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SC refuses urgent hearing on PIL seeking re-polling with ballot papers
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi (India) Jun 14 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Friday refused urgent hearing on a plea seeking the top court's direction to conduct fresh Lok Sabha polls using ballot paper.
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Bringing back ballot papers is like using lanterns in era of electric bulb
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi (India), June 4 (ANI): Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Tuesday said, "bringing back ballot papers is like using lanterns in the era of electric bulbs," a day after Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee urged the opposition parties to unitedly demand the return of ballot papers in el
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Indonesia elections: More than 270 staff die from fatigue-related illnesse
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Jakarta [Indonesia], Apr 29 (ANI): Ten days after Indonesia held the world's biggest single-day Presidential elections, more than 270 election workers have lost their lives mostly due to fatigue-related illnesses caused by long hours of work counting millions of ballot papers by hand, aut
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Cong, TMC complains to EC alleging BJP appears below party's symbol on EVM
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi (India), Apr 27 (ANI): Congress along with other opposition parties met Election Commission (EC) on Saturday alleging that the initials of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has been printed below the party symbol on the ballot papers on the EVMs.
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Telangana: Farmers file petition in HC to postpone election in Nizamabad
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], Apr 5 (ANI): A section of farmers have moved a petition in the High Court requesting to postpone Lok Sabha election in Nizamabad and use ballot papers.
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22 opposition parties to urge ECI to replace EVMs with ballot papers for c
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi (India), Feb 4 (ANI): As many as 22 opposition parties will meet the Election Commission of India (ECI) on Monday, seeking the replacement of electronic voting machines (EVMs) with ballot papers for conducting the coming Lok Sabha polls, TMC leader and Rajya Sabha MP Derek O'Brien
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Haryana fully prepared for LS, Assembly polls: Chief Secretary Dhesi
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Chandigarh (Haryana) [India], Jan 25 (ANI): Haryana Chief Secretary DS Dhesi on Friday said the Lok Sabha and the Vidhan Sabha elections would be conducted this year and the government system is fully prepared for the successful conduct of elections.
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No going back to ballot paper era and we won’t be intimidated: CEC
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi, [India], Jan 24 (ANI) There is no going back to the era of ballot papers and “we are not going to be intimidated, bullied or coerced into giving up” the EVMs, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sunil Arora asserted on Thursday, amid demands by some parties for d
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Will not going back to era of ballot papers: CEC
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi, [India], Jan 24 (ANI): Chief Election Commissioner of India Sunil Arora on Thursday rejected opposition parties demand and made it clear that country is not going back to the era of ballot papers.
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Former CEC Naveen Chawla calls EVM a fine machine, cautions against return
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Former Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Naveen Chawla on Tuesday said that EVM was “a very good and fine machine” and cautioned against returning to the use of ballot papers for conducting the polls.
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Telangana Polls: Cong approaches EC, demands withdrawal of 'pink' ballot p
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi (India), Nov 22, (ANI): The Congress Party on Thursday approached the Election Commission of India (ECI) seeking withdrawal of the pink colored ballot papers that were to be used in the upcoming assembly polls in Telangana.
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Uttarakhand civic polls to be majorly held via ballot papers
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], Oct 15 (ANI): The upcoming municipal body elections in Uttarakhand will be held through ballot papers in 84 out of 92 municipal bodies on November 18.
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