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EC launches a special app for voters to track election results tomorrow
Updated : 7 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 22 (ANI): The Election Commission on Wednesday came up with a new IT-based initiative to provide real-time trends and results of the counting of the votes on May 23.
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EC rejects Opposition's demand to count VVPAT slips first
Updated : 7 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 22 (ANI): The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Wednesday rejected the demand of 22 political parties to count VVPAT slips before the commencement of counting of votes registered in EVMs. The delegation had met the ECI on May 21.
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AAP criticises ECI for not accepting Opposition's demand on VVPAT-EVM tall
Updated : 7 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 22 (ANI): AAP leader and MP Sanjay Singh on Wednesday termed the decision of the Election Commission of India (ECI) to reject the opposition parties' demand of tallying VVPAT slips with EVM data before polling as unfortunate and alleged that the poll panel was acting a
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EC rejects Opposition's demand for tallying VVPAT slips with EVM
Updated : 7 years ago IST
New Delhi[India], May 22 (ANI): The Election Commission on Wednesday rejected the Opposition demand that VVPAT slips be matched with EVM data first before counting of votes in a constituency when votes will be counted in the general elections tomorrow.
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EC means "Eradicated Credibility" and EVM is "Electronic Victory Machines"
Updated : 7 years ago IST
New Delhi (India), May 22 (ANI): The Congress on Wednesday slammed the Election Commission for rejecting the demand of major opposition parties for 100 per cent counting of VVPATs in case if even one of them did not match with the selected sample and said the EC has lost its credibility.<
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Opposition's demands regarding EVM-VVPAT tally rejected by EC
Updated : 7 years ago IST
New Delhi (India), May 22 (ANI): The Election Commission on Wednesday rejected the demand of opposition parties which sought tallying of VVPAT slips for an entire assembly segment if even one of the five samples does not match with votes polled in EVMs.
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EC rejects Lavasa's plea for recording dissent in orders on MCC violations
Updated : 7 years ago IST
New Delhi (India), May 21 (ANI): The Election Commission on Tuesday rejected by a 2-1 majority Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa's demand that dissenting views on model code violations during elections should be made part of orders and decided it will be only included in internal files.<
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Opposition party demands cent per cent VVPAT count in case of mismatch
Updated : 7 years ago IST
New Delhi (India), May 21 (ANI): Leaders of 22 major opposition parties on Tuesday met the Election Commission and demanded that the VVPAT of an entire assembly segment should be counted even if one of the five samples does not match the EVM.
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EC agrees to record dissent of Commissioners
Updated : 7 years ago IST
New Delhi (India), May 21 (ANI): In a victory of sorts for Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa, the Election Commission (EC) on Tuesday decided to record dissent of any member during proceedings of the full Commission.
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EC refutes reports regarding complaints of alleged movements of EVMs
Updated : 7 years ago IST
New Delhi (India), May 21 (ANI): The Election Commission (EC) on Tuesday rubbished reports of alleged movement of EVMs purportedly to replace polled EVMs in strongrooms and terming them as "absolutely false".
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EC has problem with our demand for EVM-VVPAT tallying, says N Chandrababu
Updated : 7 years ago IST
New Delhi (India), May 21 (ANI): The Election Commission of India (ECI) has a problem with our demand of tallying votes registered in electronic voting machines (EVMs) with that of voter-verified paper audit trail (VVPAT) slips, said TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu here on Tuesday.
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Onus on ensuring institutional integrity lies with ECI: Pranab Mukherjee
Updated : 7 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 21 (ANI): A day after praising the Election Commission for conducting "perfect" polls, former President Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday expressed concern over reports of alleged tampering of EVMs and asked the poll body to put all speculations to rest.
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