EVM VVPAT case: SC rejects pleas seeking paper audit of all votes, says 'blindly doubting can breed scepticism'The Supreme Court dismissed all petitions seeking 100% verification of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) with Voter Verifiable Paper Audit ...
26 Apr, 2024, 12.19 PM IST
EVM-VVPAT Case: Supreme Court to decide today on pleas seeking 100% cross-verification of EVM votes with VVPAT slipsEVM-VVPAT Case, Supreme Court Order: India's Supreme Court is set to announce its decision on petitions calling for cross-verification of v...
26 Apr, 2024, 09.32 AM IST
SC reserves judgment in EVM-VVPAT case after seeking certain clarifications from ECIThe Supreme Court has reserved its judgment in the EVM-VVPAT case after seeking clarification from the Election Commission of India regardi...
24 Apr, 2024, 02.57 PM IST
Supreme Court reserves judgment on petitions seeking 100% EVM-VVPAT verificationThe Supreme Court reserved its judgment on petitions urging for 100% verification of Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) slips before ...
18 Apr, 2024, 04.25 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
What is VVPAT?The VVPAT machine gives instant feedback to the voter, through a printed slip.
05 Feb, 2020, 02.41 PM IST
Eight cases of VVPAT-EVM mismatch in Lok Sabha pollsThe counting mismatch –– estimated at 0.0004% –– has had no impact on the final election results in the eight cases, an election commission...
22 Jul, 2019, 08.28 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
Frame counting rules if VVPATs, EVMs don’t tally: Opposition parties to ECThe move came after the SC rejected a review petition filed by 21 opposition parties for increasing the VVPAT tallying with EVM figures to ...
08 May, 2019, 08.46 AM IST
SC for more VVPAT matching in polls; tells EC no institution should insulate itself from improvement"No institution, including judiciary, can insulate itself from suggestion for improvement," said Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi.
26 Mar, 2019, 09.50 AM IST
Will get all paper trail machines required for next Lok Sabha polls by Nov end: ECThe statement is apparently in response to certain media reports reportedly questioning the availability of the machines ordered for the LS...
26 Sep, 2018, 08.55 PM IST
Election Commission says reports of large-scale EVM failure "exaggerated"The poll panel also rejected reports of polling being cancelled in 35 booth in Bhandara-Gondiya LS constituency in Maharashtra.
28 May, 2018, 04.02 PM IST
Poll panel’s plan to use VVPATs in 2019 elections on trackDesigned by BEL/ECIL, VVPATs were approved by EC in 2013 and the Centre recently released Rs 3,174 crore for its procurement.
04 Aug, 2017, 12.12 AM IST