulation as the…
Assembly polls: Printers under Election Commission scanner
March 21, 2023Report large cash withdrawals, transfers; create groups for communication: DC tells bank officers Mysore/Mysuru: Ahead of the Assembly election 2023, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has imposed restrictions on printing and publishing election pamphlets and posters, and directed all the Deputy Commissioners (DCs) to issue guidelines to printing houses, political party representatives, candidates and…
SC verdict on EC and CEC Sukumar Sen
March 11, 2023On Mar. 3, the Supreme Court (SC) passed a critical judgement on the appointment of Election Commissioners. It is a judgement crucial for India’s journey to becoming a more robust democracy. After all, strong Election Commission is the facilitator of free and fair elections, core of an authentic democracy. The five-Judge Constitution Bench said that…
Depute officers from outside to polling booths: Election Commission
March 10, 2023Bengaluru: To ensure free and fair Assembly elections, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has ordered the Chief Secretary of the State Government to depute officers from outside who neither belong to the Constituencies or districts, to the polling booths. A team of senior Officers led by Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Rajiv Kumar, who are…
1,057 Mysuru voters are above 100 years old
March 9, 202316,900 voters in their 90s; 84,992 above 80; 106-year-old senior-most Mysore/Mysuru: With the Election Commission of India (ECI) allowing postal ballots for those aged above 80 and people with disabilities, the process has been completed to identify such voters in Mysuru to make arrangements for them to vote. At a virtual interaction with such voters…
Chief Election Commissioner to visit Karnataka tomorrow
March 8, 2023Three-day team visit to assess poll preparedness Bengaluru: Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar will lead a team on a three-day visit to Karnataka on Mar. 9 (tomorrow). The visit will be a precursor to the announcement of poll dates. Kumar will come with Election Commissioners Anup Chandra Pandey and Arun Goel to review the preparedness…
Assembly Poll schedule likely to be announced on Mar. 27
March 1, 2023Bengaluru: With the Election Commission of India (ECI) likely to announce the Karnataka Assembly poll schedule on Mar. 27, the Centre has reportedly asked the State Government to complete all plans, programmes and projects by then. Following the clue from the Centre, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai has initiated plans for implementation of 2023-24 Budget announcements…
55 engineers to check each of 4,274 vote verification machines
February 16, 2023Mysore/Mysuru: Over 4,274 VVPAT (Voter Verified Paper Audit Trails) systems arrived in the city on the night of Feb. 14 amidst tight security from Electronics Corporation of India Limited (ECIL), Hyderabad. On Feb, 15, the process of recording each VVPAT system through a barcode began. The systems were brought by a team of officers and…
ECI Director asks officials to work as per Election Commission directions
February 10, 2023Mysore/Mysuru: Election Commission of India (ECI) Director Shubra Saxena has asked officials to follow the ECI directions and work in an organised manner. She was presiding over a meeting with Deputy Commissioners of eight districts coming under Mysuru Revenue Division, regarding poll preparations at the Regional Commissioner’s Office here yesterday. Instructing the officials to identify…
State likely to go to polls in May second week
January 25, 2023Bengaluru: Even as speculations continue over the announcement of Assembly polls schedule, the Election Commission of India (ECI) is likely to hold the polls in the State in the second week of May in a single phase, it is reliably learnt. Karnataka is the only State in South India that is going to the polls…
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