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
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
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has said that there is no evidence to back petitioner and Janata Party President Subramanian Swamy's plea that Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) can be tampered with. The High Court has called for wider consultations before a decision is taken and said that it is difficult to issue any directions to the Election Commission (EC) on EVMs as of now. In his plea, Swamy had...
11:05 AM, Jan 17, 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
Kolkata: The Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) would go through special checking to avoid technical snags during polls, Chief Electoral Officer Sunil Gupta told reporters in Kolkata on Friday. "We had a first round of checking in front of representatives of political parties. But for the first time, the second round of checking would also be done before the parties," Gupta said. "We will go through a special checking to see...
12:49 PM, Apr 09, 2011
Patna: Former Bihar chief minister and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) head Lalu Prasad will on Thursday meet Election Commission officials to formally complain about alleged irregularities in electronic voting machines (EVMs) in the recently held assembly polls. "Lalu will meet top officials of the commission in New Delhi on December 23 and petition a complaint about the irregularities in EVMs. He will meet the officials with a team of technical...
11:55 AM, Dec 22, 2010
Washington: Hari K Prasad Vemuru, a jailed Indian e-voting researcher, is one of the four winners of the 2010 Pioneer Awards of San Francisco headquartered Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a leading civil liberties group. The three other winners are transparency activist Steven Aftergood; public domain scholar James Boyle; and legal blogger Pamela Jones and the website Groklaw. Vemuru, who was recently released on bail after being imprisoned for his security...
11:11 AM, Oct 22, 2010
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