BJP says Congress' appeal to press NOTA is attack on democracy; its Indore councillor removes posterState BJP chief V D Sharma said instigating people to press 'None Of The Above' (NOTA) button on the EVM was a crime in democracy. The oppo...
Nota toothless without right to reject, say expertsThe introduction of the Nota button on EVMs, as directed by the Supreme Court, has had little impact on election results. The number of can...
Less than 1% voters opted for NOTA in MP, Raj, Telangana; 1.29 per cent in ChhattisgarhIn Madhya Pradesh, 0.99 per cent of the voters went for the NOTA option out of total voter turnout of 77.15 per cent. In neighbouring Chhat...
Over 2.6 lakh voters opted for NOTA in Karnataka polls: EC data till 3:30 pmOver 2.6 lakh voters who exercised their franchise in the May 10 Karnataka assembly polls used the 'none of the above' or NOTA option, acco...
Nearly 8 lakh voters in five states went for NOTA optionIn Uttar Pradesh, which has the maximum number of 403 assembly seats, 621,186 voters or 0.7 per cent used the NOTA option. In Uttarakhand, ...
Bihar sees highest number of NOTA votes, Gopalganj tops tallyThe constituency of Kerala's Wayanad, where the Congress scion Rahul Gandhi won from, saw 2,155 voters (0.2 per cent) pressing the NOTA but...
Nearly 8000 voters opted for none of the above (NOTA) button in BaramullaThe NOTA secured more votes than four of the nine candidates who were in the fray in the Baramulla constituency.
Guess which caste led the NOTA vote in 2014?According to the survey, 2.5% upper caste voters opted for NOTA in 2014 Lok Sabha elections.
Tale of two states: Gujarat trumps over Himachal on NOTA votesIn percentage terms, 1.8% voters in Gujarat pressed the NOTA button on electronic voting machines in Gujarat, as against 0.9% in the hill s...
Bihar witnesses maximum number of NOTA votes till dateNone Of The Above (NOTA) option notched up 2.5% of popular votes, which translates into around nine lakh of Bihar's 6.69 crore voters.
Delhi polls: Around 0.4 per cent of voters cast NOTANearly 36,000 NOTA votes were polled, which comprised 0.4 per cent of the total ballots cast in Delhi, which is less than the corresponding...
Not many takers for NOTA in Maharashtra, Haryana pollsPercentage-wise, it was 0.9% of the voters who hit the NOTA button in Maharashtra with Haryana seeing 0.4% of the electors going for that o...
Election Results 2014: Over 58,000 voters in Punjab, 34,000 in Haryana opt for NOTAThe strength of NOTA was in excess of votes polled to CPI (0.2 per cent) and CPM (0.2 per cent) parties in Haryana, as per data available.
Lok Sabha polls 2014: Meghalaya has the highest percentage of voters pushing NOTAMeghalaya emerged with the highest % of voters who chose the NOTA option introduced for the first time, said an election official.
Delhi Polls: Having 'little expectations', many voters use NOTA optionA section of voters here chose to exercise the newly-introduced 'None Of The Above Option' (NOTA) option in Delhi polls.
NOTA bene, polls need radical reformSC has asked the Election Commission to provide an extra button in electronic voting machines: this button would have “none of the above” o...
India may become 14th country to allow negative votingIf the Supreme Court verdict on negative voting is implemented, India will become the 14th country to adopt this practice.