-NDTV (with inputs from IANS) RTI responses on EVMs have highlighted irregularities in everything from the number of voting machines the Election Commission bought to the price it paid for them. New Delhi: Responses to a series of Right to Information requests have thrown up multiple red flags in the Election Commission's acquisition and use of EVMs or Electronic Voting Machines. From huge inconsistencies in the records of the machines acquired...
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RTI Response Raises Serious Questions About Security, Handling of EVMs -Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar
-TheWire.in Discrepancies between Election Commission and Electronics Corporation of India Limited data on number of ballot units and control units manufactured have also been revealed. New Delhi: The response by the Election Commission (EC) and two electronic voting machine (EVM) manufacturers – Electronics Corporation of India Limited and Bharat Electronics Limited – to an Right to Information (RTI) query relating to a petition filed following the Uttarakhand polls has revealed administrative and...
More »Challenging VVPAT machines wrongly will land you in jail -Ankur Sirothia
-The Times of India BHOPAL: Challenging the Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) machines, which are used during polling to verify that the vote cast by a person goes to the correct candidate, would land a person in jail, if it is found that the machine is working fine. The issue has come to light as the election commission is planning to make the people in MP aware of the machine...
More »EC to tally paper trail slips with EVMs in 5% booths in each assembly seat -Ritika Chopra
-The Indian Express The decision on compulsory counting of paper trail slips, which was approved by the full Commission before Nasim Zaidi retired as the Chief Election Commissioner on Wednesday, is a response to the demand made by political parties at a meeting held by the EC on May 12. In a bid to further reinforce the credibility of Electronic Voting Machines, the Election Commission (EC) has decided to mandatorily tally...
More »Removal of corporate contribution cap has hit transparency: CEC -Sofi Ahsan
-The Indian Express He added that the amendment means that companies are not required now to show the names of political parties they have contributed to. Chandigarh: Chief Election Commissioner Nasim Zaidi on Saturday said that amendments to the Companies Act of 2013, removing cap on corporate contribution to political parties, are “basically hitting” transparency in funding. “Two things are likely to happen in future. There would be less and less...
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