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MCD polls: Kejriwal alleges many EVMs 'malfunctioning'
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Apr 23 (ANI): As polling for the municipal elections picked up on Sunday afternoon, with about 30 per cent turnout recorded as of 2 p.m., Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal raised concerns about the reliability of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs).
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France votes in presidential election
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Paris [France], Apr 23 (ANI): Voting is presently underway in France for the first phase of the presidential election that comes amidst heightened security concerns for the country following a string of deadly terror attacks.
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MCD polls: Delhi HC dismisses plea for use of VVPAT with EVMs
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Apr 21 (ANI): The Delhi High Court on Friday rejected the plea seeking direction to state election commission and the Election Commission of India (ECI) to use only second generation of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) with Voter-Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) in th
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Post 2018, elections to have EVMs with VVPAT: Jaitley
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Apr 19 (ANI): Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Wednesday assured that once all the Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) units are procured by 2018 then all the elections held thereafter would have paper trail along with the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs).
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No relief for AAP on modernized EVMs for MCD polls
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Apr 18 (ANI): The Delhi High Court on Tuesday refused to give immediate relief to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in its plea seeking direction to use Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) installed Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) in the upcoming Municipal Corporation of Delh
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Congress' attempt at raking up EVMs will fail miserably: BJP
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], Apr 17 (ANI): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday criticised Digvijaya Singh's remark on the Electronic Voting Machines' (EVMs) alleged tampering, stating that such kind of strategies adopted by the Congress party would fail miserably.
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EVM row: PM Modi tears into Opposition for concocting new issues
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Bhubaneswar [India], Apr. 16 (ANI): Tearing into the Opposition for raking up a slew of issues particularly the Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) matter, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday asserted that the former was trying to churn up rows particularly ahead of the MCD polls.
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Turkey votes in historic constitutional
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Ankara [Turkey], Apr 16 (ANI): More than 55 million Turkish citizens began voting across the country on Sunday in a historic referendum proposing key constitutional changes that would allegedly give wide-ranging executive powers to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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EC limiting objections to EVMs to hacking: Digvijaya Singh
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India] Apr 16 (ANI): Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh on Sunday alleged the Election Commission (EC) is limiting objections to the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) to hacking.
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EVM credible, ballot paper worst alternative, say former election commissi
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Apr. 16 (ANI): Amidst growing skepticism among political parties over the credibility of the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs), former chief election commissioners (CEC) on Sunday asserted that machines cannot be hacked and thereby backed the Election Commission for throwi
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Nothing wrong with EVM when Opposition wins, only when they lose: Centre
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], Apr 15 (ANI): Launching a veiled attack on the Opposition, the Centre on Saturday asserted that questioning the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) simply meant questioning the Election Commission of India.
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Akhilesh can't accept UP's development under Adityanath: BJP
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Apr 15 (ANI): Slamming former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav over his sardonic remarks against the Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) alleged tampering, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Shrikant Sharma on Saturday asserted that the state was deve
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