Opposition Congress party in Mizoram requests EC for changing the counting of ballot dateThe opposition Congress party in Mizoram has requested the Election Commission of India to change the date of counting ballots for the upco...
10 Oct, 2023, 07.38 PM IST
Election Commission initiates process to hold bypoll in Wayanad LS seat held by Rahul Gandhi before his disqualificationA court in Gujarat had sentenced Gandhi to two years in jail, following which the Lok Sabha Speaker disqualified him from the lower house. ...
07 Jun, 2023, 09.24 PM IST
Elector making false complaint over EVM malfunction must know consequence: SCThe plea has alleged that putting the onus on the elector in cases of arbitrary deviant behaviour of machines used in election process infr...
28 Nov, 2022, 06.26 PM IST
Declaration of Delhi Lok Sabha poll result may get delayed by 5-6 hours: Chief Electoral OfficerDelhi has 7 Lok Sabha seats and in all 350 VVPATs will be counted.
20 May, 2019, 03.14 PM IST
View: EC's prosecution of complaining voters against natural justiceThe commission proclaims that the EVM with voter-verifiable paper audit trail (VVPAT) is the only option for India as it is “auditable, tra...
02 May, 2019, 11.22 PM IST
Decent turnout but no surge in voting in Tami Nadu on peaceful dayAccording to preliminary data, 69.55% of voters exercised their franchise before the voting ended at 6 pm in all but one seat.
19 Apr, 2019, 10.22 AM IST
Kairana bypoll: Samajwadi Party asks voters to verify votes cast in VVPATThe Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) machine is connected with EVMs and dispenses a paper proof for the voters so that they can ver...
14 May, 2018, 12.42 PM IST
Gujarat Congress moves court on EVMs, VVPATs; HC issues notice to ECThe petition states that the defective EVMs and VVPATs should be sealed and not used at any polling booth in the state.
06 Nov, 2017, 05.40 PM IST
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...
07 Jul, 2017, 10.52 AM IST
Have complete faith in EVMs: Election CommissionThe EC also said it has not received a specific complaint from any political party or candidate about alleged EVM tampering.
21 May, 2017, 10.57 AM IST
Supreme Court seeks Centre's response on plea for VVPAT for Gujarat pollsA SC bench issued notice to the Centre, the CEC, the Gujarat government and the state election commission, and sought their response in fou...
07 May, 2017, 12.37 PM IST
Election Commission seeks report on VVPAT dispensing BJP slips in Madhya Pradesh"We have sought a detailed report from district election officer and would come up with a response in the evening," a Commission spokespers...
01 Apr, 2017, 02.42 PM IST
VVPAT snag: Repolling ordered at 48 polling stations in Punjab on February 9Besides, the repolling will also take place at polling stations in Moga and Sardulgarh segments where EVMs displayed the votes polled durin...
07 Feb, 2017, 01.40 PM IST
Supreme Court asks EC for plan on EVMs with paper trailhe system, known as Voter Verified Paper Audit Trial (VVPT), intended to prevent rigging of elections, is yet to be introduced in all const...
07 Jan, 2017, 01.00 AM IST
Paper-trail EVMs to be used in Khammam municipal pollsThe upcoming Khammam Municipal Corporation elections in Telangana would be held with voter-verified paper audit trail enabled EVMs.
03 Mar, 2016, 04.28 PM IST
Lok Sabha Polls 2014: EVM slip will help voters verify their voteThis time, voters in Gandhinagar Lok Sabha constituency will be able to verify if their vote has been cast right, with help of VVPAT.
29 Apr, 2014, 12.40 PM IST
Lok Sabha polls 2014: Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail to be introduced in Jadavpur constituencyThe E.C. has chosen Jadavpur Lok Sabha constituency to launch the Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail system in EVMs on an experimental basis
02 Apr, 2014, 11.40 AM IST