Electronic Voting Machine
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Delhi Assembly Polls: AAP launches website to monitor votes and ensure EVM integrity | Details here
Delhi | Feb 03, 2025, 07:08 PM ISTDelhi Assembly Election 2025: The Delhi assembly polls will be held in a single phase on February 5 and the counting of votes will take place on February 8. The upcoming election is set to witness a triangular contest among the Aam Aadmi Party, Bharatiya Janata Party, and Congress.
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SC rejects plea seeking review of VVPAT-EVM verification verdict: Here's what top court said
India | Jul 30, 2024, 11:38 AM ISTAssociation for Democratic Reforms (ADR), Arun Kumar Aggarwal, among others had filed petitions in the top court seeking more extensive verification of EVMs data against VVPAT records.
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Election Commission receives applications for EVM verification on 8 Lok Sabha seats in six states
India | Jun 20, 2024, 06:17 PM ISTLok Sabha Elections 2024: According to the EC's Standard Operating Procedure, the cost submitted by manufacturers BEL and ECIL to carry out EVM "check and verification" is Rs 40,000 (plus 18 per cent GST) per set of EVM.
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'EVMs in India are a black box', Rahul Gandhi joins Elon Musk to criticise electronic voting machine
India | Jun 16, 2024, 01:56 PM ISTGandhi's X post marked as the return of EVMs debate in the political circles. The opposition parties have been raising concerns over EVMs for some time now. They had demanded a 100 per cent count of the VVPAT slips which was not allowed.
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Andhra High Court asks police not to take action against YSRCP MLA in EVM vandalism case till June 5
India | May 24, 2024, 09:08 AM ISTEight police teams of Andhra have been searching for MLA Pinnelli Ramakrishna Reddy for the last two days as the Election Commission has ordered his immediate arrest.
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Supreme Court rejects all petitions seeking 100 per cent verification of EVM votes with VVPAT slips
India | Apr 26, 2024, 08:06 PM ISTIt is pertinent to note that, as per the current practice, the ECI randomly verifies the VVPAT slips of EVMs from five polling booths per assembly segment in a parliamentary constituency.
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'Tears in my eyes': PM Modi reacts as uneducated woman voter searches his photo on EVM in Rajasthan
India | Apr 25, 2024, 06:01 PM ISTPrime Minister Narendra Modi responded to a social media post by the Rajasthan BJP spokesperson on platform X, where the incident was highlighted. The PM said that tears came to his eyes upon seeing such affection for him, indicating the impact of personal connection in politics.
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Stop use of EVM, switch to ballot paper in forthcoming elections: Plea in Delhi HC
India | Jul 16, 2021, 01:06 PM ISTPetition seeking to stop the use of Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) and use ballot paper in any forthcoming elections was filed in Delhi High Court.
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At NDA meeting, PM Modi expresses concern over 'needless controversy' over EVMs
India | May 21, 2019, 11:21 PM ISTPrime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday expressed concern over the "needless controversy" created by the Opposition over EVMs at a meeting of NDA leaders, even as the ruling alliance laid out its agenda for the next five years if it is elected to power again.
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'Opposition already making excuses for inevitable defeat in LS polls': PM Modi's hard-hitting attack over EVM cries
Jan 20, 2019, 11:38 PM ISTPM Modi's attack came during his interaction with booth-level BJP workers from Lok Sabha constituencies of Hatkanangale, Kolhapur, Madha, Satara in Maharashtra and South Goa.
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Delhi HC Verdict On EVMs On Tuesday
India | Jan 16, 2012, 11:04 PM ISTNew Delhi, Jan 16: The Delhi High Court is likely to pronounce its verdict tomorrow on a plea of Janata Party President Subramanian Swamy that a paper trail be incorporated to record the votes cast