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EC announces bypolls to 3 assembly seats in Bihar, MP and Gujarat on July 30Bypolls for three assembly seats in Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, and Gujarat are scheduled for July 30, the Election Commission announced. The va...
Ageing EVMs, more booths: EC seeks Rs 500 crore ahead of 2029 pollsThe Election Commission of India is preparing for the 2029 general elections. It needs over ₹500 crore to buy new electronic voting machine...
Kerala Assembly election results on May 4 after high-stakes triangular fightThis Monday, the political landscape of Kerala is set to shift as the counting of votes begins for the Assembly elections held on April 9. ...
- Parties say EVMs, VVPATs malfunctioned; EC says reports exaggerated
Concerns were raised by parties about the functioning of paper trail machines. Sources in the EC noted that failure on part of the ground s...
1,440 VVPATs verified in Maharashtra polls, all results matched with EVM counts: OfficialMaharashtra's Additional Chief Electoral Officer confirmed 1,440 VVPATs were verified during the recent assembly polls, with results matchi...
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...
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...
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...
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. ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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- ...
Opposition leaders to meet EC officials regarding tallying of VVPAT slips with EVM figuresThe opposition parties are demanding tallying of VVPAT slips with EVM figures in an entire Assembly constituency in case a discrepancy is f...
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 ...
Supreme Court rejects opposition's VVPAT demandA bench led by CJI Ranjan Gogoi had raised the VVPAT tallying from one booth per assembly segment to five earlier, ignoring EC’s protests, ...
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.
Store EVMs in government buildings only: EC’s advisory to electoral officersThe stricter new standard operating procedure is aimed at avoiding any controversy around the EVMs or VVPATs in the upcoming Lok Sabha elec...
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.