Priyank Kharge joins Rahul Gandhi, urges EC to facilitate court-monitored hackathon of EVMsKarnataka's IT Minister Priyank Kharge has requested the Election Commission to conduct an ethical hackathon and technical audit of EVMs. H...
09 Jun, 2025, 04.29 PM IST
What are VVPATs, how do they work and why is Opposition demanding more machines in Lok Sabha polls?The Supreme Court has issued a notice to the Election Commission regarding a PIL submitted by activist Arun Kumar Agrawal on EVMs, calling ...
02 Apr, 2024, 04.26 PM IST
SC rejects PIL seeking audit of EVM software, CJI says move may make EVMs susceptible to hackingOn Friday, the Supreme Court declined to consider a plea for examination of the software utilized in electronic voting machines (EVMs). A b...
22 Sep, 2023, 11.38 PM IST
Disclose number of EVMs, VVPATs that showed defects in firmware audit: CICHe had also sought to know the total number of M3 and M2 EVMs and VVPATs whose firmware were tested and evaluated by the STQC team, the tot...
08 Aug, 2021, 01.46 PM IST
Mass EVM tampering difficult to do: US expertAhead of the counting of votes in India, allegations were levelled by some parties that EVMs were being changed in the strong rooms in Biha...
23 May, 2019, 03.08 PM IST
View: A forensic audit of a sample of EVMs after counting is must to detect malpracticesAny machine that uses a programmable microprocessor can be programmed to behave in a particular fashion.
21 May, 2019, 07.06 PM IST
View: Opposition's attack on EVMs is ludicrous. Supreme Court must be firmKejriwal claims some EVMs will only record a vote for BJP no matter what a voter chooses.
16 Apr, 2019, 10.27 AM IST
PILs for review of software used in EVMs, VVPA; SC seek poll panel's replyA bench comprising Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Sanjiv Khanna asked the poll panel to file its response by March 1 to the PILs .
22 Feb, 2019, 07.08 PM IST
View: How to make EVMs hack-proof, and elections more trustworthyFrom a security standpoint the EVMs in India far better than the myriad different — and some notoriously insecure — machines used in electi...
09 Dec, 2018, 11.01 AM IST
Election Commission considering counting more VVPAT slipsThe EC wants to establish a clear statistical correlation before opting for increased VVPAT counting. It will accordingly decide on the num...
28 Aug, 2018, 10.01 AM IST
EC to provide satisfactory solution to parties' concerns on EVMs: CEC RawatThe Election Commission convened the meeting ahead of elections to several state assemblies later this year and the Lok Sabha polls schedul...
27 Aug, 2018, 08.10 PM IST
EVMs are tamper-proof and credible, Election Commission tells Supreme CourtThe EC said EVMs with voter verifiable paper audit trails will be available by September next year, subject to production exigencies.
05 Aug, 2017, 12.53 AM IST
Supreme Court asks Centre, ECI to respond on EVM tampering rowSC asked the govt and the EC to respond on concerns expressed by the BSP and Congress on alleged tampering of electronic voting machines in...
14 Apr, 2017, 12.45 AM IST
EVMs are to paper ballots what motor vehicles are to horse drawn buggiesDemocracy in India has made much progress over the decades, with the rest of the world going from being cynical about its survival, to now ...
12 Apr, 2017, 11.51 AM IST
AAP writes to EC over 'EVM tampering' in PunjabAAP's National Secretary Pankaj Gupta said his party analysed booth-wise voting pattern and reached a conclusion that electronic voting mac...
25 Mar, 2017, 11.26 PM IST
Paper-trail EVMs to be used in Khammam municipal pollsThe upcoming Khammam Municipal Corporation elections in Telangana would be held with voter-verified paper audit trail enabled EVMs.
03 Mar, 2016, 04.28 PM IST
Lok Sabha polls 2014: Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail to be introduced in Jadavpur constituencyThe E.C. has chosen Jadavpur Lok Sabha constituency to launch the Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail system in EVMs on an experimental basis
02 Apr, 2014, 11.40 AM IST