Mysore/Mysuru: Security for the strong rooms storing Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) and the VVPAT systems (Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail) will be organised in three tiers. Armed personnel from the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), specially deployed for this purpose, will assume control over the counting centre security. It may be mentioned here that the…
Defective EVM machines replaced with reserve units
April 19, 2024Glitches discovered during poll data input Mysore/Mysuru: Even as the Supreme Court reserved its judgement on Apr. 18 regarding a plea seeking cross-verification of votes cast in Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) with Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT), complaints of malfunctioning EVMs, VVPAT machines, and Control Units have been reported from various Assembly Constituencies in…
Process of taluk-wise EVM allocation begins
March 20, 2024Mysore/Mysuru: The process of segregating and allocating Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) to various Taluks of Mysuru district, falling under the Mysuru-Kodagu Lok Sabha Constituency, began at the EVM Warehouse near the new Deputy Commissioner’s Office at Siddarthanagar this morning. Overseeing the operation were Deputy Commissioner and District Electoral Officer Dr. K.V. Rajendra, Additional Deputy Commissioner…
District Administration gears up for randomisation of EVMs and VVPATs
February 27, 2024Mysore/Mysuru: With the Lok Sabha polls round the corner, the district administration has geared up for randomisation of Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail (VVPATs) and Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs), that would be done once the Election Commission of India (ECI) announces the poll schedule, which is likely to happen any time after Mar.10. The EVMs…
DC launches demonstration of EVMs
January 8, 2024Mysore/Mysuru: With the Lok Sabha (LS) polls just a few months away, Deputy Commissioner (DC) Dr. K.V. Rajendra launched a public demonstration on the functioning of Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) and VVPAT (Voter-verified Paper Audit Trail) machines, for the benefit of general public, at his Office on Bannur Road in Siddarthanagar here this morning. Speaking…
After results, EVM machines now back in Warehouse
May 15, 2023During non-election period, EVMs cannot be moved out without Election Commission’s permission Mysore/Mysuru: All the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs), VVPAT (Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail) machines and the attached control units and ballot units have been returned to the EVM Warehouse near the new Deputy Commissioner’s Office at Siddarthanagar. In the recently concluded elections in…
Media, staff glued to TV screens like a nail-biting cricket match
May 13, 2023Mysore/Mysuru: The Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) were taken out from the strong rooms at the Counting Centre at Maharani’s Women’s College of Commerce and Management, Paduvarahalli (Vinayakanagar) in the city at 8 am, in the presence of Deputy Commissioner Dr. K.V. Rajendra, who is also the District Electoral Officer, Election Observers and the agents of…
Three-tier security for EVMs at strong rooms
May 11, 2023Mysore/Mysuru: With the fate of candidates securely sealed in the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) and the VVPAT systems (Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail), the machines were brought to the mustering centres and after de-mustering, the machines were shifted to the Maharani’s College of Commerce and Management for Women on Valmiki Road in Vinayakanagar (Paduvarahalli). It…
22 Hyderabad engineers begin EVM setting process
April 29, 2023Names of candidates and party symbols being inserted in each Electronic Voting Machine Mysore/Mysuru: A team of 22 engineers from Electronics Corporation of India Limited (ECIL), Hyderabad, has arrived in Mysuru to check the control units and ballot units of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) and Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) that will be used…
EVM demonstration centre opens at Mysuru DC Office
March 7, 2023Voter awareness campaigns have a crucial role to play, says DC Dr. K.V. Rajendra Mysore/Mysuru: Elaborate preparations have started at the level of the District Administration in view of ensuing 2023 Assembly elections. Yesterday, the administration established an Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) and Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) demonstration centre in the district to…
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