VVPAT-EVM verification: Supreme Court rejects plea seeking review of verdictThe Supreme Court dismissed a petition for 100% verification of EVM votes with VVPAT slips, stating no review of its April 26 judgement is ...
30 Jul, 2024, 11.33 AM IST
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
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
Lok Sabha Election Result 2024: How will 64 crore votes be counted? Here is the complete processThe counting of votes for the Lok Sabha elections will follow strict guidelines set by the Election Commission. The process will begin with...
04 Jun, 2024, 05.38 AM 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
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 dismisses PIL seeking 100 % matching of VVPAT slips with EVMs during vote counting on May 23A three-judge bench led by CJI Ranjan Gogoi directed EC to do an EVM-VVPAT tally of at least five polling stations randomly picked from eve...
22 May, 2019, 08.42 AM 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