Akhilesh Yadav said EVMs cannot be relied upon, demanded future elections through ballot papers
Punjab CM is second senior Congress leader after Veerappa Moily defending EVMs
Against the party stand he said that going back to ballot paper would be a regressive step
After demonetisation, Electronic Voting Machines are the new cementing factor for the Opposition parties to target the BJP-led centre.After the BJP's stunning win in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand besides good show in Goa and Manipur, the opposition parties Congress, TMC, JD-U, RJD, Left parties, NCP, SP and BSP and AAP have alleged that EVMs used in the recent assembly polls were tampered.Following a joint strategy session at parliament, these opposition parties urged the Election Commission to ensure that all EVMs to be used in future elections should give a paper trails, which is physically verifiable. They will petition President Pranab Mukherjee on April 12, the day the budget session ends.BSP chief Mayawati was the first to cast doubt over the EVMs after her party was limited to just 19 of the 403 assembly seats in UP. Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, who had high hopes of making electoral gains in Punjab, too had expressed doubts over EVMs.As the momentum built by these ...
India row likely to sytmie Pak political parties' desire for complete switchover to e-voting
Delhi's civic polls are due on April 23 along with a by-election from Rajouri Garden Assembly seat
EC has decided to replace 9,30,430 EVMs purchased before 2006
Looking back at the allegations of EVM tampering in elections
PIL said that EVMs could be tampered and should be subjected to tests by a foreign expert
Logistical issues are involved in implementing VVPATs across country in one go, says Law Minister
New Delhi, 22 MarchOpposition members today demanded in the Rajya Sabha the early implantation of a 2013 Supreme Court order that requires each electronic voting machine, or EVM, to have a voter verified paper audit trail, or VVPAT.During a short duration discussion on electoral reforms, opposition members, led by Leader of Opposition and Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad, said EVMs be used in the assembly polls in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh, scheduled for end of this year, only if equipped with VVPAT. He said the Centre should release the requisite money to the Election Commission for manufacture of VVPAT machines. Azad said elections should be held using the old system of ballot papers if VVPAT machines cannot be made available by that time. Azad said the Chief Election Commissioner has sent 10 letters to the government on the issue since May 2014, but is yet to receive a response.The demand comes in the context of Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati alleging that the EVMs were ...
Banerjee showed reporters the Swamy's video clippings his views on feasibility of tampering EVMs
The allegations have been levelled by the AAP, the BSP and some other political parties
The commission said comparisons with foreign countries were misplaced and misguided
Kejriwal said, before 2014 Lok Sabha polls even BJP leaders like L K Advani weren't in its favour