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India News: NEW DELHI: For all the doubts expressed regarding reliability of electronic voting machines from time to time, including by West Bengal chief minister. ....
NEW DELHI: Even before the announcement of polls on February 26, the Election Commission had started receiving letters from West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee expressing misgivings about electronic voting machines (EVMs) and voter verifiable paper audit trail (VVPAT) and even demanding a third-party audit of the results. Three separate letters were written by Banerjee on February 6, February 24 and March 2, demanding, among other things, independent third-party audit of results with findings to be made public, 100% tallying of EVM count with VVPAT slips and ordering repoll in the event of a mismatch; and increasing display time of VVPAT slips from the current 7 seconds to 15 seconds and also allowing the voter to cancel his/her vote in case of any discrepancy. “With the fierce rivalry of opposition political parties looking to win by hook or crook.tampering of EVMs and VVPATs is not unlikely in West Bengal assembly,” she had noted while suggesting these “solutio ....
Representative image PUDUCHERRY: The Election Commission of India has made elaborate arrangements to announce the early trends and the final results of assembly elections in the Union territory of Puducherry and four states besides byelections, said Puducherry district collector and district officer Purva Garg. The commission will update the round-wise trends of each constituency every few minutes and announce the results on its website https://results.eci.gov.in and through the mobile application Voter Helpline’. The counting of votes in Puducherry will commence at 8am on Sunday at three centres in the Puducherry region covering 23 assembly constituencies, a centre at Karaikal covering five constituencies and a centre for Mahe and Yanam each covering one constituency each. ....
A security personnel stationed outside the strong room where EVMs have been kept, in Guwahati on Thursday GUWAHATI: The Congress’ Assam unit on Thursday filed a complaint with the Election Commission alleging “serious discrepancies” regarding the safety of a strong room and electronic voting machines used in the recently held assembly polls, and demanded an inquiry into the matter. In a letter to the Election Commission, Assam Congress chief Ripun Bora said lack of safety of a strong room and EVMs were noticed in several assembly constituencies in Lakhimpur, Dibrugarh and Goalpara districts. The tags/slips bearing the number of ballot unit, control unit and the VVPAT used in two polling stations under the Dhakuakhana seat in Lakhimpur district were found by Congress supporters outside the sealed strong room in which they were kept, Bora alleged in the letter. ....
At least five VVPATs (Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trails) will be counted in each LAC (Legislative Assembly Constituency) during the counting of votes on May 2, 2021. ....