Agartala: Expressing concern over possible tampering of old Electronic Voting Machines, the opposition Congress in Tripura has requested the Election Commission to conduct the coming assembly elections with new foolproof Electronic Voting Machines (EVM). Prominent Congress Leader and former Chief Minister Samir Ranjan Burman in a letter on Friday requested the Chief Election Commissioner, "It is our earnest request that the Commission may kindly arrange for conducting of the coming...
06:09 PM, Apr 07, 2012
Kanpur: The emergence of electronic voting machines (EVM) has made counting of votes easy and quick but many feel that this has also caused a decline in the excitement levels which used to be there among people when it was a manual process. "Earlier, the vote counting used to take 2-3 days during which party supporters sat outside the counting office and shouted slogans in favour of their candidate. It...
05:08 PM, Mar 05, 2012
Panaji: Over 1,600 electronic voting machines will on Tuesday reveal which party rules the 10.26 lakh Goans who voted in record numbers for a new government. According to poll officials, the new ruling political dispensation in Goa will be decided within two hours of counting at the two counting centres on Tuesday (March 6). It is yet to be decided whether counting of the votes cast on Saturday will begin...
12:29 PM, Mar 05, 2012
New Delhi: With just a day left for the marathon Uttar Pradesh campaign to end, Samajwadi Party leader and the man who is now being seen as the game changer, Akhilesh Yadav, has made a stunning allegation against the Congress. In an interview to IBN18 Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai on the campaign trail in western UP, Akhilesh claimed that the Congress was trying to manipulate Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) to avoid...
01:11 PM, Feb 29, 2012
Lucknow: An investigation has revealed that Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) of nine constituencies in Lucknow were damaged during their storage in a government strong house, where huge amount of water seeped through from an overhead tank. A team led by the District Magistrate visited the site and assured that there was no damage to the EVMs. Said Anil Sagar, DM, "Yes, there is a seepage from the overhead tank, but...
11:39 AM, Feb 26, 2012
Mumbai: In new trouble for the Congress, MLA Amin Patel on Thursday was accused of storming a polling station in Byculla, Mumbai and tampering the EVM machine at the booth. Amin Patel is the Congress candidate from the Mumbadevi constituency. The matter came to light when clashes broke out between workers of the Samajwadi Party and the Congress after news surfaced that Patel and his supporters had stormed into a...
08:58 AM, Feb 17, 2012
Dehra Dun: Paving way for the visually impaired to have a decisive role in the country's democratic process, the Election Commission is encouraging use of EVMs having braille signs in Dehradun in Uttarakhand where polling is on to elect the state's third Assembly. Unlike the 2007 elections when only braille EVMs were introduced, these multi-purpose machines can be used both by visually-challenged and normal persons alike. With this, it has...
05:40 PM, Jan 30, 2012
Chandigarh: Election authorities in Punjab on Monday replaced 11 electronic voting machines (EVMs) in Mansa district after complaints that an unidentified person had tried to tamper with them. Workers of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and the People's Party of Punjab (PPP) had complained to the Election Commission (EC), alleging that an unidentified person had tried to break the seals of the EVMs in the sub-divisional magistrate (SDM) office here...
12:27 PM, Jan 30, 2012
New Delhi: Elections began on a controversial note in Mansa district in Punjab on Monday. A BSP candidate claimed on Sunday that he caught the Sub Divisional Magistrate tampering with 11 Electronic Voting Machines by pressing buttons marked Akali Dal. The SDM however defended himself saying that he had merely been testing the machine. The BSP leader has filed a complaint. The Election Commission is looking into it. The EC...
11:00 AM, Jan 30, 2012
Mumbai: In a sudden frenzy of acquisition, the government has approved a staggering sum of Rs 47.5 crore for the purchase of new electronic voting machines (EVMs). The urgency of the purchase is indicated by the fact that Rs 5 crore has been extracted from the state's Contingency Fund as a down payment for the machines. If sources are to be believed, the government has not made this sudden, unplanned...
02:39 PM, Jan 28, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court is likely Tuesday to pronounce its verdict on a plea of Janata Party President Subramanian Swamy that a paper trail be incorporated to record the votes cast through electronic voting machine (EVMs) or return to the old system of paper ballots. A bench of Acting Chief Justice AK Sikri and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw, which had reserved its verdict, is expected to pronounce the...
08:09 AM, Jan 17, 2012
New Delhi: The Election Commission (EC) has taken the allegations of Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) being tampered with rather seriously. In an attempt to convince the voters about the fool proof nature of these machines, the EC is in the process of testing a new system called the Voter Verifiable Audit Trail System (VVPAT) which will be tested during mock polls that will be conducted in five states including the...
09:34 AM, Jun 22, 2011
Chennai: The declaration of results to the State Assembly elections slated for May 13 might be marginally delayed by a few hours, Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Praveen Kumar indicated in Chennai on Sunday. Speaking to Express after holding a consultative meet with recognised political parties on the preparations to the counting exercise, Kumar pointed out that in previous polls, the counting process continued even while the collation for the earlier...
11:17 AM, May 09, 2011
Kolkata: Election Commission has made extensive security arrangement for the 14 Maoist-affected seats, spread over three districts, for the sixth and final phase of West Bengal Assembly election on May 10. "Based on reports from intelligence and other agencies, we have prepared our strategy. We have worked out a security system and made it fool-proof," State's Chief Electoral Officer Sunil Gupta told reporters on Sunday. Besides 41 companies of Central...
10:57 AM, May 09, 2011
New Delhi: Gearing up for the counting of votes in the Assembly polls in five states on May 13, the Election Commission has directed authorities to ensure that the counting halls are ready by Tuesday. A three-tier cordoning system should also be put in place to guard the counting premises to ensure a trouble-free exercise, which will decide the fate of several political heavyweights in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala,...
12:41 PM, May 08, 2011
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