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...
20 May, 2025, 08.58 AM IST
Don't delete/reload EVM data while verifying, Supreme Court tells Election CommissionThe Supreme Court has directed the Election Commission to respond to a plea for verifying EVMs without erasing or reloading data. The court...
11 Feb, 2025, 11.27 PM IST
LS polls: Law ministry gets funds in Union Budget to meet carry forward liabilitiesEVMs have a shelf life of 15 years, following which they are destroyed as per a protocol issued by EC's technical experts. The Electronic C...
23 Jul, 2024, 03.41 PM IST
EC receives applications for EVM verification on 8 LS seats in 6 statesEight candidates seek EVM chip verification post Lok Sabha results, rejected by Supreme Court; BJP's Sujay Vikhe-Patil seeks verification a...
20 Jun, 2024, 05.20 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
Ahead of June 4 (counting day) deadline: ECI tech team's options on verifying EVM microcontrollers likely before mid-MaySupreme Court's direction on EVM microcontrollers poses logistical and security challenges for the Election Commission of India. The techni...
02 May, 2024, 12.28 AM IST
SC allows verification of microcontroller of EVMs by unsuccessful candidatesThe Supreme Court directed the sealing and storage of symbol loading units (SLU) along with EVMs for at least 45 days post-election. Candid...
26 Apr, 2024, 07.57 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
From accolades to scepticism: An eventful story of EVMsWhen the first elector presses a button on the ballot unit to vote in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, the electronic voting machine (EVM)...
01 Mar, 2024, 11.16 AM IST
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...
27 Oct, 2023, 11.48 AM IST
EVMs manufactured by 2 state-run companies, are 'completely non-tamperable': Government in Lok SabhaIn a written reply, Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said quoting the Election Commission that there is "no technical collaboration with an...
24 Jul, 2019, 03.46 PM IST
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...
19 Sep, 2018, 07.53 AM IST
2014 Maharashtra poll EVMs to go for forensic testThe HC wants FSL to assess the EVMs and state whether they could have been remotely accessed and whether there exists any additional memory...
08 May, 2017, 11.00 AM IST
New EVMs will stop working if tampered withThe Cabinet had also authorised the Election Commission to vary the quantity to be ordered on BEL and ECIL based on their production capaci...
02 Apr, 2017, 03.02 PM IST
Law Minister D V Sadananda Gowda urges Arun Jaitley to help speed up procurement of new EVMsThe Election Commission wants to purchase nearly 14 lakh new EVMs as over nine lakh machines in use now are nearing end of their 15-year li...
10 Jan, 2016, 11.41 AM IST
Election Commission to scrap EVMs whose infallibility was questioned during Lok Sabha pollsThe use of EVMs in India started in 1981, but these were mostly done in the form of pilot programmes and were scaled up in elections.
28 Jun, 2014, 04.00 AM IST
- BEL bags a Rs 100 crore order for EVMs
Navratna PSU Bharat Electronics Limited has bagged a Rs 100 crore order to supply 1.02 lakh electronic voting machines to the Election Comm...
30 Sep, 2008, 06.22 PM IST