Vvpats

Lok Sabha election 2019: N Chandrababu Naidu urges Election Commission to verify 50% EVMs using VVPAT slips

This comes ahead of the Supreme Court hearing on a petition filed by 21 Opposition parties, led by Naidu, to review its judgment rejecting 50 percent random physical verification of EVMs using VVPAT.

EC announces Lok Sabha election dates: VVPATs, to be used in all polling stations, help bring more accuracy in voting

VVPATs act as the second round of verification in the electoral process, wherein the electoral officers ensure the vote polled by a voter goes to the correct candidate.

From VVPATs and apps to ads of candidates facing criminal charges: Election Commission's new measures for Lok Sabha polls

The Election Commission has introduced a slew of new measures to iron out some of the hiccups of India's previous 16 national ballots and increase public trust in the democratic process.

Political parties want simultaneous Assembly and Lok Sabha elections in Jammu and Kashmir, says CEC

The Election Commission of India Tuesday said that almost all political parties in Jammu and Kashmir have expressed full faith in the ECI and batted for holding state Assembly polls simultaneously with the Lok Sabha elections.

CEC Sunil Arora says Lok Sabha election will be held on time, announces 1,63,331 polling centres to be used in polls

"The election in the country will be held on time," Arora told reporters in Lucknow when asked about the poll schedule in the wake of tensions between India and Pakistan

Sunil Arora replaces OP Rawat as CEC, says 'free, fair, credible' polling is ECI's top priority

A 1980 batch IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre, Sunil Arora is the senior most officer in the ECI. Before moving to the ECI, Arora was Information and Broadcasting Secretary, and Secretary in the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship.

MP election 2018: High turnout in Assembly polls amid EVM snags perfectly captures paradox of Hindi heartland

Though voting is conducted electronically, hundreds of electors returned after waiting for hours, when Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) malfunctioned.

Madhya Pradesh Assembly polls: Of frogs, scales and why (upper) caste equations may not worry Shivraj Singh Chouhan

What makes Shivraj Singh Chouhan's task a bit easier is the clear distinction between the BJP and the Congress: while the former is firing on all cylinders, the latter is awaiting a windfall

Madhya Pradesh Assembly elections: Defective EVMs send voters packing without casting ballot; EC replaces 250, many still to go

Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) were first deployed by the Election Commission of India in 1999 during Goa Assembly elections. Two decades later, every time India votes, it still somehow begins with complaints related to faulty or malfunctioning EVMs which leads to loss of crucial voting hours.

EC says over 17 lakh VVPAT machines for 2019 Lok Sabha polls to reach states by November end

The EC said it is committed to 100 percent deployment of paper trail machines at all polling stations in future Lok Sabha and legislative Assembly elections.