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'EVMs absolutely safe in strongrooms': EC refutes Opposition claims on movement of voting machines
India | May 21, 2019, 05:20 PM ISTThe Election Commission of India on Tuesday refuted Opposition's allegations regarding movement of EVMs purportedly to replace the polled voting machines in the strongrooms.
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Opposition submit memorandum to EC to carry out VVPAT verification before counting votes
India | May 21, 2019, 04:33 PM ISTIn the memorandum, the opposition leaders have also demanded that if any discrepancy is found anywhere during the VVPAT verification, 100 per cent counting of paper slips of VVPATs of all polling stations of that assembly segment should be done.
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Safety of EVMs is Election Commission’s responsibility: Pranab Mukherjee
India | May 21, 2019, 03:40 PM IST“Onus on ensuring institutional integrity in this case(security of EVMs) lies with the Election Commission, they must do so and put all speculations to rest,” Mukherjee said in a statement.
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EC rubbishes ‘baseless’ reports of unescorted movement of EVMs
India | May 21, 2019, 12:11 PM IST"Polled EVMs are safe in sealed strong rooms under security, CCTV coverage and surveillance of candidates. There is no possibility of changing EVMs. Don't panic and keep faith," the official handle of Chief Electoral Officer of Uttar Pradesh said.
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NDA candidate from Wayanad demands re-polling after EVM malfunction
Apr 23, 2019, 12:01 PM IST“Please take necessary steps for re-polling as pressing the voting machine twice can make changes in the voting,” it added.
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Polling in Phase 2 of Lok Sabha Election 2019 concludes: Srinagar records 13.43% voter turnout
Apr 18, 2019, 07:36 PM ISTPuducherry saw a high voter turnout of 78 per cent while in Manipur, the polling percentage was nearly 75, sources in the election office said.
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Voter smashes EVM in Maharashtra's Akola
Apr 18, 2019, 06:49 PM ISTThe incident occurred at around 1 p.m. at the Balapur polling station no. 29 where polling was underway for the second phase of elections in 10 Lok Sabha seats in the state, said an Election Commission official.
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Telangana: BJP contestant wants to put his lock on EVM strong rooms
Apr 15, 2019, 08:09 PM ISTArvind Dharmapuri wrote to the Returning Officer of the constituency which went to polls on April 11 and created a record with use of 12 electronic voting machines (EVMs) in each polling booth to accommodate 185 candidates, plus NOTA.
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Polling goes on till midnight in Andhra Pradesh due to faulty EVMs
Apr 12, 2019, 10:11 AM ISTThough the scheduled polling time ended at 6.00 pm, voters in the queue waiting outside the booths were being allowed to exercise their franchise.
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LS elections 2019 | There's no need to increase VVPAT count to match it with EVM: EC in Supreme Court
Mar 29, 2019, 02:12 PM ISTThe General Elections are scheduled to be held in seven phases from 11 April to 19 May 2019 to constitute the 17th Lok Sabha.
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Lok Sabha Polls 2019: Vehicles carrying reserved EVMs, VVPATs to be fitted with GPS trackers
Mar 15, 2019, 02:19 PM ISTInstructions have been issued to all state chief electoral officers to carefully monitor 'end-to-end' movement of all reserved EVMs and paper trail machines.
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SC to hear opposition plea on EVMs today
Mar 15, 2019, 06:29 AM ISTIn the plea, they requested the court that 50 per cent of results of electronic voting machines (EVMs) must be matched and cross-checked with VVPATs before the declaration of results in the general elections.
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Lok Sabha Elections 2019 | EC to take call on increasing VVPAT-EVM count after Indian Statistical Institute report
Mar 11, 2019, 07:17 AM ISTThere have been demands to increase the number of polling stations where EVM and VVPAT results are matched to dispel fears about electronic voting machines being 'hacked' to favour a particular political party.
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Vehicles transporting reserve EVM's, VVPATs to have GPS trackers: Official
India | Mar 09, 2019, 11:16 AM ISTThe poll panel has instructed that end-to-end movement of all reserve EVMs and VVPATs shall be carefully monitored at all times
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Most parties have reposed faith in EVMs, though some asked for counting of more VVPAT slips: CEC Sunil Arora
India | Feb 13, 2019, 08:00 AM ISTArora said the group of experts from the Indian Statistical Organisation and National Sample Survey Organisation would submit its report soon on the possibility of counting VVPATs.
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Govt seeks Rs 1600 crore to pay EVM suppliers
India | Feb 10, 2019, 06:14 PM ISTThe third batch of supplementary demands for grants will be passed by February 13 when the Budget session concludes.
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Lok Sabha Polls: Oppn demands matching of 50% of EVM results with VVPATs
Feb 04, 2019, 08:33 PM IST"If it is not possible to introduce ballot papers then at least 50 per cent of VVPAT should be counted for cross verification with EVM," Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge told media outside the EC office.
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'Not going back to era of ballot papers, EC won't be intimidated or bullied': CEC on demands against use of EVMs
India | Jan 24, 2019, 05:08 PM ISTHe also lamented that EVMs are being used as a "football" and some sections are doing a "motivated slugfest" over their use.
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'Perfectly fine': Bihar CM Nitish Kumar dismisses allegations over credibility of EVMs
Jan 23, 2019, 12:00 PM ISTOn Tuesday, the Congress demanded that the Election Commission address the "very serious" issues raised at a London presser by a self-proclaimed cyber expert on the functioning of EVMs.
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EVM hackathon in London | EC lodges police complaint against Syed Shuja; not our employee, clarifies ECIL
India | Jan 23, 2019, 07:36 AM ISTIn a letter to the Deputy Commissioner of Police, New Delhi, the Election Commission said that Shuja's claims made through video conferencing in London violated the IPC, particularly Section 505, which deals with "public mischief".