New Delhi: Ahead of the counting of votes on Thursday, the opposition parties have asked their workers to keep a strict vigil at places where Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) are stored amid apprehensions that EVMs could be tampered with. The Election Commission (EC) has repeatedly allayed apprehensions on this count, dismissing all reports of EVM […]
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Congress flays EC for rejecting VVPAT slip count plea
New Delhi: Hours after the Election Commission on Wednesday rejected demand of 23 opposition parties to count the VVPAT slips, the Congress hit back saying the poll panel had become enfeebled and dubbed the electronic voting machines (EVMs) as “election victory machines”. Addressing the media at the party headquarters here, Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi […]
Be vigil near strong rooms, Priyanka tells partymen
New Delhi: Amid reports of new Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) being brought to the strong room in Uttar Pradesh’s Mirzapur, Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Monday appealed to the party workers to stay vigil near the strong rooms. In an audio message, Priyanka Gandhi said: “Don’t lose your heart by the exit polls as […]
EVMs have no role in exit polls: Arun Jaitley’s swipe at opposition
New Delhi: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Monday took a swipe at the opposition parties, saying the EVMs have no role in exit polls and if the results are in the same direction, their “fake” issue would also lose its non-existent rationale. In a blog, the senior BJP leader asserted that voters are sending several […]
Exit polls a game plan to manipulate EVMs: Mamata
Kolkata: Dismissing the exit poll predictions of the Lok Sabha elections as “gossip”, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday said it was a “game plan to manipulate and replace thousands of EVMs” and urged opposition leaders to stand strong and united. “I don’t trust exit poll gossip. The game plan is to manipulate or […]
14.17% voting in WB amid EVM failures, sporadic violence
Kolkata: West Bengal recorded 14.17 per cent polling to the state’s nine Lok Sabha seats amid a few incidents of sporadic violence and reports of EVM failures in several booths leading to either delay or stalling of the poll process, an official said. Long queues of voters of various age groups were seen outside polling booths […]
SC declines increase in verification of VVPAT slips with EVMs
New Delhi: In a set back to the Opposition, the Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to increase the count for the verification of voter-verified paper audit trail (VVPAT) slips with Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) in the ongoing Lok Sabha polls. A bench headed by the Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi said “we are not willing to modify […]
Questions over EVMs after 10K glitches, EC swears by machines
New Delhi: In the midst of the election season, questions are being raised by various Opposition parties over the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) after about 10,000 of these machines malfunctioned at different places during the first three phases of Lok Sabha polls. The Election Commission (EC) has deployed 23.4 lakh EVMs for balloting at 10.5 […]
EVMs across India faulty or voting for BJP: Akhilesh Yadav
Lucknow: EVMs across India are either malfunctioning or voting for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Samajwadi Party leader and former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav said on Tuesday. Akhilesh Yadav quoted District Magistrates as saying that election officials were not trained to operate the electronic voting machines (EVMs). More than 350 of them had been […]
Faulty EVMs delay voting in Kerala
Thiruvananthapuram: Numerous complaints of malfunctioning of electronic voting machines (EVMs) were reported from across Kerala on Tuesday as the state voted to elect 20 Lok Sabha members. The malfunctioning was pointed out by none other than Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan who said that election officials appear to have failed to ensure that the EVMs worked properly. […]