New Delhi: Voters in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections will find, for the first time, the faces of the candidates along with their respective party symbols in the EVMs. The Election Commission (EC) is introducing a slew of new or improved measures as it aims to make the elections free, fair and transparent — with…
Mysuru: Tense atmosphere prevailed last night at Gandhinagar where local residents and members of different political parties claimed that Electronic Voter Machines (EVMs) that stored the votes cast for Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) yesterday were hijacked from the Polling Booths instead of being carried into Strong Rooms. The residents and party activists alleged that EVMs…
Mysuru: The two counting centres, one at Maharani’s Women’s Commerce and Management College on Valimiki Road and NIE-IT at Koorgalli which was a beehive of activity yesterday, returned to normalcy today. The Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) and VVPATs (Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail) which were used for counting of votes cast by the electorate on…
Mysuru: With the State Assembly poll schedule announced, the District Administration held a Mock Poll Drill at the MysoreOne Centre on Seshadri Iyer Road this morning where the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) and Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) units are stocked. The exercise was just to ensure that the equipment was in order with…
Mysuru: The First Level Checking (FLC) of the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) and Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) is going on at the storage room in the MCC Zonal Office, opposite Vidyavardhaka College on Seshadri Iyer Road, since the last four to five days. Deputy Commissioner D. Randeep (now transferred) and the officials from…
Bengaluru: The State Election Commission (SEC) will initiate criminal action against those carrying reports to mislead voters regarding Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) and Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT), warned Karnataka Election Commission Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Sanjiv Kumar. He was speaking to reporters at his office ‘Nirvachana Nilaya’ in Bengaluru yesterday. “Rumours are being…
Bengaluru: The demand of the ruling Congress Government in Karnataka for replacing Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) with ballot papers is unlikely to cut much ice with the Election Commission (EC) as the poll body has already initiated the process to introduce EVMs equipped with Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) for the forthcoming Assembly elections…
New Delhi – The Supreme Court yesterday sought responses from the Centre and the Election Commission (EC) to a plea filed by the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) on alleged tampering of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs). The Congress, Aam Aadmi Party, Trinamool Congress and the Samajwadi Party sought to implead themselves in the case along with…
Nanjangud – With voters of Nanjangud making a choice of their representative in the Karnataka Assembly in the by-election that was held yesterday, the responsibility of counting votes and declaring the results now rests with election officials. The counting will take place on April 13 from 8 am and election officials have stored the Electronic…
Just after the election results of 5 States were out, the Bahujan Samajwadi Party Supremo Mayawati alleged that the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) have been tampered with, otherwise this result in Uttar Pradesh elections is not at all possible. After that, the New Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal also expressed his doubt about EVMs and…
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