Random, multiple checking to remove fear of bias: ECReleasing the technical protocol for the Checking & Verification (C&V) for EVM-VVPATs, as directed by the SC in its April 26 order, the ECI...
Lok Sabha Poll Call 2024: ECI orders storing, sealing of symbol loaders from Phase 3Sealing and securing could see a shortage of up to 3,000 SLUs for the last two phases as the symbol loading machines used from phase 3 to p...
EVM source code should never be disclosed: SCSupreme Court on Wednesday made it clear that EVM source codes "should never be disclosed" as the same can be misused. A bench comprising j...
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 ...
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 finds no merit in 'going back to ballot paper' logicJustice Datta verbally remarked that "my home state West Bengal has more population than Germany". This was in response to contention raise...
Cynical to make EVMs scapegoats for poll defeatsThe ECI has attempted a compilation titled 'Legal history EVMs and VVPATs' -- an analysis of various court cases and this is being regularl...
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. ...
EVMs have cleared all tech, judicial tests: EC to INDIA blocThe INDIA-Opposition alliance last month sought 100% match between EVM and VVPAT slips and also that VVPAT slips be handed over to voters i...
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...
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- ...
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 opposition parties plan stir if Election Commission fails to actThe meeting saw heated exchanges between some leaders and chief election commissioner Sunil Arora.
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 ...
Bawana bypoll: 7 VVPATs show error, replacedOver 2.94 lakh voters are eligible to exercise their franchise in the Bawana constituency, in which the EVMs equipped with VVPAT are being ...
All EVMs in Gujarat assembly polls to have paper trailGujarat is set to become the first state to witness use of EVMs with paper trail in all polling booths during the assembly elections slated...