Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate for the Puri Lok Sabha seat Sambit Patra voiced serious concerns on Saturday regarding malfunctioning Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) at multiple polling stations in Puri and urged the Election Commission to take immediate action.
A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking review of its judgement rejecting the plea for 100 per cent verification of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) votes with their Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) slips.
Polling parties were dispatched along with the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) on Sunday to the polling stations for the fourth phase of the Lok Sabha election 2024, to be held on May 13.
Repolling at four polling stations under Multai Assembly constituency of Betul Lok Sabha is currently underway as a few EVMs were damaged in a fire accident earlier.
The Election Commission of India (ECI) ordered repolling at four booths in Madhya Pradesh's Betul Lok Sabha seat on May 10 after electronic voting machines (EVMs) were damaged when a bus ferrying them and polling officials caught fire on Tuesday night.
A bus carrying polling officials and electronic voting machines (EVM) caught fire in Madhya Pradesh's Betul district while returning from Goula village on Tuesday night, causing damage to a few EVMs, according to a senior police official.
Polling officials on Tuesday sealed Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) and VVPATs after voting for the third phase of Lok Sabha elections concluded in Madhya Pradesh.
A total of nine parliamentary constituencies in the state--Morena, Bhind, Gwalior, Guna, Sagar, Vidisha, Bhopal, Rajgarh and Betul--will go to the polls in the third phase of the LS polls tomorrow.
Ahead of the Lok Sabha elections in Telangana, Collector and Returning Officer of the Mahabubnagar Parliament Constituency, Ravi Gugulothu, stated that all arrangements, including the important Randomization Of EVMs and polling preparations as per ECI guidelines, have been finalized.
In its latest order on the EVM-VVPAT row, the apex court had ordered that the machines should be sealed and secured in a container and stored in a strongroom along with the EVMs at least for 45 days post-declaration of results.
Returning Officer, West Tripura Lok Sabha Constituency, Vishal Kumar spoke on the same and said, "After the election on April 19, in the 1 West Tripura Parliamentary constituency, we have arranged strong rooms in seven locations. Among these Umakanta Academy School's strong room is the bigge