EVM-VVPAT checking and verification not before August endEight applications have been received from aggrieved candidates of the Lok Sabha 2024 seeking EVM-VVPAT memory verification from their cons...
17 Jul, 2024, 12.21 AM IST
EC gives aggrieved candidates choice on how they want to check EVMCandidates aggrieved by Lok Sabha and assembly results have options to select EVMs from any polling station within an assembly segment for ...
16 Jul, 2024, 02.51 PM IST
EC releases SOP for EVMs burnt memory checking, verification with expanded choices for candidatesThe Election Commission of India has released a new SOP for EVMs, allowing candidates to have expanded choices in checking and verification...
16 Jul, 2024, 01.17 PM IST
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...
20 Jun, 2024, 11.42 PM IST
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...
17 Jun, 2024, 11.37 PM IST
Election Result 2024: What are EVMs, VVPAT and the controversy related to it?Ahead of the Lok Sabha election results, the INDIA alliance urges the Election Commission to prioritize the counting of postal ballots over...
03 Jun, 2024, 10.03 PM IST
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...
03 Jun, 2024, 12.20 AM IST
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...
27 Apr, 2024, 04.06 PM IST
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...
26 Apr, 2024, 05.12 PM IST
PM Modi reprimands INDIA bloc for "misleading citizens" on EVM VVPAT issue, says SC ruling shattered their dreamsPrime Minister Narendra Modi hailed the Supreme Court's rejection of petitions for cross-verifying EVM votes with VVPAT, stating it shatter...
26 Apr, 2024, 04.33 PM IST
SC asks ECI to look into allegations of extra votes being recorded for BJP during mock polls of EVMs in KeralaThe Supreme Court has directed the Election Commission of India to investigate allegations made by senior advocate Prashant Bhushan regardi...
18 Apr, 2024, 12.55 PM IST
SC ordered 2% slip audit in 2019 on parties' petitionThe Supreme Court has heard a plea for a complete count of Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail paper slips in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. ...
03 Apr, 2024, 10.19 AM 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
Countdown to 2024: EVM-paper slip issue returns to political arenaThe issue of EVM credibility and VVPAT auditing has been raised repeatedly by many political parties. During the August 27, 2018 meeting th...
21 Dec, 2023, 12.28 AM IST
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...
08 Sep, 2023, 12.10 AM IST
EVM-VVPAT pass test in Lok Sabha pollsThe first Lok Sabha election in which each EVM was 100% backed by a VVPAT and in which physical verification of VVPAT slips has been done- ...
23 May, 2019, 09.30 PM IST
SC directs EC to increase random checking of VVPAT slipsA bench headed by CJI Gogoi did not agree to the request of 21 opposition parties leaders that VVPAT slips of 50 per cent EVMs be matched.
09 Apr, 2019, 08.07 AM IST