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‘Come hack EVMs’: EC comes out with an ‘open challenge’ amid tampering allegations

The Election Commission has come out with an open challenge to hack EVMs from first week of May.

16 opposition parties urge EC to revert to paper ballots, say faith of people in EVMs has 'eroded'

Sixteen Opposition parties today urged the Election Commission to revert to the paper ballot system, claiming the faith of the people in the EVMs has eroded.

EVM row: Has the opposition learnt no lessons from the demonetisation debacle?

In scenes that drew sharp resemblance to the uproar over the government’s demonetisation decision, Opposition parties today disrupted proceedings in the Rajya Sabha over alleged tampering of EVMs to favour the ruling BJP.

Rajya Sabha disrupted over EVM row

Rajya Sabha MPs bat for paper trail in EVMs, state funding of polls

Members in the Rajya Sabha today sought the use of VVPAT machines and called for bold electoral reforms like state funding of polls and audit of election spending by political parties.

Rejecting objections by political parties, former CECs swear by reliability of EVMs

Requesting political parties not to pass their "unhappiness of the loss" on to the EVM machines, former chiefs of the Election Commission of India have vouched for the reliability of these machines.

EVMs are tamper-proof as ever, allegations 'wild and baseless,' asserts EC

The Election Commission today asserted that the electronic voting machines (EVMs) are fully tamper-proof, as ever.

MCD elections to be held on April 22 through EVMs, counting on April 25

The elections for the Municipal Corporation of Delhi will be held on April 22 while the counting of votes will be done on April 25.

EVMs to display photos of candidates to check dummies

New Delhi: Sunil Tatkare, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) candidate from Raigad in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, lost the polls only by a margin of 2100 votes. Interestingly, an independent candidate Sunil Tatkare polled 9,500

Delhi Polls: Things to remember before you go to vote

New Delhi: Delhi assembly election is a day away and curtains have come down to one of the heated and tightly fought elections in the Capital. Leaders of all the parties, including Arvind Kejriwal, Kiran

Election Commission going extra mile to ensure well functioning EVMs

New Delhi: The Delhi chief electoral office is making every effort to ensure that the upcoming Assembly polls are conducted in the most transparent, free and fair manner.A senior official says a foolproof multi-layered system

Brisk polling in Jharkhand

Ranchi: About 16.32 per cent turnout was recorded in the first two hours in 20 Jharkhand Assembly constituencies across seven Maoist-hit districts where polling was underway today in the second phase.Brisk polling was being reported

Nearly 90 million UP votes to be counted Friday

Lucknow: Nearly 90 million votes polled for the 80 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh will be counted Friday at 76 centres spread across the state, an official said Thursday.The counting process, which begins at

Counting in Delhi: 8.2 million votes, 2,000 EVMs, 150 candidates

New Delhi: Counting of 8.2 million votes in Delhi will be done at seven counting centres where more than 7,000 security personnel drawn from Delhi Police and seven companies of a paramilitary force will be

CPI-M demands repoll in 100 Bolpur booths

Kolkata: The CPI-M Wednesday demanded repolling in nearly 100 booths in West Bengal's Bolpur Lok Sabha constituency, alleging that the ruling Trinamool Congress was adopting unfair and intimidatory tactics.Communist Party of India-Marxist's Bolpur candidate Ramchandra

Re-polling in one booth in West Bengal's Malda today

Kolkata: Re-polling will be held in one booth on Sunday in West Bengal's Malda district following an electronic voting machine (EVM) error during Thursday's polls."Re-polling has been scheduled in the Malda South parliamentary constituency due