Searched for
EVM VVPAT COST
Ageing EVMs, more booths: EC seeks Rs 500 crore ahead of 2029 pollsThe Election Commission of India is preparing for the 2029 general elections. It needs over ₹500 crore to buy new electronic voting machine...
One Nation, One Election: Simultaneous polls may need ₹5,300 crore in expenditure, over 1 crore EVM unitsIndia anticipates simultaneous elections in 2029. The Election Commission estimates a need for 48 lakh balloting units, 35 lakh control uni...
One nation, one election: EC mapped 2024, 2029 scenario in March after law ministry sought detailsResponding to the law ministry, the poll panel mapped out detailed assessments on the estimated polling stations, balloting and control uni...
ECI gets EVM verification requests for eight Lok Sabha seatsThe Election Commission announced on Thursday that it has received eight applications from aggrieved Lok Sabha 2024 candidates requesting E...
Nearly a dozen Lok Sabha candidates seek EVM-VVPAT checkThe Election Commission of India has received fewer than ten requests from candidates who lost in the recent Lok Sabha elections for verifi...
ECI issues verification SOP for EVM memoryThe Election Commission of India has issued a protocol allowing the first two losers to seek verification of burnt memory in EVM microcontr...
Relax. EVMs are secure, can be moreThe whole process, involving technical, management and legal aspects, has been a success story for EC from the days of ballot boxes, when b...
Introduced nearly 11 years ago to enhance transparency, VVPATs back in focus after SC verdictSupreme Court's decision on EVM-VVPAT verification highlighted the importance of transparency in elections. The ruling focused on the use o...
Congress demands counting of all VVPATs in Lok Sabha pollsCongress President Kharge and Rahul Gandhi advocate for full VVPAT counting in elections for transparency. They push for ballot papers over...
EC failed to provide substantive response to 'genuine concerns' over EVMs: Jairam RameshSenior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh has criticized the Election Commission for not adequately addressing the concerns raised by political ...
EVMs have cleared all tech, judicial tests: EC to INDIA blocThe INDIA-Opposition alliance last month sought 100% match between EVM and VVPAT slips and also that VVPAT slips be handed over to voters i...
Election Commission will require around 30 lakh EVMs, 1.5-year preparation time for simultaneous polls to LS, assembliesAccording to the sources, the commission will require nearly 30 lakh control units, about 43 lakh ballot units and about 32 lakh VVPATs for...
100% VVPAT count idea 'regressive', like adopting paper ballot: Election Commission to SCThe Election Commission of India (EC) has defended the EVM-VVPAT system against a petition seeking 100% data cross verification, stating th...
No material information on number of EVMs, VVPAT needed for simultaneous polls: Election CommissionEC undersecretary Madhusudan Gupta said, "The information sought by you is not available in any material form as mentioned under Section 2 ...
Election Commission objects to Congress moving Supreme Court ‘time & again'The commission filed an affidavit in the case of a petition filed by Congress leader Kamal Nath seeking mandatory counting of VVPAT to ensu...
Need legal framework for simultaneous polls: CEC RawatThe CEC said the poll panel would continue to deliver its responsibility of conducting elections whenever term of the state assemblies come...
One poll start will need Rs 4,555 cr for extra EVMs, VVPATs, says Election CommissionThe commission has given an elaborate reply to the Law Commission which had forwarded the law ministry’s queries on the issue.
Election Commission wants to buy 16 lakh paper trail machines in two yearsThe Commission will buy 8,07,500 paper trail units each from the two manufacturers by September, 2018.
Rs 3,200 crore granted to EC for EVM paper trail unitsThe move comes amid increasing political noises questioning the credibility of electronic voting machines and repeated demand by some to up...
Government considering encouraging start ups to make EVMsThe procurement plan for Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail Units (VVPAT) for 2016-17, 2017-18 and 2018-19 would be considered subsequently...