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Kirti Azad creates controversy, says Cong workers looted polling booths
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Patna (Bihar) [India], Feb 21 (ANI): Darbhanga MP Kirti Azad, who joined Congress after quitting BJP, has created a controversy by claiming that Congress workers looted polling booths for his father and him before EVMs were introduced.
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EC conducts mock polls to raise awareness in Chennai
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu), [India], Feb 9 (ANI): Ahead of the general elections, the Elections Commission of India on Saturday conducted mock polls in various parts of Chennai to raise awareness among people about voter-verified paper audit trails (VVPATs).
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SC asks Election Commission to file reply on petition concerning EVM
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 4 (ANI): Supreme Court on Monday asked the Election Commission of India (ECI) to file its reply in four weeks and has fixed a date after six weeks for final disposal of a petition filed by a journalist, challenging the involvement of private players in checking EVMs
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Opposition parties visit EC, demand 50 per cent vote counting through pape
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 4 (ANI): Opposition parties led by Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad on Monday visited the Election Commission and requested the poll body to make mandatory the count of half of the votes of all electronic voting machines (EVMs) through paper trails.
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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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TMC, 21 other Opposition parties to move ECI over EVM tampering issue
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi (India), Feb 4 (ANI): For voicing their concern against the use of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, 22 opposition parties, including the Trinamool Congress (TMC), will visit the Election Commission on Monday.
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Oppn to approach EC on EVM tampering issue
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Opposition parties met on Friday and announced that they will approach the Election Commission of India on Monday over the issue of alleged tampering of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs).
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Ruckus disrupts counting of votes in Jind bye poll
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Jind (Haryana) Jan 31 (ANI): Counting of votes for the Jind Assembly bye election in Haryana was halted for some time on Thursday after some people created ruckus outside the counting centre amid allegations of EVMs going missing.
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Haryana fully prepared for LS, Assembly polls: Chief Secretary Dhesi
Updated : 7 years, 2 months 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, 2 months 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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EVM hack show was Sibal's conspiracy : BJP leader N Ramachandra Rao
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], Jan 23 (ANI): Reacting to the recent event organised in London where a self proclaimed hacker Syed Shuja claimed that EVMs can be tampered with, BJP leader N Ramachandra Rao on Wednesday said that that the whole episode is a ploy by the Congress party leader Ka
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EVM hacking row: Telangana BJP leader files complaint against Sibla, Syed
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], Jan 23 (ANI): Telangana BJP leader G. Kishan Reddy on Wednesday filed a complaint against Congress leader Kapil Sibal and Cyber expert Syed Shuja for falsely accusing him and his party for tampering EVMs.
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